• October 8, 2026
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A Researcher’s Death at a Siberian Plague Lab Tests the WHO’s Patience

The woman who died was 28 years old, a laboratory technician at an institute built to study plague and other dangerous pathogens. She fell ill and died on October 2…

  • October 8, 2026
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France’s Borrowing Costs Pass Italy’s, Putting Paris on Notice

The warning came from France’s own central bank, and it was delivered in the language of slow strangulation. Without a serious effort to repair the public finances, the bank has…

  • October 8, 2026
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AI Is Redrawing What a Corporate Board Is For

For decades, the board’s first job was to watch the people running the company. The audit committee checked the numbers. The compensation committee tied pay to performance. Independent directors spent…

  • October 8, 2026
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Nvidia-Backed Firmus’ Record Float Sours as Investors Balk

The books closed on schedule, and that was about the only thing that went to plan. Firmus Grid, an Australian data-center operator, finished bookbuilding for its initial public offering Thursday…

  • October 8, 2026
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A Week of AI-Assisted Breaches Puts South Korea’s Banks on Edge

The biggest disclosure came from the smallest institution. Yegaram Savings Bank, a lender few outside South Korea would recognize, told regulators that roughly 40,000 customer records had been taken. A…

  • October 8, 2026
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Temasek Plans to Trade Its Private AI Bets for Shares It Can Sell

The figure is small, and the plan is precise. Temasek, Singapore’s state investment firm, has about 6% of its S$518 billion portfolio, roughly US$405 billion at the end of March,…

  • October 7, 2026
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Sony Sells Its XR Patents to Meta

The paperwork moved quietly through the U.S. patent office between June and September. Forty-three American patent properties, filed by Sony over more than a decade, changed hands and landed with…

  • October 7, 2026
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Anthropic Hands Its Strongest Cyber Tools to Vetted Defenders

For most of the past year, the most capable cyber tools Anthropic builds have sat behind a gate. This week the company opened that gate a little wider, and it…

  • October 7, 2026
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A Ransomware Hit Silences a Corner of Japan’s Cloud

Around 3:40 a.m. on Wednesday, an automatic shutdown system inside a data center in Shirakawa, a city in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, sensed something wrong and cut the network. By morning,…

  • October 7, 2026
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CoreWeave Bets on India With AdaniConneX Deal

Sometime in mid-2028, the first racks will switch on at a campus called Taloja, in the planned city of Navi Mumbai east of the port. Three buildings, each drawing 80…