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Brazil's Credit Guarantor Fund (FGC) disclosed unauthorized access to personal data tied to its internal guarantee-payment processes, first suspected on October 26, 2026. The fund said no evidence yet shows the data was leaked, misused, or led to financial loss, and that it has restricted access, blocked unauthorized accounts, and preserved evidence while investigations continue with outside specialists.
Nubank, the Brazilian digital bank, has expanded into the United States under a new brand name, Nu. Despite the rebrand, the company retained its distinctive purple color identity, which designers say was central to presenting the bank as a global brand rather than a strictly regional one.
Apple has confirmed that some iPhone models are experiencing a significant issue when paired with certain other devices, according to reporting. Details of the exact models and nature of the defect were not fully specified in available coverage.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured a surprise fourth term as Brazil's president after trailing rival Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round, according to Reuters. Bolsonaro has refused to concede and says he will seek to have the result annulled, objecting to a Supreme Court justice's decision to extend voting by two hours. U.S.-listed shares of Brazilian companies dropped sharply premarket, with Petrobras down over 20%, Itaú Unibanco down nearly 30%, and Ambev off 19%.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won re-election, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro for a historic fourth term. Separately, official satellite data showed Amazon deforestation fell to 3,335 square kilometers in the year through July 2026, the lowest annual rate recorded since tracking began in 1988. Brazil's government says this marks a 71% drop since 2023, reversing a 60% surge that occurred under the previous Bolsonaro administration.
Internal Meta messages reviewed by Folha de S Paulo show employees acknowledged that President Lula's Instagram accounts suffered negative effects from platform restrictions, while Senator Flavio Bolsonaro's profile and WhatsApp channel were algorithmically recommended. Meta told Reuters the issues were technical, already disclosed publicly, and denied any political bias, saying the internal discussion concerned severity of glitches, not favoritism.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Meta's São Paulo offices carrying effigies and signs depicting CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the devil, protesting alleged interference in Brazil's presidential run-off. The protest coincided with a Superior Electoral Court order requiring Meta to prove it treated both candidates equitably, after the company restricted over 1,000 accounts linked to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva while allies of Lula accused it of boosting content favoring Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta has denied wrongdoing, attributing any imbalance to two global service outages.
In 2025, environmental historian Natascha Otoya cycled more than 200 miles across western Bahia and Tocantins in Brazil's Cerrado savanna as part of postdoctoral research with the Universidade Evangélica de Goiás. She filmed the journey, contrasting vast monoculture farmland with a remaining intact stretch of the biome's grasslands, woodland and forest habitat.
Researchers led by climatologist David Lapola of Brazil's State University of Campinas have built six ring-shaped towers rising above the canopy 80 kilometres north of Manaus for the AmazonFACE project. The decade-long experiment will expose sections of rainforest to elevated carbon dioxide levels to observe how trees and the surrounding ecosystem respond.
A São Paulo court has issued an emergency injunction requiring Apple to block minors from downloading Casino Roulette: Roulettist and to add age verification before users can buy virtual chips with real money. The order followed a July lawsuit from four child rights groups alleging minors could easily access the 18+ rated app and spend real money in it. Apple has five days to comply, must extend similar controls to other casino-style apps, and faces a daily fine of about $19,500 if it fails to act.
Design Bridge and Partners created Nordeste, a new destination brand meant to represent Brazil's nine northeastern states as a cohesive region while preserving each state's distinct cultural identity. The project has been named winner of the Best Design Latin America category in Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards, moving past the region's traditional beach-and-sunshine tourism imagery.
Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards named its Latin America category winner, with Nordeste by Design Bridge and Partners taking top honors. The project is a destination brand unifying nine Brazilian states in the Northeast under one flexible visual identity that highlights regional cultural diversity rather than typical tourism imagery.