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Kiteworks asks customers to shut down servers this weekend
Kiteworks asked every customer to shut down its servers for six hours on Saturday, September 26, after law enforcement warned of an imminent attack.
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Funding, policy, earnings and company moves that change how developers work: pricing shifts, acquisitions of the tools you use, regulation that lands in your compliance backlog. We cover the decision, the numbers and the effect on your stack, not the executive drama.
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Apple's $250 million Siri AI settlement opens for claims
Apple's $250 million settlement over delayed Siri AI features opened for claims on September 21, 2026, paying up to $95 per iPhone.
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Googlebook laptops start at $899 and ship October 4
Google opened preorders for Googlebook laptops from five makers, starting at $899, running an Android-based OS with a Linux environment.
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Australian RAM and SSD prices climb as stock tightens
A 4TB Samsung SSD that sold near A$500 now lists at A$1,149, and Australian resellers say quotes are valid for days, not weeks.
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Section 232 chip tariffs, explained
A 25% US tariff on imported chips took effect on January 15, 2026. Here is what it covers, what it exempts, and what it costs.
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Xeon and EPYC lead times stretch to six months
Server CPU lead times have gone from two weeks to about six months, and AI systems now need more CPUs per rack, not fewer.
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India smartphone prices up 21%, the steepest anywhere
Counterpoint puts India's 2026 smartphone price rise at 21%, against a 15% world average, and budget phone shipments fell 45%.
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DRAM and NAND prices climb again as AI takes capacity
DRAM contract prices rise 13-18% in Q3 2026 after an 80-90% jump in Q1, as memory makers move capacity to AI servers.
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OpenAI's __obi cookie ties ad pixels to ChatGPT accounts
OpenAI's ad pixel sets a one-year __obi cookie linking other sites to a ChatGPT account; scraped identity beat advertiser data 685 to 255.
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OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents inside ChatGPT ads
ChatGPT Ads runs in 40+ countries, but OpenAI's new Sponsored Agents pilot is US-only: a brand's own chatbot, one click away from an ad.
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Firefox Smart Window beta now runs on Mistral Small 4
Mozilla says Mistral Small 4 powers the Smart Window beta in the US, Canada and France, and that users can still pick a different model.
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DeepSeek plans to order 160,000 Huawei chips for new center
DeepSeek plans to order at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a new Inner Mongolia data center, using them for inference while still training on Nvidia hardware.
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Gmail will drop "Send as" support for non-Google addresses in 2027
Starting January 2027, Gmail retires "Send as" for non-Google addresses like Yahoo and Outlook, plus Gmailify and web-based POP fetching.
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FBI investigates a dark-web claim of 153M leaked license scans
A dark-web listing claims 153 million license scans from IDScan.net, an identity-check API businesses embed into their apps. The FBI is investigating; IDScan.net has not confirmed a breach.
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at once
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down within the same window on September 3. Cursor was hit too. No company has confirmed a shared root cause.
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Nvidia officially confirms its $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal
Nvidia confirmed its $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face and promised the platform stays open to non-Nvidia hardware. It turned down a $500 million offer just last year.
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Microsoft discloses Azure's $29.4B quarterly revenue
Microsoft will report Azure's exact quarterly revenue for the first time and redraw what counts as Azure starting fiscal 2027. Q4 alone was $29.4 billion.
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Uber cuts 3,300 jobs and nearly ends remote work in a re-org
Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs, about 10% of staff, and trimming management positions by 20%. Fewer than 1% of employees will be allowed to stay fully remote.
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Windows 11 turns on memory integrity by default from October 13
Microsoft will switch on Windows 11's kernel protection automatically on eligible PCs from the October 13 Patch Tuesday. Old drivers are the thing most likely to break.
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FTC says Amazon quietly turned its ad auction into a first-price one
The FTC and 22 states sued Amazon on August 31, 2026. The complaint says Amazon charged advertisers their own maximum bid about 80% of the time by 2024.
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Anthropic reportedly commits $35B over six years for Lambda compute
Reports say Anthropic signed a $35 billion, six-year deal for computing from Lambda at a Texas data center. Four companies sit in the chain, and Nvidia holds the lease.
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Google pulls every Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store
The last Manifest V2 extensions, classic uBlock Origin among them, are gone from the Chrome Web Store. Copies already installed keep running, but they get no updates.
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OpenAI says ChatGPT ads hit a $1B run rate in under 200 days
OpenAI said on August 31, 2026 that ChatGPT advertising reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days. Self-serve buying opened outside the US the same day.
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South Korea picks three operators to give every resident free AI
South Korea's science ministry named consortia led by SK Telecom, KT and Kakao to run free, unlimited AI for the whole country. Most usage must run on Korean models.
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