X has purged 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of the US midterms, The Register reported, a platform integrity action that sits alongside today’s CISA and FBI warning to election officials. In Britain, hackers who breached the Legal Aid Agency made off with records dating back to 1978, a reminder that legacy public sector archives carry decades of personal data in a single system.
Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch the bugs identified by Mythos, The Register reported, the enterprise cost side of AI assisted vulnerability discovery. The same technology cut the other way for Postgres, whose version 19 release was delayed after AI reviewers found more bugs than the human team could fix on schedule. Microsoft is also bringing its Defender security product to Linux desktops, The Register reported.
On infrastructure, Digital Realty is eyeing a gigawatt scale data center site outside Indianapolis, and Meeza and Microsoft have launched a sovereign private cloud in Qatar, both reported by Datacenter Dynamics. A planned data center in Moncalieri, Italy, was put on hold by the town’s mayor, the latest European municipal friction point. In Boston science news carried on this beat’s wire, a jury ruled for ousted Cambridge scientist David Sabatini with 6 million dollars in damages to be awarded, STAT reported on October 17; the full story belongs to the life sciences edition.