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An open letter signed by roughly 400 scientists from 34 countries calls for an international body with power to set AI containment standards and maintain a public registry of serious security incidents.
TSMC's net profit surged 68.7% year-over-year to $23.6 billion in Q3 2026, with revenue beating guidance at $46.7 billion, as 2nm production ramps and leading-edge chip demand shows no sign of slowing.
Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest single monthly security release in the company’s history, patching 1,411 vulnerabilities including a Windows Shell zero-day being actively exploited to bypass download security warnings.
Federal agents seized more than 180 computers in the largest disclosed laptop-farm bust to date, part of a scheme the DOJ says infiltrated at least 70 U.S. companies and generated roughly $3 million using stolen American identities.
ThreatFabric found the Android trojan impersonating banking apps in Indonesia and several other countries, using Accessibility permissions to silently replace genuine apps with tampered copies that bypass signature and Play Integrity checks.
Anthropic's red team ran open-weight models across 15 budget Android TV boxes and simulated network environments, finding that autonomous self-replication across IoT devices is months away, not years.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national who joined OpenAI in July 2025, was arrested after a listening device was found hidden in a USB port behind a conference room television on September 30.
A VPN gateway zero-day, CVE-2026-104935, has been under active exploitation since October 1 — the attacker chains it with two other flaws and evades Ivanti's own Integrity Checker Tool.
Bumble will go private in a $1.3 billion all-cash deal with Ithaca Holdings, five years after its IPO, as revenue falls 15% and paying users decline amid a broader dating-app slump.
Apple's “Welcome home” event introduced HomeView, a $299 smart display with face recognition for up to six people, alongside a refreshed Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2.
Character Technologies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 12, seeking a court-supervised sale after a year of safety litigation involving minors. Disney is the $20 million stalking-horse bidder.
Google’s Fitbit Edge launches October 27 at $179.99 with a pill-shaped AMOLED display, built-in GPS, user-replaceable battery, and cross-platform Android and iOS support.