Meta Muse Wonder, OpenAI safety firings, npm publishing flaw - October 13, 2026
Meta's first frontier model, OpenAI fires three safety researchers, an npm publishing flaw, hijacked supermarket freezers, and AI clearing every goal in an industrial-control lab.
Chapters
Intro
Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/meta-releases-its-first-frontier-model-muse-wonder/OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-fires-three-safety-researchersnpm Trusted Publishing flaw exposed 1,500+ npm packages to takeover
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/13/slugfest-npm-trusted-publishing-flaw/Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/12/france-cyberattack-supermarket-freezers/Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/13/frontier-ai-ot-security-threat/Low-cost Android phones are arriving with malware that owners can't uninstall
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/12/midnight-mimosa-malware-cheap-android-phones/Sharecare - 318,185 breached accounts
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SharecareCodex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195Amazon in talks to buy AI startup Decart for around $7 billion, WSJ reports
https://kfgo.com/2026/10/11/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-around-7-billion-wsj-reports/WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/windborne-wins-a-hefty-us-air-force-contract-for-its-balloon-data/Sign-off