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1. Ukraine disputes Musk's claims of Starlink misuse as military connectivity restored

   The Record by Recorded Future · 26 Oct 2026, 22:10 IST · Medium severity

   Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevhen Khmara said Saturday that Starlink and Starshield connectivity had been restored.

2. Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its staff

   TNW · 26 Oct 2026, 22:04 IST

   Amy Coleman, Microsoft’s chief people officer, announced the Voluntary Exit Offer in a memo to employees on Monday. It is open to eligible staff in participating teams in Canada, India, the UK and the US, at level 70 and below on...

3. Samsung One UI 9 Battery Complaints Show Why Users Are Wary of Software Updates

   TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 19:56 IST

   Samsung Galaxy owners report battery drain after One UI 9, raising questions about software update reliability, user trust, and enterprise security. The post Samsung One UI 9 Battery Complaints Show Why Users Are Wary of Software...

4. Greece Passes Under-15 Social Media Ban Starting January

   TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 20:09 IST

   Greece’s under-15 social media ban starts Jan. Learn who is affected, how age checks will work, and what users should know about privacy. The post Greece Passes Under-15 Social Media Ban Starting January appeared first on TechRepublic .

5. Anthropic Hands Over Agent Skills Standard Used by 70+ Platforms

   TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 20:25 IST

   Anthropic moves Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation. Learn what the handover means for IT teams, workflow portability, compatibility, and security. The post Anthropic Hands Over Agent Skills Standard Used by 70+ Platforms appeared...

6. Will Your iPhone or Android Change Time on Nov. 1? Check These Settings Before Sunday

   TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 20:33 IST

   Most phones should adjust automatically on Nov. 1, but new Canadian time-zone rules could affect some devices. Here's what iPhone and Android users should check.

7. SIMBA Could Lose Singapore Telecom Licence: What Customers Should Know

   TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 21:04 IST

   Singapore's SIMBA faces potential licence suspension after alleged spectrum violations. Here's what the investigation means for mobile customers. The post SIMBA Could Lose Singapore Telecom Licence: What Customers Should Know appeared...

8. Block Previews Dessa, an AI Voice Model Trained Without Text

   TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 21:10 IST

   Block previews Dessa, a voice AI model trained without text. Explore its local hardware claims, safety risks, and what businesses should assess next. The post Block Previews Dessa, an AI Voice Model Trained Without Text appeared first...

9. iPhone Duo Gets 5/10 for Repairability as iFixit Probes Screen Failures

   TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 21:34 IST

   iFixit gives the iPhone Duo a provisional 5/10 repair score while investigating screen failures. See hinge concerns, $999 repairs, and tips for owners. The post iPhone Duo Gets 5/10 for Repairability as iFixit Probes Screen Failures...

10. Bedrock Robotics raises $600M as its self-driving excavators win paid work

    TNW · 26 Oct 2026, 21:46 IST

    Bedrock Robotics has closed a $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital. The round values the San Francisco startup at $4.1bn after the money, it said in a statement on Monday. It brings the company’s total funding to...

11. Freedom Holding is developing a $2bn sovereign AI hub in Kazakhstan

    TNW · 26 Oct 2026, 21:55 IST

    is developing the $2bn hub under an agreement signed in November 2025 with Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, the Nasdaq-listed group said in a statement on Monday. The site is planned with 100MW...

12. Critical 'HTTP2Shell' Brotli vulnerability triggers emergency patches

    BleepingComputer · 26 Oct 2026, 21:57 IST · Medium severity

    A critical flaw dubbed 'HTTP2Shell' in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrupt memory and access sensitive data.

13. Apple’s triple-whammy week begins with iPad mini

    Computerworld · 26 Oct 2026, 20:33 IST

    Apple watchers predicted something like this: The company is ending October with a triple-whammy of new products, starting with its newly introduced iPad mini with OLED display. The rest of the week is expected to feature new Macs,...

14. Tesla turns to car rental platform Turo for Full Self-Driving test drives

    Electrek · 26 Oct 2026, 21:52 IST

    Turo will soon let US renters search specifically for Teslas with “Full Self-Driving” (Supervised) turned on, using a direct integration with Tesla to verify each car’s FSD status. The feature goes live on October 28. For Tesla, it’s a...

15. How do apps on the HomeView work, and what does CarPlay have to do with it?

    Engadget · 26 Oct 2026, 21:45 IST

    The HomeView won't have its own App Store, but there's another method for using compatible third-party apps on the display.

16. 26th October – Threat Intelligence Report

    Checkpoint Research · 26 Oct 2026, 21:42 IST · Medium severity

    For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 26th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Japanese cloud hosting provider Onamae Desktop Cloud has confirmed a cyberattack in...

17. Apple’s new iPad mini gets OLED, an A20 Pro chip and water resistance

    TNW · 26 Oct 2026, 21:35 IST

    Apple unveiled the eighth-generation iPad mini on Monday, two days before its Pro and Tell event in Los Angeles. The tablet keeps the footprint of the 2024 model but stretches the screen to 8.5 inches, from 8.3, by cutting the bezels by...

18. PHP2Shell: No login, no app code, no warning. What next?

    The Register · 26 Oct 2026, 13:30 IST · Medium severity

    If you run PHP anywhere in your environment, patch to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35 now. Two critical flaws disclosed last week, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (nicknamed "PHP2Shell"), let an unauthenticated attacker run...

19. UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest

    The Register · 26 Oct 2026, 21:44 IST

    A UK-based developer and pentester has claimed a $2,000 Bitcoin prize for demonstrating the exploitability of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities that melted the internet last week. Jaydip Modhwadia, 26, otherwise known as “Killa,” claimed...

20. Instagram chases YouTube with a push for longer, widescreen videos

    The Verge · 26 Oct 2026, 21:35 IST

    Instagram is announcing a big push into longform horizontal video, which the platform is calling "Features." Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has been against doing longform video on the platform "for a long time," he says in a...

21. The Anthropic IPO Is Also a Doomsday Primer

    Wired · 26 Oct 2026, 21:31 IST

    Anthropic thinks “closing the loop” is the best path to AI triumph—and a recipe for “existential” threats to humanity.

22. CISA 2030 Sets Out ‘Aggressive, Anticipatory’ Cyber Defense Strategy for Critical Infrastructure

    Infosecurity Magazine · 26 Oct 2026, 21:30 IST

    CISA’s new strategy, CISA 2030, will focus on rapid detection and response and resiliency of critical services ahead of “passive defense”

23. Microsoft makes new ‘voluntary exit’ offer to about a quarter of its workforce, including some execs

    GeekWire · 26 Oct 2026, 21:27 IST

    Microsoft’s new buyout offer comes six months after its first-ever voluntary retirement program. (Photo by Dasharath Sunar on Unsplash ) Microsoft is making a new buyout offer to a much broader group of employees, this time including...

24. Marvell’s early chipmaking gamble pays off amid AI demand

    SiliconANGLE · 26 Oct 2026, 21:28 IST

    Eight years ago, chipmaker Marvell Technology Inc. decided to play leapfrog with nanometers, and its trajectory has been steadily upward since. In semiconductor manufacturing, nanometer designations identify generations of chipmaking...

25. Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing

    The Register · 26 Oct 2026, 21:17 IST

    Anthropic has filed for an IPO that could rank among Wall Street's biggest ever, revealing an $80.7 billion half-year loss, a startlingly complex governance structure, and warnings that its AI models could blackmail humans, resist...

26. Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees

    The Verge · 26 Oct 2026, 21:28 IST

    Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees , Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members "the opportunity to...

27. Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say

    TechCrunch · 26 Oct 2026, 21:28 IST

    The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.

28. Anthropic files S-1 paperwork for proposed IPO

    SiliconANGLE · 26 Oct 2026, 21:20 IST

    Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC filed papers today for an initial public offering with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, putting it on track for what will likely be the biggest stock market debut of an AI...

29. How to set up your phone games to play on an Android Auto screen

    Engadget · 26 Oct 2026, 21:15 IST

    How to set up your phone games to play on an Android Auto screen

30. T-Mobile’s new plans include swappable subscription perks

    The Verge · 26 Oct 2026, 21:09 IST

    T-Mobile is launching new "T-Mix" plans that bundle wireless service with subscriptions to services like Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, device promotions, and more, as reported earlier by Fierce Network ....

31. Microsoft releases emergency .NET patches for critical Brotli flaw

    BleepingComputer · 26 Oct 2026, 21:08 IST · Critical severity

    Microsoft released emergency .NET security updates to patch a critical vulnerability known as Broccoli2Shell, also tracked as Node2Shell and HTTP2Shell.

32. Microsoft Teams to get AI protection against phishing and fraud

    Computerworld · 26 Oct 2026, 21:13 IST

    Microsoft is adding a new AI-powered security feature to Teams aimed at detecting phishing, scams, and identity theft by analyzing conversations, Bleeping Computer reports. Instead of primarily checking for malicious links and files,...

33. The Grace Hopper Celebration was more than a conference. Its cancellation should be a wake-up call

    Fast Company Tech · 26 Oct 2026, 20:41 IST

    This week, thousands of women and nonbinary technologists were supposed to walk into the Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, California. The tech industry named some of its most powerful AI chips after Grace Hopper . This year, it...

34. What we learned from 250,000 public workers about AI adoption

    Fast Company Tech · 26 Oct 2026, 20:50 IST

    As generative AI sweeps across industries, some workers using it are reporting increases in productivity . But inside government, where those benefits could translate into better public services, many employees are still unsure how the...

35. Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra update fixes reboot and display bugs

    The Verge · 26 Oct 2026, 20:58 IST

    Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra was blighted by some nuisance bugs at launch, but now the company has released some new firmware to resolve them. The October 22 release addresses three issues notable issues in particular: screen...

36. Roku apps keep crashing before you hit Play? Here's why

    Engadget · 26 Oct 2026, 20:45 IST

    Roku apps keep crashing before you hit Play? Here's why

37. ‘Not a new AI center’: Seattle Children’s launches $10M pediatric innovation institute

    GeekWire · 26 Oct 2026, 20:31 IST

    Seattle Children’s researchers. (Seattle Children’s Photo) Seattle Children’s is announcing today the launch of its Institute for Pediatric Innovation, a $10 million initiative with eight focus areas and a chief innovation officer yet...

38. Nevis raises $70M to expand its AI platform for wealth advisers

    TNW · 26 Oct 2026, 20:26 IST

    New York-based Nevis, which builds AI software for wealth management firms, has raised $70M in a Series B round led by EQT Ventures. The company announced the funding on Monday. Two new backers joined: Charles Schwab, one of the largest...

39. Sweden’s Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude on work computers

    TNW · 26 Oct 2026, 20:39 IST

    Sweden’s Government Offices, which runs the work of the prime minister and the ministries, has blocked staff from using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude on their work computers. Ekot, the news service of public broadcaster...

40. Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race

    Ars Technica · 26 Oct 2026, 20:00 IST

    Elon Musk’s “flying” Roadster jumped and flipped through the air this month in a stunt that went viral around the world. But his bigger bet is on changing the way Tesla makes money—and the wider car industry is scrambling to catch up....