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Security43 stories
- Pwn2Own Ireland zero-days put Samsung, Google, OpenAI and Oracle on a 90-day patch deadline
- 764 leader Prasan Nepal pleads guilty to a child exploitation conspiracy carrying up to 30 years
- Anthropic pairs Claude with CrowdStrike and Dragos in a critical infrastructure defense program
- Italy's Foreign Ministry says it held off an October 8 attack on its website
- Ransomware in one IDCF Cloud region hits 495 companies and local governments
- Ten agencies tie China-linked intrusions across several sectors to Integrity Technology Group
- Russian and Iranian AI-made personas got propaganda into real news outlets before OpenAI shut them down
- FakeGit rewrote more than 13,000 GitHub repos in 34 hours to spread SmartLoader
- BT's records helped police find a SIM swapper jailed over nearly $260,000 in crypto
- Cisco's five critical Nexus flaws only reach switches running NX-API, NGOAM or MPLS OAM
- Silent Ransom Group sent recruited 'agents' into US law firm offices, leaked chats show
- Cheap MediaTek-based Android phones reach buyers with ad-fraud malware already in the firmware
- ESET traces at least 21 months of changes to UAC-0099's MatchBoil downloader
- Teams meetings will take deepfake signals from certified outside detectors in November
- Yandex Cloud limits new resources after reported drone strike shuts a Ryazan data center
- Meta's Muse agent keeps hourly dossiers on its users and the people they know
- Wazza phishkit screens visitors through a multi-stage chain before serving its Adobe device-code lure
- Empire Market co-creator gets 40 years for $430 million market built mostly on drugs
- UAC-0099 pushes MATCHBOIL from Ukraine's transport firms into manufacturing and energy
- Nearly 20 million people hit by Oracle Health's legacy Cerner breach, Texas report says
Build88 stories
- USA TODAY Co. asks a federal court to make OpenAI pay for training on 19 publications
- Prague summit report puts European groups at 15% of open-source governance
- Flock Safety plans to cut 270 jobs as local governments rethink its shared plate-reader network
- One sign error pulled three of OpenAI's AI-generated math papers within a day of release
- Anthropic's OSS Scanner ships unreviewed AI vulnerability reports to opted-in maintainers
- Arena pairs a $200 million raise with a leaderboard counting agents' false 'done' claims
- OpenAI's Ultrafast tier leaves teams to measure GPT-6.1 Sol's speedup themselves
- OpenAI sells the same GPT-6.1 Sol model faster for six times the token price
- Claude Dashboards links every number to the SQL that produced it
- Gemini 4 Argon's API price doubles when Google's introductory window ends
- Benchmark and Index put $60 million behind Hone's long-running business agents
- Spark and Athena can now read Redshift materialized views kept in Iceberg format
- Spotify gathers Backstage, Portal, Confidence and Xirp under a Spotify Technology brand
- Gallatin AI raises $50 million to push Foundry-built Navigator deeper into military sustainment planning
- Drone strike on Yandex's Sasovo data center pushes Yandex Cloud customers to other zones
- Vercel's free Glyph Cluster model may hand your prompts to an unnamed provider for training
- AgentCore's region-wide default role let one public agent's stolen credentials reach every agent in the account
- Rein Security's $25 million Series A funds a sidecar that blocks AI agent actions as they run
- A missed DSV email put F-35 stealth parts on an ITAR-barred route through Hong Kong
- ArtCraft's AI-written Rust clones copy Adobe's interfaces faster than one developer can audit them
- Keurig smart brewer swamps a home access point with a terabyte of mostly local traffic
- In Tensorlake's npm SDK 0.5.144, a preinstall hook steals credentials before any sandbox runs
- Cloudflare's open-weight Clef models score every allowed option in a single pass
- GPT-6 assembles ChatGPT's interactive answers from a fixed library of native components
Invest208 stories
- Interest drives more than half the rise in a U.S. deficit nearing $2 trillion
- Most of Washington's $215 million quantum prize pays only after teams reach 100 logical qubits
- Armed robbers force an $820,000 crypto transfer from a Pattaya expat at gunpoint
- French crypto holders face an irrevocable cost-basis choice under a draft stablecoin swap tax
- Trump voters trail Harris voters by 18 points on midterm motivation in Reuters/Ipsos poll
- DWF Labs-linked firms sue BitGo for $141 million over tokens it bought under lock-up
- Brent closes above $104 as Trump promises no Iran strike before the Nov. 3 midterms
- Solana's 200-millisecond blocks cut latency as validator votes climb 25% from prior step, nearing double the original rate
- XRP Ledger delegation goes live with its PaymentBurn fix two validator votes short
- Tiger Global's $5 billion OpenAI gain rests on a $500 billion mark, a third of the price in talks
- Coupang to give 5,000 won credit to customers whose orders were canceled in midnight outage
- Thailand's SEC requires 80% crypto exposure from every Bitcoin and Ether ETF on the SET
- Samsung Wallet's USDC rollout to 82 million Galaxy phones starts as a remittance service
- Lawmakers press Google to strip employee records from its $10 million Spirit Airlines data purchase
- Blumenthal puts Cantor's Tether stake at $10 billion in a records demand to Brandon Lutnick
- Anthropic builds an in-house team to brief 2028 presidential candidates before its IPO
- Revolut will pay for new IDs after sending 680 customers' data to a hijacked Italian police email
- Fed and OCC order Amex to overhaul its anti-money-laundering controls alongside a $350 million fine
- Pyth DAO commits all product revenue to PYTH buybacks after monthly purchases fell 75%
- Formation's AI and defense credit pitch starts from $150 million of Loopscale deposits
- SpaceX agrees to buy Grain Management's 800 MHz band to push Starlink Mobile through walls
- US jobless claims of 197,000 extend a four-week run below 200,000
- Polkadot launches dotUSD backed one-for-one by the Tether dollars it warned against
- OpenAI endorses the audit plan of three safety researchers it fired for what it calls leaks
- Curve wants Glamsterdam judged under load, where a leveraged borrow burns 15 times a swap's gas
- New York Fed economists put the tariff lift to US consumer goods prices at 2.9 points
- Citrini's 79-page report backs tokenization's fee collectors over bitcoin and ether
- Trump accounts grow tenfold to nearly 70 million children through auto-enrollment
- OpenAI's $50 Billion Revenue Figure Reported as Oracle, AMD and TSMC Shares Fall
- Trump's investor-heavy AI task force owes a risk report within 120 days
- Changsha court lets investor keep 196 parking spaces after she rents some out at double the old rate
- Britain sanctions five crypto platforms a week after Washington blacklisted Russia's A7 network
- Starbucks weighs a bid for the $41 billion Chipotle that Brian Niccol left behind
- NFL backs New Jersey's Supreme Court bid to regulate Kalshi's sports contracts as gambling
- Brent above $105 and 24-year-high bond yields push Bitcoin back to $81,000
- Bitcoin falls through $82,180 support to an intraday low near $80,800
- U.S. indicts Maduro for torture nine months after seizing him in Caracas
- Decrypt brings perpetual futures and prediction markets into its crypto newsroom
- Washington freezes green-card sponsorship at Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcers
- Korea Exchange halts market-cap delistings for eight small caps after a court injunction
- Applied Digital collects its $36 billion AI backlog only as fast as it builds
- US government sends $1 billion of seized Bitfinex bitcoin to unlabeled wallets
- Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface Laptop Ultra will start at $2,599 when it ships October 16
- Cuomo warns crypto that its Republican-heavy spending alienates the Democrats CLARITY needs
- Bitcoin with exposed public keys grows 3.5 times faster than new supply
- European Parliament adds crypto assets to its wish list for the Commission's anti-corruption strategy
- Chips and servers account for nearly half of the trade growth behind the WTO's doubled forecast
- Bonds convertible at a 13% premium carry most of CIG Shanghai's $840 million raise
- South Korea's first hypersonic glide test puts mass production in the 2030s, one analyst estimates
- finmid raises €17m to extend its platform lending into Bolt fleet car loans
- Trump's accounts bought up to $5 million of SpaceX notes two days before he signed a launch policy
- Bhutan's DK Bank clears the first of two Abu Dhabi licensing steps
- Soda Labs raises $3 million from one backer to hide bank balances on public blockchains
- FOMO Pay layers Sumsub's identity checks onto the compliance stack it already runs
- Lean proof checks cover about 300 of the 722 math manuscripts OpenAI's unreleased model produced
- Sixteen-year-old bitcoin worth $8.5 million moves from an address that had spent 549 other coins
- Skydance plans one HBO Max and Paramount+ service under roughly $80 billion of debt
- Seven & i's North American stores now out-earn its Japanese chain by 47%
- Securitize brings 12 share-backed US stock tokens to Solana ahead of NYSE and OKXICE venues
- Porsche sets its break-even below 200,000 cars, at least 80,000 short of last year's sales
- Alito's recusal leaves Exxon and Suncor needing five of eight justices to stop Boulder's climate suit
- Amazon replaces its budget Fire tablets with Alexa models costing up to $550
- Uber's partner-fleet plan for 2,000 European robotaxis goes to London for testing
- Sequoia leads a $30 million seed for Catalyst's AI agents that trade for retail investors
- SALT prices its bitcoin-backed loans on collateral alone as borrowers spend them on tuition
- Maas Group's A$517 million drop outruns the reported Firmus price cut
- GlobalFoundries signs a five-year silicon interposer deal with TSMC that ramps in 2028
- Sui's $500 million Hashi pledge tests whether institutions will put idle bitcoin to work
- SK Hynix lines up Goldman and Morgan Stanley for a $10 billion Solidigm IPO in the US
- Blue Origin's first outside round prices the company at $140 billion years before any IPO
- Uniqlo's North American and European sales overtake Greater China for the first time
- Fifteen economies start their overcapacity pact on EVs, batteries and solar with data-sharing
- Conflicting growth figures leave open whether TSMC's record quarter sped up
- Chip-export dollars push the won price of 100 yen to its lowest since 2008
- Washington's $770 million bitcoin transfer to Coinbase Prime raises questions over no-sale order
- Isomorphic Labs seeks a $40 billion valuation before its first human trial
- Seoul recalls ambassador Park Ki-chang from Kyiv over a POW apology it says falls short
- Coupang sues Korea's privacy regulator to cancel its record 624.7 billion won fine
- HSBC reportedly plans to cut close to 70% of its UK financial advisers by end of October
- Fleuret AI raises 4 million euro pre-seed to build continuous AI-driven pentesting platform
- Four billion-dollar rounds supply nearly 40% of Europe's $25 billion venture quarter
- Brent's 3.7% climb to $103.91 on Iran war risk drags European stocks lower
- Backbase releases AI agents that cancel bank cards and check payments within each lender's limits
- ESMA gives MiCA-authorized crypto firms until Jan. 8, 2027 to exit non-compliant stablecoins
- PepsiCo now expects 2026 sales to grow about twice as fast as core earnings
- Boyu and IDG lead a $500 million Manus round after Beijing blocked Meta's takeover
- Kishu Inu founder is charged with wire fraud over a hidden 12% insider allocation
- Existing holders drove three-fifths of Bitcoin's $12.8 billion realized-cap gain, Glassnode estimates
- Bitcoin slips into a Glassnode liquidation band after a $484.9 million ETF exit
- Universal Quantum raises more than $100 million to commercialise modular trapped-ion computers
- Merrill and UBS drive a six-month wirehouse advisor loss bigger than all of 2025
- Standard Chartered plans to put crypto custody inside its Singapore securities business
- Foreign selling keeps the KOSPI behind Taiwan even after Samsung's 107 trillion won quarter
- Oil and 5.3% Treasury yields pull stock futures off record highs before earnings season
- IMF puts tokenized repo at $300 billion to $350 billion a day
- French bond stress joins the Fed in pushing the euro toward a 17-month low
- Greece lowers its planned crypto gains tax to 10% in DAC8's first reporting year
- Stellar's 12.8% weekly slide hands NEAR the 20th-largest crypto spot
- Won strengthens for a fifth session as exporters sell dollars into a firmer greenback
- Kyrgyzstan orders the issuer of its $50 million gold-backed stablecoin into liquidation
- Fidelity's $100 million custody cutoff opens a dispute over how many RIAs must leave
- Korean financial groups' record half-year profit came with thinner cover for bad loans
- Samsung Wallet to launch USDC transfers this month, with bank-payout fees still unpublished
- Europe lifts Korea's biopharma exports to a record $6.6 billion
Product72 stories
- Valuation doubts push Nvidia-backed Firmus to drop its US$5.5 billion ASX float
- Labor Department's PERM freeze at eight firms puts H-1B staff near the six-year cap at risk
- Tim Cook timed his exit so John Ternus would open his tenure with the iPhone Duo
- Gurman says Apple's OLED MacBook Pro will get much lighter without getting much thinner
- AI terms draw the most rival bids in ICANN's 1,615-application domain round
- Global PC shipments fall 20% after the channel stocked up ahead of price hikes
- Apple's iOS 26 leak lawsuit against Jon Prosser bogs down in disputes over discovery, depositions and trade secret claims
- Laptop refreshes for editors can wait three weeks for Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro
- California's athletic commission tells robot league REK to license any fight with a human in it
- Amazon builds its 1,000th Leo satellite while the count in orbit holds at 396
- Paramount puts Cyberpunk 2077 behind Street Fighter and Call of Duty on its game-film slate
- Windows Search turns into a command bar in Microsoft's WinUI 3 rebuild
- Microsoft shrinks 365 Family and Premium to a shared 2TB OneDrive pool
- Apple hands its deal team back to the CFO who scrapped its cash target
- Anthropic's updated Usage Policy spells out explicit surveillance and weapons rules for Claude
- Arena's alignment leaderboard scores AI models on acting unasked and faking finished work
- Pixel Watch 2 and 3 LTE owners have until December 12 to replace a free emergency connection
- OpenAI's math proofs fall short of a Princeton panel's verification standards
- New Relic's Ground Truth CLI lets AI agents re-check whether a production fix held
- Meta tests Facebook and Instagram versions that open on full-screen video
- Apple's October 13 'Welcome home' launch is expected to bring a hub built for several rooms
- Natura's $99 Interface ring takes agent requests and hands the answers to a phone or headphones
- Rockstar puts GTA 6's radio and new podcasts in players' earbuds for on-foot listening
- Waymo takes on $5bn of debt for the first time to fund more robotaxi cities
- Google's experimental Foresight app takes AI meeting notes without leaving the Mac
- Harness buys Augment Code's Cosmos and Auggie tools to feed code into its delivery pipeline
- GTA 6 footage keeps leaking six weeks before launch despite Take-Two's subpoenas
- DARPA now tests six quantum companies' roadmaps against their hardware
- Amazon replaces its Fire tablets with Google Play-ready Alexa Tablets starting at $229.99
- Spotify re-signs Joe Rogan on licence terms that keep his show on YouTube and Apple
- Darwinium starts judging AI agents by their path to payment and the tools they call
- Wolfspeed's conditional $1.5bn DoD loan would fund new SiC and GaN capacity if finalized
- Pennymac and New American Funding buy into Vesta, the AI agent startup they already use for mortgages
- Xbox folds its non-game franchise work into a new division called XP
- Google Cloud's Gemini agent carries one memory into Microsoft 365, Slack and the command line
- Samsung reportedly asks suppliers for up to 30% fewer Q4 phones as memory costs sink margins
- Sesterce wants a closed Finnish paper mill's power and water for a 600MW AI campus
- Teenage Engineering's CEO plans to stop making synths, OP-1 included
Leadership46 stories
- Adidas leans on a 2013 shoe ruling in its four-stripe case against White Fox
- Trump's stated motive undercuts the national security defence of his press ban
- EY's global delivery centres accounted for all of its net hiring in fiscal 2026
- Healey faces his first budget with 10-year gilt yields at their highest since 2007
- Lifetime ISA withdrawal charges hit 45,000 savers more than once in 2024/25
- Rail regulator rejects even slimmed-down Wrexham and Rochdale trains on the west coast main line
- Xbox puts Lucasfilm veteran Kayleen Walters over a new unit for franchise spinoffs
- Oil's jump past $105 adds to a diesel bill already up almost 70% since the Iran war began
- CrowdStrike traces AI-assisted attacks on South Korean banks to one possible suspect in Guangdong
- Rising UK hiring leaves employers with a deepening pool of candidates
- Bank of England picks four animals for a banknote series redesigned against forgery
- OpenAI's 722 AI-generated maths papers leave mathematicians with years of checking
- Asos widens its breach disclosure after hackers share a data sample with the BBC
- Amazon cuts fewer than 1,000 more Stores jobs in a rolling cost overhaul
- Visier survey finds almost half of US workers have overstated their AI use or skill
- US pressure strips three official sponsors from Europe's main disinformation conference
- Tesco raises its profit outlook on like-for-like sales growth of 1%
Science144 stories
- Nine universities face Labor Department subpoenas over postdoc J-1 visas
- Botanists name a Colombian giant waterlily first flagged in a swimmer's online photos
- Tooth marks on a teenage Albertosaurus point to a small raptor scavenging a tyrannosaur
- Underwater archaeologists recover a Pharos-engraved signet ring from Alexandria's sunken palace
- Max Planck and London chemists use light to make hydrogen atoms for metal-free reductions
- Exposure mapping counts 294,000 Nepalis living in Himalayan flood-prone valleys
- Two HHMI teams rebuild the family trees of millions of cells in developing mice
- Epigenetic marks on jumping genes erode fastest in the biggest dogs
- Kilauea's run of 54 lava fountains points to a gas-driven piston in its vents
- Wild savanna elephants check who is watching before they gesture, a study of about 840 gestures finds
- MeerKAT and Webb trace the most distant fast radio burst to a small galaxy at redshift 2.15
- Dried teaching specimen in Tübingen turns out to be a new giant isopod species
- County Down's wind-bent wych elm wins Northern Ireland its first UK Tree of the Year
- Life-story essays from 450 people tie three psychopathic traits to three distinct word patterns
- Relief crew for NASA's first medical evacuation splashes down after eight months on the station
- WMO forecasts record Pacific warmth of 3.7C above normal as El Niño builds toward a December peak
- Vitalik Buterin warns AI mathematics could weaken lattice cryptography within two years
- Draconid shower peaks around 9 p.m. EDT on Oct 8 at a handful of meteors per hour
- UAE completes its own 10 kg probe for a 2028 mission to touch asteroid Justitia