buildOne report1 publisher Paramount closed its $111 billion purchase of all Warner Bros. Discovery assets on October 6 and renamed the merged company Skydance. Netflix bid only for the studios and streaming, so CNN now shares an owner with HBO Max and CBS.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
Apple's new HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K will reach stores on October 30, ahead of the HomeView hub due around mid-November, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. For about two weeks, early buyers will own a speaker that 9to5Mac says is built to extend a hub they cannot yet buy.
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Schmidt Ocean Institute researchers filmed a live black swallower fish 1,259 m down off Trinidad and Tobago, its stomach swollen by an unidentified meal. The video shows only what happened after it fed, so it adds a living specimen to a record built mostly on dead ones but does not show the swallowing.
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buildOne report1 publisher Microsoft's KB5121391 will automatically fix insecure AD FS DKM container ACLs on Windows Server 2016 and later by October 13. The only record of what the ACL held before is a single local event that can roll over, so each team has to save its own copy.
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- Adoption
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Malaysian police are investigating unauthorized transfers of about $3.05 million in crypto from a Teluk Intan man's wallet. Officers have yet to name the attacker, the coins taken or how the attacker got in.
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Delta Air Lines cut its full-year earnings forecast to $5.10-$5.60 a share from $6.50-$7.50 after its third-quarter fuel bill rose 62% to $4.1 billion. With fares already up about a quarter and seat growth speeding up, rivals have less room to pass on the next fuel increase.
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US Army has added two locomotives, its first major rail additions in over a decade, as over a third of TACOM's locomotives exceed a 65-year expected life. Both were built to fit the track at the installation that got them, as TACOM works to cut the over-age share below 20 percent.
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- Adoption30
CASCOM, the US Army's Combined Arms Support Command, upgraded its LOADOUT cargo software after Operation Epic Fury to cut time spent chasing shipments. The fixes give units and planners one shared view of requests and capacity, so the gain should show up as fewer status calls. The report gives no count of those calls.
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- Adoption30
Kevin Warsh's hawkish Fed sent the 10-year Treasury yield up more than half a point to about 5.3% in September, a Fortune column argues. Its own account of traders dumping long bonds describes the term premium it dismisses, with the Fed as the cause.
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Daiichi Kosho, Japan's largest karaoke maker, says malware at Nippon Columbia, one of its contractors, left more than 8.7 million records on its customers and employees exposed. The data sat with the contractor, so one infected workstation there put 8.6 million karaoke customers in scope.
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DOE will invest more than $500 million and Biohub $500 million over five years in open cell data for AI models, under a pact with NIH. Biohub puts the whole effort at $1.8 billion, a total that counts NIH-coordinated datasets built with earlier federal money.
Publishers:biohub.org · energy.gov
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buildOne report1 publisher FBI and Justice Department investigators seized seven domains that China-linked Flax Typhoon used to scan and in some cases infiltrate critical infrastructure. The risk remains, and with no patch to install, exposed operators have to hunt the group's tradecraft themselves.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption
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- Hype gap