Attackers hijacked hundreds of volunteer-run Tor exit relays in early October 2026, swapping in fake SSH host keys to capture passwords from users who accepted them.
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Quest Diagnostics says an unauthorized party accessed certain patient records through its Quanum lab platform. The number of affected people has not been disclosed.
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OpenAI is closing a round of up to $30 billion at a lower $1.25 trillion pre-money price, with UAE investors and Coatue leading, as it prepares for a possible 2027 IPO.
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Meta's shares fell about 7% on October 22 despite a revenue beat, as $34.9 billion in quarterly capex pushed free cash flow negative for the first time since its 2012 listing.
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INTERPOL says Operation Serengeti III produced 1,462 arrests and over $105 million in recovered funds. The US was one of 21 countries, contributing intelligence before the raids.
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Microsoft's MAI-DxO scored 83.2% on hard New England Journal of Medicine cases in a peer-reviewed Science paper, and hospital trials with Mayo Clinic and Beth Israel are next.
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Chrome's new Gemini scam checks and ClickFix clipboard warnings are opt-in under Enhanced Protection. Google's ten-times-safer claim has no published basis yet.
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Micron's Taoyuan union walked out for 24 hours over a demand for 15% of operating profit, in what Nikkei Asia calls the island's first chip-industry strike.
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SpaceX launched its second Starfall reentry capsule on October 20, but it has released few details about payloads, landing plans or when customers could use a cargo return service.
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Zeabur will shut down by December 31 after an October intrusion exposed 321,810 account records and read about 3.2 million stored environment-variable records.
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Anthropic's Claude Duet messages users first and works in the background on Claude Opus 5.5, starting with a US waitlist for Pro and Max subscribers.
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A California Medi-Cal billing vendor says an October 2025 intrusion may have exposed data of more than 970,000 members, and notice letters went out only in September.
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Attackers are exploiting a CVSS 9.9 SQL injection zero-day in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator. Arista's fixed releases are rolling out, and two attacker IP addresses are known.
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GSA's new large language model clause took effect October 19, 2026, setting data safeguard, portability and notice rules for federal AI purchases. Most contracts do not carry it yet, because it must first appear in a schedule refresh.
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DHS quietly revised its AI directive so its chief AI officer can waive any requirement, including bans on prohibited uses. Critics say the change opens a major loophole, and the directive has no set expiration date.
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Global AI stocks sold off on Thursday as oil climbed to its highest since May and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's capital comments rattled investors.
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OpenAI is closing a round of up to $30 billion at a lower $1.25 trillion pre-money price, with UAE investors and Coatue leading, as it prepares for a possible 2027 IPO.
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SpaceX launched its second Starfall reentry capsule on October 20, but it has released few details about payloads, landing plans or when customers could use a cargo return service.
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Meta's shares fell about 7% on October 22 despite a revenue beat, as $34.9 billion in quarterly capex pushed free cash flow negative for the first time since its 2012 listing.
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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading Facebook users about their data. Meta says it will appeal, and the judge has yet to rule on injunctive relief.
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Musk confirmed on SpaceX’s October 20 earnings call that Tesla and SpaceX have each formed special committees to explore a merger. No deal terms have been disclosed.
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Federal prosecutors and the FTC allege San Diego broker REPS & Company used thousands of accounts to beat ticket purchase limits, netting at least $120.8 million in resale profits.
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Google open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend that lets existing code run on its TPU chips with minimal changes. Here is what works, what is still unverified, and how to test it.
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PingCAP says attackers copied TiDB Cloud account, billing and encrypted API-key data between September 9 and October 7. An extortion group claims 10.6 TB, which remains unverified.
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Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus shows $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss, most of it a non-cash accounting charge.
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Ahold Delhaize's cyberattack kept online ordering, apps and digital coupons offline at five US grocery banners for about eight days, while stores stayed open and the company says no sensitive data has been confirmed taken.
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Dario Amodei says Anthropic's safety choices carried real commercial costs, including a months-long model lead, while conceding the company mishandled its draft federal AI safety bill.
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Railway told every customer to rotate all stored secrets after an intruder may have decrypted environment variables. Researchers tie the breach to about $371,000 in crypto thefts.
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A full day of summary-judgment arguments in San Jose left Judge Eumi Lee weighing whether training Claude on copyrighted song lyrics is fair use. She has not ruled.
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Eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authority keys were weak enough to recover from public certificates, and Chrome, Firefox, Apple and Microsoft have blocked the affected certificates.
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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading Facebook users about their data. Meta says it will appeal, and the judge has yet to rule on injunctive relief.
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Google DeepMind staff are resigning over the company's classified Pentagon AI deal and its work with the US and Israeli militaries, and some spoke to the BBC despite contract limits.
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Bullhorn took its recruiting platform offline after a cyberattack in mid-October, leaving staffing firms without applicant-tracking and billing tools while forensic work continues.
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Nearly 300 authors sued Meta on October 19 over alleged pirated and scanned books used in AI training, the same day a judge ordered Meta to name who approved shadow-library downloads.
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