Mystery erupts as US spy satellite explodes… and Space Force won't rule out an attack
A US spy satellite has mysteriously exploded in Earth orbit and no one knows why, sparking concerns over what satellites might be next.
Read moreYour guide to Proposition 44: Federally funded health clinic spending
Oct 1, 2026
Prop 44 asks voters to require federally funded community health centers to spend at least 90% of their total annual revenue on "program services advancing their charitable purpose."
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WhatsApp Business Platform gets costlier from today: What Indian businesses need to know about new messaging charges
Meta has changed WhatsApp Business Platform pricing as of 1 October, making service messages chargeable in India after the monthly free quota. Indian businesses get 1,000 free service messages per phone number each month, after which they will pay ₹0.115 per delivered message.
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Flae Robotics reports 3,400+ autonomous hotel bookings by BE-A over summer
Flae Robotics has reported that BE-A, its AI receptionist for hotels, completed more than 3,400 hotel bookings without human intervention during July and August, according to updated company figures. The announcement comes as hotels increasingly adopt AI-powered guest communication tools to manage routine enquiries across email, WhatsApp and phone, while hotel teams focus on guests on site and more complex requests.
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Hotels Don’t Have an AI Problem. They Have an Adoption Problem.
HiJiffy, the AI-powered Guest Communications Platform for hotels, launched today From Imposed to Owned: The Guide to Hotel AI That Sticks, a white paper arguing that the industry’s growing scepticism around AI isn’t a rejection of the technology itself, but of how it is being sold, implemented and managed. When HiJiffy surveyed hoteliers for its 2025 white paper, 86% said AI automation had already helped them save time on routine, repetitive work. What has changed, HiJiffy argues, is their patience for hype. After years of vendor pitches, product launches and conference keynotes, the question is no longer whether hotels should use AI, but whether the AI they already have delivers that value consistently, across the whole team.
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Apple CoreGraphics PoC Emerges as WhatsApp PDF Checks Hint at Possible Delivery Path
Security researchers have published the first public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-86950, an Apple CoreGraphics flaw Apple says may have been used in attacks against specific targeted individuals. The trigger is a malicious PDF with a crafted embedded font that crashes unpatched iPhones and Macs. The code causes a crash, not an execution error. Turning the memory corruption into a working
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Wi-Fi 5 vs Wi-Fi 6: The real reason I upgraded my home router this year
My old router couldn’t keep up with my home anymore. Here’s why I switched to a dual-band Wi-Fi 6 router during the festival sale.
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Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget on Wednesday confirmed that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week exploited a zero-day flaw in third-party security products, citing ongoing investigation findings from SlowMist. "Their investigation identified malicious activity involving third-party security products, including a zero-day vulnerability, and recovered a customized tool used by the attacker
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MetaMask Security Incident Prompts Exit of Affected Ethereum Validators
MetaMask on Thursday said it's responding to what it described as an "ongoing security incident" impacting part of its infrastructure. "We are actively addressing and remediating the issue internally, in coordination with external partners and security advisors," the software cryptocurrency wallet maker said. "At this time, we have identified no immediate threat to MetaMask wallets." MetaMask
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The rare Bog Grass Moth found in nature reserve for first time
Experts called it a "special surprise" to find an "incredibly sparse moth" in this habitat.
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Citrix NetScaler Post-Exploitation Payload Creates Superuser, Maps Web Shell to CSS-Like URLs
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to drop web shells and attempt theft of configuration data. LevelBlue's Threat Hunt Operations & Research (THOR) team, which analyzed the exploitation activity across multiple customer environments, said it identified malicious NetScaler
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Google Fitbit Air launches in India: Screen-free tracker brings heart-rate, sleep, fitness monitoring
Google has launched the Fitbit Air in India at ₹13,999, with sales starting 2 October through the Google Store and retail partners. The screen-free tracker offers 24/7 heart rate monitoring, AFib alerts, SpO2, sleep tracking and up to seven days of battery life.
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AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns
Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".
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