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Everything Apple announced in Pro and Tell week, October 2026

29 October 2026

Apple spent the last week of October launching one product a day. It started with a new iPad mini on Monday, then a refreshed iMac and 14-inch MacBook Pro on…

A white flag with a gold Apple logo hangs from an ornate building façade during the October 2026 Pro and Tell event.

PHP has patched two critical flaws found with AI, so check who’s updating your websites

23 October 2026

The PHP project released emergency fixes on 21 October for two critical flaws in PHP, the language behind a large share of websites, the BBC reported. If your website, a…

A screen showing lines of colour coded PHP code for a WordPress website.

Hacker says a supplier’s “123456” password let them into Denmark’s population register

15 October 2026

Denmark's digitalisation ministry said in a press release on 5 October that someone had misused a private company's legal access to the country's Central Person Register (CPR), reaching names, addresses…

A login screen for the Denmark population register with fields for email and a weak password, featuring a Log In button, a Forgotten password link, and a Create new account button.

That meeting you don’t remember booking could be a phishing scam

13 October 2026

Fake meetings and renewal reminders are turning up in people's calendars with links to fake login pages, and one email security firm says the trick is spreading fast, the Guardian…

A smartphone screen displaying the Google Calendar app icon on a wooden surface.

How one borrowed login opened up ASOS’s customer data

9 October 2026

Asos has confirmed that the attackers behind this week's breach took detailed customer profiles, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, customer numbers and dates of birth. The way…

A smartphone displaying the ASOS logo, a company recently impacted by a data breach, on a white screen.

The Pentagon has finished removing Claude, seven months after ordering it out

6 October 2026

The US Department of Defence told the BBC on Monday that it has stopped using Anthropic's AI products. The order to phase them out came in late February with a…

Aerial view of the Pentagon, as if processed by AI removal, surrounded by car parks, motorways, and the Arlington skyline.