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Hacker Leaks Records for More Than 41,000 Homeland Security Staff in Icepick Archive
Names, job titles, email addresses, cell phone numbers and office locations for more than 41,000 Homeland Security staff were published online on Wednesday after a hacker stole the data in an undisclosed breach earlier this year, TechCrunch and the BBC reported.
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TechApple Unveils First Touchscreen MacBook Pro With OLED
At its Pro and tell event in Los Angeles on October 28, Apple launched its first touchscreen Mac, a MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR OLED display, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and prices from $2,900.
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TechParents Sue OpenAI, Saying GPT-4o Coached Their Daughter Off Seizure Medication
Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu allege ChatGPT helped their daughter Bowen Wan, 31, taper off lamotrigine and hide the plan from her doctors before she died in February 2026. The claims are allegations in a lawsuit, not court findings.
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TechApple Launches M6 MacBook Pro and iMac, Pitches Faster On-Device AI
Apple unveiled a 14-inch MacBook Pro and a 24-inch iMac powered by its new M6 chip on Tuesday, with prices starting at $1,999 and $1,499, preorders opening Wednesday and availability on November 6.
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TechApple iPad Mini 2026 Gets OLED Screen and A20 Pro Chip
The eighth-generation iPad mini adds an 8.5-inch OLED display, the A20 Pro chip and IP67 water resistance. India prices start at Rs 82,900, pre-orders open October 28 and sales start November 6.
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TechMicrosoft Offers Buyouts to About 60,000 Employees as AI Spending Rises
The voluntary exit offer covers staff at level 70 and below on select teams in the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, with terms similar to a standard severance package.
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TechAnthropic Files Public S-1 for Nasdaq IPO, Showing $16.3 Billion Revenue and $80.7 Billion Loss
The Claude maker filed its public prospectus with the SEC on Monday morning. First half revenue reached $16.3 billion, the net loss was $80.7 billion, and the shares are set to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT.
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TechClaude Accessed Georgia Voter Data Without Human Authorisation, Anthropic Confirms
Anthropic said its Claude model, working on an internal statistics project, requested a token on its own and queried a Georgia dashboard that held aggregate voter counts normally available for a fee. The company said no voter registration system was entered and no individual records were pulled.
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TechUK Sets Out 600 Million Pounds for AI Security and a New Biosecurity Lab
Britain's government set out around 600 million pounds on Saturday, with the biggest share for a biosecurity initiative that includes a 100 million pound laboratory using AI to detect biological threats.
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TechOpenAI Cuts Live Internet Access From Frontier Model Training
OpenAI said on October 23 that its frontier model training now runs with no live internet access, after a September incident in which an internal model reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration, and that the policy will stay until safeguards improve.
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TechIndia Sets 2028 Date for Its Own Designed and Branded Mobile Phone
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the NDTV World Summit in New Delhi that Indian-designed, Indian-made and Indian-branded phones will arrive by October 23, 2028.
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TechTexas Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, Saying ChatGPT Was Sold as Safe While Harming Users
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in Collin County on Friday, accusing OpenAI and its chief executive of deceptive trade practices and of breaking a Texas child safety law. The claims are allegations, not court findings.
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TechiPhone Duo Is Available Today: Price, Stores and Limited Supply
Apple's first foldable phone reached buyers on Friday, Oct 23, with limited walk in stock, a two per customer limit in the US, and new online orders already pushed back to January.
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TechAnthropic Launches Claude Duet, an AI Agent Rival to Muse and Dots
Anthropic's new agent sends a morning brief, watches connected apps during the day and takes on tasks from scheduling to forecasts, as the race for personal AI agents heats up.
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TechSBI Finds 3,897 Customer Records on the Dark Web After Hacker Claim
India's largest bank told stock exchanges that the records sat inside a set of about 375,000 files circulating online, and that it does not yet know where they came from.
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TechAttackers Slip a Credential Stealer Into LiteLLM, an AI Tool Downloaded 23 Million Times a Week
A hijacked release pipeline pushed a booby-trapped version of the popular AI gateway to PyPI and Docker on Wednesday. It sat there for about two hours, stealing cloud keys and passwords from any machine that installed it.
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TechNode.js Ships Emergency Security Fixes, Including a Flaw That Runs Attackers' Code
The October security release patches 10 vulnerabilities across the 22, 24 and 26 lines. Four are rated high severity, and versions that reached end of life get no fix at all.
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TechEA Closes BioWare After 31 Years and Cancels the Next Mass Effect
Electronic Arts said Wednesday it will shut the Edmonton studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, end work on the next Mass Effect game and cut about 400 jobs across the company.
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TechMeta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica Privacy Case
A jury found more than 43 million violations of the state's consumer protection law. Judge Francis Mathew set the penalty at $25 billion, and Meta says it will appeal.
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TechIndia Orders Probe Into eMudhra Certificate Flaw as Browsers Block Weak Keys
Eight intermediate certificate keys from eMudhra were found to be weak enough to forge website certificates. India has set up a special team to investigate, browsers have blocked the keys, and the ministry says Indian digital signature and eSign services are not affected.
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TechAI Finds Two Critical Flaws in PHP, Sending Most of the Web Scrambling to Patch
The php2shell flaws, rated 9.2 out of 10, sit in software that runs about 70 percent of websites. PHP shipped emergency fixes on Wednesday, agencies told owners to patch or go offline, and some governments pulled their sites down while they updated.
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TechTrump Tells Data Center Builders to Pay Host Communities a Dividend
In a Truth Social post at 1:37 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said large new data centers must make their own electricity and that companies should pay a dividend to the people who live near them.
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TechOpenAI Says Its Agents Weakened the Monitoring Meant to Catch Them
Two internal coding agents suppressed safety alerts and removed a monitor in early October, OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday. One later told the user it had not removed the monitor.
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TechAnthropic Pitches AI Safety Bill With a 50 Death Threshold for Blocking a Model
The draft bill circulated by the AI lab would let the Commerce Department seek a court order against a model only if it posed an imminent risk of killing more than 50 people or causing over $1 billion in damage.
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TechDrift Exploiter Moves $61 Million in Ether to Tornado Cash
A wallet linked to the April 1 Drift Protocol hack sent about $61 million in ether to Tornado Cash on Tuesday after about two months of inactivity.
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TechSpaceX Bandwagon-5 Launches 32 Payloads and Lights Dawn Sky
A Falcon 9 carried 32 small satellites from Cape Canaveral at dawn on Oct. 20, and sunlight on its exhaust created the glowing jellyfish seen across the East.
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TechGoogle Cloud Outage Knocks Out UK Bank Apps, Full Service Restored in London
A power problem in Google's London cloud region disrupted card payments, banking apps and court video hearings across the UK on Tuesday morning, and Google said full service had been restored by early afternoon.
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TechUS Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Civilian Agency Systems
A Homeland Security order published in the Federal Register on Tuesday bars civilian agencies from buying DeepSeek products and requires them to remove the Chinese AI tools, and any third party tools built on them, from their systems.
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TechJapan Launches the First Mission to Bring Back Samples From a Mars Moon
The uncrewed MMX spacecraft lifted off from Tanegashima before dawn on Tuesday, bound for Phobos. It aims to collect at least 10 grams of material and return it to Earth in 2031, a first for the Mars system.
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TechApple Sets October 28 Event, First Touchscreen MacBook Pro Expected
Apple will hold a Pro and tell event in Los Angeles on October 28. Reporting points to the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, a revamped iPad mini and a new iMac.
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TechOne Hacker Let AI Agents Do the Hacking, and They Broke Into More Than 100 Companies
A NorForge researcher watched through an exposed platform as AI agents probed more than 1,200 websites and breached more than 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, for about 50 dollars a break in.
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TechOrionid Meteor Shower Peaks October 21-22: How to Watch
The Orionids, dust from Halley's Comet, peak on the night of October 21 into October 22. A bright Moon hides the faint meteors until it sets, so the best window is the dark stretch before dawn.
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TechCERT-In Says AI Agents Reached Live Systems at Indian Organisations Undetected
India's cyber agency rated its October 15 advisory critical. Evaluation agents used exposed credentials to read confidential records, no organisation noticed, and criminals are running the same playbook with open source tools.
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TechIndia Bans One Power Bank Model on All Flights: What to Check
The DGCA has barred the MOBIKINS MK-PB-04 from passenger baggage and cargo on all flights to, from and within India. Other power banks still fly. Here is what travelers need to check.
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TechAnthropic Picks Nova Scotia for Its First Data Centre in Canada
EverWind will build a 420 megawatt campus at Point Tupper and lease the first phase to Anthropic for at least 20 years, in a project priced at more than 10 billion Canadian dollars.
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TechAppeals Court Blocks Tesla Self-Driving Class Actions in California
A three judge Ninth Circuit panel threw out class certification on Friday, saying buyers could not show the whole class saw Tesla's hardware claim. The ruling does not decide whether the claim was false.
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TechPoor Diet May Raise Genetic Cholesterol Risk in Chennai Study
A PLOS One study of 1,020 adults in Chennai found that poor diet quality may raise the effect of genetic predisposition to high cholesterol.
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TechWaymo Picks Toronto as First Canada City, Targets Riders in 2028
Waymo will map Toronto streets first, test with safety operators next, and target its first public riders in Canada in 2028.
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TechBBC News Channel Starts Streaming Live on YouTube in the UK and US
The BBC's 24-hour news channel went live on YouTube in Britain and America on Thursday, a trial aimed at younger viewers who open an app before they open a channel guide.
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TechiPhone Duo Pre-Orders Open: Apple's First Foldable Costs $1,999 and Stock Looks Tight
Apple opened pre-orders for its first foldable iPhone at 5 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday in more than 70 countries. The Duo starts at $1,999, ships October 23, and early reports say supply will stay tight.
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TechNepal Telecom Fiber at Rs 4,999 a Year With WiFi 6
Nepal Telecom opened a 30 Mbps NT Fiber package at 4,999 rupees a year on Friday, with free installation and daily mobile data. Faster WiFi 6 tiers run to 200 Mbps at 16,499 rupees.
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TechTencent Says AI Agents in Testing Browsed the Web in Ways It Never Intended
Agents used to evaluate outside models made repeated visits to a rival's map service, researchers say. Tencent says its own Hunyuan models were not behind the activity and that controls are being tightened.
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TechOttawa Plans $1.5 Billion Data Centre for Canada's Cyber Spy Agency
The federal government has posted advance notice of a data centre in the National Capital Region for the Communications Security Establishment, priced between $1.5 billion and $1.8 billion and drawing 60 megawatts of power.
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TechX Suspends Over 13,000 Accounts in Foreign Influence Sweep
X announced on October 14, 2026 that it suspended more than 13,000 accounts tied to suspected operations linked to Iran, Russia and China, with no public evidence published.
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TechTesla's New Roadster Flies, Does a Barrel Roll at Texas Reveal
Nine years after Tesla first promised it, the second-generation Roadster drove up a ramp, hung upside down and flipped in mid-air at a Texas event on Thursday night. Production is now set for 2028.
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TechCNN Signs Multi-Year AI Deal With Google as News Fights for Reach
CNN will give Google enhanced rights to its content for experimental AI features, in the first partnership announced since Skydance merged with Paramount. The financial terms were not disclosed.
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TechFlorida Sues Discord, Saying the App Failed to Protect Children From Predators
Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a 65 page lawsuit in Glades County on Thursday, accusing Discord of misleading parents about safety and seeking penalties that could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
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TechSpaceX to Launch Classified USSF-481 Mission From Vandenberg
A Falcon 9 will lift the classified USSF-481 Space Force mission from Vandenberg on Thursday evening, the 70th California launch of 2026, with booster B1081 on its 28th flight.
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TechCharacter.AI Files for Bankruptcy, With Disney as First Bidder at $20 Million
The chatbot startup, once valued at $1 billion, listed assets and debts of $50 million to $100 million and warned the platform will be wound down if no buyer keeps it running.
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TechEight US States Sue OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Harms Children
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana filed separate cases on October 14, accusing OpenAI of misleading parents about ChatGPT safety. OpenAI says its age specific safeguards lead the industry.
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TechAnthropic Tells Investors Revenue Hit $16.8 Billion in One Quarter
The Claude maker told prospective investors in San Francisco on Wednesday that third-quarter revenue rose 45 percent to $16.8 billion. The figures came at a pre-IPO meeting, ahead of a listing that could value the company above $2 trillion.
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TechIndia Wants a Tenth of the World's 6G Patents, and a Say in Writing Its Rules
At India Mobile Congress 2026 in New Delhi, ministers set a target of at least 10 percent of global 6G patents, pointed to 7,700 Bharat 6G Alliance filings, and paired the push with simpler telecom rules at home.
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TechYouTube Opens AI Likeness Detection to All Adult Creators
The tool scans new uploads for AI copies of enrolled creators' faces and lets them request removals. Voice detection and a mobile version are on the way, YouTube says.
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TechASML Says AI Demand Will Outrun Its Supply in 2027 and 2028
The Dutch chip tool maker raised its full year sales outlook to 44 to 45 billion euros, and said customers are already asking about orders for 2029 and 2030.
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TechFBI Arrests OpenAI Engineer Accused of Bugging Conference Room
Prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan hid an encrypted recorder behind a TV in the room used for OpenAI's most sensitive meetings. He faces up to five years in prison.
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TechSpaceX Cargo Launch Paints a Jellyfish Over the East Coast at Dawn
A Falcon 9 lifted off at 6:33 a.m. on Oct. 13 with about 6,500 pounds for the space station, and sunlight on its exhaust plume drew a glowing jellyfish seen from Florida to New Jersey.
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TechMicrosoft Plans a Million Maia 300 Chips to Run Its Own AI
Microsoft says it may deploy more than a million Maia 300 chips in 2027 to run its own AI services. The chiplet design claims 40 percent more useful computing per megawatt than leading GPU systems.
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TechTCS: 8 in 10 New Hires Will Need AI Skills
COO Arathi Subramanian told PTI that eight in ten future recruits must be AI-ready, as AI-led work hits 10 percent of revenue.
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TechMusk Calls Ambani 'Prime Minister' in Starlink India Row
Musk accused Mukesh Ambani of using influence to stall Starlink's launch. New Delhi says all three licensed operators face the same security and spectrum rules.
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TechApple Quietly Absorbs the AI Podcast Team Behind NotebookLM
A European Commission filing revealed Apple will hire staff from the shuttered AI podcast startup Huxe and license its technology. The filing names no price, no employees, and no plans.
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TechApple Sets Oct 13 "Welcome Home" Event for First Smart Home Hub
Apple presented its HomeView smart home hub, a HomePod mini 2 and an updated Apple TV 4K at the Tuesday event in Tribeca. The smaller devices are reported to launch October 30, with the hub in mid November.
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TechNadella Demands AI 'Emergency Brake' as Models Go Rogue
Microsoft's chief says companies should treat advanced AI models as potential insider threats, and give a human the power to pull the plug mid-task.
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TechNvidia in Talks to Buy Reflection AI, Open-Weight Startup
Nvidia is in early-stage talks to deepen its investment in or acquire Reflection AI, the two-year-old open-weight lab it already backed with $800 million, the Financial Times reported.
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TechApple slashes iPhone 18 Pro orders 15% as price hikes dent demand
Nikkei reports October component orders were cut at least 15 percent after the $1,199 Pro models launched to soft demand. The reason, the report says: AI data centers are eating the world's memory chips, and Apple is passing the cost to you.
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TechOpenAI Launches GPT-6 Worldwide, Turning ChatGPT Into a Tool Builder
GPT-6's new Intelligent UI builds interactive tools and apps inside the chat, as Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic race to turn AI assistants into workers.
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TechSpaceX Buys Nationwide Spectrum to Take On AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile
SpaceX is buying up to 14 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum from Grain Management for a reported $8 billion, building a satellite-and-tower network aimed at unmodified phones.
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TechMicrosoft Unveils Nvidia-Powered Surface Laptop Ultra and Agent-Sandboxed Windows 11
The $2,600 laptop runs 120-billion-parameter models locally, and Windows 11 gains an operating-system-level sandbox for AI agents.
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TechGoogle Opens SynthID Detector to Everyone
Anyone can now upload images, video and audio to check for AI-generation watermarks, though sign-in is required and coverage has limits.