State Bank of India Suffers a Customer PII Data Leak
Relatively small data breaches in India can turn quite serious, thanks to a sophisticated underground market for trading PII.
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SpaceX-Tesla Merger Puts $3.5T of Hardware in Play [2026]
Elon Musk said this week that SpaceX and Tesla have each formed a special committee of independent directors to examine a possible combination, according to The New York Times. He made the comments on SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings call. The committees have not agreed on any terms, and Musk himself stressed there is no guarantee a…
Best SNES Emulator: 5 Picks Ranked [2026]
The best SNES emulator in October 2026 depends on whether you want accuracy, speed, tooling or a single launcher for everything. After checking five main options against fresh project pages and repository activity, bsnes takes the top spot for most players, with MesenCE a close second. The landscape shifted this year. Mesen2 is handing over…
OpenAI Buys Orchestra Bio, 4-Year-Old Startup [2026]
OpenAI bought Orchestra Bio on October 20, 2026, folding a drug-development coordination startup into its life-sciences push. Axios ran the story as an exclusive that day, and OpenAI’s own post followed with the core facts. Orchestra’s team and technology will join Rosalind, the company’s AI models and tools for life-sciences research. Financial terms were not…
Mini PC vs Laptop: $263 Box vs $799.99 OLED [2026]
The mini PC vs laptop question got more expensive to answer this fall. Apple’s new Mac mini with M6 starts at $899 in the US, with the M5 Pro version at $1,699, and both reached stores on September 22, 2026. That is a $300 jump over the $599 starting price reported for the previous generation,…
Velero Kubernetes Backup: 13 Steps, 60 Min [2026]
Velero is now a CNCF Sandbox project, accepted on July 30, 2026, and the Velero team says everyday usage did not change with the move. That is good news if you already run it, and a decent reason to learn it if you do not. This tutorial walks through a full Velero Kubernetes backup and…
5 Big US Banks Block Third-Party AI Agents [2026]
Reuters reported on October 22, 2026 that major U.S. banks are blocking third-party AI agents from operating inside customer accounts and making transactions. Two people familiar with the situation described the response. The story puts US banks blocking AI agents at the center of a fight that has been building since consumer assistants learned to…
Fort Bend OKs Tesla’s $10.1B Solar Plant Tax Breaks [2026]
Fort Bend County commissioners approved four Tesla agreements on October 22, 2026, a package that could hand the company tax breaks for more than 35 years on a proposed $10.1 billion solar manufacturing plant near Needville, Texas, ABC13 Houston reported. Each vote passed 4-0, and interim County Judge Daniel Wong abstained because of his business…
Indonesia’s Local Game Devs Hold Just 2.5% of Market [2026]
Indonesia has a big game market, and most of its money leaves the country. The Indonesian Game Association (AGI) reported that local games held about 2.5% of the domestic market share in 2025, according to a Kompas report published October 23, 2026. Foreign publishers and developers took the other 97.5%. AGI chair Shafiq Husein has…
OpenAI nears $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation ahead of IPO
OpenAI is closing in on a funding round of up to $30 billion at a staggering $1.25 trillion valuation, as the ChatGPT maker prepares for a potential stock market debut in 2027. The financing, led by investors from the United […] The post OpenAI nears $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation ahead of…