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Microsoft Security blog post titled The hidden network: Inside the phishing infrastructure ecosystem powering global cybercrime, dated October 14.

Tech Industry

Microsoft disrupts phishing network behind 1 billion messages

Microsoft and partners disrupted the YAM Store marketplace and three phishing kits linked to over 1 billion scam emails and texts sent to 75,000+ organizations.

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Oct 14, 20263 min read

Tech Industry

Amsterdam police seize Autistici/Inventati server for the US

Amsterdam police seized a server of Italian email and hosting provider Autistici/Inventati at a US request and are copying its data for US authorities.

Oct 14, 20263 min read

EDRi's statement page headed EDRi stands in solidarity with Autistici/Inventati after terrorist designation by the US government.

Startup Watch

Salience Labs raises $125M for all-optical AI data center switches

Salience Labs raised a $125 million Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with Intel Capital and AMD Ventures, to scale optical switches that link GPUs.

Oct 14, 20262 min read

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Tech Industry

Deezer will let listeners hide AI-generated music from search

Deezer will add a toggle that hides fully AI-generated tracks, albums and artists from search. It now receives nearly 90,000 AI tracks a day.

Oct 14, 20263 min read

A hand holding a phone running the Deezer app, showing an album page with an AI-generated content notice above its track list.

AI & LLMs

UK Home Office's asylum AI failed 22% of expert checks

A GPT-4o tool that summarizes asylum interviews for the UK Home Office failed 45 of 203 expert accuracy checks, and experts checked only about 0.3% of summaries.

Oct 14, 20263 min read

The Home Office headquarters at 2 Marsham Street in London, a building with metal louvres and a coloured glass canopy along its roofline.

Dev Stack

Vite+ 1.0 ships one command for the whole web toolchain

VoidZero's Vite+ 1.0 bundles Vite 8, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxlint and Oxfmt behind one vp command. It is free, MIT licensed and near two million weekly downloads.

Oct 14, 20263 min read

VoidZero's blog post Announcing Vite+ 1.0, dated September 28, 2026, with a purple Vite+ 1.0 Release banner and its four authors.

Tech Industry

Grace Hopper Celebration 2026 canceled over funding shortfall

AnitaB.org canceled the 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration, set for October 27-30 in Anaheim, after registrations and sponsorships fell well short.

Oct 14, 20263 min read

AnitaB.org's website notice titled An Important Update About Grace Hopper Celebration, announcing the cancellation of this year's event in Anaheim.

Tech Industry

ASML posts record Q3 sales, warns supply will trail demand

ASML reported record Q3 2026 sales of €11.7 billion and raised its 2026 outlook, but says its planned supply for 2027 and 2028 will not fully meet demand.

Oct 14, 20263 min read

ASML's investor relations page with the headline ASML reports 11.7 billion euro total net sales and 5.0 billion euro net income in Q3 2026.

Startup Watch

Freshworks to buy Torii to track SaaS and AI spending

Freshworks agreed to acquire Torii, a startup that tracks the software and AI tools a company uses and what they cost, down to the AI token.

Oct 14, 20263 min read

Torii's blog post Torii Signs Agreement to Join Freshworks by Uri Haramati, dated October 12, 2026, beside the Freshworks and Torii logos.

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UK Home Office's asylum AI failed 22% of expert checks

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Vite+ 1.0 ships one command for the whole web toolchain

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Coding

Nix and Lix patch daemon flaws that allow local root

Nix and Lix disclosed flaws on October 13 that can be chained into root access. Fixes are in Nix 2.35.3 and Lix 2.95.4, among other patch releases.

Oct 13, 20263 min read

The GitHub security advisory GHSA-jwvx-xq5j-gc56 for nix-daemon, marked High with a severity of 8.4 out of 10, listing affected and patched Nix versions.

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Amsterdam police seize Autistici/Inventati server for the US

Oct 14, 20263 min read

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Salience Labs raises $125M for all-optical AI data center switches

Oct 14, 20262 min read

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Science Corp implants PRIMA in first Stargardt patient

Science Corporation says its PRIMA retinal implant let its first Stargardt disease patient read a word by his second rehab session, after surgery in May.

Oct 14, 20263 min read

A man wearing Science Corporation's PRIMA camera glasses, in a still from the company's video about its first Stargardt disease patient.

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AI & LLMs

Gemini 4 Argon is now generally available at $2/$10

Meta Muse Wonder launches as its first frontier model

Z.ai launches GLM-Legal, an AI model for legal work

Dev Stack

Anthropic swaps git for Scion as merges pass 30,000 a day

Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday fixes a record 1,400+ flaws

Firefox Enterprise launches with a self-hosted console

Coding

LineageOS 24 ships Android 17 and browser-based flashing

Torvalds uses Claude Code to rework the Linux page cache

SQLite 3.54.0 gets 4% faster and drops Windows XP

Tech Industry

Deezer will let listeners hide AI-generated music from search

Grace Hopper Celebration 2026 canceled over funding shortfall

ASML posts record Q3 sales, warns supply will trail demand

Startup Watch

Freshworks to buy Torii to track SaaS and AI spending

Zetwerk IPO opens October 15 at Rs 143-151 a share

Character.AI files for bankruptcy, Disney bids $20 million

New & Next

Sony sells a Japan-only black PS5 for 55,000 yen

Apple TV 4K with A19 costs $299; HomePod mini 2 is $149

Apple HomeView is a $299 smart display with Siri AI

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