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HEX plummets 50% after Turkey seizes $7M cash and crypto from founder Richard Heart
Police in Turkey arrested the founder of HEX and PulseChain, confiscating millions in cash and crypto wallets, causing immediate market disruption.
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Norway Keeps Using Chinese-Linked Rental Cars After Finding They Recorded Military Gate Codes
Dashcams in vehicles rented by the Norwegian military captured footage of soldiers entering secure areas and typing gate codes during exercises in Oslo.
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Recorded Future Expands Boston HQ To House 200 Staff In Post Office Square
The intelligence firm moves its American base from a Somerville laundromat to a downtown Boston site, housing nearly 200 staff members.
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Sarah Reddish Maps Intrusions To Deliver Clear Containment Steps For Huntress Partners
Huntress highlights how Security Operations Center analyst Sarah Reddish turns complex intrusion data into clear, actionable guidance for partners.
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Proofpoint buys Varonis for $6.3B to secure AI agents, eyes post-deal IPO
The acquisition unites data and identity security to protect enterprise AI agents, with plans for a public listing after the deal closes.
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Cloudflare Acquires Deno Team, Sets One-Year Support Horizon for Runtime
The acquisition brings the Deno team to Cloudflare, with a plan to cease runtime development after one further year of security patches and bug fixes.
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Google Play Services now auto-links phone numbers to all accounts on Android, raising privacy concerns
A default setting in Android now verifies and attaches phone numbers to every Google account on a device, raising privacy concerns for users maintaining separate personal and professional identities.
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Nvidia N1X superchip laptops run 74B-parameter Nemotron models locally with 128GB memory
New laptops featuring the N1X superchip enable users to run AI agents and large language models locally, with options to split work with the cloud.
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Windows October 2026 update blocks NTLMv1 SSO by default, risking network access
Microsoft’s latest patch enforces stricter authentication controls, potentially disrupting Wi-Fi, Ethernet and VPN connections for organisations still using legacy protocols.
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RapidCanvas Secures $29M Series B for AI Agent Platform Expansion
Austin firm raises funds to scale custom AI app development for mid-market enterprises, joining a wave of enterprise AI investment.
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Meta’s Oct 30 terms force publishers to consent to AI scraping with no opt-out
Legal experts warn that accepting Meta's updated commercial terms forces publishers to consent to automated web crawling for model training.
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Microsoft and NVIDIA Release Framework for Enterprise Open-Weight AI Risk Management
A new joint whitepaper provides a shared taxonomy and control set to help enterprises manage the security risks of deploying open-weight AI models.
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Google Search, Gemini, Chrome Now Verify AI Content After SynthID Watermarks 180 Billion Assets, Honored by TIME
Google’s AI watermarking tool was named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026, having watermarked billions of images and videos with invisible markers.
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Google adds Universal Cart to US Search and Gemini for multi-retailer shopping
The new tool aggregates items from multiple retailers into a single view with AI-driven price tracking and payment suggestions for US users.
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt models let enterprises run agentic AI on local hardware
New open-weight models target enterprise agents and local hardware, offering efficiency gains across the deployment spectrum.
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UCL’s Sapienz wins ISSTA 2026 award for powering Meta and WhatsApp app reliability at scale
The automated testing engine, originally developed at University College London, has been recognised for a decade of improving app reliability at scale.
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Cloudflare Gateway lets Zero Trust users run custom validation via Workers for complex traffic checks
Cloudflare adds inline code execution to its secure web gateway, allowing Zero Trust users to run custom validation functions during traffic evaluation.
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Google's Willow achieves 99.99% T-state fidelity, solving key quantum computing error bottleneck
Google Quantum AI demonstrates practical error reduction on Willow hardware, addressing a long-standing resource bottleneck in quantum computing research.
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Meta engineers supervise AI agents for Forum app, shifting focus from coding to outcome verification
Meta’s Forum app development used AI agents for autonomous coding cycles, shifting engineer roles from execution to outcome verification and quality control.
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Pax8 and Horizon3 Partner to Deliver Autonomous Pen Testing and Remediation Verification to European MSPs
The partnership expansion brings autonomous penetration testing and remediation verification to managed service providers via the Pax8 Marketplace across Europe.
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FBI outlines federal crimes and worker safety risks for 2026 US midterms
The bureau urges reporting of intimidation, disinformation and threats against election staff ahead of the November vote.
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Meta releases 816B Muse Spark Open for local Mac Studio deployment
The open-weight model activates 42B parameters and supports a 1M-token context, running on dual M5 Ultra systems.
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Google upgrades quake alerts with magnitude maps and guidance as network spans 200+ territories
Google has extended its mobile earthquake detection network to more than 200 territories, adding detailed magnitude and location data to the Be Ready alert tier.
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Proofpoint buys Varonis for $6.3B to unite data, identity and comms security for AI
The Thoma Bravo-backed firm buys the data security specialist to create a unified platform for protecting enterprise AI agents and sensitive information.