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CashAfrica and Chicken Republic bring phone tap-to-pay to the chain’s Nigerian outlets
CashAfrica says customers at the Food Concepts-owned chain can now pay by tapping a phone or contactless card on supported POS terminals.
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CISA adds Palo Alto PAN-OS, Cisco email gateway and two Ahsay flaws to its known-exploited list
Federal civilian agencies have until 17 Oct to fix all four. The two AhsayCBS bugs follow Ahsay's 10 Oct notice that its…
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Modal raises a $750M Series D at a $15.75B valuation and says its run rate has passed $1B
The AI inference and sandbox platform says usage has tripled since its Series C five months ago. Accel led the round, with…
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Netflix lays off about 6% of its staff, roughly 1,000 people, in its biggest cuts since 2022
A memo from co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters says product, tech, legal and HR teams are hit hardest. Netflix reports quarterly…
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Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harmed children and misled parents
Attorneys general in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana filed separate suits in state courts on 14 Oct.…
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AMD pitches a CPU-heavy “Helion” rack blueprint for AI agent workloads
AMD says its open rack blueprint packs up to 32,768 Epyc cores for agent workloads, with partner systems planned for November. It…
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Ahsay says its earlier fix for two exploited backup-server flaws fell short
Ahsay told partners on 10 Oct that AhsayCBS 10.3.4.0 did not fully fix CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134, which Huntress says attackers chained. Apply…
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Bending Spoons is laying off a large share of Airtable’s pre-acquisition team
Airtable's new product lead says affected staff leave this week with "substantial separation packages". The company has not given a headcount.
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Infinigence AI raises RMB 2.3 billion to run AI workloads across mixed Chinese and foreign chips
The Shanghai infrastructure company says its cumulative funding now exceeds RMB 4.3 billion.
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South Korea opens its first defense AI hub in Pangyo, focused on robots for mine clearance and bomb disposal
The Ministry of National Defense says the Pangyo center, run with Ajou University, is the first of five planned regional defense AI…