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Security43 stories
- Google restores part of April's Chrome bounty cut with a $2,000 memory-bug base
- Supplier incident blocks new complaint filing at the UK Housing Ombudsman
- Prosecutors say an OpenAI engineer left an encrypted recorder in a conference room TV's USB port
- DOJ seizes 187 laptops in raids on more than 40 Texas homes tied to North Korean IT workers
- FTC sues Dmitry Belkin over sham sextortion help sold through online ads
- Windows 11 October Patch Tuesday update puts 24H2, 25H2 and 26H2 on one set of fixes
- Gemini 4 Argon launches at half the price Google plans to charge later
- Scam compound raids in Ghana and Nigeria net 28 arrests after a week of NCA-hosted coordination
- UTA0576 gained root on a fully patched Ivanti Connect Secure VPN 10 days before the fix
- Kimsuky pitched fake conferences and research projects to Ukrainian security experts, Genians reports
- Two LiteLLM flaws let a basic user account take over the gateway or capture AI provider keys
- SAP patches a maximum-severity Python SDK flaw that redirects OAuth2 token requests through tenant_subdomain
- Anthropic's red team says self-copying AI worms on cheap TV boxes may be months away
- XWorm's 46 plugins now include one that drives a victim's logged-in browser
- Cisco will let Webex teams @mention Claude and other AI agents in shared spaces
- Installing MarkLogic's August fixes leaves 31 newer flaws open
- npm Trusted Publishing accepted a freed GitHub repo name as proof of who may publish
- Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles owner discloses a cyber incident a week after Asos
- Delhi cut mobile internet in its business district and closed 45 metro stations and markets to stop a rally
Build122 stories
- Prosecutors say North Korean remote workers got into at least 70 US companies
- Nintendo's Bill van Zyll ties Switch 2 physical games to what consumers prefer
- Anthropic warns AI worms could hijack smart TVs and other home devices within months if models keep improving
- MI5 head Ken McCallum announces an AI Threat Assessment Centre
- Nvidia's faster DLSS 5 model lifts NBA 2K27 frame rates up to 1.4x after a launch drop of 60% or more
- Anthropic built Scion after agents pushed daily merges from 2,500 to over 30,000
- Brandon Thomas's Claude-built Office clones rate themselves at about 60% feature parity
- Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon broadly after a limited-access window for cyber defenders
- Nix and Lix patch a chain of daemon flaws that ends in local root
- Firefox Enterprise puts its policy, DLP and AI controls on servers the customer runs
- Linux Mint 27 'Adrien' starts a new codename series with men's names
- BIPM's 69 member states vote this week on retiring the leap second
- Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B outscores Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on LiveClaw in Liquid's own evaluation
- Google Play lets adults in select markets run AI Studio apps without a developer account
- OpenWeb's trustee asks a Tel Aviv court to halt lenders while it struggles to pay publishers
- A configured Framework Laptop 12 often costs about $1,000, Tom's Hardware found
- NVIDIA open-sources the full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform on GitHub
- TrashBench's RTX 3080 core ran 16.7C cooler on a riser at the side intake
- Workday's MCP server gives outside agents 275 read tools and 54 write or delete tools
- Seven banks add RM15 billion to DayOne's Johor data centre financing, taking it to RM30 billion
- Anthropic says limits on Claude's reasoning access cut distillers' token extraction 10 to 100 times
Invest188 stories
- Standard Chartered takes Bitcoin and Ether custody in-house for wealthy UAE clients
- Sixteen Korean financial firms account for about 100,000 presumed data leaks so far
- IBK became Vietnam's 10th wholly foreign-owned bank after a nine-year approval process
- IMF adds $6,100 to Korea's 2026 GDP per capita forecast, a 16.3% revision since April
- Citadel Securities pledged a 2-year Treasury that BNY had tokenized and settled within minutes
- Starknet's Shadow Accounts hide the owner of a DeFi position while publishing the position
- Tether invests in EFY Finance's seed round; firm says it settles to local accounts in 17 countries
- SK hynix locates the next AI inference bottleneck in the data moving between HBM, DRAM and SSDs
- Some ASML customers ask to order for 2029 and 2030 as 2027 and 2028 supply falls short
- New York Fed's Williams says AI hardware supply may lag demand beyond two years
- Coinbase wants Bitcoin's quantum-resistant wallets designed now because migration takes years
- Trump-nominated judge cites Trump's own words to block the White House ban on three outlets indefinitely
- Ryan Cohen paid about 11% more per share for his second GameStop buy of October
- Ripple's first Korean securities partner, Meritz, will evaluate its custody software
- Solana's Oct. 21 Alpenglow switch removes validator votes from blocks
- Korea's growth upgrade explains under 5% of the IMF's 8.3-point cut to its debt ratio
- Toluene tank fire in Ulsan sends 7,000 workers off part of S-Oil's Shaheen project site
- LG CNS and KDDI begin scoping AI projects in five Asia-Pacific markets
- China's September exports beat forecasts by about $35 billion as chip and hardware shipments climbed
- China's producer prices outran consumer prices by 4.1 points in September
- KOSPI regains about a fifth of its 5.46% drop before the US CPI print
- LG, GS E&C and GRC sign an immersion cooling MoU a year into LG's Pyeongtaek trials
- Daewoong aims for first-half 2027 GMP approval at the plant that will make its semaglutide patch
- Chey Tae-won's 244 billion won challenge is the only appeal left on a 944 billion won award
- Dell's family fund pays 559,400 won a share for SK Inc, 4.7% under the price on Chey's other block
- Much of the CPTPP's gain on Korean car exports comes from Mexico, KIET finds
- Shorter maturities carry the G7's higher yields into budgets faster, the IMF finds
- Upgrade applies for a Nevada bank charter with Cross River and Celtic still originating its loans
- More UK CFOs expect AI to cut headcount than to lift margins, Deloitte's poll of 66 shows
- Coins.ph faces possible loss of its Philippine license over offshore gambling clients, two people say
- Anthropic asks the full D.C. Circuit to undo the ruling that upheld its Pentagon blacklisting
- White House counts $54 billion of Korea's energy package toward an Alaska LNG project Seoul has not decided on
- Ottawa's regional AI fund reaches $700 million to lift business adoption from 12% to 60%
- SoftBank pays up to 9.75% on a record $11 billion junk sale to avoid selling assets it expects to rise
- Oracle presses FERC to speed a 17.8-mile gas pipeline that has slipped 170 days
- OpenAI edges past Anthropic in OpenRouter spend for the first time since February 2024
- Revolut's US credit cards and loans await full FDIC and Fed clearance, with a first-half 2027 banking target
- Cantwell and Rounds cite 'tens of thousands' of AI agent intrusions in a letter to the Trump administration
- Lotte Shopping's department store coupon cap tops the 93,800 won price of the share that earns it
- Meta's AI chief could offer only a 'vibe report' and some charts before a check of up to $200 billion
- CohnReznick takes on 48 Aldrich partners and a wealth arm advising $8 billion in its third deal of 2026
- OpenAI sees no sign its weights or code were taken after an employee's arrest over a hidden listening device
- Albertsons pulls its financial guidance until its sweeping business review is over
- Memory makers face a pricing-power question after reports of CXMT's DRAM progress
- Core CPI at 0.2% would let the Fed skip an October hike even with headline inflation at 3.6%
- Citi's 'above 11%' return guide allows a fourth quarter of about 6%
- DOJ announced plans for the London scam operation 33 days before Coinbase's team joined it
- Sony's Sorkin sequel needs six times its opening weekend to cover a $30 million budget
- Stripe's Privy adds XRP Ledger wallets as Ripple cites 13 million agent payments it counted itself
- Cross River names former Lazard Asset Management CEO Evan Russo as president
- Hyundai's $15.5 billion India pledge works out to $2.2 billion a year through 2032
- Interactive Brokers puts Ethereum staking in the same portal as clients' stocks, options and futures
- FIS pitches agentic cash forecasting to CFOs on a gap between 46% interest and 14% integration
- Universal extends its USDU stablecoin to Solana, with access focused on institutional participants
- JPMorgan's CFO says customers who give AI agents their credentials may carry the loss
- Nvidia lines up a further $2 billion of European AI deals after $8 billion in a year
- Heading for a sixth straight loss, the SOX is still up about 63% on the year
- Trezor will end some reseller authorizations on January 1, 2027 to focus on partners it can vet closely
- MNX puts end-2027 expiry dates on futures for OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot
- Trump's Russian diesel deal runs against a 2022 import ban that passed the House 414-17
- Anthropic's Wednesday Q3 figures will help size a possible $2 trillion listing
- Bitcoin has lost 2.9% in a week of falling Fed hike odds
- BIS Aurum prototype confines a bank breach to that bank's own customers
- Blockchain.com is one of 12 firms seeking a CFTC exchange licence in 2026
- BP, Shell and TotalEnergies chiefs skip Riyadh's energy congress after the Houthi airport strike
- Scaleway to build AI supercomputer in Sweden on AMD chips, its first outside France
- Huawei shipped 572,000 AI chips in China in six months, 106,000 fewer than Nvidia
- Hinton and Bengio join 400 scientists seeking an AI containment body; the EU says its law is sufficient
- MediaMarktSaturn pulled the full Ledger range within four days of losses surfacing at another reseller
- Apple tests whether Siri AI sells hardware with a $299 hub
- Bank of Korea's Shin says the AI boom and the Middle East war push prices up from both sides
- Uber splits its departing autonomy head's job between two insiders after 12 years
- Netflix will show all 104 matches of the 2030 World Cup in Spain, with the final also on free TV
- Warrant holders exercise $208 million as Strive grows its bitcoin holdings 11.2% in one week
- Korea puts 16 new ministry posts behind a planned 800 trillion won chip build-out
- Wells Fargo shares fell despite loan losses that beat forecasts
- WEX and Mastercard route fleet fuel, maintenance, tolls and parking through one Asia-Pacific network
- Excluding a $658 million securities loss, JPMorgan's EPS matches one consensus and trails another
- Federated Hermes plans to issue its own tokenized fund shares in early 2027 through Prometheum
- Lee Jae Myung tells his Cabinet to shun a submissive stance while US intelligence sharing stays restricted
- SpaceX accepts the NYC Council's AI subpoena after a threat of court enforcement
- STX gains more than 50% in four weeks ahead of November's Bonding Period 3
- Chicago Fed's Goolsbee grows nervous that AI-driven price pressure is now general overheating
- Brookfield's $100 billion AI program covers 1.4% of the $7 trillion buildout it estimates
- Unauthorized THEO minted on Base sold for 700.8 ETH and sank the token 92% in a day
- Base10 leads $20 million seed for Causa Prima's AI agents that resolve billing disputes
- Washington's 2.25 million barrel Russian diesel waiver is a bid to pull Putin back to talks
- Sources say Anthropic and OpenAI sought strict control of evaluators' reports after backing their independence
- Metaplanet earmarks more of its 52 billion yen convertible for buybacks than for repaying Bitcoin loans
- Ethereum ETFs lost about 3.7% of their assets in the week to Oct 9
- Jay Y. Lee will owe gift tax on 2.6 trillion won of Samsung Electronics shares from his mother
- Ledger finds a cellular implant inside a CryptoBilis-sold signer that copies recovery phrases at setup
- Cisco ties Korea's 58 out of 100 cyber defense score to turf-guarding between security and IT teams
- KOSPI falls 5.46% on AI-investment worries and CXMT chip news, while Brent rises 1.84% on Middle East risk
- Hanwha's wheeled K9 howitzer becomes the Army's XM1776 prototype
- UK trader says intruders with knives forced him to hand over $720,000 from a Ledger
- Chinese brands take 20 of about 60 spots at the Paris Motor Show, double their 2024 count
- Samsung and AMD demonstrate AI servers borrowing memory from a shared CXL pool
- Korea's financial regulator to move to Sejong next year while most banks and financial firms are based in Seoul
- Binance weighs Hong Kong, Korean, Taiwanese and Brazilian stocks for its 300 million users
- A wallet that received bitcoin in March 2020 sends $378M to five addresses
- Standard Chartered begins holding Ripple's RLUSD for institutions through its Dubai branch
- KOSPI lost 5.46% in a day, about 12 times the Nasdaq's overnight decline
Product94 stories
- Chainguard sells frontier-model flaw hunting as a service its own staff run for customers
- FTC points to Martin Shkreli's livestreams and stock trades as breaches of a lifetime pharma ban
- Intel wants enterprises to route each prompt to a right-sized system, starting with one card
- US bank regulators reportedly ask whether cyber-defense AI agents have an emergency shutdown
- Science Corporation puts its PRIMA retinal chip into a Stargardt disease patient for the first time
- Qualcomm wins a breach verdict against Arm worth $2 in damages
- Judge Davila lets Apple depose OpenAI's hardware chief and read its interview files early
- FPT and NAVER Cloud sign an MOU to offer GPU rental across Asia-Pacific
- Two of four frontier AI labs tell UK MPs they want binding rules
- Apple sends AirPods beta build 9B5043a to eight listed versions without change notes
- Microsoft starts a small Xbox Labs team to study decompiled and recompiled games
- Apple's fourth 27.2 betas leave Health app changes unsettled before a release due this month
- Apple's macOS 27.2 beta 4 brings Siri AI to five more languages
- Siri AI reaches French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish in the iOS 27.2 beta
- Doug Field takes over day-to-day running of Rivian's robotics spinoff Mind Robotics
- Facebook Feed and Reels now take plain-language instructions on what to show more or less
- Skydance says Discovery Plus price rises were in the works before the Warner Bros. Discovery merger
- OnePlus's 9,000mAh OnePlus 16 launches in China after the brand quit the US and Europe
- Google redesigns the in-car Play Store so featured apps install in one tap
- Anthropic runs a 26B model across 15 $55 Android TV boxes to test the AI worm threat
- Apple will not sell its $299 HomeView in the EU because Siri AI is missing from iOS there
- Google Play opens a personal library for AI Studio apps that needs no paid developer account
- Pluto Security raises about $34 million, bringing total funding to $42 million, to track what employees build with AI
- Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to AI Pro subscribers and keeps Antigravity's own apps on Ultra
- Meta's Muse assistant writes explicit sex chat that Instagram and Facebook ban for their users
- GTA VI is due on PC in the first quarter of 2027, four anonymous sources tell GamesBeat
- Apple's Home Collection brings LG cameras from £179.95 to the UK in December
- Beats' Pokémon Pill speaker costs the same $149.99 as the regular model
- Apple's new Switch to Safari page gives Mac users more than 10 reasons to leave Chrome
- Apple's $299 Apple TV 4K adds far-field microphones and a beta of Siri AI
- Apple's $149 HomePod Mini 2 ships October 30 without the Siri AI its S10 chip can run
- Third parties still make Apple's first co-developed smart home devices
- Amex's Intent Intelligence Framework would check an AI agent's order against what the customer approved
- Apple adds horror to Vision Pro's immersive catalog with Ti West's Remnants
- OnePlus 16 undercuts the Galaxy S26 Ultra by $500 or more until a US buyer adds import costs
- Georgia suit leans on Flock's own audit log to allege retaliatory searches of a plaintiff's plate
- Fitbit Edge's $80 premium over the Air pays for more than a screen
Leadership73 stories
- Dandong gets a second bridge to Sinuiju more than a decade after China finished its side
- BitMEX's operator faces a £20m High Court claim that unapproved UK derivatives contracts are void
- Hamburg court hears Nord Stream sabotage case against one former Ukrainian officer
- Microsoft's October release of 1,407 CVEs tops 2020's full-year record by 146
- Aramco office fire comes with 41% of Saudi departures canceled or idle since Oct. 8
- Treasury assesses Bank of America $1.2 billion after the bank admits willful Bank Secrecy Act violations
- Diesel is up more than 75% since the Iran war as US inflation is forecast to reach 3.7%
- Musk, Nadella and Altman answer Trump's 'super intelligence' push in three different ways
- Kogan would quit as football regulator if ministers interfere in a Manchester City sanction
- Ithaca Holdings prices Bumble at under a tenth of its 2021 peak value
- Palmer Luckey, whose Anduril sells to the Pentagon and CBP, wants executions 'public and brutal'
- Ukraine's ex-defense minister Fedorov unveils an interceptor aimed at Russia's Geran-5 jet drone
- Meta takes Ofcom to the High Court over group-wide revenue in Online Safety Act fines
- Car finance redress payments slip into 2027 as the Upper Tribunal fixes a February hearing
- Your First Home could add 10% to Bellway's volumes, its chief executive says
- IMF lifts its 2026 UK growth forecast to 1.3% as Healey's first budget nears
- Healey hears retail's case on business rates and keeps his Budget plans to himself
- GLM-5.2 completed a full replication chain on eight $55 TV boxes in four of five Anthropic runs
- Disney sets a $20 million opening bid for Character.AI's IP in Chapter 11
- Tinder's scam filters struggled for years, a congressional investigation found
Science140 stories
- Ledger asks resellers in seven Asian markets to pull its wallets while it traces the tampering
- Sierra Madre terrain appeared to temper Hurricane Simon as its eye passed 50 km off Mexico
- Archaeologists date a Kekova Island wreck to 4,400-4,700 years by its pottery
- Researchers say the Wildlife Photographer of the Year elephant has picked up other females' dead calves
- New fungus Dianjunus rex, up to 50 cm tall, is largest known ascomycete fruiting body
- English vowels drew tone-like brain activity from Japanese learners with finer hearing
- Pet dogs lingered on the round shape for 'bouba' and the spiky one for 'kiki'
- CT scans of a braincase shelved since 1924 point to Europe's first megaraptoran
- Swapping a grounding line for a grounding zone doubles Thwaites' 2100 sea-level estimate
- Molten bismuth strips manganese from a precursor and leaves nanoporous beta-SiC at 800 degrees C
- USTC team cuts a topological crystal into a microscope tip to probe altermagnetism in KV2Se2O
- NASA moves Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch into the acting deputy chief engineer post
- Host-star mass and metal content split 300 multiplanet systems into two families
- About 300 glaciers in the Lower 48 have disappeared since mid-century, a PNAS review finds
- JAXA's Phobos sample mission MMX is set to launch on 19 October
- Long Beach has red-tagged eight buildings after three storms in six weeks
- Nanoparticles aimed at NK cells turn them into CAR NK cells inside mice