An Entrepreneur opinion contributor, a former occupational therapist, writes that she ignored worsening health symptoms because leaving her career felt riskier than her illness. She was eventually forced into retirement by her declining health, and describes grieving the loss of her professional identity before unexpectedly feeling relief. She argues the experience revealed that she had conflated her job title with her sense of purpose.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-06
Google and industry partners took down the XCPE malware botnet, which infected over 1.3 million Android TV streaming boxes made by China-based Videostrong Technology. Google says Videostrong deliberately built a persistent backdoor into its devices and sold access to criminal groups, who used the devices for ad fraud, residential proxy networks, and further malware installation. Google also shut down command-and-control servers tied to more than a dozen related malware families affecting over 10 million additional devices, including set-top boxes, karaoke machines, and telehealth hardware.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-11-02
GitHub experienced a service outage starting around 2:10 PM ET on October 30, 2026, affecting users trying to access the platform. By 4:01 PM ET, GitHub's status page confirmed the affected services had been restored and were functioning normally.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-30
ServiceNow's shares dropped 25% on Thursday, marking the company's worst trading day ever, after third-quarter revenue of $4.11 billion roughly matched estimates but adjusted earnings of $1.00 per share missed the $1.02 forecast. The company also raised its full-year 2026 subscription revenue guidance to $15.78-$15.79 billion and reported a 65% jump in net new AI contract value.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-29
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center suffered a cyberattack that forced it to limit new patient admissions, divert ambulances, and suspend outpatient surgeries and appointments. UNM says its hospital and Sandoval Regional Medical Center remain open and clinics resumed scheduled care on Tuesday, though classes at its four health sciences schools were canceled. A new ransomware group calling itself Byod has claimed responsibility, saying it compromised roughly 36,000 systems including Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, Oracle databases, and records containing Social Security numbers, payroll data, research files, and patient information.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-27
Revolut customers reported being unable to access the banking app on the morning of the outage. The company acknowledged the issue, said it had been working since it was identified to resolve it, and apologised to affected users for the inconvenience.
bbc.com
· 2026-10-20
Ahold Delhaize confirmed that a cyberattack last week knocked some corporate systems offline, disrupting websites, apps and customer service tools at Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall, Delhaize and Stop & Shop. Stores stayed open throughout, and the company says most Central and Southeastern European sites are restored while US and other European services are still being brought back online. Ahold Delhaize has notified the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre and filed a formal police report.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-20
Anthropic announced plans, pending shareholder approval, to commit 5% of its shares to a newly created public benefit fund structured as a wholly owned LLC. The board could add 2% more for every 50% rise in company valuation above an undisclosed baseline, with proceeds potentially funding large donations or new approaches to address AI-driven job displacement. The fund will not be used for lobbying or political giving, and comes as Anthropic reports $16.8 billion in third-quarter revenue ahead of a reported November IPO.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-19
A study published in PNAS on October 19 analyzed more than 11 million papers from about 206,000 scientists with over 40 years of experience, spanning 1800 to 2022. Using citation-pattern measures of scientific disruption, the researchers found that while early-career scientists produce disruptive work more frequently, the disruptive findings of experienced scientists tend to persist longer before being displaced by subsequent research.
nature.com
· 2026-10-19
Credit rating firm Egan-Jones published a commentary titled 'It's Over,' arguing that AI capabilities have crossed a threshold enabling widespread adoption that will disrupt hourly-billed professional services and senior talent roles. The firm predicts compressed margins in professional services, lower venture capital returns, and short-term pressure on home prices as screen-based jobs are affected. It also forecasts a new business model where highly successful firms operate with very few or no employees.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-04
Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering tracked meal-by-meal food intake for adult stem cell transplant patients from 2017 to 2022, recording what percentage of each dish patients actually ate. The team then analyzed how these dietary patterns interacted with antibiotic exposure and gut microbiome recovery, using neutrophil engraftment and survival data as clinical outcomes.
nature.com
· 2026-09-30
Research reported in Nature indicates that consuming sugar alongside antibiotics intensifies the disruption antibiotics cause to gut microbial communities. The findings point to diet as a factor that can compound the harm antibiotics do to beneficial bacteria in the digestive system.
nature.com
· 2026-09-30
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