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Surfshark says it is proud to have sponsored Disinfo2026 after the EU diplomatic service, Canada and Lithuania pulled out under political pressure. The VPN provider presented research on fake accounts and AI-generated content at the Vilnius conference.
At SailPoint's Navigate event in Austin, executives and experts said AI agents are forcing identity security to machine-speed remediation, with just-in-time access, human ownership and enforcement outside the agent.
Flock is cutting about 270 jobs, or 18% of its workforce, through a voluntary separation program as the surveillance company faces growing privacy and civil liberties backlash.
Paris court rejects Canal+ fines against Cloudflare over 1.1.1.1 piracy blocking, leaving its DNS resolver untouched.
Microsoft will add third-party deepfake detection and impersonation warnings to Teams in November 2026, TechRadar reports.
Android Authority reports that PS5SX2 v2.00 adds frame generation up to 120 FPS, 8x PS5 Pro resolution scaling, HD texture packs, and some online multiplayer, but only on jailbroken PS5s running firmware v13.60 or lower.
Anthropic offers free vulnerability scans to open-source projects via OSS Scanner, using AI reports without human review.
Shaquille O'Neal joined NordVPN in Times Square to teach Americans about digital threats and promote its antivirus tools.
An article in TechRadar says enterprise identity checks should not end at login, urging continuous behavioral and device monitoring to detect session hijacking and account takeover.
IBM's Jamie Thomas told the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit that about 66,000 unique vulnerability disclosures are expected in 2026, four times the level of seven years ago, while AI floods maintainers with duplicate and bogus reports.
At the Open Source Summit in Prague, Linux founder Linus Torvalds said AI can lower barriers for new programmers but should be used cautiously for serious work, while AI-generated security reports strain maintainers.
An MIT Technology Review article published Oct. 9, 2026 argues that AI’s ability to refuse harmful requests has become the load-bearing wall of safety, but probabilistic refusal is unreliable and leaves dangerous capabilities intact.
A TechRadar review of 14 financial-services websites in Europe and the US found tracking scripts in account-opening, mortgage, and loan flows sent contact details, financial intent, and device fingerprints to third parties, with nine sites doing so without valid consent.
TechRadar published an interview with Proton founder Andy Yen on age verification, Big Tech, AI and digital privacy. The headline quotes Yen saying nine out of ten people prefer Proton’s version of the internet over Google’s.
South Korean police added 15 personnel to a team probing recent hacking attacks on several financial institutions.
South Korea's spy agency was excluded from a June trilateral meeting on North Korean cyber threats, reportedly at Washington's request, as a delayed U.S. visa for an opposition lawmaker adds to concerns over alliance friction.
OpenAI said it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that used ChatGPT to support influence operations in multiple countries. The company said campaigns placing false narratives in established media reached wider audiences than those using fake social media accounts, and it described a Russian effort that prompted a European Parliament member's response.
A South Korean lawmaker said Friday that 16 of 18 suspected overseas hacking attacks on domestic financial companies since 2024 remain unattributed, with only two attackers identified.
Elastic has introduced AlertZero, a set of AI agents built into Elastic Security that triage alerts, hunt threats and analyze attacks, with each customer deciding how much runs without human sign-off.
iVerify reports P7 DarkSword, a new iPhone spyware variant that steals Keychain and crypto-wallet data.
Anthropic announced free AI-generated vulnerability scans for open-source projects through OSS Scanner and a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with 11 founding partners, both under its new Anthropic Cyber Mission.
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage season 3 premiered on CBS on Oct. 8, with Paramount+ and Crave streaming, VPN options.
Pocketty, an iPhone and iPad SSH terminal, was announced on Hacker News. It alerts users when a remote agent pane needs attention, using sealed push notifications and an optional Rust daemon for herdr. It offers a 14-day trial and a one-time purchase.
Let's Encrypt will shorten its free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes from 90 days to 64 days beginning February 10, 2027, with opt-in testing of the shorter certificates to start on October 14, 2026.