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Newest story built on thestack.technology reporting: Proofpoint signs a merger agreement to acquire Varonis (October 15, 2026). thestack.technology reporting informs the Build, Security, and Leadership desks, most often on AI Agent Security, AI Coding Agents, and Agentic AI Security. 16 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from September 10, 2026.
Proofpoint has agreed to acquire Varonis in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3 billion, or $49.75 a share. Varonis expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027, and until then the two companies stay independent.
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Coopérative U CEO Dominique Schelcher confirmed on October 12 that a cyber-attack hit refrigeration at several of its stores from October 11. The Danfoss link, the loss figures and the other chains named come from press reports, and Danfoss was asked for comment.
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Linux Foundation Europe's Thierry Carrez said at the Open Source Summit in Prague that switching to open source alone will not end Europe's dependence. European groups supply 15% of governance participation, The Stack reported, so teams that switch adopt projects governed mostly from outside Europe.
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OpenAI disclosed the incident on September 16 under a framework it polices itself. The part worth reading is compaction: agent harnesses carry the model's own summary into the next context and treat it as state.
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The one step Anthropic is adopting on its own binds it to access and disclosure. His three-step framework for pacing frontier development leaves the capability ceiling and the enforcement mechanism undefined.
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Citrix confirmed attackers are exploiting two CVSS 9.5 pre-auth RCE flaws in NetScaler ADC and Gateway, one of them present in default configurations. Self-managed appliances need the fixed build, installed after evidence is saved, since an upgrade can erase signs of intrusion.
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Schneider Electric agreed to buy PTC for $22.6 billion in cash, a 42.3% premium at $205 a share. The cost savings it promises cover only part of that premium, so the price depends on PTC's engineering data selling more Schneider software.
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NVIDIA put its Sentry agent watchdog on separate BlueField 4 chips that can quarantine an agent in milliseconds, a day before OpenAI launched always-on Dots. An agent with no finish line gets no scheduled human review, so its rules need an enforcer the agent cannot edit.
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Micron's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue reached $54.23 billion, up from $11.32 billion a year earlier, on demand for memory in AI data centers. Guidance of about $61.5 billion for the next quarter makes memory pricing a cost that teams building AI hardware should plan for through 2027.
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Salesforce agreed to buy AI interview startup Listen Labs at a reported $2 billion that neither company has confirmed. Buyers get interviews with real participants alongside digital twins whose accuracy against real customers Salesforce has yet to show.
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Meta grouped Muse API, Muse Code and Business Agent into a new enterprise platform whose Muse Spark model costs developers $1.25 per million input tokens. The endpoint is ready to test today, while the enterprise package still has no published price or delivery date.
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TypeSafe's Jev answers typed questions with floats and probabilities. An invoice pipeline that handed it classification and catalogue selection still needs a generative model for field extraction and for the note a human reads.
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Anthropic committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai for CPU capacity, on terms that tie payments to delivery and include termination provisions. Akamai expects to spend about $5.5 billion building that capacity before full run-rate revenue arrives at the end of 2028.
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Six engineers shipped a fully native Shop app in 12 weeks, but the first attempt at handing the React Native code to a model produced what Shopify's engineering director called slop. Helix chunks each screen instead.
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Six months after strikes damaged facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, AWS says resources held only in Bahrain cannot be restored. Its resiliency guidance leaves cross-region copies to the customer to configure.
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Orchid's new controls detect when an agent drifts from its declared purpose and then cut its access, and both halves depend on inventory and specification work the enterprise has to finish first.
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