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1. 20 Years of MacBook: How Apple shaped the laptops we use today

   Engadget · 27 Oct 2026, 16:30 IST

   Apple has influenced everything from unibody laptop cases to high-res screens.

2. Slate teams up with Smarties to add candy colors to its EV trucks

   Engadget · 27 Oct 2026, 16:30 IST

   Fancy making your Slate EV look like halloween candy?

3. Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs

   TechCrunch · 27 Oct 2026, 16:30 IST

   Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

4. Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen Model Tried to Upload Test File to Beijing Server

   Analytics India Mag · 27 Oct 2026, 16:21 IST

   Cohere said on October 26 that Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a test file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a cybersecurity evaluation. The company said its isolated testing environment blocked...

5. Private repos still leak secrets to Gheist, a stolen GitHub token campaign

   Help Net Security · 27 Oct 2026, 16:28 IST · Medium severity

   Wiz Research has recovered more than 13,500 planted branches from 850+ compromised GitHub accounts, the work of a campaign it calls Gheist, after the user agent the tool sends with its GitHub API requests. The tool takes a stolen token,...

6. UK analytics platform Querio launches, with $5M raise

   Tech.eu · 27 Oct 2026, 16:20 IST

   A London-based startup aiming to make business data accessible to more employees through AI has raised $5m in funding as it launches in the market. Querio has raised the funding from investors including BMW i Ventures, Haatch, Arāya...

7. Agora Labs raises €4.3M to expand clinical data infrastructure for medical research

   Tech.eu · 27 Oct 2026, 16:25 IST

   Italian deeptech company Agora Labs has raised €4.3 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm P101 SGR , with participation from the Mussetto family, owners of Infinite Five, a holding company focused on marketing...

8. UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups

   The Register · 27 Oct 2026, 16:30 IST

   The British government has been busy courting AI datacenter companies while apparently finding little time to speak to the people who will have to live next door to their enormous server farms. That’s according to a report published...

9. Samsung TVs without mics may listen through soundbars, researcher says

   Malwarebytes Labs · 27 Oct 2026, 16:14 IST

   A reverse engineer claims that their Samsung smart TV has been collecting audio without their consent. The researcher, who calls themselves “log4j,” said in an X thread that their 2025 Samsung TV was delivering ads that seemed...

10. Risks Spelled Out for Anthropic Investors Include Possible Harms From Runaway AI

    SecurityWeek · 27 Oct 2026, 16:14 IST

    Anthropic presents its own initial public offering as a step toward mitigating the risks it believes AI poses. The post Risks Spelled Out for Anthropic Investors Include Possible Harms From Runaway AI appeared first on SecurityWeek .

11. Remote’s Job van der Voort says AI companies now pay PhDs to label data

    TNW · 27 Oct 2026, 16:13 IST

    Remote chief executive Job van der Voort wants his staff to be 10 times more effective a year from now, because their AI tools will be 10 times more effective too. The company runs payroll and hires staff in other countries for its...

12. Apple backports CoreGraphics zero-day patches to older iPhones

    BleepingComputer · 27 Oct 2026, 16:06 IST · Critical severity

    ​Apple has backported security patches released last month to older iPhones and iPads, addressing a zero-day bug exploited in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks on iOS devices.

13. Toshiba addresses quantum network security with its new platform

    Tahawul Tech · 27 Oct 2026, 16:07 IST

    Toshiba has recently released a platform it stated can lower the need for specific fibre connectivity and equipment in deploying quantum-safe networks. The Japanese company is targeting the platform at network operators, enterprises,...

14. HCLTech Completes Acquisition of Croatia-Based Robotiq.ai

    Analytics India Mag · 27 Oct 2026, 16:07 IST

    HCLTech has completed its acquisition of 100% of Robotic Process Automation d.o.o., a Croatia-based enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) provider operating as Robotiq.ai. A regulatory filing said the transaction was completed at...

15. Alibaba wins injunction against Pentagon rule

    TNW · 27 Oct 2026, 16:02 IST

    A US federal judge has temporarily blocked a Pentagon rule that could cost companies their defence contracts if they share lobbyists with Alibaba, Reuters reported. The California court granted Alibaba’s request for an injunction on...

16. Akamai expands its AI Cloud platform with dedicated inference and agent execution environments

    SiliconANGLE · 27 Oct 2026, 16:00 IST

    is expanding its AI Cloud infrastructure platform with a pair of new foundational components called Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox. They provide its enterprise customers with a highly customizable managed environment from...

17. No signal, no problem: Smaller models bring more AI capabilities on-device

    Computerworld · 27 Oct 2026, 16:04 IST

    When OpenAI’s GPT-3 was released in 2020, at 175 billion parameters, it was the largest language model the world had ever seen. In the years that followed, frontier AI systems exploded in size, with today’s largest models clocking in at...

18. Instagram Is a Streaming Service Now

    Wired · 27 Oct 2026, 16:00 IST

    Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.

19. DreamHost incident triggers password resets, locks customers out of email and FTP accounts

    Help Net Security · 27 Oct 2026, 15:49 IST

    DreamHost has brought its File Manager back online after an incident that disrupted several of its services, though some of its customers still can’t get into their email or FTP accounts until someone sets a new password for them....

20. Watchdog Urges Police and Fire Service to Improve Cybersecurity

    Infosecurity Magazine · 27 Oct 2026, 15:09 IST · Medium severity

    UK police forces and fire and rescue services have been urged to strengthen cybersecurity as rising cyber threats outpace current defenses

21. FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases

    The Register · 27 Oct 2026, 15:45 IST

    Omarchy has already taken up plenty of our column inches, but a new tentacle is reaching into the hitherto untouched FreeBSD. Daemonarchy brings Omarchy's Wayland-based desktop to the BSD world. It's an independent effort by Jordan...

22. This is Fine: What NetScaler Zero-Days Tell Us about the New Normal

    SecurityWeek · 27 Oct 2026, 15:32 IST · Critical severity

    Keep your patch management pipelines primed in case another round of Citrix NetScaler patches get released soon. The post This is Fine: What NetScaler Zero-Days Tell Us about the New Normal appeared first on SecurityWeek .

23. Whitespace hires former Meta product manager Mike Howard as CPO

    TNW · 27 Oct 2026, 15:28 IST

    Whitespace, a UK company that builds AI for defence and government, has hired former Meta product manager Mike Howard as its chief product officer. He will set the direction for its products and build the team behind them as the company...

24. Data center backlash is uniting America

    The Verge · 27 Oct 2026, 15:30 IST

    If there's one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it's data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server storage facilities - and the infrastructure construction and expenses that come with them - has...

25. ICEYE and Nokia to collaborate on Ukraine satellite project

    Tahawul Tech · 27 Oct 2026, 15:28 IST

    Satellite communications partners ICEYE and Nokia recently signed a pact with Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence to develop sovereign satellite capabilities. This announcement comes amidst reports that the Ukraine is continuing to have...

26. OpenAI Compaction Flaw Let Researchers Bypass Hidden Reasoning Protections

    The Hacker News · 27 Oct 2026, 13:52 IST

    OpenAI's compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint has shown. OpenAI's reasoning models work through a...

27. Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers

    The Hacker News · 27 Oct 2026, 15:03 IST · Medium severity

    A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to...

28. Apple’s iOS 27.2 gives Siri AI a memory and five more languages

    TNW · 27 Oct 2026, 15:22 IST

    Apple released iOS 27.2 on Monday, the first big update to iOS 27, alongside new versions of iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS and tvOS. Most of the new features are for Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant Apple released in beta in September....

29. Acer is bringing a Predator gaming handheld to the US for the first time

    The Verge · 27 Oct 2026, 15:24 IST

    It's been several months since Acer unveiled its Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld , but now we finally know that it's coming to the US, and how much it'll cost. The Intel Arc G3 Extreme variant - the more powerful of the two models...

30. Meta unveils AI funding plans

    Tahawul Tech · 27 Oct 2026, 15:14 IST

    Meta Platforms recently unveiled plans to secure up to $95 billion in equity to fund its AI-related expansion ​of data centres and cloud computing. These efforts look to be backed by chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom. The social media...

31. AWS calls for workplace redesign to unlock AI value

    Tahawul Tech · 27 Oct 2026, 15:18 IST

    Madhavi Reddy, Managing Director, AWS MENAT. Madhavi Reddy discusses AI governance, workforce skills, and the need to turn productivity gains into business growth across MENAT Organisations are investing in AI, but technology alone will...

32. Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover

    SecurityWeek · 27 Oct 2026, 15:14 IST · Medium severity

    Running at system boot, it periodically polled the update domain to execute any code served, with full privileges. The post Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek .

33. Infineon to invest €1.1bn in Austrian plant for gallium nitride chips

    TNW · 27 Oct 2026, 15:16 IST

    German chipmaker Infineon will invest about €1.1bn in its site in Villach, Austria, to make power chips from gallium nitride, the company announced on Tuesday. It says the plant will be the first in the world to make these chips in...

34. Energy giant ENGIE discloses data breach affecting customers

    BleepingComputer · 27 Oct 2026, 14:55 IST · High severity

    French energy giant ENGIE, one of the world's largest power and natural gas providers, confirmed that attackers stole customer data after breaching a marketing platform used by business partners.

35. I Tested Every Major AI Agent for a Day. Here’s the Best One

    Wired · 27 Oct 2026, 15:00 IST

    I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.

36. ‘What is the point if the press has to ask for consent?’: News publishers tell SC that DPDP Act could create a pre-censorship regime

    Medianama · 27 Oct 2026, 14:47 IST

    The Supreme Court of India has refused to stay the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), 2023, without hearing the government’s side and has listed the matter for November 17, 2026. This was the first hearing of the Digital...

37. MakeMyTrip says AI agents can’t replace travel platforms, as its own assistant handles 3,000 bookings a day

    Medianama · 27 Oct 2026, 14:55 IST

    “We see AI as a net positive for online travel platforms, particularly in large emerging markets such as India,” MakeMyTrip co-founder and Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rajesh Magow said on the company’s earnings call for the...

38. Nvidia to invest $3bn in Meta and expand work on Muse agent

    TNW · 27 Oct 2026, 14:51 IST

    Nvidia will put $3bn into Meta and work more closely with it on Muse, Meta’s personal AI agent, the two companies announced today. The money is part of the share sale Meta launched on Monday to pay for its growing AI spending. Since...

39. Year of Linux on the Beach confirmed

    The Register · 27 Oct 2026, 15:00 IST

    2026 might not be the Year of Linux on the Desktop, but it is certainly the Year of Linux on the Beachfront, judging by some digital signage at the Spanish resort of Lloret de Mar. Snapped by Rich Skuse, an aficionado of automotive...

40. The secret strategy behind Whoop’s $10.1 billion valuation

    Fast Company Tech · 27 Oct 2026, 14:30 IST

    When former Harvard squash cocaptain Will Ahmed developed the idea for wearable company Whoop in the early 2010s, he was focused on helping serious athletes like himself optimize their performance. The wristband he designed tracks...