3 October 2026

Apple will add new controls to macOS's Full Disk Access permission, saying capable AI agents make broad access to files, messages, mail and browsing history riskier.

TechCrunch · techcrunch.com

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music, with the record labels' approval and money.

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Registrations of Slovenia's .si domain have surged after President Trump's executive order on "super intelligence".

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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will combine as Skydance in a deal of about $110 billion, expected to close on 6 October.

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Congo's Ebola outbreak, the fastest-growing on record, has killed more than 4,000 people, and a treatment centre was burned down.

STAT · statnews.com

NIH awarded all its fiscal 2026 grant funding but with delayed and opaque decisions, and kept cutting grants on health disparities, race and ethnicity.

STAT · statnews.com

Pennsylvania reported a fifth measles death; the full size of the outbreak in the state and the country is not known.

STAT · statnews.com

Rust 1.99.0 was released on 1 October with support for extern "C" variadic functions and functions for the size and alignment of raw pointers.

LWN.net · lwn.net

Meta is giving away the code for Muse free so device makers can build it into TVs and appliances.

TechCrunch · techcrunch.com

Riot police clashed with students in France as protests over school standards and teacher shortages continued; about 735 schools have been disrupted.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

An Arizona appeals court quashed a road-rage killer's sentence because an AI-generated video of the dead victim was shown in court.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to ban the federal government from using Flock and other automated licence plate readers.

TechCrunch · techcrunch.com

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez lost a key housing vote after the eviction of an 87-year-old woman, adding pressure for a snap election.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

The G7 will release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel to head off price spikes and avoid a US ban on diesel exports.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Kyiv mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said the capital is in a "very dramatic situation" as Russian strikes hit critical infrastructure.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Captain Smit Machchhar, pilot of a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi he opened the cockpit door to let others in during an attack by the co-pilot.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Hawaii's Hōlei Sea Arch in Volcanoes National Park, about 500 years old, collapsed into the sea last weekend.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk