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Australian cybersecurity teams are under pressure as AI exposes skills gaps and drives head count reduction.
Source: iTWire
https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-research/australian-cybersecurity-teams-under-pressure-as-ai-exposes-skills-gaps-and-drives-head-count-reduction
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South Korea, the United States and other like-minded partners reaffirmed their commitment to the denuclearisation of North Korea.
Source: The Korea Times
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/northkorea/20261029/s-korea-us-partners-reaffirm-n-korea-denuclearization-goal-back-sanctions-enforcement?utm_source=rss
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The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/upwind-raises-400m-after-walking-away-from-datadog-acquisition-offer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Google is preparing to launch a secure multi-party computing service for crypto wallets.
Source: SiliconANGLE
https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/28/google-to-launch-secure-multi-party-computing-service-for-crypto-wallets/
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Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen MacBook Pro to have every upgrade. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-pushes-laptop-pricing-to-a-new-extreme/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

HP is moving some manufacturing back to China as memory and storage chip prices rise.
Source: Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/28/2026/hp-shifts-production-back-to-china-as-costs-soar

Marvell Technologies is in advanced talks to buy Lumentum. The deal would be one of the largest semiconductor transactions.
Source: The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/marvell-talks-buy-lumentum
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Enterprises racing to deploy AI at scale are discovering that models depend on the infrastructure beneath them. Experian PLC has built cyber resiliency into its AI infrastructure.
Source: SiliconANGLE
https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/28/cyber-resiliency-frameworks-enterprise-ai-infrastructure-aicybersecurityandresiliencesummit/
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Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/microsoft-just-shared-azures-actual-revenue-in-dollars-33-2-billion/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

China wants its artificial intelligence to go global on its own terms.
Source: The Diplomat
https://thediplomat.com/2026/10/china-wants-its-ai-to-go-global-on-its-own-terms/
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The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/google-expands-ai-search-ads-globally-as-core-ad-growth-slows/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/microsoft-recorded-10-billion-in-revenue-from-openai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/microsoft-hits-10-quarters-of-record-breaking-revenue-in-a-row/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Flutterwave, the African fintech startup valued at $3 billion, is shifting its growth focus from digital payments to banking.
Source: BusinessDay
https://businessday.ng/news/article/after-10-years-as-payments-company-flutterwave-is-eyeing-banking-as-its-new-growth-strategy/
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An Israeli advertising company called Discover-Tech has been using SpaceX's Starlink network to geolocate and track users in over one hundred countries.
Source: Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/531624/Israeli-firm-turned-Starlink-traffic-into-espionage-tool-across
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China's CXMT plans to produce HBM3E memory for AI chips even though only 20% to 30% of its chips are usable.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/cxmt-hbm3e-ai-memory-low-yields-reuters
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CISA added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation.
Source: CISA
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/10/28/cisa-adds-two-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
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Former GitHub chief has launched Entire, a platform that uses coding agents to replace traditional pull requests with automated evaluations.
Source: iTWire
https://itwire.com/business-it-news/enterprise-solutions/former-github-chief-launches-entire-forge-to-rethink-ai-code-review
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A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/hacker-stole-personnel-data-about-thousands-of-homeland-security-employees-including-cbp-and-ice-agents/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/anthropic-just-launched-tools-to-show-companies-what-their-ai-spending-is-buying/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon