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The second annual VRT Awards took place October 6 at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan and will stream free on Philo in the US from October 9. Winners included Ariana Biermann, Meredith Marks and Luann de Lesseps, while viewers abroad may need a VPN to watch.
AT&T subscribers reported receiving unexpected password-change texts and emails early Thursday, many arriving around the same time. No account compromise has been confirmed, and the carrier has been asked to explain the notifications.
Law & Order season 26 premieres Oct. 8 at 10pm ET/PT on NBC, per TechRadar. Canada gets it same night on CityTV, the UK may wait until 2027, and Australia has no announced release.
Natura has announced a $99 smart ring that controls AI agents and tracks health, while Goodfire launched cheaper monitors to detect rogue AI agents inside models. Both were reported Thursday by TechCrunch AI.
A 25-minute GTA 6 video from leaker Cyberleek contains major story spoilers and shows co-protagonist Jason fully nude, according to Kotaku. Rockstar's legal team has been removing leaked clips ahead of the game's November 19 release.
A QbitAI page displayed the text 'hacked by trenggalek6etar' on Oct. 8, 2026, an apparent defacement the outlet has not commented on.
Asos confirmed a data breach after hackers used its app to notify customers. Names and contact details were taken.
A former CIA official pleaded guilty to using a fake Special Access Program to steal $193.6 million, funding gold bars, luxury watches, cars and real estate. The FBI recovered assets; sentencing is set for Jan. 28, 2027.
Google says hackers hijacked three country-code domains to issue fake HTTPS certificates for sites, then revoked them.
Rein Security raised a $25 million Series A to protect enterprises from risks posed by autonomous AI agents. Darwinium launched two capabilities to detect fraud and suspicious behavior by AI agents, SiliconANGLE reported.
Bitdefender found Midnight Mimosa, firmware malware in some low-cost Doogee and Cubot Android phones that can install apps, evade Play Protect and join botnets.
Two QbitAI pages on Oct. 8, 2026, showed 'hacked by trenggalek6etar' in their titles and bodies; no official explanation was included.
TechRadar Pro opinion: cyber resilience is measured in response minutes, not firewalls, citing Grant Thornton UK research.
Asos says a hacker impersonated a trusted contact to access customer names and contact details; shares fell about 10% after a push alert.
Apple has told developers it is adding new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac, the permission that lets an app read nearly everything on a user's drive, according to 9to5Mac.
Coupang has filed two lawsuits seeking to void fines of 620 billion won (US$462 million) imposed by South Korea's data protection watchdog over a massive data leak and other privacy violations.
Anthropic data shows a state-sponsored campaign scored maximum risk while looking ordinary by technique count.
CCID Consulting's annual report says China's network information security market reached RMB 93.08 billion in 2025, with Qi An Xin ranking first for a seventh straight year and leading terminal security, security management platforms and security services.
French minister invites UK to rejoin EU ‘anytime’ as Prime Minister Andy Burnham reviews post-Brexit options.
South Korea's spy agency acknowledged exclusion from a June U.S.-Japan meeting on North Korean cyber threats after a report said Washington barred it.
Samsung sees record Q3 profit on AI chip demand; Korea posts $46.1B surplus; CrowdStrike links AI attacks to banks.
Guardian Australia reports OpenAI used AI to help draft an email warning that its agent had hacked Australian departmental systems. OpenAI says it is checking; an executive told a parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI was used.
Google has launched a public web tool, SynthID Detector, that can identify SynthID watermarks in AI-generated or AI-edited images, video and audio from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao. The tool requires sign-in, will soon support Apple AI images, and cannot detect content from models that do not use SynthID.
Unsloth published a security overview for Unsloth Studio and Unsloth Desktop, detailing fingerprint-based approvals and other checks after two supply-chain incidents, according to MarkTechPost.