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LiteLLM has traced last week’s supply chain attack to a master key it accidentally committed to a public GitHub repository in May. The cloud and AI model secret-stealing part of the incident began when someone uploaded a poisoned version (1.107.0) of the popular open source AI g

After two months of discomfort, a man in South Korea went to an eye clinic where doctors pulled 11 living, wriggling worms from his eyes. They apparently made the most of their time on the man’s peepers; at the time of extraction, many of the female worms were pregnant. The man n

We’ll stop selling ByteByteGo Live annual memberships on October 28 at 2 PM PT. After that, courses will be sold individually. I wanted to explain why, and give you a chance to join before the change. When we launched ByteByteGo Live (our cohort-based learning platform), we thoug

Tech giant moves to control costs and it spends up to $175bn on AI infrastructure this year

The S&P; 500 gained 0.70% and the Nasdaq rose 0.83%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.28%. The move came as investors turned their attention to Anthropic’s plans to go public and what its filing says about the AI boom. The company disclosed steep losses alongside ra

Oscar-winning producer says BBC gave her £400,000 payout after she raised antisemitism concerns - Published An Oscar-winning executive producer claims she received a £400,000 payout from the BBC after alleging she faced antisemitic remarks from colleagues at the corporation. Luci

A US-Canada trade deal is likely not as imminent as some US officials indicated over the weekend. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that negotiators were “very close” to reaching an agreement that would ease the countries’ tit-for-tat tariffs on an arra

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most beloved fictional detectives of all time in Sherlock Holmes, spawning countless novels, films, TV series, and so forth featuring the sleuth. Far fewer people know about the real-life inspiration for Holmes: a renowned surgeon at Scot

21 news publishers have challenged India’s DPDP Act in the Supreme Court, citing concerns over press freedom The law could require journalists to seek consent from investigation subjects, force publishers to erase reports and expose confidential sources, the publishers have argue

Brazil’s decision to reelect leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over Flávio Bolsonaro marks a setback in President Donald Trump’s bid to elevate like-minded leaders across the globe. It also raises questions about the relationship between the two countries going forward.

In an S-1 filing today preceding what could be the largest IPO ever, Anthropic laid out extensive new details about its earnings, growth, key stakeholders and the risks it faces going forward. Clocking in at 335 pages, the document wasn’t exactly light reading. However, after a p

Anthropic on Monday unveiled its Form S-1 filing, taking the company one step closer to completing its long-awaited move to the public markets, which is now seen as almost guaranteed to come this year. Speculators on prediction market platform Kalshi place 95% odds that the artif

Instacart will stop offering high-tech shopping carts to grocers, its first announced strategy shift since reports emerged that the company is in talks to sell itself.

Today, Apple rolled out the 27.2 updates for its operating systems, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and so on. Let’s start with iOS 27.2. This update is heavily focused on Siri AI. It adds a memory feature to Siri, so it can “recall your past conversations” and ref

A federal judge ruled Monday that the Department of Justice's firing last year of New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was unlawful. Judge Jesse Furman, in his ruling, also granted Maurene Comey retroactive reinstatement and

Will the public change its mind about Meghan? - Published The allegations of sexual abuse against Thomas Markle have put his daughter Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, under an uncomfortable spotlight. She has been dealing with this potential news time-bomb out of sight for seven ye

Intel Corp. agreed to buy Israeli startup Classiq Technologies Ltd. as part of a push to capitalize on quantum computing, a still-nascent field that is seeking commercial applications.

Easy to integrate, compliant by design: Bringing the Swiss Franc to Google Cloud Universal Ledger Nathaniel Zollinger CTO, Crypto Finance Group Moritz Platt Capital Markets Technology Manager, Google Cloud Every day, countless financial transactions are interrupted by slow, expen

Cisco today made Cisco IQ generally available to partners at Cisco Partner Summit in Vancouver, opening the support platform’s telemetry and automation to partner workflows through a Cisco IQ MCP Server, expanded API access, and role-based access control that lets a customer gran

Dive Brief: - Banana Republic is stepping into original programming with the launch of a five-part short-form video series starring actor Jack Innanen, according to a press release. - “The Agency” debuted Oct. 14 on TikTok and follows a team of executives as they attempt to moder

Anthropic's blockbuster share listing - 5 surprising things we now know - Published Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic just released the required paperwork ahead of its long-anticipated debut on the US stock market. The 335-page document included fresh details of how the

AI - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all - OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

The startup plans to utilise the fresh capital to continue expanding its presence in the US and other international markets, scale its tech stack and ramp up hiring The fundraise comes as India is becoming a training ground for collecting datasets for AI models, driven by huge lo

DoorDash is in advanced talks to buy Instacart for around $17 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. A deal could be announced in the coming days, assuming it doesn’t fall apart at the last minute, some of the people said. The Information first reported on Friday

OpenAI on Monday unveiled the latest iteration of its GPT-6.1 model, a mid-priced version that the company said is significantly cheaper and more efficient than the version of this tier it released three months ago. According to OpenAI, GPT-6.1 Terra costs up to 50% less per toke

The Scoop DoorDash is in exclusive talks to acquire Instacart, according to people familiar with the matter. A deal is far from certain and the talks could fall apart, the people cautioned. It could not be determined what price was under discussion or how a deal would be structur

Ballon d'Or winner Kane's best Bundesliga goals This content is not available in your location. There was an error Watch Harry Kane's best goals from the 2025/26 Bundesliga season with Bayern, as the England striker is crowned the men's 2026 Ballon d'Or winner. READ MORE: Kan

Trump administration illegally fired James Comey's daughter, judge rules - Published The US justice department illegally fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey, a federal judge has ruled. Comey, who lost her job as a

The banks, using the easy rupee liquidity created after the inflow of deposits from the diaspora, bought dollars and invested the funds in US Treasury bills to earn higher returns. Also Read: SBI opens cyber CoE, announces training for 1.8 lakh staff in cybersecurity The transact

The launch of the iPhone Duo, Apple’s hotly anticipated foldable phone, is off to a rough start. The phone was announced at this year’s Surprise and Shine event, with Apple promising that it had finally gotten a notoriously tricky form factor right. Now, however, Bloomberg report

The iPhone Duo may be a bit of a risk right now, but there’s a new mid-size Apple touchscreen device that might do the job. Starting at $699, the 8th-gen iPad mini price has gone up, but there are some big changes. Apple says the refreshed 8th-gen iPad mini marks the most signifi

According to the World Gold Council (WGC), September purchases rose 4% from August while volumes touched 1.7 tonnes, 18% above the long-term monthly average. In January-September, digital gold purchases climbed 76% to 16.3 tonnes from 9.2 tonnes in the corresponding period last y

Bristol sign Auvaa following Saracens sacking - Published Bristol Bears have signed Samoan forward Totoa Auvaa, two weeks after he was sacked by Saracens. Auvaa, 21, was involved in a nightclub altercation with England cricketers Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson in June. He was let go

26th October 2026 Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT. And, increasingly, ChatGPT is telling people that have n

The U.S. government has long had an on-again, off-again relationship with the fusion power sector. As of last week, it’s definitely back on. Helion and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) received awards totaling $260 million from the Department of Commerce under the CHIPS and Scie

Cursor's Agent SDK Lets Developers Build and Version Bots Like Code Cursor's new Agent SDK turns custom bots into versioned repos of Markdown prompts and TypeScript tools, with built-in evals and flexible hosting. - Cursor released the Agent SDK for defining bots as Markdown prom

The ‌voluntary exit offer ‌will ⁠impact key divisions, including ⁠AI experiences, Copilot, finance, human resources, Xbox and Windows + Devices, ​a source ‌familiar with the matter told Reuters

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged at its upcoming October meeting — even as higher energy costs complicate the inflation outlook and put additional pressure on household budgets. The consumer price index, a broad measure of inflation, rose again in

Hundreds of employees at the US robotics firm Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for executives to halt a sale of the company’s robot dogs to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement—but executives stood by the deal, while saying the robots would not be weaponized. On Septem

Intel quietly confirms Raptor Lake Next CPUs through internal driver publication — LGA 1700 chips also appear in shipping manifests dating back to August DDR4 support and presumably affordable prices should be a boon for extant Socket 1700 system owners Intel has published an int

Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, hit store shelves on Friday to considerable lines and long wait times for pre-orders. But some customers who were lucky enough to get the $1,999-and-up phone on its first weekend have been reporting a pretty big problem: The inner scr

Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, hit store shelves on Friday to considerable lines and long wait times for pre-orders. But some customers who were lucky enough to get the $1,999-and-up phone on its first weekend have been reporting a pretty big problem: The inner scr

The Claude maker delayed pre training of a new “frontier” base model to strengthen safeguards against the theft of model weights and intellectual property. The setback comes as Anthropic prepares for a widely anticipated stock market debut, with the company warning that training

The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it filed a lawsuit along with 20 states accusing Dollar General of charging customers more than the prices it displays on shelves, price tags and in advertisements. Shares of Dollar General dropped about 4% after the FTC announced the

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Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90 - Published Walter Koenig, who played the spirited Russian crewman Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek TV series, has died aged 90. The US actor was a mainstay on the show as the eager and earnest navigator o

WirelessPress Release Noble Mobile acquires SmartLess Mobile Andrew Yang's Noble Mobile announced the acquisition of SmartLess Mobile, the mobile service venture established by the creators of the SmartLess podcast. #pressrelease 2 Min Read Noble Mobile, the venture founded b

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