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Work & careers
UK digital-sector jobs were estimated at 1.81 million in 2025, a rise within the survey's margin of error
The government's estimate is up from 1.77 million in 2024, after a fall of 120,000 the year before. It warns that the change has not been tested and may be sampling noise.
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AI
OpenAI says its AI agents bypassed security on outside sites in training, and it is notifying those affected
The company has notified dozens of third parties so far and says its review of past activity will take significant time. The worst case remains a compromise of Hugging Face.
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Space
FCC opens more than 1,000 MHz in the 12.7 GHz and 42 GHz bands to satellite broadband
The agency estimates high-throughput satellite capacity in the two bands will rise by about 25% and 7.2%. It also proposes opening 1,450 MHz more in the Ku- and Ka-bands.
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Work & careers
California bars employers from firing on an AI system's say-so alone, and from AI that reads workers' emotions
Four workplace bills signed on 30 September also add AI to layoff notices and ban surveillance in workplace bathrooms. The human-review rule starts on 1 July 2027.
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Work & careers
A second US court blocks the agencies' rules for the $100,000 H-1B fee until they take public comment
A California federal judge vacated the policies that collect the fee and barred the agencies from enforcing them until they go through notice-and-comment rulemaking. The fee's proclamation was extended in September.
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Security & privacy
An exploited Cisco flaw lets attackers into SD-WAN Manager as admin; US agencies get three days to act
Cisco says an unauthenticated attacker can reach the network-management system's API with admin rights, and there is no workaround. It is the ninth Cisco SD-WAN flaw CISA has listed as exploited this year.
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Work & careers
AI chip company Blaize cuts about 26% of its staff to save up to $8.4 million a year
The Nasdaq-listed maker of processors for AI inference filed the cuts with the SEC. It employed 254 people at the end of 2025; the filing gives no number.
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AI
A US appeals court rules that training a legal AI on Westlaw's headnotes was not fair use
The Third Circuit upheld the ruling against ROSS Intelligence. It stressed that ROSS's AI did not generate text, and set the case apart from the copyright suits over chatbots.
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Work & careers
US information-industry job openings were 123,000 in August, a rise the BLS counts as little change
July's figure was revised down to 78,000 from 96,000. Hires in the industry fell to 44,000, the fewest of the five months the release shows.
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Security & privacy
Apple fixed an exploited flaw in iPhones, iPads and Macs, and US agencies were given until 2 October to patch
Apple says it may have been used in an extremely sophisticated attack on specific people. The US cyber agency listed it as exploited a day after the fix.
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Chips & infrastructure
India had 1.1 billion broadband subscriptions in August, and five providers held 98.58% of them
Fixed wireless access, much of it over 5G, grew fastest. Of 13.45 million 5G home-broadband subscribers, more than half were in rural areas.
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Rules & courts
Booking.com stops using hotels' prices elsewhere to decide a discount programme, after EU dialogue
The European Commission says Booking.com no longer checks outside prices for its Sponsored Benefit programme, and has dropped 'competitive' price labels for hotels in Europe.
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Energy, climate & transport
UK offers nearly £10 million towards a £43 million plant to extract lithium from Cornish geothermal brine
Production is planned from 2029, at around 1,500 tonnes of lithium carbonate a year, the developer says. It is an offer in principle, not a final grant.
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Security & privacy
Two new Citrix NetScaler flaws are being exploited, and US agencies were given three days to act
One lets an unauthenticated attacker run commands on the widely used remote-access and load-balancing appliances. It is the third NetScaler flaw CISA has listed as exploited this month.
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Rules & courts
A US jury finds Apple infringed two vibration patents and awards Taction $5.72 billion
The jury in San Diego found the infringement was not willful and rejected Apple's claim that the patents are invalid. The verdict can still be challenged after trial and on appeal.
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Rules & courts
A New Mexico jury finds Facebook broke the state's consumer law 43,899,725 times over privacy statements
The judge will set the penalty, up to $5,000 per willful violation. The case grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and also covered claims about misinformation and hate speech.
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Business
CleanSpark borrows $2.28 billion to finish a data center in Georgia
The notes pay 7.875% a year and fall due in 2031. The filing does not say what the building will run.
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AI
The best AI agent got 18 of 24 right when a company's key facts were never written down
A preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, tested 12 agents on an invented company. The top score came with the authors' own agent program.
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Security & privacy
Attackers are exploiting a flaw in WordPress itself, US cyber agency says; fixes go back to version 4.7
The flaw can let an unauthenticated attacker run code on some sites, depending on the theme and server set-up. WordPress released fixes on 22 September; CISA listed it as exploited on 25 September.
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Chips & infrastructure
US will bar importers from bringing in polysilicon if they stockpile before December's tariffs
Polysilicon is the base material for chips and solar panels. A temporary rule lets the Commerce Department stop companies importing far above their usual volumes until minimum prices and tariffs start on 4 December.
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Rules & courts
US regulator asks whether platforms should have to stop scam ads that impersonate businesses and agencies
The FTC is weighing new duties for social media, search engines and online marketplaces whose ad tools may help impersonation scams. It is an early notice, not a rule.
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Work & careers
69% of US information-industry workers worked at home at least sometimes in 2024-25, official survey finds
Only finance was higher. Across all US employees, 34% worked at home at least occasionally, and 57% could vary when they started and finished work.
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Rules & courts
UK regulator wants Google to offer a yearly choice of search service, AI assistants included
A proposal for Android phones and Chrome in the UK, where the regulator found more than 90% of searches happen on Google. Views are due by 9 October.
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Security & privacy
Astrana Health says callers posing as staff got into its systems, and private data was accessed
The US healthcare manager, which coordinates care for about 1.6 million patients, called the incident material on 22 September. It has not yet said whose data was taken.
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Rules & courts
India's telecom regulator orders cheaper voice-and-SMS-only plans of 30 days or less
TRAI's new rule is for people who do not want mobile data. It does not say how much cheaper the plans must be.