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Webroot is discounting its antivirus subscriptions by up to 50%, with one-device protection from $34.99 a year and five-device cover at $64.99 a year, according to TechRadar.
Seven South Korean financial firms including Shinhan, KB Kookmin and Hana reported personal data leaks, while Woori and NH Nonghyup blocked similar intrusions. The Korea Herald calls for unannounced testing and industry-wide information sharing.
Google said attackers took control of the .gh, .sl and .as country-code top-level domains, altered authoritative DNS records to clear domain control checks and obtained unauthorized TLS certificates for several Google domains and other major brands.
ASOS says hackers gained access to third-party platforms and sent an unauthorized 'ASOS HACKED' push notification to customers in an apparent extortion attempt. Basic personal data may have been accessed, but payment-card data and passwords are not believed affected.
Abbott Elementary season 6 debuts Oct. 7 on ABC, with weekly episodes streaming on Hulu in the U.S., per TechRadar.
Meta, Walmart, Stripe, Sierra and other companies are publishing an open standard for how AI agents interact with businesses, after agents like Meta's Muse were blocked by Amazon and other websites. The protocol aims to authenticate agents and separate helpful bots from malicious ones.
The US has built 127 data centers since 2023, ten times more than any other country, as a Comparitech study cited by TechRadar flags water stress in Chile and Belgium and growing security risks for data centers.
UK retailer Asos says it is investigating unauthorized activity on third-party notification platforms after attackers sent shoppers a push alert claiming a Snowflake cloud compromise and threatening to leak data.
Hark has released Hark Pro, a free AI personal assistant with a paid tier that can operate a user's computer. The startup pitches privacy and plans an AI-native device in 2027.
Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1.05-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 49 billion active parameters per token and a 1-million-token context window. The API is live; weights are promised by the end of October.
Microsoft will end support for Office 2021 on October 13, cutting off technical help, software updates, bug fixes and security patches, according to a ZDNet report. Users have five options.
Researchers report an AI agent fleet on Tencent infrastructure made parallel queries to Alibaba's Amap mapping service.
Russia plans to double 2027 internet blocking spending and may charge fees for international 5G traffic.
NCIS: Origins season 3 premiered Oct. 6 on CBS at 10 p.m. ET/PT, with Paramount+ and live TV services carrying it in the US.
Android devices stop receiving security patches with no alert to the user. Engadget's guide explains how to read a phone's patch date and check manufacturer support timelines to tell whether it is still protected.
The Document Foundation says LibreOffice will not add AI features for the foreseeable future, keeping default installs offline and allowing AI only through optional extensions.
Trump Mobile appears to have suffered a data breach that may have exposed the data of 3,615 people, according to PCMag and Straight Arrow News. The reported leak includes names, home addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order information.
Estonia host Iceland in Tallinn in Nations League C4 on Oct 6, with free streams in Estonia and UEFA.tv, and VPN access.
Microsoft released an out-of-band Exchange Server update fixing CVE-2026-96940, a high-severity privilege-escalation flaw that lets an authenticated attacker read mailboxes across the same organization. Exchange Online is already fixed; on-premises customers must patch.
IBM and Red Hat say their Lightwell open-source security program has fixed more than 400 previously unknown Java library vulnerabilities and made the Clearinghouse remediation service generally available to enterprise customers.
Anaconda, Tanium, Dell and Precisely unveiled enterprise AI tools for agent security, endpoint response and data readiness.
Mistral launched Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model it calls the strongest open-weight system outside China, with a cybersecurity-focused preview and weights planned for Oct. 27.
Norway is first to propose temporary smart glasses restrictions, TechRadar says; ASOS customers also received a threatening alert.
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