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It's October 24th, 2026, and here are nine stories making waves in tech today.

OpenAI cuts internet access during training of its frontier AI models
Sources: TechCrunch

Google may use Gmail and Google Photos data to target advertising
Sources: Ars Technica

iPhone Duo reviews split between calling it a mini iPad and a modern Nintendo DS
Sources: The Verge

1Password lets AI agents use passwords without ever revealing them
Sources: Numerama

GitLab patches a critical vulnerability that lingered for twelve years
Sources: LeMondeInformatique

Sundar Pichai reportedly talked Trump out of renaming the Atlantic on Google Maps
Sources: Developpez.com

Singapore researchers weave a touch interface directly into washable fabric
Sources: Slashdot

Certificate authority eMudhra exits the business after a key-signing mishap
Sources: Ars Technica

New York Knicks send staff fake championship ring offer as a phishing test
Sources: Slashdot

It's October 22, 2026, and here are eight stories you need to know from the world of tech.

Nationwide Orange network outage leaves millions of subscribers without mobile service
Sources: Next

PHP rushes out emergency patch after two critical flaws leak early
Sources: The Verge

Meta ordered to pay 25 billion dollars over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Sources: TechCrunch

OpenAI's latest models now run on all three major US cloud platforms
Sources: Ars Technica

Electronic Arts shuts down BioWare and cancels the next Mass Effect
Sources: Slashdot

AMD is building an official Ryzen overclocking driver for Linux
Sources: Slashdot

Tesla says its driverless Cybercab will go on sale before year's end
Sources: TechCrunch

Xbox plans to charge by the hour for streaming games players already own
Sources: Ars Technica

It's October 21st, 2026, and here are nine tech stories you need to know about today.

SpaceX and Tesla form special committees to weigh a potential merger
Sources: TechCrunch

Google brings a more personalized version of Gemini to cars
Sources: The Verge

PHP plans two emergency patches amid reports of a critical flaw
Sources: Ars Technica

Private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were compromised
Sources: Simon Willison

Ukraine carries out the first drone evacuation of a wounded soldier
Sources: Slashdot

Sony unveils a gold-plated 5,900-dollar Walkman running Android
Sources: Slashdot

Meta's Muse AI was exposing personal data in shared conversations
Sources: Slashdot

AWS launches Amazon ECS Gateway to simplify container ingress networking
Sources: AWS News

Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that would limit regulators' power to block models
Sources: TechCrunch

It's October 20th, 2026, and here are nine stories you need to know from the world of tech today.

Amazon funds twelve small nuclear reactors at a former Indiana coal plant site
Sources: Slashdot

Anthropic proposes federal bill to Congress targeting dangerous AI systems
Sources: Developpez.com

United States bans Chinese AI service DeepSeek across federal civilian agencies
Sources: The Register

Apple announces October 28 event to unveil new Mac lineup
Sources: Slashdot

Florida's DMV breached after police department mishandled login credentials
Sources: Slashdot

Elon Musk pledges to give one SpaceX share to every child in America
Sources: Slashdot

Musk's promised SpaceX shares will be delivered through Trump Accounts
Sources: The Verge

Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack took US and European systems offline
Sources: The Register

OpenBSD 8.0 ships with graphics drivers ported from Linux 6.18
Sources: Hacker News

It's October 19th, 2026, and here are nine tech stories you need to know about today.

Anthropic cuts off users who are too abusive toward its Claude AI model
Sources: ZDNet France

ConnectWise shuts down cloud services after detecting a security incident
Sources: The Register

ICANN pledges faster action and more transparency amid new governance challenges
Sources: The Register

French regulator Arcom opens probe into adult platform Mym over EU rules breach
Sources: Next

Savannah police officer fired for sharing surveillance login with ICE agent husband
Sources: The Verge

Google switches from its own Pytype to Meta-built Pyrefly for Python type checking
Sources: InfoQ

AWS previews new AI agent that audits cloud architecture against best practices
Sources: InfoQ

Linux kernel 7.3 ships with faster I/O performance and AMD Zen 6 preparations
Sources: Phoronix

Microsoft pulls out of UK data center project delayed by power grid constraints
Sources: Slashdot

It's October 18th, 2026, and here are nine tech stories you need to know about today.

Woman arrested in Philadelphia for blocking an Uber delivery robot
Sources: The Verge

Anthropic to dedicate 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
Sources: TechCrunch

Anthropic grants outside AI watchdog employee-like access
Sources: Ars Technica

Disney agrees to hire majority of Character.AI's workforce
Sources: TechCrunch

Arrest of Saudi OpenAI employee revives spying fears in US tech
Sources: Slashdot

Congress bill aims to guarantee ownership of purchased video games
Sources: The Verge

More websites are blocking access to AI agents
Sources: Slashdot

AWS to test its European sovereign cloud without the global backbone
Sources: InfoQ