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FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that agents arrested another suspected co-conspirator linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group earlier this week during the bureau's investigation of a cybersecurity incident involving its jobs website. The arrest is the latest in a series of FBI actions against the hacking network in recent days, according to Patel, who said investigators are pursuing additional leads and evidence. "Earlier this week, our agents in the field arrested another suspected co-conspirator of the ShinyHunters group, the group believed to be responsible for the recent FBIjobs.gov incident, which occurred on a platform managed by a third-party vendor," Patel said in an Oct. 9 statement. FBI INVESTIGATES AFTER SHINYHUNTERS HACKERS CLAIM THEFT OF AGENTS' PERSONAL DATA Patel said the FBI is working with its partners to dismantle the group and its associates. "This arrest demonstrates the strength and reach of our efforts to protect Americans from cy...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday that the Trump administration is imposing sweeping financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), a body the president has sought to dismantle throughout his second term. To date, the administration has sanctioned 17 individuals with ties to the ICC, including judges and prosecutors. The latest move marks the first time the U.S. has gone after the institution itself. "Our message is clear: The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC," Rubio said in a pre-recorded video message released Friday morning. "Both parties agree on this, but only President Trump has the resolve to take the action needed to end this threat once and for all." This comes hours after this year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay , a former ICC judge. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SANCTIONS SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR '...

Lucinda Shen / Axios : A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020   —  We're in the golden age of decacorns.  — The average time from launch to decacorn has been cut in nearly half, and some decacorns arrive literally overnight.

Florida's sweeping Medicaid fraud crackdown has helped drive a nearly $1 billion reduction in projected annual spending on behavioral therapy services alone, according to state officials, after investigators uncovered suspicious billing practices. Tallahassee’s internal crackdown — which included discoveries of providers billing Medicaid for more hours than there are in a day — comes amid heightened federal scrutiny of Medicaid fraud, including investigations and payment reviews involving Minnesota. The DeSantis administration said its approach aims to stop suspicious Medicaid claims before taxpayer dollars are paid out rather than trying to recover improper payments afterward. The strategy mirrors a call from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to move away from traditional "pay-and-chase" models. "This year, we announced the most significant Medicaid integrity initiative in the history of our state, and today, I was proud to announce some of the results from these...

Bloomberg : Sources: Firmus is set to postpone its IPO and is weighing a private funding round instead, as some investors raised concerns over its pricing strategy   —  Australian data center company Firmus Grid Ltd. is set to postpone its initial public offering, and the company is weighing …

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge : Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November   —  Microsoft's high-end AI mini PC for developers starts shipping in November.  —  Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box …

Mistral Blog : Mistral says ML4 was trained using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its own data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual   —  Le Chonk  —  Today, we're launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4.  Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk.