Virgin Media O2 targets savings with thousands of planned job cuts

Virgin Media O2 plans thousands of job cuts, with total not finalized

Virgin Media O2 plans thousands of redundancies as it seeks savings amid debt and tougher competition. Prospect is seeking retraining and redeployment for affected staff, while the company declined to comment. A results update on 3 November could bring a separate announcement on fiber investment.

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Bitget says it added over $300 million to fund after $387.5 million hack

Bitget says it replenished its protection fund after using it to cover wallets compromised in September’s attack. The exchange has also replaced affected credentials and launched a bounty program for help recovering or freezing stolen funds.

Armenia signs FreeBalance implementation deal, finance minister says

Armenia has signed a contract with FreeBalance to begin implementing its government financial management system, Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan said. The ministry’s stated goal is to digitize core public-finance processes to improve efficiency and reporting.

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Belgium’s tax agency shuts online portal after cyberattack

Belgium’s tax agency shut its online portal and other services after a cyberattack. It has extended the affected filing deadline while staff work to restore access safely; the agency said it had no indications of a data breach.

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UK High Court rejects Meta, TikTok and X’s online-safety data challenge

Meta, TikTok and X lost their challenge to the UK regulator’s information notices. The companies argued that the requests created unprecedented burdens; the rejection leaves Ofcom able to pursue the data it sought to assess the online-safety regime.

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Tailscale releases 1.104.4 to fix SSH security flaws

Tailscale has released fixes for the remote-access flaws identified in Erica Windisch’s research. The company says it reproduced the main findings and is still determining which configurations are affected. Users can install the patched client or temporarily disable SSH forwarding on servers awaiting an update.

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US Judge Edward Davila sets Apple–OpenAI trial for 19 July 2027

A formal court order sets trial for 19 July 2027 and gives Apple and the defendants a timetable for gathering evidence and preparing for trial. OpenAI’s agreement not to use Apple’s alleged trade secrets remains enforceable by the judge.

Anthropic adds server-side game-copying rule to Claude Code

Anthropic has added instructions steering Claude Code away from recreating existing games, citing its intellectual-property policy. Deployment across accounts and models remains uncertain. The company says it will adjust the instruction and invites users to report refusals involving work they own.

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Meta plans share offerings of up to $97.5 billion

Meta’s planned share offerings could raise up to $97.5 billion to finance its superintelligence expansion. The updated funding estimate increases the potential proceeds, but the sales remain prospective.

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Anthropic says revenue per employee exceeds $6.6 million

Anthropic says revenue per employee rose 371%, alongside higher spending by existing customers and a quarterly operating profit. The company has publicly filed for a share offering and plans to list on Nasdaq under ANT.

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Bedrock Robotics’ round reportedly values it at $4.1 billion

Bedrock Robotics’ $600 million financing valued it at $4.1 billion after the investment, according to Crunchbase News. The company closed the round to expand its autonomous-excavator business after starting paid construction work. The company plans to support more deployments by building its field service network, with other construction vehicles a longer-term target.

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Nintendo launched Zelda anniversary Switch 2 on 29 October

Nintendo launched its Zelda anniversary Switch 2 after preorders sold out almost immediately. Its launch-day restock also showed as sold out soon after sales resumed, leaving availability fluctuating in the online store that day.