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Oct 30, 2026A recent code execution vulnerability in GitLab was exploited one week after disclosure in a failed attack against Alpine Linux's instance. Tracked as CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score of 10/10), the flaw stems from insufficient regular expression validati...
Oct 30, 2026Polymarket halted trading on its international platform on October 29 after users reported unauthorized withdrawals. According to the prediction market's status page, the exchange was first switched to cancel-only mode, with relayer actions suspende...
Oct 30, 2026Drupal is urging online store owners to patch a highly critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module, warning that it is being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-118539, the issue affects a contributed module that adds e-c...
Oct 30, 2026In the future, you won't be able to use Reddit without logging in. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the impending change in a letter (PDF) to shareholders today about Q3 performance. He said that Reddit is shifting "to a logged-in-only experience,...
Oct 30, 2026This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Hello, this is Leonie Kidd with today's edition of Morning Squawk. It's a Friday fright for markets before Halloween has even gotten underway. Tech ...
Oct 30, 2026- Published Google-owner Alphabet lost just over $500bn (£374bn) in value on Thursday after it revealed its own artificial intelligence (AI) summaries were hitting search advertising revenue. Chief business officer Philipp Schindler said Google's "...
Oct 30, 2026Cryptocurrency firms and investigators are racing to freeze and track down billions of dollars of stolen digital cash following what appears to be the largest crypto heist of all time. On Thursday, starting at around 4pm ET, hackers started quickly s...
Oct 30, 2026The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange has been hit by an industry-record $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack, with experts identifying North Korea as the likely culprit. Binance has scrambled to freeze the affected assets, with about $3bn located so far. The...
Oct 30, 2026- Published Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has been hit by what is believed to be the largest crypto hack ever at $6.3bn (£4.7bn). Crypto is a type of digital asset which does not exist physically like cash or coins. Instead, people ...
Oct 30, 2026Binance has disclosed that $6.3 billion worth of crypto funds have been stolen from the platform, in what's believed to be the biggest cryptocurrency hack on record. In a series of updates posted to X, the crypto exchange said that user funds are saf...
Oct 30, 2026As a '90s kid, I took my Walkman everywhere I went. One thing I remember vividly was the headset: Sony made a range of on-ear headsets with orange ear pads and a thin, mostly decorative headband. These things were everywhere, and the Walkman paired w...
Oct 30, 2026### Summary - Cheap vintage rotary phones make great shells for DIY projects - easy to find at flea markets or online. - Drop a Raspberry Pi and USB sound card inside to turn it into a voice AI using Google Gemini 3.8 Live. - Pick up the receiver ...