On October 8, 2026, ASOS linked a customer-data breach to stolen employee credentials used on third-party platforms. Names and contact details were accessible; its investigation found no access to customer passwords or payment cards.
On October 8, Manus parent Butterfly Effect announced a round above $500 million led by Boyu and IDG. The $4 billion valuation came from earlier talks, not the completed deal.
On October 8, 2026, Microsoft and seven other employers were suspended from PERM labor certification. New filings and pending cases are affected; existing H-1B work authorization remains in force.
New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including children and teens, a nonfunctional recommendation reset during 2023 tests disclosed on October 7, 2026.
Uber and Pony.ai said on October 8 that London tests of Pony.ai’s robotaxis would begin within weeks. They have not announced when passengers will be able to book one.
Passkeys are the stronger default against phishing than a unique password with code or push MFA. Device security, synchronization and recovery still determine whether you can keep access.
Replicate can cost less for bursty public-model inference, while an always-on Hugging Face endpoint can become cheaper as processing time rises. The crossover depends on the GPU and billing mode.
On native Linux, Podman suits teams seeking rootless, daemonless operation; Docker suits teams invested in its workflow. Performance results are mixed, while Desktop licensing can change the cost.
Character.AI gives roleplayers controls for a fictional world and its characters. ChatGPT can carry personal context across tasks, while project-only memory can contain a continuing story.
Spotify has brought Backstage, Portal, Confidence and Xirp under Spotify Technology, giving its existing developer offerings one enterprise-facing home.
The top-100,000 milestone marks a new level of web prominence. QUASA’s longer-term opportunity is to turn that prominence into sustained value for the people who use its ecosystem.
Google stopped accepting new OSS VRP product-vulnerability submissions on October 1, 2026, after a surge of mostly invalid automated findings. Supply-chain submissions remain open.
Perplexity has the stronger published result for open-web source credibility. ChatGPT may be the better choice when research must stay within approved sites or combine connected data in a steerable report.
Dropbox Plus gives a solo user more storage, while Microsoft 365 can offer a lower bill and desktop Office apps. For families, the deciding detail is whether storage is shared or assigned to each person.
Both services offer privacy controls, but an Android forensic examination found different recovery risks: local Replika chat records and a device token that opened Character.AI server chats.