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Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped fifteen CVEs affecting Active Directory Federation Services. Two arrived as direct spoofing vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-108131 (CVSS 7.5, Important, …
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10/16/26
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The 24-Hour Shift On October 15, 2026, three major open-weight models shipped within hours of each other. StepFun’s Step-5 BF16 landed after a same-day slip. Meta’s Muse Spark Open arrived with a …
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10/16/26
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The portal at agent.livingsocial.com is functional, transparent, and deliberately limited. As of October 16, 2026, the system provides access to 56,256 live US offers through a REST API, an MCP …
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10/16/26
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Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.
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10/16/26
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On October 15, 2026, Perplexity released its execution sandbox to the public. The SPACE repository — Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution, written in Rust — carries an Apache 2.0 …
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10/16/26
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Stripe’s President Says Agentic Commerce Went ‘Vertical’ in September. He Has Not Shown the Numbers.
“It only as of September basically started going vertical.” That is how Stripe president John Collison described the company’s agentic commerce activity during an October 12 episode of the …
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10/16/26
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Humza Yousaf says Palestinians’ right to exist is ignored as SNP MP Lara Bird attacks Ed Miliband and the UK Government over its Gaza response in Aberdeen.
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10/16/26
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A $6.3 billion all-cash price tag, representing a 52% premium over pre-rumor stock levels, tells a specific story about how the market values agent governance. When Proofpoint announced its …
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10/16/26
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Police Scotland searches continue for two men missing after fishing boat FV Kilda went missing off Lewis. MAIB imposes diver exclusion zone near Port of Ness.
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10/16/26
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Ivan McKee faced a fresh backlash at SNP conference as union leaders challenged NHS reform plans, job-loss fears and proposed cuts to management.
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10/16/26
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Scottish Government nearly doubles funding for Bridges Programmes’ Refugee Doctors Programme, helping refugee doctors gain GMC registration and join NHS Scotland.
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10/16/26
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Jack Dragsnes, 22, appears at Glasgow Sheriff Court accused of murdering 17-year-old Jack Mellon in Milton on October 14, and attempting to pervert justice.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/16/26
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The UK Government settles with 'scapegoat' Sir Olly Robbins after his dismissal by Keir Starmer over his alleged role in the Lord Mandelson scandal and judicial review
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/16/26
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GlasGLOW returns to Glasgow Botanic Gardens from October 16 to November 1 with its new Zombie Zoo theme, immersive displays and street food.
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10/16/26
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The 28-year-old detained by German police is accused of being part of the cyber-crime gang that hacked blood-test firm Synnovis in 2024.
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Via BBC News - Technology
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10/16/26
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The Structural Divide With the October 15, 2026, release of Muse Spark Open, Meta has effectively abandoned the pretense of a singular open-weights philosophy. This move follows the company’s …
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10/16/26
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Autonomous software agents were expected to handle shopping, travel, and financial planning. The reality, as shown by Meta’s Muse, is a scramble to identify the source of automated traffic. While …
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10/16/26
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Welcome to The Herald's Business live blog, where we’ll be bringing you the latest developments from across Scotland’s business industry.
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10/16/26
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NVIDIA has crossed a threshold that changes the licensing conversation. The company that sells the silicon, the interconnect, and the inference stack now ships its own model, optimized for its own …
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10/16/26
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The UK Government is being “cautious” about making public announcements over its decisions on the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields in order to avoid the “mistakes” of the previous …
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10/16/26
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