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Work & careers
Dipti Vachani takes charge as Adeia chief executive under transition agreement
Semiconductor licensing firm Adeia seated former Arm executive Dipti Vachani as chief executive on 12 October, while retaining outgoing officer Paul Davis through a $183,000 advisory retainer.
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Work & careers
HCLTech adds 6,450 employees in second quarter, bringing workforce to 230,339
India's third-largest IT services exporter reversed recent headcount contractions with 6,450 net additions in the September quarter as trailing attrition moderated to 12.8%.
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Security & privacy
Malicious workflows planted in 500 GitHub repositories to harvest cloud keys
An automated supply chain campaign injected continuous integration configurations across open repositories to extract cloud infrastructure tokens.
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Rules & courts
Google seeks emergency stay of federal injunction opening Android app distribution
The motion asks the court to pause mandates requiring Google Play to distribute rival application stores before the 1 November compliance deadline.
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Work & careers
US Labor Department suspends PERM processing for eight technology employers
The administrative freeze halts permanent residency certifications across consulting and software firms pending compliance audits.
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Work & careers
TCS adds 5,726 employees in second quarter, bringing workforce to 612,724
India's largest software exporter recorded its second consecutive quarter of net hiring, reaching 612,724 staff as enterprise demand stabilized.
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Rules & courts
UK CMA issues interim order halting BT integration of TalkTalk
The competition regulator served a binding pre-emptive action order requiring BT to keep TalkTalk's broadband and wholesale backhaul operations completely separate.
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Work & careers
Six percent of UK businesses using AI report cutting staff, ONS finds
Thirty percent of UK companies now deploy artificial intelligence, but net employment reductions remain concentrated in a small minority of adopting employers.
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Work & careers
Azenta shutters three laboratories and cuts jobs in North American restructuring
The life sciences automation provider expects up to $13 million in pre-tax charges, including $3 million for severance, as it consolidates facilities.
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Rules & courts
European Commission registers initiative to create sovereign .IA domain for AI governance
The proposal calls for EU high-trust spaces and ISO/ICANN negotiations to tie a top-level domain to the AI Act.
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Work & careers
Staffing firm tracks 123,000 active tech job openings in India, an 18-month high
Openings rose 5% from September, driven by 66,000 active listings in IT services.
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Work & careers
HubSpot cuts about 7% of its workforce, roughly 660 roles, in a restructuring
The software company expects up to $75 million in charges as it flattens operations for customer outcomes.
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Rules & courts
UK opens public interest inquiry into BT acquisition of TalkTalk
The Competition and Markets Authority must report by 19 October following a government notice citing public health, emergency services, and vulnerable customers.
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Chips & infrastructure
India telephone subscriptions reach 1.33bn as internet users pass 1.09bn
Audited figures for the year ending March 2026 show total telephone subscriptions rose 10.8% and wireless data usage climbed 24.7% to 285,376 petabytes.
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Security & privacy
A fifth exploited Citrix NetScaler flaw since August; US agencies get until 7 October to act
The flaw lets an attacker knock NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances offline without logging in. Versions fixed for September's flaws are still affected.
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AI
Trump forms a "Super Intelligence Force" of four officials to coordinate federal AI policy
It is led by the intelligence director, the FTC chair, the Pentagon's technology chief and the head of the civil service. A week earlier an order told agencies to say 'Super Intelligence' instead of 'AI'.
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Energy, climate & transport
21 states, Washington DC and five cities sue over NHTSA's rewrite of US fuel economy standards
The petition challenges the SAFE III rule published on 30 September, which NHTSA calls a recalibration of the program. The states say it unlawfully weakens the standards.
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Security & privacy
Zammad flaws used to breach a security nonprofit are listed as exploited; US agencies must act by 5 October
The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure says the attack on it in September was carried out by an AI agent. Zammad says one flaw affects only old versions and it cannot yet verify the other.
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Energy, climate & transport
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, 2.1% fewer than a year before, its filing shows
Energy storage deployments rose to 13.7 GWh from 12.5 GWh. The figures are Tesla's own count, filed with the SEC on 2 October; full results follow on 21 October.
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Rules & courts
UK regulator provisionally finds a fibre deal by Virgin Media O2's owners would weaken broadband competition
The CMA says the deal would cut the share of nexfibre's network where three wholesale providers compete from about 32% to 18%. It is not a final decision; comments are due by 23 October.
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Work & careers
US information-industry jobs were 2.74 million in September, 120,000 fewer than a year before
The BLS counts September's fall of 10,000 as little change, as it does for every major industry. The year's drop was 4.2%, and computer systems design lost 32,200 jobs over the same year.
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Security & privacy
A US judge rules a police search of Flock licence-plate data was an unconstitutional search without a warrant
The Oklahoma judge called the camera networks a type of 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and threw out the evidence. She noted that nearly every court so far has ruled the other way.
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Science & research
arXiv now limits each submitter to two papers a month after a record 40,363 submissions in September
The preprint server says AI tools are driving a flood of thin and AI-written papers. Rejected papers count towards the limit.
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Chips & infrastructure
US charges a California company owner with smuggling more than $300 million of GPU servers to China
Prosecutors say the servers went through Malaysia and Singapore on false paperwork. An indictment is an allegation; he is presumed innocent.
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Security & privacy
Attackers are exploiting a FortiMail flaw before a fix exists; US agencies get three days to act
Fortinet says an unauthenticated attacker can write files on its email-security appliances. Fixed releases are listed as upcoming, so for now it offers a workaround: switch off one feature.