Tech

The AGs of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska sue TP-Link, alleging it deceptively marketed its routers' security and didn't properly disclose ties to China (www.theregister.com)
2026-10-8 China

The DOD offers chipmaker Wolfspeed, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a conditional loan of up to $1.5B in exchange for warrants for up to 7.5% of the company (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-8

Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (www.wsj.com)
2026-10-8 AI Oracle

FBI: Ongoing FortiBleed attacks lock out FortiGate VPN admins (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8 FBI VPN

Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8 Google

OpenAI says GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat tab is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers (x.com)
2026-10-8

Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-10-8 Microsoft Nvidia

Sources: former White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is raising a ~$500M fund to back growth- and later-stage US AI companies, prioritizing national security (www.theinformation.com)
2026-10-8 AI

Anthropic cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 and adds monthly API credits: $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, up to $500 shared by Team users (venturebeat.com)
2026-10-8

Get 21 hours of CISSP training in this $19.99 learning bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers (openai.com)
2026-10-8

Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 above, vs. $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5 (thenewstack.io)
2026-10-8

Microsoft opens preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping October 16; it has a breakaway port like Apple's MagSafe, but on a standard USB-C (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-10-8 Microsoft Apple

Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November (www.theverge.com)
2026-10-8 Microsoft

Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification (www.anthropic.com)
2026-10-8

Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-8 AI

OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on the chatbot, with less than 2% using it for 3+ hours straight (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-8 chatbot

Advantest confirms personal information stolen in ransomware attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8

One Babbel subscription gets you all 14 languages for life (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8

Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8 AI

SonicWall warns of max severity SSRF flaw in SMA1000 gateways (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8

Microsoft Outlook to block MSIX attachments starting November (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8 Microsoft

PoeLLM malware infects exposed AI servers in cryptomining attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8 AI

Ransomware has a new target. Is your backup ready? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8

Hackers exploit critical Atlassian flaw after public PoC release (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-8 Atlassian

Game studio Gardens Interactive raised a $35M+ Series B led by Lightspeed at a pre-money valuation of $190M, taking its total funding to $71M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-8

Xbox Secures Exclusive GTA 6 Streaming Rights (games.slashdot.org)
2026-10-8 Xbox

Healthleap, which makes AI screening software to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, raised $38M across a $30M Series A and an $8M seed (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-8 AI

Parallel Systems, which builds autonomous freight trains, raised a $100M Series C led by AVP, taking its total funding to $200M+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-8

Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the “best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-10-8 Elon Musk

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