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DreamHost forced password resets for email and SFTP users after an incident.

Account owners are being told to set new passwords in the control panel. Webmail and File Manager were disrupted, and File Manager is still down. DreamHost hasn't said what caused it.

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Stolen GitHub tokens are being used to dump secrets from private repos.

Wiz says a campaign called Gheist plants a workflow in every repo a token can reach, prints the secrets base32-encoded so GitHub's log masking misses them, then deletes the run. 850+ accounts hit so far.

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A YouTuber may have found why iPhone Duo screens keep cracking.

CuriousHagi recreated the crack in testing, then tore the phone down. One link in the middle of the hinge is thinner than the others, and it snapped at a small notch. Owners report cracks in that same spot.

[The Verge @verge]

A weak spot in the hinge may be failing and cracking iPhone Duo screens. https://t.co/ps9ufhVuQ6

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Pretty much.

As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.

SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.

That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.

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Elon Musk says lenders have nearly stopped funding AI-only cloud companies.

SpaceX just closed $40B in debt for GPUs, he says, but only because it has Starlink and launch revenue. He predicts most of the 200+ "neoclouds" that rent out GPUs won't survive or will get absorbed.

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Hackers hijacked a Japanese cloud desktop service and traded in its users' brokerage accounts.

GMO Internet says attackers planted malware on the service, took customer data and placed trades users never made at 70+ brokers. Now they're threatening leaks and ransomware.

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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is reportedly planning a $50B AI bet on Malaysia.

Malaysia's PM says a major global investor told him on a video call it will put $50B into AI and data centers in Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia. Nikkei says it was Son. SoftBank hasn't confirmed.

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Grok Bot can now make phone calls for you, per Elon Musk.

He says it can call a person or a business, make a request on your behalf, take notes on the answer and send you a summary. No official word yet on which plans or countries get it.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok @Bot can now call someone or a business for you, make a request on your behalf, take notes on the response and send you a note summarizing the conversation!

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Apple Stores can reportedly check a returned iPhone without opening the box.

Per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, staff are getting a device that scans a sealed iPhone and runs diagnostics, so it can go back on the shelf. It targets returns with parts or accessories missing.

[MacRumors.com @MacRumors]

Apple Stores Reportedly Rolling Out New Anti-Theft System for iPhones https://t.co/WhD4Iddmfo

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Apple's first touchscreen Mac is reportedly coming Wednesday.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says 14" and 16" MacBook Pros with touch OLED screens will be announced Oct 28. macOS will reportedly adapt its controls based on whether you last touched the screen or the trackpad.

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

Power On: Apple’s touch-screen MacBook Pro will arrive on Wednesday, marking the tech giant’s latest major reversal. https://t.co/P4M498jUTQ

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r/opensource just banned AI.

New rules say any project that uses AI, is made by AI or is built for AI isn't welcome. Projects also need to be a year old with multiple contributors, and non-English posts are out. Users are pushing back, and a rival sub, r/TrueOpenSource, is up.

[The Verge @verge]

The opensource subreddit’s new rules against AI have sparked a revolt. https://t.co/LR58PgxGJy

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AI demand is now eating the RTX 5090.

Leaked footage shows Chinese workshops pulling the GPU and 32GB of memory off retail 5090s, Founders Editions included, and rebuilding them as blower cards for AI servers. The 5090 isn't officially sold in China.

[VideoCardz.com @VideoCardz]

Here’s where the last RTX 5090 cards are going: Massive AI conversion factory exposed in China, Founders Edition included

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Modders found hidden AI speed in older NVIDIA gaming GPUs.

Linux mods double the RTX 4090's FP16 tensor rate on benchmarks, 165.6 to 331.6 TFLOPS. Real AI work gains less, about 12% to 36% in tests, and gaming doesn't change. It's unofficial and can void the warranty.

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Instagram is now on Apple TV.

The new app brings Reels, longer videos and live shows to the big screen, and you can pick up where you left off across devices. It appears to have gone live Oct 23, after Instagram's TV apps for Fire TV, Google TV and Samsung.