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  1. The Next Web

    AI talent platform Dex hires founders of Secret Escapes and Progression

    Dex, a London-based AI recruitment platform for software engineers, has hired two former founders for senior roles. Tom Valentine, co-founder of travel deals site Secret Escapes, joins as chief operating officer. And Jonny Burch, co-founder of career development platform Progression, becomes head...

  2. Wired

    WIRED’s Midterms Races to Watch

    From data centers to Elon Musk funding to the AI lobby, the 2026 midterms are the most WIRED elections yet. These are the candidates we're following closely.

  3. CIO

    Best project management certifications of 2026

    Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades and ongoing security patches, to application development and the software rollouts themselves, project managers keep your teams productive and on task. Almost any IT pro can benefit...

  4. CIO

    From petrodollar to AI currency: Who will control the money of the agentic economy?

    Over 20-plus years in the enterprise trenches, I’ve watched multi-million-dollar technology transformations stumble over the same blind spot. We spend months debating cloud architectures, database benchmarks and vendor feature matrices. But the tech itself? That’s rarely where the real bleeding...

  5. The Next Web

    Samsung expects record $80bn quarterly profit as AI memory demand soars

    Samsung Electronics expects its operating profit for the third quarter to reach a record level of about 107.4 trillion won ($80bn), a significant increase from 12.17 trillion won a year earlier. The South Korean company released its preliminary figures today. It represents an increase of nearly...

  6. The Hacker News

    16 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Rabby and OKX Wallets to Steal Recovery Phrases

    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions that are capable of stealing cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases and private keys. "The extensions masquerade as wallet portals, desktop utilities, and browser tools, but their code intercepts recovery...

  7. Wired

    Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’

    The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.

  8. Infosecurity Magazine

    Europol and US GAO Sound the Alarm Over Quantum Threats

    Europol and US Government Accountability Office urge faster transition to post-quantum cryptography

  9. Security Week

    Fake Decryption Tools Masked $11M Markup in Ransomware Recovery Scheme

    Zohar Pinhasi was paying ransoms to obtain decryption keys and then charging victims substantially more for remediation. The post Fake Decryption Tools Masked $11M Markup in Ransomware Recovery Scheme appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  10. Wired

    A Scientist Working on the ‘IceCube’ Neutrino Detector Explains the Nobel Prize–Winning Technology

    “Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice.

  11. The Next Web

    Swiss prosecutors investigate data leak at federal pension fund Publica

    Publica, the pension fund that provides pensions for staff of the Swiss federal government, has confirmed today that a data leak occurred as a result of a cyberattack on one of its external software suppliers. The Swiss government stated that the supplier discovered the attack at the end of...

  12. NY Times

    Man vs. ‘Terminator’-Like Robot in a Cage. California Called It Illegal.

    A tech start-up’s stunt in San Francisco tested the boundaries of combat sport safety and regulations.

  13. Help Net Security

    GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push

    GitHub has announced an AI detector, developed with Microsoft Applied Sciences, to help prevent developers from uploading passwords and other credentials to code repositories. The ModernBERT-based classifier will expand GitHub’s push protection, which checks code for secrets and can block a push...

  14. Help Net Security

    What is MATCHBOIL? The Russia-aligned malware that installs a spying backdoor

    ESET researchers traced almost two years of changes to MATCHBOIL, a downloader that the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 uses to plant a second program on Windows machines in Ukraine. GUI displayed at MATCHBOIL’s runtime (Source: ESET) Every victim in ESET’s telemetry was in Ukraine: transportation...

  15. CSO Online

    We are fighting phishing at the wrong layer

    I timed an attacker once. From registering a domain to having it delegated, certificated and serving a live credential-harvesting page took under 24 minutes, and 12 of those were spent waiting on nameservers. I keep coming back to that number, because it quietly indicts most of what we do about...

  16. Wired

    The Man Behind a West Bank Telegram Channel Trying to Keep Palestinian Drivers Safe

    With no accurate Big Tech mapping app to help him, Anas Hattab launched a Telegram group to get himself home at night. Now nearly 350,000 Palestinians rely on it to navigate the occupied West Bank.

  17. Wired

    7 Best Cheap Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed

    There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $800—stood up to WIRED’s testing.

  18. CIO

    Is your architecture preventing you from calculating AI value?

    I argued in my last column, The case and model for real-time AI cost visibility at the infrastructure layer, that the AI measurement problem looks to be finally solved as a technical matter, and that companies can now manage AI as a strategic investment rather than a pay-and-pray experiment. That’s...

  19. The Next Web

    Amazon reportedly cuts jobs in its retail unit during Prime Big Deal Days sale

    Amazon has cut a small number of office jobs, mostly in its Stores division, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The cuts came during Prime Big Deal Days, its two-day sale on October 6 and 7. Business Insider first reported the layoffs, and then a person familiar with the matter told Reuters that...

  20. Infosecurity Magazine

    FBI and Secret Service Warn of FortiBleed Lockout Threat

    The FBI and Secret Service are warning Fortigate admins that their systems are still being targeted