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Work & careers
LTM adds 949 employees in second quarter, bringing workforce to 88,835
India's sixth-largest IT exporter added 949 employees on net as fresher intake reached 1,743, trailing twelve-month attrition held at 13.3%, and offshore effort mix rose to 85.9%.
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Rules & courts
UK CMA proposes designating Microsoft with strategic market status in business software
The Competition and Markets Authority opened consultation through 13 November on designating Microsoft's enterprise software ecosystem under the DMCC Act, ahead of a final decision in January.
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AI
Researchers demonstrate speculative forcing for real-time autoregressive video diffusion
An arXiv preprint introduces speculative forcing to achieve a 1.35x speedup in autoregressive video generation, maintaining visual quality with 2.5 denoising steps per token on continuous camera benchmarks.
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Security & privacy
CISA orders three-day remediation for exploited flaw across Atlassian Data Center products
The federal cybersecurity agency added CVE-2026-21589 to its catalog, invoking Binding Operational Directive 26-04 to mandate federal civilian patching and forensic triage by 18 October.
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Chips & infrastructure
TSMC reports $46.72bn revenue in third quarter as computing reaches 68% of sales
Consolidated revenue rose 41.2% in US dollars to $46.72 billion as high-performance computing reached 68% of sales and 2nm production expanded to 8% of wafer revenue.
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Work & careers
Tech Mahindra adds 1,928 employees in second quarter, expanding workforce to 152,206
India's fifth-largest IT exporter added 1,928 employees on net in the September quarter as constant-currency revenue grew 7.2% and new deal wins climbed 25.4% to $1.02 billion.
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Work & careers
Wipro cuts 6,716 employees in second quarter, bringing workforce to 236,328
India's fourth-largest IT services exporter saw workforce contract by 6,716 sequentially as constant-currency revenue stayed flat and large-deal bookings fell 58.6% to $674 million.
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Security & privacy
CISA orders three-day patch for four exploited flaws in PAN-OS, Cisco, and AhsayCBS
The federal cyber agency added four vulnerabilities across firewalls, email gateways, and backup software to its catalog, mandating remediation by 17 October under Binding Operational Directive 26-04.
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Rules & courts
UK CMA fines Wayfair £4.8 million over countdown clocks and orders £432,000 refund
The Competition and Markets Authority issued infringement notices under the DMCC Act, fining Wayfair £4.8 million for misleading timers and ordering Buy It Direct to refund £432,000 for pre-selected opt-ins.
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Work & careers
Mesa Laboratories cuts 40 genomics jobs and closes Hamburg facility
The life sciences instrument maker committed to a restructuring plan eliminating 40 positions in its Clinical Genomics division, incurring up to $3.4 million in pre-tax exit costs.
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Security & privacy
Justice Department charges OpenAI engineer with planting audio recorder in executive room
A federal criminal complaint alleges an engineer concealed an encrypted recording device behind a television in an executive conference room in San Francisco.
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Security & privacy
CISA orders three-day remediation for actively exploited Windows and Ivanti flaws
The federal cyber agency added CVE-2026-96951 and CVE-2026-104935 to its catalog, invoking Binding Operational Directive 26-04 to mandate agency patching and forensic triage by 16 October.
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Rules & courts
European Commission fines AliExpress €550 million under Digital Services Act
The European executive penalized the digital marketplace for failing to mitigate systemic risks regarding illegal and counterfeit products, ordering an action plan by 20 October.
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Work & careers
California enacts law requiring employers to disclose AI displacement in mass layoff notices
Senate Bill 951 amends the state's WARN Act to mandate that employers report when job cuts are caused by artificial intelligence or automated systems, taking effect on 1 January 2027.
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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.