Amazon trims devices.
Amazon cut jobs in its devices and services unit on Wednesday, Reuters reported. A spokesperson confirmed "a small number of roles" were eliminated.
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Midterms, earnings from Apple, AMD and Palantir, and the jobs report will test stocks after Alphabet and Amazon results sent the Nasdaq down 2.9% Friday, Reuters reported.
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OpenAI trims its ask.
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AI spending spooks Wall Street.
Intel shares plunged 28.6% Friday after results showed heavy cash burn and slowing PC demand, Reuters reported. The Nasdaq fell 2.86%.
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The FTC is sending 65,022 checks totaling more than $9.8 million to people who made eligible Walmart money transfers between January 2015 and December 2024, USA Today reported. No…
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A Claude Code impostor.
Tampered copies of the Claude Code extension, versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313, were served in Cursor's extension marketplace on October 29 and tried to plant an SSH backdoor.…
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Copy, paste, train.
Chinese AI labs DeepSeek and Moonshot AI leaned heavily on outputs from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train their newest models, Reuters reported, citing The Information. The practice…
OpenAI shops at Google.
OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, The Information reported, according to Reuters. OpenAI declined to comment.
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BTCPay to merchants: pull the plug
BTCPay Server, a free, open-source tool businesses use to accept bitcoin, told users on Sunday to shut down their servers after reports that attackers were draining "hot wallets,"…
Trigger.dev's secrets got out.
The developer automation platform said Sunday that an attacker gained unauthorized access to environment variables for a subset of organizations. It blocked the exploit and…
The FBI names the Binance thief.
The FBI said Saturday that North Korea's "TraderTraitor" hackers stole more than $6 billion from Binance on or about October 29. It asked crypto firms to block transactions tied…
Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan and researcher Chris Ryan run a free live hacking demo, "Hacking The Tragic Quadra
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Northflank says: assume it's all stolen
Northflank, a cloud platform developers use to run apps and AI tools, told customers on October 30 to assume every environment variable stored there had been decrypted. Those…
GitLab's worst-case bug is live.
CISA added CVE-2026-97229 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 29. CISA says the flaw can let an unauthenticated attacker run code on GitLab servers through a…
Chainalysis meets AI-driven intruders.
The blockchain analytics firm said attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to get into its internal systems, exposing customer names, emails, user IDs and role labels. It…
Binance says hackers took $6.3 billion
Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, said a security breach hit about $6.3 billion in assets, which analysts call the largest crypto theft on record. Reuters reported…
Ivanti VPNs are under fire.
CISA added two Ivanti Connect Secure flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 30, citing active exploitation. One is a missing-authentication bug.
A Linux bug gets a Halloween deadline
CISA added two flaws to its KEV catalog on October 28. The bigger one is CVE-2026-46300, a Linux kernel bug that CISA says can be chained with the two PHP2Shell flaws to plant PHP…
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