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An authentication-bypass flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support let a suspected China-nexus espionage group escalate to root on exposed appliances for nearly two months before a patch landed.
A cyberattack on defense and IT contractor BAE Systems disrupted the notice system that federal bankruptcy courts rely on to inform creditors, halting case notices across the country.
Meta has open-released its most capable AI model yet — 816 billion parameters, multimodal, and designed to run locally on Apple silicon, though you will need at least 1TB of RAM.
After nearly a decade of delays, Tesla finally unwrapped the second-generation Roadster at an event in Waco, Texas — and it can actually leave the ground.
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.