Cyber Security
IQVIA fined $7.8 million for failing to properly anonymize health data
Italy's Data Protection Authority (GPDP) has fined IQVIA €7 million ($7.8M) over poor data-processing practices that the agency says could have put roughly one million patients at risk of data exposure and de-anonymization. [...]
Ukraine grocery chain ATB confirms cyberattack as hackers threaten to leak data
Ukraine’s largest grocery store chain, ATB, confirmed that it was hit by a cyberattack after hackers posted an extortion demand on its website.
Chinese Hackers Impersonate US Officials for AI Cyber Espionage
An emerging threat group known as TA419 established seemingly legitimate professional relationships with AI policy experts working for US think tanks, universities, and legal organizations.
AI & Automation
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
Elizabeth Dias, our national religion correspondent, and Cade Metz, one of our technology reporters, discuss Anthropic’s approach for instilling morality into Claude — which has involved consultations with religious leaders, including ones at the Vatican — and why it’s raising questions.
Postman adds security controls for AI agents, APIs, and MCP servers
Postman has announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway, a protocol-agnostic control plane for governing how AI agents, LLMs, and MCP servers discover and interact with APIs, tools, and other agents. With Fabric Gateway, organizations can securely connect AI agents to their APIs while…
Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Sonnet 5.5 model, details here
Anthropic on Monday launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, the latest version of its workhorse model and the second model in the The post Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with near-Opus performance at half the price appeared first on The New Stack .
Privacy & Identity
Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name
Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs
Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit
Ola Bini Ordered to Leave Ecuador Under Obscure Accusations
Enterprise Tech
OpenAI brings text watermarking to its API — and unlike Anthropic, it’s off by default
Dynatrace’s $915M Arize deal bets AI agents are just another app to monitor
The AI safety check that runs on a laptop and nearly matched a 35B model
XCOR launches to trace outages in minutes. It still pages engineers.
Developers
Java News Roundup: JobRunr 9, OpenXava 8, Quarkus, LangChain4j, JNoSQL, Introducing Lathe
ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review
Presentation: Building Reusable Evaluation Frameworks for Agentic AI Products
Podcast: Future Cybersecurity: Hardware Memory Safety, Automated Governance and Post-Quantum Cryptography
Policy & Regulation
How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water
Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway.
Markets & Economy
This rare stock-market divide means an elevated chance of a big surge — or a deep plunge
Trump is promising $90 Medicare rebate checks ahead of the midterms. Here’s the hidden cost.
AI chatbots recommend shopping at Walmart over just about anywhere else, analysts find
Western Digital and Seagate shares bounce back as analysts downplay the Toshiba threat
Technology
The Matic is the first robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it
Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions
Instagram is toying with a read-only mode for Plus subscribers
World
Pennsylvania faces largest measles outbreak in decades as case count rises to 1,000
ICC unseals Taliban leaders’ warrants over persecuting women
Conservatives propose £10bn ‘Britannia Shield’ inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome
Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Science
Ancient DNA evidence narrows down when people first reached the Americas
Standard 3D printers let labs build and adapt tools for bacterial research
Why Cities and States Are Fighting Climate Change in Courtrooms
How game publishers set international prices: A study reveals four pricing approaches on Steam
Latest News in details
What’s new in Android’s October 2026 Google System Updates
The monthly “ Google System Release Notes ” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply… Read More about What’s new in Android’s October 2026 Google System Updates
The Matic is the first robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it
The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban. Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with. Here's… Read More about The Matic is the first robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it
This rare stock-market divide means an elevated chance of a big surge — or a deep plunge
There’s a huge and rare divergence between the two-month returns of the Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Read More about This rare stock-market divide means an elevated chance of a big surge — or a deep plunge
Pennsylvania faces largest measles outbreak in decades as case count rises to 1,000
Neighboring states are also reporting hundreds of cases, with over 3,800 recorded across the country Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials calculate, making it the largest state outbreak in… Read More about Pennsylvania faces largest measles outbreak in decades as case count rises to 1,000
ICC unseals Taliban leaders’ warrants over persecuting women
The court gave more details on the warrants for four Taliban leaders accused of the crime against humanity of gender persecution of women, girls and the LGBTQ+ community. The Islamist group rejected the warrants. Read More about ICC unseals Taliban leaders’ warrants over persecuting women
Conservatives propose £10bn ‘Britannia Shield’ inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome
Party to unveil plans for one of UK’s ‘most significant military programmes since the cold war’ The Conservatives will announce plans to build a £10bn British “Iron Dome” similar to Israel’s air and missile… Read More about Conservatives propose £10bn ‘Britannia Shield’ inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome