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November 2: Alaska Election Lawsuit Dismissed and Iran Peace Draft Circulates
In cybersecurity
AI workflow platform Trigger.dev says an attacker accessed environment variables belonging to some customer organizations. Those variables can contain credentials for connected services. The company says it blocked the exploit and notified affected customers, but has not publicly identified them.
Separately, researchers found nearly thirteen thousand refrigeration control services openly reachable online across ninety-nine countries, in settings including supermarkets, hospitals, and farms.
In U.S. courts
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to separate ballots and delay certification of Alaska’s Senate race. Judge Sharon Gleason ruled that the government lacked standing, that separating ballots would violate voter secrecy, and that major election changes came too late. The department, which argued that a candidate’s name could be confused with Senator Dan Sullivan’s, has appealed.
Another judge dismissed a criminal complaint against former FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides over their testimony to Congress about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Judge Zia Faruqui said prosecutors failed to establish probable cause that they made false statements and called the investigation “weaponization.” The department could still seek a grand jury indictment.
In British phone service
Rural residents and members of Parliament warn that replacing Britain’s analogue phone network could disrupt emergency calls during prolonged power outages. Openreach plans to shut down the network on January thirty-first, twenty twenty-seven. Replacement internet-based landlines stop working during extended outages.
On Iran diplomacy
Crude oil prices fell Monday as a draft peace agreement circulated and the Trump administration discussed a peaceful resolution to the war with Iran. China is also urging dialogue and sending an envoy to the Gulf. Xi Jinping is hosting the first visit by an Omani head of state since nineteen seventy-eight.
In business
Payments company OPay withdrew its three-hundred-four-million-dollar U.S. stock offering before trading began, following a foreign regulatory inquiry. The company, which operates primarily in Nigeria, did not identify the regulator or the inquiry’s subject.
Anthropic reported nearly seventeen billion dollars in quarterly revenue, more than twelve times its year-earlier figure. Its amended IPO prospectus also disclosed about eight hundred ninety-five billion dollars in commitments to pay for computing power.
In British immigration
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says her settlement reforms would impose a twenty-year wait after immigration breaches, rising to thirty years for people who do not enter work or study. Following cabinet and Labour opposition, she softened a separate proposal affecting low-paid workers. A care-worker exception would allow up to three hundred thousand people to apply for permanent residency after five years.
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