RealFeedApp betaTop science & technology news, October 28, 2026
- Gemini 4 Carbon achieved 88.2% accuracy on SEC-bench Pro
The model achieved 88.2% accuracy on SEC-bench Pro and 54.8% on ExploitGym. This update from Google DeepMind demonstrates accelerated progress in cybersecurity capabilities.
- gpt-oss-120b passed tests in 30 attempts
The study benchmarked five local LLMs on an ASUS Ascent GX10 server with 128 GB memory using the llm-compile-bench suite. Unlike token-per-second metrics, the method verifies if code compiles and tests pass across six programming languages over 30 total attempts.
- System manages $1M daily ad budgets
Converge (YC S23) is recruiting a founding platform engineer to build systems for agents that manage $1M+ daily ad budgets and serve 200+ customers.
- Researchers found 26,400 unique verified-live credentials
Ben Zimmermann and the Kingfisher team at MongoDB scanned 7,256,531 public repositories on Gitee, discovering 26,400 unique verified live credentials, including active organization-admin keys for enterprise AI platforms and cloud provider access keys.
- FDA proposes new pathway for personalized gene therapy approvals
Regulators introduced a framework allowing drugmakers to gain clearance for specific mutations using laboratory data, followed by expansion to other variants without new clinical trials.
- SynBITE removes unwanted cells while organ tissue is still forming
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh developed the SynBITE genetic circuit to trigger programmed cell death in organoids. The method eliminates unwanted cells without damaging the vascular network, unlike traditional sorting techniques.
- Ollama launches LFM3 and d1 for local agents
The new LFM3 model (1.7B parameters) and d1 (2B parameters) run on Apple Silicon, supporting tool calling and audio processing.
- August 2025: Google AI beats GPT 4o-mini
Anthropic and Google AI models outperformed GPT 4o-mini in geolocating photos, yet human expertise is still essential for the task.
- Genome-mining tools identify biosynthetic gene clusters
Researchers from the University of Queensland describe "microbial dark matter" as organisms resistant to conventional cultivation and silent biosynthetic pathways capable of encoding new natural products. In 2019, antimicrobial resistance caused an estimated 1.27 million deaths worldwide, and traditional screening methods often rediscovered known compounds instead of finding new antibiotic structures.
- Four logic bugs enabled a sandbox escape in Microsoft Edge
Orange Tsai from DEVCORE Research Team chained five logic bugs and two Windows features to escape the Microsoft Edge sandbox, winning $175,000 and 17.5 Master of Pwn points at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026.
- Researchers built a family of NOT gates using Cas12m
Researchers created an E. coli strain with a genome-integrated Cas12m gene that imposes no growth impact. The repression mechanism is faster and less susceptible to interference than dCas9, enabling the construction of multi-layer computational circuits.
- Six out of eight filters are vulnerable
Testing revealed that eight popular SVG sanitizers fail to block JavaScript execution. Vulnerabilities allow injecting scripts via response headers or importing GIFs as executable SVGs.
- Adaptive Information Mining reduces estimation error by 2–5 times
The new method uses sequential refinement of measurements to overcome the diffraction limit. It achieves an estimation error 2–5 times closer to the fundamental quantum limit.
- Cavity-bright excitations converted to protected atomic dark states
The study demonstrates converting cavity-bright excitations into protected atomic dark states. For N>=2 atoms, passive energy is bounded by twice the transition energy.
- Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face
Android system cache stored thousands of front-camera photos without the owner's knowledge. The investigation revealed the device automatically captured images whenever it was lifted, including timestamps and GPS coordinates.
- Google and Meta face threats from undersea cable destruction
A new report warns that Chinese research and commercial vessels are actively cutting undersea cables, creating significant risks for US companies like Google and Meta.
- RynnWorld-Latent trained on 553.5M frames
Researchers introduced RynnWorld-Latent, a model using RynnLAM's latent actions to jointly train on human and robot videos without a common action space. Pretrained on 23 datasets with approximately 553.5 million frames, the model adapts to specific robots via post-training.
- Amazon Leo gains direct-to-device service capability
The US Federal Communications Commission cleared the deal, enabling Amazon Leo to offer direct-to-device satellite services and expand its network coverage.
- Guidewire buys Hyperexponential
Insurance technology firm Guidewire acquired AI startup Hyperexponential for $1.7 billion to integrate autonomous agents into underwriting and pricing workflows. The deal, valued at approximately $2 billion total, includes an additional $400 million contingent on revenue targets, marking a major return for investors like Andreessen Horowitz.
- Google launches Connected Apps Platform
Google introduced the Connected Apps Platform to allow businesses to securely link third-party services to Gemini and Search for automated actions. The initiative aims to expand the ecosystem, shifting user attention from individual apps to preferred services via AI providers.
