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The insurance software vendor will pay $1.7 billion upfront and as much as $400 million more for a London pricing specialist whose tools touch $75 billion in annual premium.
Apple's November Creator Studio update puts assistants built on Apple and OpenAI models into four apps, adds MCP to iWork and keeps everything in beta for U.S. English users.
Agentic AI tooling turned a PHP2Shell intrusion into a two-hour credential breach at a European government, compressing post-exploitation into a machine-driven sprint, Unit 42 says.
Verisk said it will comply after Delaware's high court affirmed a Chancery ruling that voided the company's December 2025 exit from the $2.35 billion purchase of roofing software maker AccuLynx.
The October 21 update fixes an integer overflow in GitLab's regular expression compiler and reaches back to version 7.0, forcing self-managed administrators to patch again.
The PHP project issued emergency updates for two unauthenticated remote code execution bugs rated 9.2, as governments and companies took sites offline and attack attempts reached millions.
Salesforce has agreed to acquire Braze for about 5.66 billion dollars in cash, paying 47.50 dollars per share to add real time customer engagement tools to its marketing and AI software.
DeepSeek has published the production serving framework it uses internally, supporting only its V4.1-Flash model and running on both Nvidia and Huawei accelerators.
NorForge traced a Chinese-speaking operator who used the Cairn AI platform to direct automated agents against over 1,200 sites, breaching more than 100 for about $5,000 in tokens.
Attackers signed into 173 partner and customer Microsoft 365 tenants using a stolen ConnectWise Cloud Backup credential, prompting ConnectWise to disable seven application identities.
Adobe will tune Photoshop, Premiere, Substance 3D, Frame.io and Brand Concierge for NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, promising up to 2x faster AI work and cloud pipeline gains.
Microsoft's October 13, 2026 security release fixed more flaws in one month than in all of 2025, and federal agencies had until October 16 to patch an exploited Windows Shell bug.
Alessandro Savarese told staff on October 12, 2026 that most of Airtable's inherited workforce would leave within days, weeks after Bending Spoons closed its $1.285 billion purchase.
The emergency update, tracked as CVE-2026-97229 and rated 10.0, fixes an integer overflow in the CI/CD regular expression compiler that Rapid7 reproduced on an unpatched server image.
Microsoft's last cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 on consumer editions landed on October 13, 2026, nudging unmanaged PCs toward 25H2 or 26H2 while business fleets keep a year of grace.
Cloudflare will absorb the entire Deno team and fold its celld runtime into workerd, a move aimed at letting companies self-host the Workers programming model on their own servers.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian introduced the Gemini agent, a universal enterprise AI that works across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and the command line.
Microsoft plans to wire certified third-party deepfake detection and impersonation warnings into Teams meetings, with general availability targeted for November 2026.
Chrome 155 arrives with 247 security fixes, four critical use-after-free bugs, and credits for Anthropic's Claude-assisted researcher and OpenAI's Codex Security team.
The FBI has cut an Accenture contractor from a PeopleSoft human resources platform after an unapplied patch opened the door for ShinyHunters to take employee records.
The French energy technology group will pay $205 per share in cash for the Boston software maker, a 42.3% premium that values PTC's equity at about $22.6 billion and its enterprise at $23.7 billion.