A ransomware attack closed Oneonta, New York's schools on Friday, and students will not return until Tuesday, October 27. Officials have not said whether personal data was taken.
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DHS political appointees reportedly asked CISA to secretly buy and hack a voting machine, withholding flaws from the vendor. Career staff resisted, and the work never happened.
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Reuters' running factbox now counts about 102,800 announced job cuts at 31 companies since October 2025, with HSBC and Amazon leading the list.
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Meta is pushing its updated business terms to November 20 after publishers and advertisers said the rules would give it broad rights to use their content for AI.
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Attackers are planting PHP web shells through the built-in CODE app in Nextcloud. Update to 26.4.303 or remove the app, and check your server for signs of compromise.
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Paxton says OpenAI and Sam Altman misled Texans about ChatGPT's risks, adding a state to the child-safety suits that eight other states filed on October 14.
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Cisco says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-76519, a CVSS 9.8 flaw that gives an unauthenticated attacker root through a booby-trapped email attachment. There is no workaround, so patching is the only fix.
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AI agents helped find two critical PHP flaws that could give attackers access to server files and databases. The NSA and FBI say take affected sites offline if they cannot be patched right away.
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Tesla says its Optimus humanoid robot is now built on a high-volume Fremont line, but unit counts, prices and outside delivery dates remain unconfirmed.
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Florida's motor-vehicle agency says a malicious actor used compromised credentials to reach driver's-license records, and notification letters are on the way.
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A new ABC News, Washington Post and Ipsos poll finds 57% of Americans say AI is bad for society and 72% oppose a data center in their own community.
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Unit 42 says Qilin and INC ransomware crews are still using a Palo Alto PAN-OS flaw to reach US corporate VPNs, then pivot to domain credentials on virtual servers.
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Oracle's October patch bundle covers 1,209 CVEs and six CVSS 10.0 flaws, including an E-Business Suite bug that needs no login. IT teams should start with the E-Business Suite and CVSS 10.0 items today.
October 24, 2026 · 4 min read
OpenAI fired three safety researchers on October 1. A Wall Street Journal report now says the company suspected them of leaking model-design details over disappearing Signal chats.
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American Express will cut about 5% of its global workforce and take a $336 million restructuring charge, with its CFO tying the cuts to preparing for AI.
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Anthropic's internal study says junior staff fell from 27% to 9% of new technical hires as AI agents took on more work. The report is descriptive, not proof of cause.
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Reuters' running factbox now counts about 102,800 announced job cuts at 31 companies since October 2025, with HSBC and Amazon leading the list.
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Tesla says its Optimus humanoid robot is now built on a high-volume Fremont line, but unit counts, prices and outside delivery dates remain unconfirmed.
October 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Meta is pushing its updated business terms to November 20 after publishers and advertisers said the rules would give it broad rights to use their content for AI.
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SpaceX's first earnings report as a public company showed its AI unit overtaking Starlink in revenue while absorbing most of its capital spending. Shares then gave back their gains.
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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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Researchers found about 6,800 public Muse share links that exposed loan applications, bank alerts and internal business files. Meta has paused sharing while it investigates.
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Richmond Public Schools in Virginia cut internet access across 53 campuses after an intrusion left ransom messages on staff laptops. The attackers set a 72-hour deadline, and the district has not confirmed data theft.
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Rhode Island's attorney general says Meta profited from scam ads and that its AI ad creation tools helped scammers, making it the first state suit of its kind.
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Conduent agreed to pay $80 million to settle a class action over a breach that exposed data on about 62 million Americans. Court approval is still pending, and only documented losses qualify for direct cash.
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Uber is giving more than 30,000 employees access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent, expanding a 1,000-person pilot into the company’s first companywide agentic AI deployment.
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A third party accessed 11,774,247 CAPCOM ID records worldwide. The exposed emails and login metadata could fuel phishing aimed at players, including Americans.
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Treasury proposed widening outbound investment curbs to cover AI, chips, quantum, supercomputing and biotech tied to China, Russia and North Korea. Nothing is final, and a public comment period comes first.
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Semperis says the Iran-linked Prince of Persia APT ran a command-and-control server on US shared hosting, its first American C2 since 2016. Defenders should check logs now.
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SpaceX's first earnings report as a public company showed its AI unit overtaking Starlink in revenue while absorbing most of its capital spending. Shares then gave back their gains.
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Anthropic's internal Claude model designed protein binders against five scorpion neurotoxins, and 17 of 211 lab-tested designs bound their targets. None has yet been shown to neutralize venom.
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JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America are finding third-party AI agents logging into customer accounts with customers' own passwords, and some agents tried to move funds.
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Nvidia says its factory-built DSX POD can take a prepared site from about six months of deployment to as little as 14 days, with partner deliveries planned for early 2027.
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