Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
The Department of Homeland Security published a sweeping order excluding DeepSeek from federal procurement and requiring its removal from existing government IT systems, citing data-transfer and malware risks.
NorForge researchers caught a Chinese-speaking hacker running an autonomous AI agent campaign that broke into over 100 corporate websites, including John Deere and SharkNinja, spending just $5,000 total.
AWS released TorchNeuron, a native PyTorch backend that lets developers run existing AI code on Amazon's Trainium chips with a one-line config change — a direct challenge to the software compatibility that has kept Nvidia's CUDA platform the default choice.
Google and Mandiant disclosed a supply-chain campaign that tampered with AOMEI Backupper's unsigned update files for just minutes at a time between May and July, planting a backdoor on machines across 11 countries without exploiting any software vulnerability.
Amazon, AEP, and X-energy signed a deal to study a 960-megawatt small modular reactor project on the site of a shuttered Indiana coal plant — the second grid-scale step in a plan to add 5 gigawatts of nuclear capacity for AI data centers by 2039.
Microsoft has walked away as anchor customer for Nscale's flagship AI data center in Essex after grid operators said a power connection might not arrive until the 2030s, a blow that lands just as the neocloud operator prepares to go public.
Anthropic will give 5% of its equity, growing automatically with its valuation, to a new fund aimed at AI's societal costs — citing job displacement concerns and what CEO Dario Amodei calls a crisis of public trust.
Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees worth roughly $60 million in combined annual pay, following the chatbot startup's Chapter 11 filing and an earlier $20 million asset deal.
Leveraged perpetual futures tracking SOXL, SanDisk, and SK Hynix saw $51.6 million in forced liquidations while Wall Street was closed and no real share price existed to anchor the trades.
Attackers obtained ConnectWise Cloud Backup application credentials and used them to silently access at least 162 Microsoft 365 tenants, bypassing MFA entirely because the app authenticated without a user login.
Turkish media report that HEX and PulseChain founder Richard Heart was detained in Istanbul over a Finnish tax fraud Interpol Red Notice. HEX fell 25% and PLS fell 35% within hours; no government has officially confirmed the detention.
Ukrainian drone operators reported sudden Starshield connectivity losses hours after a major Russian missile barrage on October 14. Zelenskyy suspects the restriction was deliberate; neither SpaceX nor the US government has explained it.