South Korea’s payment order requires changes to Google and Apple billing
Google and Apple must permit links to outside payment options under orders from South Korea’s regulator, with billing changes due within three months of receiving the orders. Binance reports $5.27 billion in net customer withdrawals since transactions resumed after the theft. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has now confirmed exploitation of PHP2Shell, following warnings that had not established successful attacks, and set a deadline for federal civilian agencies to address it. Reuters reports that the US Federal Election Commission restored electronic filing after a nearly 41-hour shutdown, allowing campaign groups to resume mandatory spending reports.
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Software
South Korea’s regulator fines Apple over app payment practices
South Korea’s regulator fined Apple over payment restrictions, unfair app-review delays and discriminatory commissions. Its corrective orders require changes to payment choices and app reviews, alongside measures to prevent unequal treatment of South Korean and overseas developers.
Updated since this editionBinance reports $5.27 billion net outflow after theft
Binance customers have withdrawn a net $5.27 billion since transactions resumed after the theft. Fortune reported that Binance had put the theft at around $6.3 billion; Binance’s latest disclosure put the amount drained from its cryptocurrency wallets at $6.34 billion. The exchange says it is replacing affected coins and that the latest FBI information indicates North Korea was responsible. Binance says suspending withdrawals alone could not stop all unauthorized asset movements and that new procedures to revoke authorizations slowed its response.
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US cybersecurity agency lists both PHP2Shell flaws as exploited
The US cybersecurity agency listed both PHP2Shell flaws as actively exploited and set a federal remediation deadline. Dream says attackers combined PHP2Shell with a Linux flaw to gain full administrative control of servers, while Palo Alto Networks listed fixes and advised restricting management access.
Updated since this editionUS Federal Election Commission restores filing after nearly 41 hours
The US Federal Election Commission restored electronic filing after taking the system offline to contain a cyberattack. The restoration allowed campaign groups to resume disclosing late-election spending that the outage had temporarily kept from public view.
Updated since this editionSingapore police warn of Ledger wallet tampering after at least 2 cases
Singapore police warned of tampered Ledger wallets after at least 2 cases. Police said preliminary findings showed components that could capture wallet credentials, and advised owners who suspect a compromise to consider moving remaining funds to a trusted wallet with a newly generated recovery phrase.
Cisco Talos details KeyDrift malware designed to collect encryption keys
Cisco Talos’s October 28 analysis describes KeyDrift intercepting decrypted control messages to collect data it assesses as inter-site encryption keys. Talos did not establish whether the keys were sent outside the systems. Cisco directs operators to collect diagnostic files for a support-led assessment before remediation.
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.
US cyber agency lists PolyShell after Sansec finds hundreds of store breaches
The US cyber agency has listed PolyShell as actively exploited. Sansec says attackers placed malicious loaders in hundreds of stores; those loaders can fetch further attacker-controlled software, making the response more than a preventive update, with federal civilian executive agencies required to fix the flaw by November 10.
Ukraine’s cyber response team warns of Dahua camera breaches
Ukraine’s CERT-UA warned of unauthorized viewing, changed settings and third-party accounts on Dahua surveillance systems. The alert identifies predictable device identifiers and weak or bypassed login checks as access routes, and recommends disabling unneeded peer-to-peer access, avoiding direct internet exposure and updating device software.
US cyber agency sets November 11 deadline to fix exploited VMware flaw
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has set a November 11, 2026 remediation deadline for CVE-2026-41709. Broadcom’s patches address a gap that lets administrators perform some actions without leaving logs; agencies must stop using affected products if mitigations are unavailable.
Also this week
Software
UK High Court rejects Meta, TikTok and X’s online-safety data challenge

GitLab patches server flaw as US orders federal agencies to act

Microsoft says Windows update fixes Remote Desktop failures

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Dutch police seize dozens of Virtualine servers in Limburg

Intel plans commercial quantum business through Classiq purchase

Node.js patches Brotli flaw and blocks reportedly compromised certificate keys

GMO Internet pledges compensation after trading-service cyberattack

Tailscale releases 1.104.4 to fix SSH security flaws

Armenia signs FreeBalance implementation deal, finance minister says

Cursor pulls Claude Code malware, says up to 5,000 users affected

Apple to cut Taiwan App Store commission to 26% from October 31

Cathay Pacific says Amadeus breach affects 53,000 bookings

Reddit plans to require login for most browsing

Hudson Rock says it found 40,573 exposed secrets in FortiBleed 2.0

Socket identifies search hijacking in 319 Chrome extensions

Microsoft rolls out fix for New Outlook attachment failures

Discord plans web visibility by default for large public servers

Lumen researchers identify Volt Typhoon’s zero-day attacks

Florida’s St. Lucie County confirms removal of 12 unpermitted Flock cameras

Sony Network Communications resets passwords after 2.59 million-record breach

Google opens applications for paid Android app-store registration

Microsoft to start retiring native Entra ID SMS and voice sign-in

Attackers exploit Cisco Secure Email Gateway flaw, Cisco says

Fortinet confirms attackers exploited critical FortiMail flaw

Australia’s lower house passes online safety bill with chatbot protections

University of New Mexico clinics reopen after cyberattack

Google blocks Discover-Tech after ad-based spyware investigation

Hacking tool CyberStrikeAI used 44 agents in October, TrendAI says

Warp notifies users of vendor breach that may have affected about 1%, CEO says

Keystone pauses website-order shipments after verification-key theft

Have I Been Pwned confirms 345,000-plus addresses in German party leak

Australia says it cuts a criminal off from 180,000 infected computers

JFrog finds testmetest malware in 42 GitHub repositories

University of Copenhagen says it contained breach involving 525,000 people

Cloudflare says it fixed a GLM-5.3 leak affecting 155 responses

LiteLLM 1.107.0 carries credential stealer and backdoor

South Korean police arrest seven over alleged theft of 8.2 million records

Apple extends security fix to older iPhones and iPads

DreamHost forces email and file-transfer password resets

Sansec identifies 953 infected online stores, mostly using Magento

Attackers use Microsoft Teams to gain remote access, Arctic Wolf says

Microsoft plans to block some USB drives in Windows 11 in January 2027

Temu agrees to tackle illegal goods under four-month EU deadline

Attacker stole details for over 600,000 cards, Overwatch CEO estimates

UK Biobank says security work is complete after 500,000-person data leak

uCreator can take over Telegram and WeChat accounts, researcher says

Attackers breach 97 Microsoft 365 accounts, Huntress says

Gheist steals GitHub secrets through job logs, Wiz says

HSBC launches RedCoin payments for PayMe’s 3.3 million users

Park24 plans 3,000-yen payments after personal data breach

Fulham replaces separate apps with one club app

Vercel sets January 2027 security deadline for Marketplace vendors

Superintelligence
Meta says it could delay business terms beyond 20 November

Bedrock Robotics’ round reportedly values it at $4.1 billion

OpenAI spends hundreds of millions on math, CEO Sam Altman estimates

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Spotify weighs $4–$5 monthly fee for remix service

OpenAI’s dots terms leave usage limits after the first month unclear

Anthropic discloses $2.75 million for CEO Dario Amodei’s security in 2025

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

Epic Games says graphics-code rewrite took about one week

Meta plans share offerings of up to $97.5 billion

Anthropic says revenue per employee exceeds $6.6 million

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

Microsoft spends around $5 billion less on superintelligence (SI) investment

OpenAI reportedly secures about $11 billion in funding

Anthropic says harmless-looking data trained models to sabotage test oversight

SOCRadar uncovers exposed workspace linked to n0n extortion

Alphabet posts negative third-quarter free cash flow of $9.1 billion

Vapor Panda hackers breach 9 organizations, CrowdStrike says

TBellScout owner Schuurman confirms buying Flawless’s film tools

Microsoft prices $25 billion US bond sale

UK competition regulator opens inquiry into Meta’s content-use terms

Microsoft says BioEmu2 is in public preview for molecular research

Meta launches Style Sketch fashion app for clothes users own

Mistral releases Large 4 weights for self-hosted coding and security

Alphabet more than doubles cloud revenue but burns $9.07 billion

Wabi says it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation

Hackers target over 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, Microsoft says

Google sets Gemini 4 Carbon prices ahead of restricted access

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe for audio in 40 languages

Instagram begins requiring labels for synthetic accounts, its head says

Broadcom announces $63 billion financing deal for Anthropic

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs chatbot restrictions for minors

Amazon launches $200 Echo Time with optional sleep sensing

Amazon launches Alexa Photo Frame starting at $200

Meta launches Waddle World pet journal in the Philippines

Anthropic plans up to $3.5 billion share sale in Japan

Infosys cuts annual revenue growth forecast to 1–2%

Guidewire to buy hyperexponential for up to $2.1 billion

Parents sue OpenAI over alleged medication advice before daughter’s death

Claude Code adds deletion-prompt bypass, Anthropic staff member says

Cohere says its sandbox blocked a Qwen model’s attempted upload

Disruptive announces $10 billion fund for technology and defense

OpenAI adds iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins to ChatGPT

Amazon adds SageMaker image indexing, says tests saved 1–6 minutes

Australia’s ombudsman finds aged-care algorithm unfair

OpenAI fixed reasoning-extraction bypass on October 23, Xint says

Anthropic posts $80.7bn first-half 2026 loss in public share-sale filing

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at a price it says is 50% lower

Nvidia plans $3 billion investment in Meta’s share offering

UK government announces a cyber-defence programme

Microsoft says it offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees

Blackstone and banks announce $63 billion in Anthropic chip financing

Google launched Polar Peaks brain-mapping game on October 26

Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 compositions

Meta reports $9.89 billion settlement charge in third quarter

Toyota plans $6.4 billion a year for robots and factory automation

Researchers report instruction-file attacks on coding agents

Brazil’s Itau agrees to buy NeoSpace AI for 2.925 billion reais

Moonshot says Kimi K3.1 Pro and Highspeed are available

China’s ministries propose new controls on model exports

Claude model’s false tip goes unread, Philadelphia police say

Western Australia’s government seeks refund for flawed Deloitte study

Consumer Tech
GM app misled over 370,000 drivers, Washington state investigators allege

Nintendo launched Zelda anniversary Switch 2 on 29 October

Apple says touchscreen MacBook Pro reaches 2,000 nits peak HDR brightness

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No Man’s Sky launched on iPhone and iPad with Forsaken on 28 October

iQOO launches Neo 12 in China from CNY 4,199

Google says Home update fixes zero-volume alarms and unprompted replies

Samsung launches China-only Galaxy W27 foldable from CNY 18,999

Microsoft says Surface Laptop Ultra update fixes display and reboot bugs

Amazon opens Echo Show 16 preorders in five-device refresh

Apple raises MacBook Neo’s US education price to $649

Google and XREAL launch AURA wired glasses from $1,099

Pixel Watch 2 owner reports battery life falling from 48 to 12 hours

Apple unveils M6 iMac from $1,499 and MacBook Pro from $1,999

OnePlus starts stable ColorOS rollout in India

Apple releases iOS 27.2 with a single app-access control for Siri

Nvidia’s RTX Spark leads two local-model tests published on 15 October

Apple unveils iPad mini with chip differences tied to storage

Apple directs iPhone Duo owners with screen faults to AppleCare

Samsung reportedly cuts Galaxy production plans by up to 30%

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

US cybersecurity agency lists two more exploited Ivanti flaws

Cloudflare says it found forged eMudhra certificates

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Explosion at Intel’s chip plant in Israel kills two workers

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

Nscale discloses $44.6 billion Anthropic data center contract

Texas regulator suspends 17 data-center stormwater permits

Google says Suncatcher satellite generates its first model responses

Cisco patches exploited firewall flaw that can crash devices

US permit bill would cut power emissions, researchers project

Microsoft grows cloud revenue 30% as Windows PC licensing falls 27%

Finland’s regulator restricts Google’s data-centre site work

SpaceX targets 10 GW of ground-based computing capacity in 2027

Australia’s regulator examines Firmus’s failed $5 billion share offering

EU says it invested €107 million in Greenland links

Verizon targets 10–15 million more premises for gigabit wireless broadband

Oracle makes Nvidia Vera Rubin systems available on its cloud

Amazon Leo agrees to provide Apple satellite services in Globalstar deal

Hong Kong carrier HKT agrees to end US services by 1 September 2027

Microsoft reports $18.6 billion in positive quarterly free cash flow

Amazon spends $77.3 billion on capital projects in third quarter

Infineon plans €1.1 billion chip investment in Villach

Chipmaker UMC approves $3.2 billion for Singapore and Tainan expansion

Ukraine’s Defence Ministry says Starlink speeds were restored

Samsung’s quarterly revenue rises 127% to KRW 195.3 trillion

Eutelsat commits €3.39 billion to Europe’s IRIS² satellite network

US Energy Department launches BattMan battery-manufacturing consortium

Oracle sets $20 billion ceiling on planned extra funding

Finland’s police open criminal probe at Google’s Muhos data centre

Microsoft’s Azure revenue rises 48% to $33.17 billion

FuriosaAI says it closes $620 million round to expand chip production

SK Hynix posts record quarterly results and plans more capacity spending

US communications regulator alleges errors in four TP-Link router filings

Nvidia Vera beats dual Xeon 6980P by over 2x in local bandwidth test

SK Hynix announces a $75.4 billion shareholder-return plan

AMD plans $1 billion Meta investment as chip partnership expands

Cloudflare counts 18 exam-related internet shutdowns in Iraq

Nvidia signs supplier deals to expand superintelligence (SI) hardware production

SpaceX agrees hardware lease with about $40bn in expected payments

Yandex says core functions have recovered in Armenia

SpaceX announces hardware lease with about $40 billion in principal payments

SpaceX closes $40 billion in chip financing, Musk says

Jane Street reportedly invests $1bn in CoreWeave, commits $6bn to computing

Micron rejects 4F² memory-cell design over cost and density concerns

October root key roll adds an estimated 45.8m DNSSEC-validating users

Eleveight AI plans $2 billion expansion to 40 MW by 2027

Simba faces possible licence cancellation over spectrum allegations

Firebird builds computing infrastructure in Kazakhstan, Nvidia says

NextDC cuts 2027 outlook and halts new projects over power delays

Ukrainian strikes disrupt Yandex services

Reports for this week
AveNewsTravel curbs widen as DR Congo reports its deadliest Ebola outbreak
DR Congo’s government puts Ebola deaths above 5,000, while researchers have begun enrolling participants in a trial to test protection against the Bundibugyo virus. Cyclone Arnab damaged homes, infrastructure and farmland in eastern India. Ukraine’s Energy Ministry says repeated Russian attacks are delaying electricity repairs.
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ScienceDR Congo’s Ebola toll, Nepal flood aid, immunoglobulin safety review
DR Congo’s government puts Ebola deaths above 5,000 as researchers begin enrolling participants in a trial to test protection against the Bundibugyo virus. Nepal has secured approval for $20 million in emergency flood aid. The European Medicines Agency has opened a safety review of human normal immunoglobulins after reports of allergic reactions linked to particular batches.
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BusinessCanada’s rate rise, EU online-import fee, Japan’s rate hold
Canada raised its key rate to 2.5%, and its central bank says further increases may be needed. The EU is due to introduce a €2 import handling fee, which sellers or delivery businesses may pass to shoppers. Japan’s central bank held its rate at 1.25% in an 8–1 vote.
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CultureCalifornia film credits hinge in part on diversity reviews
California puts the final 4% of most production credits behind diversity plans and assessments for commission review; a basic checklist remains compulsory even for productions that opt out. Japan’s government has requested roughly JPY250 billion for content-industry investment in fiscal 2027. Armenia’s national opera theatre has regained 1,050 square metres for a small concert hall.
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SportsRussian hockey ruling, women’s football funding, Antonelli’s title
The first of five ice hockey tournaments affected by the court’s order starts on 26 December 2026 in Canada; the federation says it will assess the ruling before deciding practical arrangements. FIFA raised Women’s World Cup preparation funding to $2.5 million per team. Kimi Antonelli’s third place in Mexico City secured the Formula 1 drivers’ championship.
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PoliticsSudan famine warning, Ukraine power cuts, Gaza winter aid
The US and 30 other Western states urge Sudan’s warring parties to remove barriers to aid as they warn of famine risk. Ukraine’s Energy Ministry says repeated attacks are delaying electricity repairs. Available and incoming supplies could provide partial shelter and household-item assistance to around 52,000 Gaza families.
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