Banks say Healey is planning Budget tax raid on their profits

BBC - Oct 15, 2026

Senior banking executives have told the BBC they expect to be "on the menu" in the chancellor's Budget tax later this month.

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Oct 15, 2026

The culture secretary says the deal could affect free expression in the media and the variety of Britain's news landscape.

Tech Stocks Plunge as Doubts Over A.I. Spending Intensify

Tech Stocks Plunge as Doubts Over A.I. Spending Intensify

Oct 15, 2026

Tech stocks plunged, led by a steep drop in South Korea’s benchmark index, as concerns over soaring A.I. spending and stubborn inflation fueled a sell-off.

Energy Dept. Issues Emergency Order Amid Above-Average Temperatures

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Oct 15, 2026

The order as a precaution allows grid operators to use backup generation this week. There were no widespread outages reported.

Midterms Could Shift Focus of Epstein Abuse to Banks’ Role

Midterms Could Shift Focus of Epstein Abuse to Banks’ Role

Oct 15, 2026

With an eye on retaking control of Congress, Democrats are introducing a bill that would hold banks accountable for their handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s finances.

French crypto unicorn Ledger warns of AI security risks

French crypto unicorn Ledger warns of AI security risks

Oct 15, 2026

Artificial intelligence is "changing the security landscape". That's according to Ledger, a French unicorn of cryptocurrency that's seeking a bigger role in digital security. Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet says: "Finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them costs almost nothing. So this is the new challenge that we have, as the security industry in general – how can we raise the bar for security so it becomes so difficult to break systems? And I think hardware is part of the equation."

Healey says surprise UK growth is 'sign of resilience' ahead of Budget

Healey says surprise UK growth is 'sign of resilience' ahead of Budget

Oct 15, 2026

The economy grew by 0.1% in August, defying analysts' expectations of a slight contraction.

Alibaba sets sights on record-breaking Singles’ Day with 1 million brands joining festival

Alibaba sets sights on record-breaking Singles’ Day with 1 million brands joining festival

Oct 15, 2026

Alibaba Group Holding is gearing up for its annual Singles’ Day shopping festival on major online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, with the company expecting a record one million global brands to take part this year. Pre-sales for the event open on Thursday, followed by the formal sale next Tuesday. The company projects more than 70 million products to feature, also a record for the festival. Created by Alibaba in 2009, Singles’ Day has grown into the world’s largest online shopping festival. Also...

NGINX Fixes 5 Flaws, Including Possible RCE and a TLS Bug That May Skip Client-Cert Checks

NGINX Fixes 5 Flaws, Including Possible RCE and a TLS Bug That May Skip Client-Cert Checks

Oct 15, 2026

NGINX released versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of them present in every release since May 2005. There are three memory bugs that F5, the company behind NGINX, says could crash a worker process or possibly let an attacker run code, and each requires a specific configuration to exploit. A fourth lets an attacker forge a TLS session that could

DeepSeek offers user refunds after suffering another major outage

DeepSeek offers user refunds after suffering another major outage

Oct 15, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek apologised and promised compensation to users after its services suffered a nearly five-hour outage on Thursday. DeepSeek will issue users a full refund for any consumption between October 8 and October 14 in the form of credits, according to a notice posted on the Hangzhou-based start-up’s application programming interface (API) platform. DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot and API services for its V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash models went offline on Thursday...

Shook Research Changes Name to Veritant After Forbes Scandal

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The company, known for its rankings of wealth advisers, sped up a rebranding after its founder acknowledged a secret $6 million payment to the top editor of Forbes.

How could a superintelligence take over the world? Let me count the ways

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OpenAI recently announced perhaps its biggest mathematics breakthrough yet: it released novel results on 377 high-profile open problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) casually solved these decades-old problems as a mere by-product of training. The community of mathematicians did not universally welcome this development, with University of Connecticut professor Alvaro Lozano-Robledo commenting: “I am not sure at this point what this (hostile?) takeover of the mathematical landscape is trying to...

The Fallout From the ‘Neocloud’ Wipeout

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Investors are newly worried about the health of artificial intelligence infrastructure companies like CoreWeave. That’s weighing on the wider A.I. industry.

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