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China's September exports likely rose 25.5%, while producer prices climbed 5%, the fastest since June 2022, CNBC reported.
Seoul shares opened higher Wednesday as tech stocks rebounded, despite Wall Street losses and lingering concerns over AI spending. The KOSPI rose 1.83% by 9:15 a.m.
A former Ukrainian military officer is on trial in Germany over the Nord Stream sabotage, and a Saudi employee has been arrested in an alleged bugging of an OpenAI office, Le Monde reports.
The U.S. Justice Department said it disrupted North Korean remote IT worker schemes that affected more than 70 American companies, announcing an indictment, two arrests and the seizure of 187 computers.
Hanwha Defense USA and the U.S. Army have named the U.S. version of the K9 self-propelled howitzer the XM1776 Mobile Tactical Cannon. The Army has ordered nine prototypes, with an option for nine more, while Hanwha plans an Alabama integration and testing facility.
Yandex drone strikes failed to stop Russian bot farms, The Verge reports, contradicting Zelenskyy's account.
MI5 director general Ken McCallum says Britain faces a wider mix of terrorist threats, with far-right anti-migrant violence rising and Iran now acting alongside Russia, while artificial intelligence could sharpen plots, propaganda and even weapons development.
GamesBeat reports Grand Theft Auto 6 will hit PC in early 2027, months after its November 19 console launch and far sooner than GTA 5's PC release.
The Paris auto show's media day brought new models and concepts from Renault and Stellantis brands including Citroën, Peugeot and Fiat, but Ars Technica reports that none of the vehicles are headed for American showrooms.
A Canadian ransomware negotiator, Ed Dubrovsky, was arrested in Pennsylvania on two charges tied to the FBI's ShinyHunters investigation, CBC News reports, citing Reuters. The allegations have not been proven in court.
Le Monde reported on 13 October 2026 that the EU's data protection watchdog holds that smart glasses must clearly show when they are recording, and that Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres disrupted online services.
Le Monde says hackers struck more refrigeration systems used in France after Danfoss. Details remain limited.
British travellers are being advised not to apply for the EU’s delayed Etias visa waiver, with more than 150 websites promoting the service even though it is not yet live. Abta says Etias should not be introduced until the Entry/Exit System is fully operational.
MI5 head Ken McCallum confirmed Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 Brexit referendum via RT, Sputnik and fake social media accounts, but said the attempts were neither sophisticated nor successful.
Haitian-Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien denies using AI to write his hit debut novel, according to Le Monde.
Ahold Delhaize has taken some systems offline after a cyberattack, disrupting services while stores remain open.
ChangXin Memory Technologies said its new architecture can pack more data into a smaller space, triggering a selloff in global memory-chip stocks and raising questions about competition with Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung.
Kearney ranks the UK among Europe’s slowest-growing data center markets, forecasting 17.6% annual demand growth to 2030, versus 36% in Ireland. High land and energy costs and slow grid connections are cited as obstacles.
MI5 chief Ken McCallum warned that anti-immigration extremists are increasingly likely to consider attacks on UK immigration centres and asylum hotels. He said the shift to violence was the most marked trend in MI5's caseload over the past year, as the overall UK terror threat level rose.
Ian McKellen will star in the UK premiere of mixed reality play An Ark in Manchester, but audiences will see him only through smart glasses.
Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won this year's Nobel Prize in economics for work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization, including sticky prices that underpin New Keynesian economics.
Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre is partnering with Ultrahuman to bring its algorithms to the nationwide Sahatna app, adding biological age estimates without requiring Ultrahuman smart rings.
The IMF warned Tuesday that inflation, debt and AI-related borrowing could cause sovereign bond yields to spike in a disorderly way, while global resilience is nearing its limits. DBS's CEO said Singapore's predictability is an advantage as Asian tech shares fell on AI financing worries.
A cyberattack struck hundreds of French supermarkets, causing refrigerators and freezers to overheat, food to spoil and fires to break out, according to CNBC, which cited Reuters. Coopérative U's CEO condemned the attack, and a European commissioner warned about food security.