October 26, 2026
Stories from this day
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Tech · 3 min readDeepSeek raises about $15 billion — two days after the US ordered agencies to remove it
Funding — about $15B (100B yuan), Tencent and CATL in, among China's largest rounds
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Tech · 3 min readGoogle lets Gmail and Photos data shape ads — the October 16 policy change, and how to opt out
Change — Oct 16 policy adds an exception to 'no ads from Gmail, Drive or Photos'
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Tech · 2 min readReservoir sues Suno and Anthropic for about $338 million — $150,000 a song, 1,903 songs
Suits — filed Oct 21 in N.D. California: Suno 1,050 songs, Anthropic 853 lyrics
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Tech · 3 min readAmazon drops its Ashburn data center plan — a $427 million campus turns to housing
Withdrawal — announced Oct 20: four planned data centers replaced by housing-led development
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Economy · 3 min readBank of Korea holds its rate at 3.00% (October 22) — unanimous, but the hiking cycle isn't over
Decision — held at 3.00%, 7-0 unanimous; first pause after July and August hikes
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Economy · 2 min readFOMC October 28 rate decision — a hold is priced above 90%, so why is everyone watching December 9?
Timing — decision 2:00 p.m. ET Oct 28; 3:00 a.m. Oct 29 in Seoul
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Tech · 3 min readPHP2Shell patch versions — 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, 8.2.35; attacks began four days before disclosure
Flaws — CVE-2026-109618 and -109619, unauthenticated remote code execution, CVSS 9.2
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Tech · 3 min readLiteLLM 1.107.0 malicious release — how to check, and how one unrevoked key opened the pipeline
Affected — PyPI 1.107.0 (about 1h44m live) and four Docker tags including latest
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is WAICO? China's AI organization — 29 signatories, no G7 members
Definition — founded in Shanghai on July 16, 2026; first treaty-based AI governance body
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is end of life (EOL) software? Why PHP2Shell fixes stopped at 8.2 — and 8.2 ends December 31, 2026
Definition — the point where a version gets no more fixes, security included