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October 2026 122 stories

1. 19 Oct Full article SATShow 2027 asks what makes a satellite network sovereign. African operators have been testing the answers for years
2. 18 Oct Full article Anthropic signs 20-year lease at EverWind’s Point Tupper campus, its first data-centre deal in Canada
3. 18 Oct Brief CBN says it will push for easier Nigeria-China payment arrangements on a Beijing visit
4. 18 Oct Brief OpenCode says a breach may have exposed saved AI provider keys for 1.4% of Console users
5. 18 Oct Brief Replit makes OpenAI the default model for Replit Agent
6. 18 Oct Brief DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 with MIT-licensed open weights
7. 18 Oct Brief Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund
8. 18 Oct Full article China’s draft AI export controls: what the proposed catalogue would cover, and what it leaves out
9. 18 Oct Full article BeyondTrust zero-day: what to ask if an outside IT provider supports you through Remote Support
10. 17 Oct Brief Onafriq is shutting Baxi, its Nigerian agent banking network, and says it is staying in Nigeria
11. 17 Oct Brief Sansec warns merchants to patch Magento “BlockStrap” flaw now, disputing Adobe’s priority 2 rating; no attacks seen yet
12. 17 Oct Brief NiSource says it will supply about 1,100 MW to Microsoft’s northwest Indiana data center campus from 2028
13. 17 Oct Brief Reflection releases the weights for Beam, its 501B-parameter open model, under an Apache 2.0 licence
14. 17 Oct Brief White House AI task force orders a risk report and incident-reporting protocols at its first meeting, as the FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic
15. 17 Oct Brief China proposes adding 23 AI technologies, including large models and agents, to its export-control catalogue
16. 17 Oct Brief CISA adds actively exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw, rated critical by the vendor, to its known-exploited list
17. 16 Oct Full article Apple HomeView explained: what Apple’s $299 home hub does, and the questions it leaves open
18. 16 Oct Full article Proofpoint agrees to buy Varonis: what data security customers should ask before renewal
19. 16 Oct Brief Taiwan plans to add advanced AI chips and servers to export controls, Economics Minister Kung says
20. 16 Oct Brief UK photonics startup Salience Labs raises $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital
21. 16 Oct Brief North.cloud raises a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan to automate cloud, AI and data spend
22. 16 Oct Brief GitHub makes agentic autofix for code scanning and AI Scan for pull requests generally available
23. 16 Oct Brief Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the sandbox it uses to contain AI agents
24. 16 Oct Brief CISA adds Atlassian arbitrary file-access flaw CVE-2026-21589 to its known-exploited list
25. 16 Oct Brief Thoma Bravo’s Proofpoint agrees to buy Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash, pending approvals
26. 15 Oct Brief Amazon launches Bee Frontier wearable and Bee Eclipse phone attachment
27. 15 Oct Full article SATShow Week 2027: what the first GovMilSpace sessions say about US space priorities
28. 15 Oct Full article Meta’s Muse Wonder is here. Builders get the API model. The flagship stays inside Muse Code.
29. 15 Oct Full article Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to paying customers. The bill and the benchmarks need a closer look.
30. 15 Oct Brief CashAfrica and Chicken Republic bring phone tap-to-pay to the chain’s Nigerian outlets
31. 15 Oct Brief CISA adds Palo Alto PAN-OS, Cisco email gateway and two Ahsay flaws to its known-exploited list
32. 15 Oct Brief Modal raises a $750M Series D at a $15.75B valuation and says its run rate has passed $1B
33. 15 Oct Brief Netflix lays off about 6% of its staff, roughly 1,000 people, in its biggest cuts since 2022
34. 15 Oct Brief Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harmed children and misled parents
35. 13 Oct Brief AMD pitches a CPU-heavy “Helion” rack blueprint for AI agent workloads
36. 13 Oct Brief Ahsay says its earlier fix for two exploited backup-server flaws fell short
37. 13 Oct Brief Bending Spoons is laying off a large share of Airtable’s pre-acquisition team
38. 13 Oct Brief Infinigence AI raises RMB 2.3 billion to run AI workloads across mixed Chinese and foreign chips
39. 13 Oct Brief South Korea opens its first defense AI hub in Pangyo, focused on robots for mine clearance and bomb disposal
40. 13 Oct Brief IonQ to acquire zero-trust security company Elisity in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B
41. 13 Oct Brief Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class AI models
42. 13 Oct Brief Microsoft unveils Maia 300 and plans multi-gigawatt Maia deployments from 2027
43. 12 Oct Brief OPay says it plans a Nigerian Exchange listing after its proposed NYSE IPO
44. 12 Oct Brief Nebius signs as first customer of VOLT’s planned Rotterdam AI gigafactory
45. 12 Oct Brief CISA flags seven flaws in Red Lion N-Tron 700 industrial switches; firmware 3.11.1 fixes them
46. 12 Oct Brief FCC would bar test labs and certification bodies in non-reciprocal countries under draft rules
47. 12 Oct Brief SpaceX agrees to buy Grain Management’s nationwide 800 MHz spectrum
48. 12 Oct Brief Lockheed Martin unveils PAC-3 Edge as its entry for the Army’s Future Interceptor
49. 12 Oct Brief IBM is among four companies entering Stage C of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
50. 12 Oct Brief RTX’s Raytheon gets an MDA contract worth up to $6.3B for SM-3 Block IB interceptors
51. 12 Oct Full article Labor Department says it has frozen green card filings for Microsoft, Adobe and six IT firms
52. 12 Oct Full article Big Tech is buying AI teams: Amazon, Apple and Cloudflare show three ways to do it
53. 12 Oct Full article What AI glasses and personal agents take in, and what Meta and Google say they do with it
54. 11 Oct Brief MongoDB makes prefix, suffix and substring queries on encrypted fields generally available
55. 11 Oct Brief DHS fee adjustment for H.R. 1 immigration fees takes effect 16 Oct
56. 11 Oct Brief TII introduces Falcon-ASR, a speech model for Arabic with a focus on Emirati dialect
57. 11 Oct Brief FICO says it will cut about 15% of positions
58. 11 Oct Brief Anduril plans Arsenal-2, a $3.7B submarine-components shipyard at Sparrows Point, Maryland
59. 11 Oct Full article Anduril plans Arsenal-2, a $3.7B submarine-components shipyard at Sparrows Point, Maryland
60. 11 Oct Full article Joint advisory AA26-281A lists five old flaws now on CISA’s KEV catalog: ProFTPD, BIND, Struts, ONLYOFFICE and Strapi
61. 11 Oct Full article SATShow Week 2027: what it is, what’s new and what to watch before March
62. 10 Oct Brief A 124M-parameter GPT trained from scratch on free Kaggle T4s across session resets
63. 10 Oct Brief Milton Keynes is writing the rules for robots in public spaces
64. 10 Oct Brief A “letters only” filter counted characters, not bytes, in a practice challenge
65. 10 Oct Brief Hickory, NC gives its city chatbot Chip a beaver backstory
66. 10 Oct Brief AI models flag an impossible physics problem, then mark it solved anyway
67. 10 Oct Brief An embedding model played Doom with no training, by the developer’s account
68. 9 Oct Brief CISA adds five legacy flaws to KEV, tied to joint advisory AA26-281A
69. 9 Oct Full article Agent memory is a data problem. past.dev’s BEAM claim only partly tests it.
70. 9 Oct Full article A layoff is now a visa event: what the H-1B order, the grace-period proposal and one court ruling do and don’t do
71. 9 Oct Brief Bujeti opens BRAIN, four AI finance helpers, to all customers
72. 9 Oct Brief Amazon cuts fewer than 1,000 corporate roles, mainly in Stores, as reported
73. 9 Oct Brief H-1B: order tells agencies to weigh sponsor layoffs; DHS proposes ending 60-day grace period
74. 9 Oct Brief past.dev claims #1 on BEAM agent-memory benchmark (self-reported)
75. 9 Oct Brief Databricks NEAREST BY: vector search as a SQL join over Delta tables
76. 9 Oct Brief Mistral Large 4 public preview: 1T-parameter multimodal MoE, weights due 27 Oct
77. 9 Oct Brief Upscale launches Token Fabric to link AI chips from different vendors
78. 8 Oct Full article Inside Fixoral: a home-maintenance app that wants your house to keep its own records
79. 8 Oct Brief Boost Run signs ~$525.6M five-year GB300 cloud deal; 8-K names Cohere
80. 8 Oct Brief SEC Nigeria fintech clinic: Approval-in-Principle is not a licence
81. 8 Oct Brief Cisco Nexus 3000/9000 NGOAM critical RCE (CVE-2026-76485 / 76486 / 76501)
82. 8 Oct Brief Cowrywise passes 1M stock trades, is adding curated stock ratings
83. 8 Oct Brief CoreWeave enters India with 240 MW at AdaniConneX Navi Mumbai
84. 8 Oct Brief Applied Digital FQ1’27: $341.9M revenue, ~1.41 GW leased, new Base Electron PPA
85. 8 Oct Full article Applied Digital FQ1’27: $341.9M revenue and a related-party gas PPA
86. 7 Oct Full article Google and Constellation add 890 MW of nuclear uprates to PJM
87. 7 Oct Brief Glovo confirms Reni Onafeko as Nigeria Country MD
88. 7 Oct Brief Pesa launches Australia remittance corridor (AUD→NGN)
89. 7 Oct Brief CISA adds Zammad CVE-2026-102489 / CVE-2026-102490 to KEV
90. 7 Oct Brief Finland LVV orders Tuike (Google) to halt Muhos + Kajaani site prep
91. 7 Oct Brief Google × Constellation: 890 MW new nuclear capacity via PJM uprates
92. 6 Oct Full article CISA puts Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88779 on KEV — SAML SP/IdP DoS buyers should verify
93. 6 Oct Brief PlotWeaver + EndowPay partner on voice-led bill payments in Nigerian languages
94. 6 Oct Brief Verve × Wema Bank Mobile Tap-to-Pay tokenisation pilot
95. 6 Oct Brief FortiMail CVE-2026-104286 still on KEV — Fortinet 5 Oct fixed floors
96. 6 Oct Brief Axe Compute takes full ownership of Georgia AI cluster (2,304 Nvidia B300)
97. 6 Oct Brief Applied Digital secures up to 1 GW potential power capacity in Finland
98. 6 Oct Full article CBN asks who is licensed when Nigerians “pay small small”
99. 6 Oct Brief Lenovo AI Express with NVIDIA — hybrid AI factory path
100. 6 Oct Brief CBN flags unlicensed “pay small small” / embedded BNPL at Fintech Week
101. 6 Oct Brief CISA adds Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88779 to KEV
102. 6 Oct Brief AM Intelligence orders 20,000 more Nvidia Rubin GPUs (India + Malaysia)
103. 6 Oct Brief Vultr commits ~$1.2B to AMD Helios AI racks by HPE (first HPE order)
104. 6 Oct Full article Vultr’s $1.2B Helios order puts AMD GPUs and Ethernet inside the rack
105. 2 Oct Brief Amaanah Non-Interest Finance launches in Lagos (CBN-licensed claim)
106. 2 Oct Brief ngCERT advisory: WhatsApp rich-media / Instagram Reels CVEs 2026-23866 / 2026-23863
107. 2 Oct Brief CBN payments data localisation: PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004 — full compliance 1 Jan 2027
108. 2 Oct Brief Google launches experimental satellite to test space data-center feasibility
109. 2 Oct Brief Amazon seeking to offload ~$8B Nvidia chips to investors (FT via Reuters)
110. 2 Oct Brief Applied Digital brings +75 MW online at Polaris Forge 1 (Building 2 phase-2 RFS)
111. 1 Oct Full article CISA puts Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-76504 on KEV — what buyers should verify before they patch
112. 1 Oct Full article NDPA and GAID: Nigeria’s compliance-audit playbook is live
113. 1 Oct Full article Modal Clusters go GA: multi-node GPU with @modal.clustered
114. 1 Oct Full article CoreWeave puts NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 into production — Cognition first
115. 1 Oct Full article Remita’s consumer app: an infra brand walks into Lagos retail
116. 1 Oct Brief CISA adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE to KEV catalog
117. 1 Oct Brief NDPA GAID in force: compliance-audit regime is the live playbook
118. 1 Oct Brief Remita launches consumer app at Nigeria Fintech Week (Lagos)
119. 1 Oct Brief NIBSS National Payment Stack passes 100M successful transactions
120. 1 Oct Brief Modal Clusters generally available (multi-node GPU + RDMA)
121. 1 Oct Brief CoreWeave puts NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 into production (Cognition first)
122. 1 Oct Full article NIBSS National Payment Stack clears 100 million transactions — what Lagos operators should actually check