• October 1, 2026
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A Nightly Maintenance Task Cut Microsoft’s Cloud Off at the Gates

Microsoft’s engineers knew something was wrong within minutes. At 20:30 UTC on Sept. 30, customers across the company’s Azure cloud began reporting that ExpressRoute gateways, the private connections linking corporate…

  • October 1, 2026
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Samsung Defers Its Most Expensive Machines to 2030

Samsung Electronics bought two of the most advanced chipmaking tools ever built, then decided to let them wait. ChangMin Park, a senior technology executive at the Korean company, told engineers…

  • October 1, 2026
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Micron’s Record Quarter Gives Way to a Spending Warning

Micron Technology delivered its sixth consecutive record quarter after the market closed on September 30, and its shares fell anyway. The chip maker cleared every target it had set for…

  • October 1, 2026
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Broadcom Agrees to Lend Anthropic Up to $42 Billion to Rent Its Own Chips

The figure buried in Anthropic’s IPO prospectus is the kind that makes underwriters pause: a lender prepared to advance up to $42 billion to a company whose main plan for…

  • October 1, 2026
  • 75 views
California Tells State Agencies to Keep Saying ‘AI’

The rebrand arrived from Washington on the last day of September, and by the next afternoon Gavin Newsom had drafted his reply. The California governor signed an executive order on…

  • October 1, 2026
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Google’s New Gemini Model Opens to Cyber Defenders First

Google introduced a new flagship artificial-intelligence model on Tuesday, but most people cannot use it yet. Gemini 4 Argon, the company’s first new frontier model since Gemini 3 last November,…

  • October 1, 2026
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A Bad Prompt Exposes 95,000 Customer Emails at Bee Cheng Hiang

Bee Cheng Hiang, the Singapore company that has sold bak kwa, or barbecued pork jerky, for close to a century, decided in April to try something new. An employee asked…

  • October 1, 2026
  • 88 views
A Fight in the Cockpit Diverts a Dubai-Tel Aviv Flight to Saudi Arabia

Flight FZ1073 pushed back from Dubai at 7:05 a.m. local time on Wednesday, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 registered A6-FKF, bound for Tel Aviv with roughly 180 people on board,…

  • October 1, 2026
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An 87-Year-Old Eviction in Madrid Sets Off Spain’s Housing Protest

María del Carmen Abascal Martín left her apartment in Madrid’s Retiro neighborhood on a stretcher last Wednesday. She had lived there for decades. Her father first rented the property in…

  • September 30, 2026
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Micron Reports After the Close With a $50 Billion Quarter in View

Micron Technology reports fiscal fourth-quarter results after the market closes on Tuesday, and the figure investors expect would have been unthinkable a year ago. Analysts expect revenue of roughly $50.75…