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A Santa Fe judge found Facebook liable for more than 43 million privacy violations tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, ordering a penalty five times larger than the FTC's 2019 fine.
Andreessen Horowitz's digital assets unit is broadening its mandate to cover AI, robotics, and new network technologies as pure blockchain investing loses momentum.
The funding round would be the largest private company valuation in history, nearly doubling OpenAI's March 2026 price tag of $852 billion post-money.
1Password for Agents lets users approve AI agents like Claude Duet, ChatGPT Work, and Meta's Muse to sign into personal accounts, filling in credentials on the agent's behalf instead of handing over the password directly.
Arc stops working on Mac and Windows this December as The Browser Company, acquired by Atlassian for $610 million in 2025, redirects its engineering and security teams entirely to its AI-first browser Dia.
Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests and the takedown of 10,909 malicious networks across 21 African countries, with victim losses estimated above $385 million from business email compromise, ransomware, and online scams.
A Federal Court ruling in Epic Games’ antitrust case against Apple requires sideloading, alternative app stores, and outside payment options on Australian iPhones, with Fortnite returning to the App Store immediately.
Two unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP were actively exploited for four days before emergency patches shipped on October 21, taking government and hospital websites offline worldwide.
Anthropic’s new Claude Duet app works in the background across iOS, Android, and the web, handling tasks and surfacing what needs your attention while you’re busy.
The NU7 upgrade cuts Zcash block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds and permanently shuts down the chain's original Sprout privacy system.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will decide case-by-case whether stablecoin rewards programs from exchanges like Coinbase and PayPal violate the law, with no safe harbor for existing programs.
A joint advisory from five countries' cyber agencies details how the SafePay group has used VPN brute-forcing and stolen credentials to breach victims since 2024.