Tech Industry
Quad9 DNS will leave France on November 24 after a court loss to beIN
Quad9, the free 9.9.9.9 DNS resolver, will stop serving France on November 24, 2026, after a French court ordered piracy blocks for beIN Sports.
Tech Industry - Page 2
Funding, policy, and company moves that affect developers.
Tech Industry
Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25B for misleading users on privacy
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta on October 21, 2026 to pay $25 billion after a jury found over 43 million privacy violations. Meta will appeal.
Tech Industry
IBM Q3 2026 revenue rises 5% to $17.1B on software
IBM's Q3 2026 revenue rose 5% to $17.1 billion as software grew 8% and Red Hat 11%, while sales of IBM Z mainframes fell 20%.
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Tesla Q3 profit falls 43% as it plans Cybercab sales
Tesla's Q3 2026 net income fell 43% to $787 million on flat revenue of $28.05 billion. It says Cybercab sales to customers start by the end of 2026.
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Meta Q3 revenue rises 26% as free cash flow turns negative
Meta's Q3 2026 revenue rose 26% to $64.6 billion, but $34.9 billion of capex and a $9.9 billion legal charge pushed free cash flow negative.
Tech Industry
DeepSeek ban: DHS orders US agencies to remove its AI
A DHS notice published October 20 orders US civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek and third-party tools built on its models, and to stop buying them.
Tech Industry
Anthropic AI safety bill sets 50-death bar to halt models
Anthropic's draft federal bill lets the US halt an AI model only over an imminent risk to 50+ lives or $1 billion in damage - and only through a judge.
Tech Industry
Anthropic draft S-1 shows $80.7B loss on $16.3B revenue
Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows an $80.7 billion first-half loss, $72 billion of it a non-cash charge. Revenue rose to $16.3 billion from $1.1 billion.
Tech Industry
Netflix Q3 revenue hits $12.87B, ad forecast cut to $2.7B
Netflix's Q3 revenue rose 12% to $12.87 billion, but it cut its 2026 ad revenue forecast to $2.7 billion from $3 billion after slower ad tech rollouts.
Tech Industry
SpaceX Q3 revenue hits $14.6B, Tesla merger review begins
SpaceX's Q3 revenue rose 161% to $14.6 billion, led by $7.56 billion from AI compute. SpaceX and Tesla have formed committees to weigh a merger.
Tech Industry
Google Cloud London outage disrupts Revolut and UK banks
A power event in one London zone took down Google Cloud services for nearly 8 hours on October 20, 2026, and Revolut lost payments, transfers and sign-in.
Tech Industry
Salesforce to buy Braze for $5.66B in cash deal
Salesforce will pay $47.50 a share in cash for Braze, about $5.66 billion, adding a real-time messaging platform used by 2,770 customers to Marketing Cloud.
Tech Industry
Spotify Memberships let podcasters sell perks, keep 90%
Podcasters on Spotify can now sell paid tiers with fewer ads, early access and bonus episodes in 34 markets, and keep 90% of the money.
Tech Industry
Anthropic, Nscale in talks on second $45B compute deal
A second building at Nscale's West Virginia campus would give Anthropic 460 MW of Nvidia Vera Rubin chips in a deal worth about $45 billion, sources say.
Tech Industry
Amazon backs 12 X-energy reactors at an Indiana coal site
Amazon will fund early work on a 960 MW plant of 12 X-energy Xe-100 reactors at Indiana's old Breed coal plant. No cost or start date is set yet.
Tech Industry
Nscale IPO: investors push for $16B-$19B, not $30B
Some Nscale investors say a $16 billion to $19 billion valuation would sell better than the roughly $30 billion the AI cloud firm wants for its IPO.
Tech Industry
Anthropic commits 5% of shares to public benefit fund
Anthropic will put 5% of its shares into a new public benefit fund, announced October 18, 2026. The board can add 2% for each 50% rise in its value.
Tech Industry
Microsoft reportedly exits Nscale's Loughton data center
Microsoft has reportedly dropped its deal to anchor Nscale's Loughton site, where power may not arrive until the 2030s, weeks before a $3 billion IPO.
Tech Industry
Power to the Players Act aims to let gamers own games
Rep. Ritchie Torres plans the Power to the Players Act, which would have the FTC treat bought games as owned and require offline modes when servers shut.
Tech Industry
ShopServe breach hits 23.36M; skyticket admits card leak
E-Store's final report puts the ShopServe leak at 23.36 million people. Separately, skyticket now says card data for up to 6,140 people leaked, not none.
Tech Industry
Anthropic report: junior tech hires fell from 27% to 9%
Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires, and its staff's AI agents logged six hours for every employee hour by August 2026.
Tech Industry
Meta narrows web-crawling clause in its business terms
Meta cut the word "train" from a clause letting it crawl business customers' websites, days before its Commercial Terms take effect on October 30, 2026.
Tech Industry
Yamato and Nikkei breaches expose 5.31M and 1.83M records
Yamato Transport says about 5.31 million records leaked from its pay-later service, and Nikkei about 1.83 million from a development cloud, on October 16, 2026.
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Ledger wallets sold with spy chips that stole seed phrases
Ledger says criminals hid spy chips in genuine wallets resold through CryptoBilis. Onchain estimates put losses at up to $93.2 million from 300+ wallets.
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