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New York City could be the first place in the country where consumers are protected from a “doom loop” of AI-powered customer service chatbots, per a rule proposed today by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration. The rule would require businesses to connect people to a human custo

Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet. As of late morning Tuesday, browser makers a

SaaS access reviews: A checklist for IT teams A SaaS access review checklist for IT teams: reconcile accounts and grants, record decisions, assign remediation, and verify app access changed as intended. A SaaS access review checks whether people still need the accounts and permis

Workforce identity vs. customer identity: What changes? How workforce and customer identity differ, how they connect in B2B software, and which team owns sign-in, membership, permissions, and access removal. Workforce identity covers the people an organization employs or engages

SSO vs. SCIM in workforce identity: Sign-in and provisioning SSO handles employee sign-in, and SCIM keeps app accounts and groups in sync with your directory. Learn where offboarding gaps appear and what to ask vendors. Single sign-on (SSO) answers one question at sign-in: is thi

Crude oil prices fell Tuesday as traders hoped for diplomatic progress between the U.S. and Iran, though attacks on tankers and strikes against Saudi Arabia have escalated recently. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for November fell 1.8% to close at $101.79 per barrel, pullin

Employee onboarding access checklist: From approved role to first sign-in An employee onboarding access checklist for approved apps and roles, account setup, first sign-in, and evidence that day-one access works for each new hire. An employee onboarding access checklist should sh

What is workforce identity? A guide to employee access Learn how workforce identity manages employee and contractor access, how SSO and provisioning fit together, and what to check before choosing a system. Workforce identity is how an organization manages accounts and access for

Contractor access management: A checklist for sponsors, scope, and end dates A contractor access management checklist for sponsors, approved scope, end dates, renewal decisions, and evidence that temporary access was removed from apps. Before granting a contractor access, record

Employee role changes: A checklist for removing old access An employee role change access checklist: compare old and new grants, approve handover exceptions, remove unneeded permissions, and verify the changes in apps. When an employee changes roles, compare the access they hold

Battle Drones—a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer 20th October 2026 My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones (play it here). Unlike my previous experiments, this one is actually fun to play. I’m

GM is closing a battery assembly plant south of Detroit, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. The Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant assembled battery packs for Cadillac’s flagship EV, the Celestiq, and both electric drive units (the motors that power the car) and battery packs

This was recorded on the sidelines of the new Compute Trading track at AIE NYC. Catch us next at AIE CODE, our last flagship for the top agentic engineers in the world. In the early days of cloud, former guest Martin Casado made something so disruptive that Cisco was threatened e

This was recorded on the sidelines of the new Compute Trading track at AIE NYC. Catch us next at AIE CODE, our last flagship for the top agentic engineers in the world. In the early days of cloud, former guest Martin Casado made something so disruptive that Cisco was threatened e

The Federal Reserve's inflation fight is running into a growing complication: The housing market is slumping even as broader price pressures persist. Housing data deteriorated further in September, according to separate reports Tuesday, adding to an already complicated policy lan

TP-Link yesterday announced plans to assemble Wi-Fi routers in the US, as the company attempts to get the Trump administration’s approval to sell its newest routers to American consumers. The timing is uncertain, as TP-Link’s press release said it expects US-based assembly to beg

Source material: Designer Ben Ganz on pushing the limits of what we can do From experimental typography and print artifacts to architecture, furniture, and fashion, PIN-UP Magazine’s creative director explores how materials, systems, and unexpected connections can shape new visua

It has been 13 years since the debut of a new medium-lift rocket in the United States, the Antares vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation. The initial 100-series variant of the Antares rocket was kind of a hot mess. The rocket used old Soviet engines built during the e

Schools should recognise antisemitism as distinct form of harm, review says - Published Schools and colleges in England will be required to recognise antisemitism as a distinct category of harm and take explicit action against it following a major review, the BBC understands. It

* French protests and fiscal strains keep traders cautious on the euro * Canadian dollar hits nearly one-month high after Alberta rejects separation in referendum * Yen gains as record demand at 20-year JGB auction draws sidelined cash back * Elice Group's 32% debut plunge revive

* Fed hike odds for next week's meeting ease to 17.2%, CME FedWatch shows * Pending home sales index tumbles 7.3% * Housing starts drop in September (Updates to afternoon trading) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Longer-dated US Treasury yields declined on Tuesda

Watch: Why does Prince Harry want to 'work it out' with his father and brother? The Duke of Sussex has said he wants to "to work it out" and repair his relationship with his father and brother. Speaking to GQ Magazine in New York, external, Prince Harry also said: "With everythin

On Tuesday, Google announced that TorchTPU, its long-awaited version of PyTorch, is now available as an open-source project. With this, Google joins Amazon in trying to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI industry, where most AI apps are written by default to run on Nvidia’s ch

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that users can now lock ChatGPT conversations to keep sensitive chats private when others may have access to their screen or device. Users can secure their locked chats with a four-digit PIN, or use Face ID or Touch ID on supported devices. Unlike the

Two men re-arrested on suspicion of assisting Iran intelligence after RAF Fairford incident - Published Two men have been re-arrested after an incident near RAF Fairford last month, counter-terrorism police have said. A 24-year-old UK national, and a 25-year-old dual UK-Iranian n

Mike Bloomberg spent $80 million in September and October to help Democrats regain majority control of the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterm elections, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing his team. Shortly after The Times published its article about Bloombe

VRL Logistics, JSW Dulux, Tips Music and Angel One are likely to attract investors’ attention on Wednesday, October 21, as shareholders track upcoming dividend payouts, a stock split, a share buyback and key record dates. VRL Logistics has revised the record date for its share bu

Ukraine’s unprecedented drone rescue of a wounded soldier from the battlefield has shown once again how battlefield necessity can spur innovation. The operation was revealed just days after separate Ukrainian drones designed for casualty evacuation were deployed for frontline tes

A slumping stock price. C-suit shakeups. Corporate layoffs. A failed takeover bid. It's not a new drama on Netflix, but rather the drama that has surrounded the streaming giant as it limps into earnings with its stock nearly off 50% from its all time highs. Option traders are bet

We’re excited to announce that Orchestra Bio has been acquired by OpenAI. To read more about the acquisition, read Jay Rughani and Jorge Conde’s post about it here. For more general information on what OpenAI is up to in the Health space, check out our podcast with them here. It

Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected. In general, the more hardware qubits you dedicate to each l

Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more tha

A new lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges President Donald Trump's invocation of a Depression-era law to impose 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Trump in July used Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to slap those steep tariffs on Canadian hockey sticks, wine, honey, wigs

Artificial Intelligence Workflow context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS AI agents are most useful when they can act on the real work happening across your organization. Running projects and operations involves complex, cross-functional tasks such as updating project tim

Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger. The former Google CEO is reported to own about 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions of dollars in the leading AI lab’s Series A round in 2021, according to Bloomberg. The startup was valued at $461 million at the tim

Three month copper on the London Metal Exchange was up 0.1% at $14,353 a metric ton by 0955 GMT, marking a third straight session of tight trading. The metal has gained 55% since Donald Trump returned to the US presidency in January 2025, even as global demand fell 0.5% to 27 mil

Snyk's Randall Degges on what it costs to know a vulnerability is real Snyk's Randall Degges on reachability analysis, the price of context, and why the tools your agent uses are the weakest security spot in the industry today. I sat down with Randall Degges at ELC 2026. He leads

Another Data Center IPO Fizzles as Investor Appetite Wanes South Korean data center firm Elice’s IPO disappointment is the latest sign the AI boom may have peaked. Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Light Reading. The AI bubble hasn’t burst – but it certainly

AMD's FSR 4.1 now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and S, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 SoCs — new release brings cutting-edge tech to older hardware with a small performance cost AMD gives older GPUs an image quality boost amid the ongoing AI chip drought Earlier thi