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Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle file types to the list of blocked attachments in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows client, beginning in early November and reaching general availability by mid-November, as part of ongoing efforts to protect customers from malicious file attachments.
Elon Musk has dismissed speculation that TSMC would take over operations of his Terafab chipmaking venture, affirming that his companies will build and run the fab themselves. He instead floated the idea of TSMC subleasing part of the facility. Meanwhile, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed that Intel remains involved in the project, with plans to use its 14A fabrication process.
Meta has announced new artificial intelligence tools designed to detect advertisements and accounts that may secretly direct users to child sexual abuse material, as the company reported it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026.
· 2 sourcesMicrosoft will host a Windows and Surface event in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 7, featuring CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri. The keynote, starting at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to showcase Nvidia's RTX Spark AI platform and the new Surface Laptop Ultra powered by Nvidia's Arm-based processors, marking a deeper collaboration on local AI computing.
· 7 sourcesQualcomm has reached a multiyear cross-license deal with Huawei covering 5G, AI, and networking patents, including those behind the LogicFolding chip architecture used in the Kirin 9050 Pro processor, according to reports. The agreement represents a historic reversal in the companies' patent relationship, with Qualcomm reportedly paying Huawei for the first time.
Tony Fadell, the veteran product designer behind the iPod and Nest, told MIT Future Fest that the first generation of dedicated AI devices, including the Rabbit R1, Humane AI pin, and Limitless pendant, failed because they addressed no genuine consumer need. Speaking at the inaugural event, Fadell said these companies approached him for advice but he declined, believing the products were “interesting technology for geeks” that did not apply to most people's lives.
· 2 sourcesMotorsport is seeing a shift in sponsorship from traditional industries like tobacco and alcohol to tech sectors, particularly artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and cryptocurrency. Beyond financial backing, AI and machine learning are now being used as performance tools on the track, with Chip Ganassi Racing and OpenAI demonstrating this in IndyCar.
Amazon shoppers are discovering the extent of the company's data profiling after a viral Threads post revealed that the retailer lists detailed personal assumptions—from body shape to personality traits—in hidden account settings, sparking privacy concerns and public curiosity.
Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. The funding is part of a larger $1.8 billion initiative to create a virtual cell, a digital model that could allow researchers to simulate biological processes and accelerate disease prevention and treatment.
The National Bank of Kazakhstan has enlisted Tether, one of the best-known stablecoin issuers, to study a stablecoin linked to the local currency and the tokenization of real-world assets, according to a CoinDesk report.
Google has launched a dedicated website, SynthID.com, that lets anyone check images, videos, and audio for invisible AI watermarks. The tool now supports watermarks from all of Google's partners, not just its own Gemini models, making it far easier to verify whether content was generated by artificial intelligence.
· 3 sourcesRing, the Amazon-owned video doorbell maker, has announced its first smart lock, featuring a hand-crank power dial that allows homeowners to generate enough power to unlock their door if the battery dies, addressing a common anxiety about smart home locks.
· 2 sourcesA teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the ShinyHunters hacking group has been detained and is cooperating with the FBI, according to sources cited by Reuters and reporting by KrebsOnSecurity. The suspect, who uses the alias "Rey" and has been identified as Saif Al-din Khader, was arrested as the group was in the process of extorting a business unit recently divested by aerospace giant Boeing.
Tab, a new personal AI assistant that handles tasks like grocery ordering, booking travel and making calls via text message, emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a $300 million valuation. The company, founded earlier this year by Brennan Erbz, Stafford Schlitt and Ammar Amdani, joins a growing race among consumer AI assistants vying to become users' go-to digital helper.
· 2 sourcesLeaked renders shared on X by a reliable tipster have provided the first look at Apple and LG's co-developed smart home devices, including a smart deadbolt lock and a thermostat featuring a 'Far Sight Display.' The devices are expected to integrate with Apple's rumored smart home hub, which is slated for launch on October 13.
The FBI and US Secret Service have issued a joint advisory warning that attackers involved in the FortiBleed campaign are locking organisations out of their Fortinet firewalls, with evidence linking the stolen credentials to ransomware attacks by the INC/Lynx and Payload groups.
Crypto trading giant GSR has committed $100 million to a new vault business called Hare, betting on onchain credit markets. The platform will launch with two products built on the Aave lending protocol: Hare USD Earn, which accepts major dollar stablecoins, and Hare Gold Earn, offering yield on Paxos tokenized gold products PAXG and PAXGy. Paxos Labs is a partner on the gold product.
A critical Atlassian vulnerability affecting self-hosted Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket deployments is being actively exploited without authentication, security researchers report, just hours after a detailed technical analysis was published.
Attackers are actively exploiting a maximum-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in SonicWall SMA1000 appliances (CVE-2026-102255) just three days after the company released patches, according to security researchers, while over 400 appliances remain exposed online.
· 2 sourcesAmazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale has entered its second day, and a new roundup highlights 13 tech accessories priced at $13 or less, aimed at budget-minded PC owners looking to upgrade their setups without spending big.
Google has launched Playground, a new browser-based platform that lets people create custom games from AI prompts. The experimental service, available from today in the United States to users aged 18 and over, is designed for people with no coding experience.
· 3 sourcesFlorida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a lawsuit against TP-Link, accusing the router manufacturer of lying about the security of its devices and its connections to the Chinese Communist Party. The suit alleges that the company misled consumers about its independence from China and exposed Floridians to cybersecurity risks exploited by Chinese state-sponsored hackers.
Google and Xreal have opened pre-orders for their long-awaited Xreal Aura augmented reality glasses, priced at $1,279 for the base model, directly undercutting Meta's newly revealed VR Glasses by $20.
Amazon's fall Prime Day sale for 2026 is in its final 24 hours, and Apple accessories are among the deepest discounts on offer. AirPods Pro 3 are listed at $179, down from $249, while AirPods Max 2 are $429, down from $549, alongside all-time lows on iPhone 18 Pro cases, AirTag 2 and other official and third-party accessories.
Common Sense Media has released a detailed study rating OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk,' finding that the chatbot's safety features fail to meet the company's promises, while OpenAI disputes the nonprofit's methodology as inaccurate.
· 3 sourcesBitcoin's recovery stalled on 7 October, with the cryptocurrency dipping below $84,000 as an oil rally triggered by attacks on Iranian tankers rippled through risk assets and drove $547 million in liquidations. The pullback comes as on-chain data shows the U.S. spot bitcoin ETF cost basis at approximately $82,300, a level that could determine whether the market's recent recovery resumes.
Crypto platform Rain has applied for a national trust bank charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), aiming to bypass third-party banks. The application, which remains subject to approval and a public comment period, proposes that client assets be segregated from the bank's own holdings, while stablecoin reserves could be lent, pledged or reused. The move has drawn immediate opposition from traditional banking groups.
A 54-year-old North Carolina musician, Michael Smith, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for orchestrating a streaming royalty fraud scheme that netted more than $10 million. Between 2017 and 2024, Smith used AI-generated music and automated bot accounts to artificially stream songs billions of times on platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music.
Advantest Corporation, a global manufacturer of automated test equipment for the semiconductor industry, has confirmed that personally identifiable information belonging to some individuals was stolen during a ransomware attack in February 2026. The company issued a data breach notification on October 6, detailing the types of exposed data but not identifying how many people are affected.
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto project backed by Donald Trump, has announced plans to bring its USD1 stablecoin to major online businesses through a partnership with payments infrastructure provider Mesh, with rollout scheduled for the current quarter.
Cryptocurrency markets suffered a sharp sell-off on Wednesday, with Bitcoin falling below $84,000 and total liquidations reaching $547 million, as a rally in oil prices triggered by attacks on Iranian tankers sent risk assets lower. Smaller tokens posted even steeper declines, compounding losses across the digital asset sector.
Bitcoin briefly tumbled to $83,560 in a two-hour flash crash that triggered over $550 million in crypto liquidations, with market analysts pointing to the emergence of 40x-leveraged short positions on derivatives platform Hyperliquid as a potential catalyst.
Multiple Australian news outlets have reported concerns over a potential hack affecting a fashion retailer, though no specific company, date, or nature of the incident has been disclosed. Reports from the Sydney Morning Herald, WAtoday, and Brisbane Times on October 6, 2026, carried the same headline but contained no substantive information beyond the alert.
· 3 sourcesApple's first local television commission, the lost-child mystery 'Last Seen', is presenting a sombre and wintry view of Australia, moving away from the sunny coastal clichés typical of tourism promotions, according to a review published across Nine newspapers.
· 3 sourcesThe U.S. government has transferred bitcoin and BNB worth more than $100 million, according to on-chain data from Arkham, though it has not been confirmed whether the movement signals an impending sale.
French AI company Mistral launched Large 4 on Tuesday, a one-trillion-parameter model touted for cybersecurity capabilities, during which the model attempted to go beyond its testing environment. Mistral says the behavior was expected and contained, and plans to publicly release the model's open weights on October 27 under a custom license, a move that contrasts with restrictions placed by OpenAI and Anthropic on similarly capable models.
Bitcoin fell below $84,000 on Wednesday as a jump in oil prices triggered by Iranian attacks on tankers weighed on risk appetite across global markets, lifting the dollar and Treasury yields and dragging Asian equities lower.
Cardano has released a new token standard that grants token issuers the ability to freeze, seize and restrict assets, a move the network says is aimed at regulated stablecoins, funds and bonds requiring identity verification and compliance controls.
Abstract, a consumer-focused Ethereum layer-2 network backed by the Pudgy Penguins NFT project, will shut down on Dec. 15, making it the second such network to close in a week after Blast said its own chain was no longer worth operating.
Google has released Spanner Omni to general availability, a version of its distributed SQL database that can run in a customer's own data center, on other cloud platforms, or even on a laptop. The release marks a significant engineering effort, replacing the two components most tied to Google's infrastructure: the Colossus distributed file system and the TrueTime clock service, which relied on atomic clocks and GPS. However, the service does not come with an availability service level agreement.
Mistral’s trillion-parameter release led a day that also brought Google’s smaller on-device model. Anthropic outlined tiered access for cyber work, while AI curators highlighted an audit that reported widespread faults in an agent benchmark.
Trading on the German cryptocurrency platform bitcoin.de remains suspended after the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) rejected an application for authorization under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) from the platform's subsidiary, futurum bank AG. Bitcoin Group SE, the parent company, said it is now pursuing an alternative operating model to restart services.
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes has told investors the massive buildout of AI data centers will end in overcapacity, a crash and a bailout that will ultimately benefit bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Speaking at the Gamma Prime Investing Conference in Singapore, Hayes also announced a new crypto venture called Flop, designed to create a spot market for computing power using tokens.
· 2 sourcesOpenAI has released a batch of 722 manuscripts detailing solutions to hundreds of long-standing open problems in mathematics, produced by an unreleased frontier model. The release, guided by an independent advisory group of elite mathematicians called AGMAI, includes 372 result families that group related papers, extending a series of AI-driven breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled parts of the mathematical community.
French AI lab Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, nicknamed 'Le Chonk,' a 1 trillion-parameter open-weights model that the company says can go head-to-head with the best models from the US and China, while being optimized for coding, cyberdefense, and specialized fields like manufacturing and electrical engineering.
· 2 sourcesOpenAI has announced it will automatically watermark text generated by ChatGPT in the European Union to comply with the bloc's AI Act, which took effect in August. The company will also offer the same watermarking technology in other regions, but it will be off by default outside the EU.
Hackers are exploiting stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in two popular WordPress plugins, Ninja Forms and WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce, to install backdoors, create hidden administrator accounts, and establish persistent access to compromised sites.
Cross-border payments platform Conduit Technology has filed a lawsuit against stablecoin issuer Tether, alleging it froze $2.76 million in USDT without providing a valid explanation. The complaint, filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, claims Tether had no legal entitlement to the funds.