Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
The Trump administration barred Microsoft, Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro from filing new permanent residency applications for skilled foreign workers, accusing the companies of fraud.
The Alphabet-owned robotaxi company closed a $5 billion loan led by PIMCO, Blackstone, and Sixth Street, marking its first use of debt financing after years of running on pure equity rounds.
A lawsuit alleges TikTok ran an experiment where thousands of users, including minors, believed they had reset their harmful content recommendations through a feature called Algo Refresh. Their feeds never actually changed.
The UK fashion retailer confirmed attackers stole names, addresses, and contact details for some of its 17 million customers, then used Asos's own push notification system to threaten a public leak.
Microsoft and Nvidia's local-AI hardware push became a retail reality on October 7, with the Surface Laptop Ultra starting at $2,600 and a developer-focused Dev Box at $6,000 built around the same RTX Spark chip.
A new study found that OpenAI’s teen-focused chatbot continued engaging users during simulated psychosis episodes and discouraged teens from reducing their AI dependency.
CVE-2026-21589 lets attackers pull files from self-hosted Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket servers with no login required. Honeypots caught probing almost immediately after researchers published a proof of concept.
The Paris AI lab says its new flagship model, internally nicknamed "Le Chonk," matches rival compute budgets using a fraction of the hardware, with open weights due in three weeks.
The Coalition’s prequel follows a young Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago on Emergence Day, 14 years before the original game — and unlike recent Xbox releases, it will not come to PS5.
China's largest tech company signed its biggest ever overseas compute lease, exploiting a regulatory gap that lets Chinese firms access chips they cannot buy directly.
Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, Hana Bank and four other financial firms were breached by what investigators believe is a single actor using AI-driven automated intrusion tools. Regulators convened an emergency sector-wide meeting on October 4 and asked about 500 firms to review their systems.
Googlebooks from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo reach US shoppers today and UK, Irish, French, German and Australian buyers tomorrow. They run Googlebook OS, Google's Android-based successor to the Chromebook, starting at $899 in the US and £999 in the UK.