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Veteran BJP leader LK Advani has been admitted to Delhi's Indraprastha Apollo Hospital with a chest infection. The 98-year-old leader is under medical observation and receiving treatment in the …
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Via IB Times
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10/16/26
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US President Donald Trump has fired White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after just five days in the role. Her brief tenure faced scrutiny following criticism of her first press briefing and …
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Via IB Times
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10/16/26
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Police and fire crews attend an incident on Whitefriars Crescent, Perth, as drivers and pedestrians are urged to avoid the area on October 16.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/16/26
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A critical authentication bypass in the Budibase low-code platform allows unauthenticated remote attackers to hijack pending administrative invitations. By exploiting flaws in the OIDC/SSO login …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Forest clearance at smallest total since records began in 1988 in success for Lula ahead of presidential run-offDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level since records …
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Jonathan Watts (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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Zacharia hosted widely panned first briefing on Tuesday and faced scrutiny after admitting she didn’t pass bar examDonald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired on Friday, just …
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Ariana Baio (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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Portmore Estate near Peebles, featuring a Category A-listed baronial mansion, 3,460 acres, cottages and a farm, is on the market for over £15m.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/16/26
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A ‘family’ of criminals attempt to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in pulpy and forgettable thrillerIn the last half-decade Stanley Tucci has been a source of near-inexhaustible on- screen …
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Owen Myers (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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Manchester United head coach produced a masterclass in dialling down emotion before a tricky trip to LeedsMichael Carrick returned his most impressive performance precisely when required as he took …
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Jamie Jackson (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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Donald Trump’s White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is transitioning out of the role after five days, following criticism of her first briefing.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/16/26
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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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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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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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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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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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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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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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Via BBC News - Technology
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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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Blair Hayes (via Forkast)
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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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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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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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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/16/26
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Beijing warns against ‘discriminatory’ step after France drops opposition to British role in Made in Europe packageNo 10 has left the door open to imposing tariffs on Chinese-made electric …
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Rowena Mason, Lisa O’Carroll and Jasper Jolly (via Guardian)
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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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Dana Ellison (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Ukrainian president says US limiting access was a ‘dangerous and unpleasant surprise’, amid reports the order came from inside White HouseEurope live – latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy has …
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Andrew Rothin Kyiv (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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