Trump's spy chief takes charge of White House AI policy. Schneider pays $22.6 billion for PTC's design data. Every story that day, by desk. 612 stories in all. Times are Pacific.
Security40 stories
- MonsterCloud's owner is charged with passing off purchased ransomware keys as proprietary decryption
- US offers $10 million for Hafnium suspect Zhang Yu after his alleged partner's extradition
- Meta deploys an LLM to flag ads that signpost child abuse material hosted off its platforms
- FBI shuts two deepfake CSAM sale sites through a warrant on registry VeriSign
- LMCache's multiprocess cache server runs attacker code from one unauthenticated message
- Microsoft adds MSIX app packages to Outlook's default attachment block from early November
- PoeLLM botnet has turned more than 2,100 exposed servers into miners and scanners
- FortiBleed keeps scanning exposed Fortinet firewalls as toll grows to 400,000-450,000 devices
- Attackers hit Atlassian's CVE-2026-21589 two hours after watchTowr published the technique
- Hijacked .gh, .sl and .as registries handed attackers HTTPS certificates for Google domains
- SonicWall patches a third pre-auth SSRF flaw in SMA 1000 gateways this year
- Advantest confirms February ransomware attackers stole SSNs, passport and medical data
- Chrome's 247 October 6 security fixes take effect only after a browser relaunch
- Passwords top security professionals' work logins in a Yubico and Okta survey of 2,000
- LiteLLM and OpenAI Codex fall to injection bugs on Pwn2Own Ireland's first day
- Google folds Android's October fixes into one patch level covering 25 flaws
Build81 stories
- Listed 128GB RTX Spark laptops start at $5,109, nearly twice the $2,599 entry model
- GitHub Copilot's on-device MAI Code 1.1 Flash peaks at 75.5GB of memory
- Wolfspeed's conditional $1.5B defense loan spends its first $600M refinancing 2030 notes
- Broadcom reportedly arranges more than $50B in lender financing for OpenAI's Jalapeno chip
- OpenAI previews a college planner for teens as Common Sense Media rates the product an unacceptable risk
- Prompt length sets what Anthropic's Haiku 5.5 price cut is worth to each workload
- National Compute plans to give Genesis Mission researchers $100M in compute credits
- Sixteen Firefox extensions cloned Rabby and OKX wallets to capture seed phrases at import
- Liquid's d1-3B returns structured decisions in one forward pass at 16 ms on Jetson Thor
- Google opens SynthID Detector to anyone checking images, video or audio for AI watermarks
- Meta's CRAM reads compressed Linux memory up to 452x faster than ZRAM by keeping it out of swap
- Meta, Walmart and Sierra set out to write shared rules for business AI agents
- OpenAI splits classification into a Decisions API priced at 10 cents per million input tokens
- Musk limits TSMC to a possible sublease inside Terafab
- Seagate's reported bid for TDK's head business would make Toshiba buy heads from a rival
- GPT-6.1 Sol matched GPT-6 Astra across 15 test runs at 18% of the cost
- TII says its 1.6B Falcon-ASR beats the best published Arabic word error rate by 2.25 points
- Vercel's AI Gateway bills two model runs for every low-confidence decision it escalates
- OpenAI hands mathematicians 372 AI-generated proofs to check on GitHub
- Musk's Grok Bot plan to route tasks to outside AI models leaves data-handling questions unanswered
Invest191 stories
- Ripple charges a 2x Sandisk ETF about 8% a year to finance its leverage
- Hyperliquid Labs' $330 million HYPE block goes to an unnamed buyer on undisclosed terms
- TSMC's monthly sales level off near NT$512 billion at 54.6% annual growth
- Jenny Johnson's $150 legacy cost per fund transaction is 100 times the figure she gave in January
- BOJ deputy says AI demand could push inflation above target, adding to case for tightening
- South Korea's top court clears HSBC in the first trial under its 2021 naked short-selling penalties
- Solana's $1 billion in card spending comes to about $71 per stablecoin address
- BitGo widens its HashKey tie-up to four business lines three months after a staking pilot
- Cardano Foundation spins out Veridian with tokenized shares, plans 2027 investor push
- Bitcoin drops below $83,000 as an oil shock meets a shrinking futures market
- Korea approves Hanmi's homegrown obesity shot after a trial showing 9% weight loss in 40 weeks
- Musk casts Starlink's stalled India launch as a fight with an 80% duopoly
- Treasury's first outbound-investment fine costs Amidi more than twice its $92,478 China stake
- Wall Street profits jump 51% in the first half, nearly three times the rise in pay spending
- LG Energy buys four years of Canadian lithium it can steer to storage cells or car batteries
- Five of Trump's six tech medalists come from companies whose shares he traded as recently as July
- US production credit supplies 55% of LG Energy Solution's surprise quarterly profit
- TikTok ran a placebo safety tool on thousands of users over a staffer's objection, New York alleges
- US government's $470 million Coinbase transfer tests the exceptions in the bitcoin reserve order
- Lee pauses Korea's CPTPP bid until safeguards exist for an 850 billion won yearly farm and fishery loss
- France pauses stun grenades six months before the vote to replace Macron
- Korea's June-to-August surpluses add up to more than its record 2025 total
- Samsung turned 87% of its added sales into profit in a record 107.4 trillion won quarter
- Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP accounting traces $2.87 million to two hired market makers
- BlackRock's ETHA supplied all $202 million of Tuesday's ether ETF exit
- Fed minutes cast September's quarter-point hike as insurance against sticky inflation
- French Hill wants a crypto statute because a new administration could undo SEC and CFTC rules
- Ethereum Economic Zone's 0.001 ETH atomic transfer leaves two-way calls on a roadmap through 2027
- FCC's 25MHz auction plan tests the $19.6 billion SpaceX paid for satellite-phone airwaves
- OpenAI's unreleased model claims more than 370 math results at about three hours apiece
- MAS places Hyperliquid's Singapore-headquartered venue outside its jurisdiction
- Standard Chartered Singapore's client list sets the reach of Anchorage's 24/7 dollar transfers
- Anthropic cuts Haiku's price by 75% to match OpenAI's smallest model
- Moody's rates Sky Protocol B3 over a capital cushion under 1% of assets
- Mecka raises $60 million Series B led by Sequoia; prior ~$500M valuation talk not tied to this round
- Tangem's 2% USDC cashback stops paying after $15,000 of monthly spending
- Sui's 40.6 million TPS ran in offchain tunnels that hit mainnet only to open and close
- DHS proposes charging universities $70,000 for each foreign student entering OPT
- Treasury's 5.30% auction marks August's 10-year buyers down 4.68 cents on the dollar
- Huawei and Qualcomm disagree over who pays in their new patent cross-license
- OKX and ICE file for a 24/7 venue where stablecoin pools price more than 60 U.S. stocks
- Coinbase routes US institutions into Deribit through the Prime accounts they already hold
- After skipping Meta's settlement, Florida asks a judge to pull under-14 users off Facebook and Instagram
- Cox Automotive cuts its 2026 used-car price forecast to 0.2%, a tenth of its July call
- Wells Fargo seeks crypto trading liquidity from Kraken parent Payward
- Checking AI output takes 26% of the finance work week in a Datarails survey of 270 CFOs
- Nous Research bets its $90 million Series B on companies paying for controls around free Hermes code
- Constellation beats on EPS and revenue as shipments outpace depletions by 6.1 points
- Quantus bets Near Intents' swap routing can stand in for an exchange listing of its QTC token
- Paxos adds XRP to its brokerage infrastructure, leaving the listing decision up to partners like PayPal and Venmo
- Bessent floats $40-50 oil for whenever the Iran war ends
- Micron's Taoyuan union authorises a strike to press for 15% of operating profit in bonuses
- Polygon links TRON's USDT to US bank accounts through one integration
- OCC's Gould recruits Minnesota community banks against a nearly 300% rise in check-fraud filings
- Late ad buys shrink what Republicans' $1 billion edge over Democrats' $579 million can buy
- Disney adds Disney+ viewers to a Super Bowl whose ads sold out in August
- Britain's billionaire exodus bunched up in the weeks before non-dom status ended
- Ex-Ramp engineers raise $25 million for creative AI agents after scrapping their first idea
- Jury convicts Uranium Finance hacker with $31 million of the $53.3 million take already seized
- More than half of bitcoin's $3,540 drop on Hormuz tanker reports came in 30 minutes
- Justin Drake tells large crypto holders to move to fresh addresses before AI can break ECDSA
- Webull shares fall 20% after House panel cites national security risk from China ties
- Gate wants its 60 million users to buy coffee with Nvidia stock after the market closes
- Wealthy crypto holders buy for appreciation even as most call bitcoin a debasement hedge
- Bitcoin tests $83,404 after one overnight hour accounts for most of the day's drop
- ADA futures bets reach 4.6 times Cardano's stablecoin supply as price stalls at $0.28
- Brent holds above $100 on two supply threats of unequal size
- Danaher builds an AI lab at Abcam to make hundreds of reagents a year instead of tens
- Portal Ventures leads $13 million into Vest's bet on sharing trader profits
- Two-thirds of Korea's fourth- and fifth-generation chaebol heirs enrolled abroad as undergraduates
- Meta, DeepMind and Isomorphic pay $300 million for first use of Biohub's open cell data
- Circle adds USDC and EURC to SAP Pay and SAP Cloud ERP payment rails
- Tether's Kazakhstan MoU puts its Hadron platform in contention for Alatau City's $60 million plan
- GSR's $100 million behind Hare is mostly a credit line seeding the startup's vaults
- Ray Dalio blames debt and rising rates for an AI bubble he says is close to bursting
- BlackRock's two crypto ETFs account for all but $700,000 of Tuesday's net flows
- Samsung's uncapped chip bonus would cost up to 39 trillion won on forecast 2026 profit
- Bitcoin traders add $1.1 billion in open interest hours after a $550 million long flush
- Bitmine caps its ether holdings at 5% of supply with about $200 million of buying left
- Europol tells crypto holders to move exposed wallet keys before quantum computers can break them
- Mike Cagney raises $19 million for a self-custody front end stocked first with Figure's yield products
- Kia union's 5,000-member data leak traces to a training vendor serving about 20 organizations
- Three chief executives and a Nigerian owner later, Leatherback becomes Foren
- Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 56% of US voters want limits on building data centers
- Sberbank and VTB take three of the nine slots in Russia's first crypto registers
- ICBA's lawsuit asks post-Chevron courts whether 13 crypto trust charters fit a 1978 statute
- Prosecutors invoke a $250 Bitcoin Fog sting to defend trying Roman Storm in Manhattan
- Ledger brings floating-rate Morpho loans to wallets it says secure almost 30% of retail bitcoin
- Posco paid about $41,500 per tonne of yearly capacity for its second Argentine brine plant
- Robinhood puts $25 million of company capital into bitcoin, about 0.025% of its market value
- HD Construction Equipment books a 390 billion won US data center order ahead of its larger engines
- Citi-led banks back Capitolis at $1.9 billion as it buys its way into securities lending
- India's first rate hike since 2023 leaves the repo rate below the RBI's own inflation forecast
- David Reuben, worth $13.1 billion, leaves Britain for Monaco after the non-dom repeal
- XRP ETF holders sit $97 million below cost after 12 straight weeks of inflows
- Lisa Su courts 13 Korean AI firms to build inference systems around AMD chips
- FNB opens crypto trading from R10 inside ringfenced share accounts
- Seoul's K-GX plan pledges 4.5 won of state support for every won of private investment
- Michael Smith gets 18 months in the first US criminal case over AI bot streaming fraud
- Four years of shared price data carry most of Korea's 4.6 trillion won refinery fine ceiling
- Naver Financial and Dunamu push their share swap to March 2027 in a third delay
- Oil and Treasury yields tipped crypto into a $403 million long liquidation
- In its first full month, Kalshi's 15-minute gold market outtraded Ether by 70%
- HD Hyundai reshuffle advances shipbuilding, safety and new growth bets, including 830 billion won engine plant expansion
- Meritz Securities opens a Ripple custody review ahead of Korea's digital-asset rules
Product80 stories
- India ties Starlink's launch to security reviews it says all three licensed satellite operators face
- Apple starts its King's Trust Creative Labs with up to 20 young people at Apple Music Hall
- Endeavor Catalyst's $320M fifth fund backs only founders Endeavor's network has already picked
- One developer's Claude-built Adobe clones narrow the contest to reliability
- Four states sue TP-Link over what it told router buyers about China
- BMW prices its 428-mile iX4 at $66,200 on a bet that range sells
- iFixit's teardown finds every new Apple Watch battery swap still starts at the glued screen
- Cisco builds Webex agents that keep working after the customer hangs up
- Google Docs now edits Markdown files without turning them into Docs
- Dutch tax agency abandons its Microsoft 365 rollout after 5,000 of 47,500 staff had moved
- OpenAI's Intelligent UI turns ChatGPT answers into sliders and tappable diagrams
- Alibaba's $25bn a year of e-commerce cash backs Joe Tsai's open-source pitch to Europe
- Meta's Muse update invites small businesses to connect a consumer AI agent to QuickBooks and GitHub
- CoreWeave leases 240MW in Navi Mumbai to put Vera Rubin GPUs in India from mid-2028
- Parallel Systems' $100M driverless rail pitch draws its earliest interest from port truckers
- Apple's LG-branded lock and thermostat are expected to ship after its new HomePod and Apple TV
- Sequoia, First Round and Hummingbird put $38M behind Healthleap's overnight reading of hospital notes
- Two Wi-Fi certifications point to a second-generation PlayStation Portal
- Shoppers turn Amazon's editable About You page into a showcase of its strangest guesses
- A hand crank on Ring's $249 smart lock stands in for the hidden spare key
- SynthID.com lets anyone test a file for watermarks from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao
- Stuut's 47% DSO claim runs more than double its own ZoomInfo result
- Google's Pixel Buds update saves sleep detection for people who also wear a Pixel Watch
- Google opens Playground, a browser studio where US adults make games by typing
- Xreal's Android XR Aura undercuts Meta's VR Glasses by $20 on the same Qualcomm chip
- Trump's spy chief takes charge of AI policy under a charter centred on threats and breaches
- iPhone Duo's Quick Look lays documents out as a two-page spread when held open like a book
- Hour-long suicide chats on ChatGPT for Teens rarely triggered parent alerts, Common Sense Media found
- Apple brings Dolby Atmos to Formula 1 on Apple TV for viewers with the hardware to hear it
- Spotify's audiobook expansion to 180-plus markets splits listeners between included hours and a paid add-on
Leadership56 stories
- Lescure ties Britain's say on EU procurement rules to rejoining the bloc
- Schneider Electric pays $22.6 billion for PTC to own the design data behind industrial AI
- Badenoch pledges to exempt family homes from inheritance tax if the Conservatives win
- Glasgow offers three years of pay protection to win a vote on its equal-pay regrading
- HPE schedules its eight-GPU ProLiant Gen13 inference server for early 2027
- Weston family's $8.9bn Boots purchase ends hopes of a London relisting
- SFO's Libor prosecutions lose five more Barclays convictions at the Court of Appeal
- Florida asks a judge to stop OpenAI building new models without outside approval
- Japan's competition regulator raids beer makers over price rises they all blamed on costs
- Royal Mail confines up to 2,500 job cuts to head office and support staff
- Germany backs EU-wide approval of Tesla's driver aid while questioning its Full Self-Driving name
- Shell expects a record $42 refining margin for a quarter in which crude got cheaper
- Australia's privacy watchdog puts Kmart and other glasses retailers on notice over a Chinese app maker
- IMF chief Georgieva presses governments to stop delaying debt cuts before Bangkok talks
Science164 stories
- WWF's Living Planet Report sets bluefin tuna's UK comeback against a 73% average wildlife decline
- One five-year window puts Bolotana women's odds of reaching 100 near four times Italy's
- Margaret Hamilton, who led MIT's Apollo flight software team, dies at 90
- Artemis II astronauts' five lunar impact flash sightings join NASA's public dataset
- H1N1 makes up 96% of subtyped US flu cases as infections climb early in the West
- Optogenetic gene therapy improves light sensitivity in 7 of 10 people blinded by retinitis pigmentosa
- Modeling the tortoises surveyors missed puts Aldabra's population near 180,000
- Asymmetric synthesis wins the 2026 chemistry Nobel for making one mirror-image form of a molecule
- Tail physics sorts four mosasaurs into ambush sprinters and open-water chasers
- Sequencing of 194-year-old Jonathan the tortoise turns up 287 gene changes unique to him
- Neanderthals made or used 13 of nearly 600 wooden objects from a Spanish rock shelter
- Disinhibition gates how fruit flies lock a goal heading into a recurrent memory circuit
- First nuclear clocks run on thorium-229 crystals in two independent labs
- Atomic-scale imaging finds a hidden twisted superlattice in long-ignored uranium oxytelluride
- Thousand-year lake core ties southeast Australia's thicker forests to the end of Indigenous burning
- Mars Express modelling suggests the 1,800 km Arsia Mons cloud freezes straight from vapour
- Strain dating suggests gut microbes rare in industrialized people traveled with early humans
- British Antarctic Survey counts 63% fewer chinstrap nests on Zavodovski Island than in 2011
- A 165-million-year-old swimming mammal relative already had a throat built for suckling
- Isaias is forecast to become 2026's first Atlantic hurricane before a Gulf Coast landfall
- Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai share the 2026 chemistry Nobel for work on mirror-image molecules
- Cold ammonia collisions show dipole-dipole interactions switching off at low energy