The Phantom of the Opera: West End premiere on 9 October 1986
Forty years ago, on 9 October 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera premiered at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End
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OpenAI and Anthropic Prepare Behind Closed Doors for a Major AI Incident
According to an Axios report dated October 9, executives at major AI companies are working through scenarios for a serious incident: from cyberattacks on infrastructure to political consequences. Some assessments…
Read the newsDeveloper built an interactive website about the Elizabeth Holmes case
On October 8, 2026, developer bo lau presented the website theranos.world. There you can sit at Elizabeth Holmes's desk, open her MacBook, scroll through her iPhone, and run the Theranos…
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AI agent found a planet candidate, TESS will check it in November 2026
An independent researcher from Tarragona, using Claude Code, noticed a star with regular dips in brightness in the TESS archives. The telescope will take a closer look at it from…
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Microsoft released the Michelangelus font based on Michelangelo’s manuscripts
Microsoft has introduced the serif font Michelangelus, created after the works of Michelangelo. It was commissioned by the Vatican's Fabbrica di San Pietro for the 400th anniversary of the consecration…
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Quad9 does not block pirate sites in France and does not rule out leaving the country
Swiss DNS resolver Quad9 refuses to block 58 domains under a ruling by the Paris court. beIN Sports is seeking up to €580,000 per day in penalties, and the foundation…
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Vulnerability in Telegram Desktop before 7.2.9: CVE-2026-107181, 8.6 on CVSS
A high-severity vulnerability was found in Telegram Desktop before version 7.2.9. Through a tg:// link, an unescaped IPC separator allowed files to be exfiltrated, including tdata keys. Patch in 7.2.9.
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Keurig smart coffee maker generated 1 TB of traffic in 10 days on a home network
A user going by the nickname Nomad noticed that his parents' smart coffee maker had generated 1 TB of traffic in 10 days. In his opinion, this is a bug…
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Manus raises over $500M in first round after Meta deal called off
Chinese company Manus raised more than $500 million. The round was led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund taking part. It is the first round…
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FBI and Secret Service warn of FortiBleed campaign against Fortinet
The FBI and the US Secret Service have issued a warning about the FortiBleed campaign: attackers change passwords and delete accounts to cut organizations off from their Fortinet devices. The…
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Google announced the purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion
On October 9, 2006, Google announced the acquisition of the video service YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The deal closed on November 13, and the service itself was not…
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Anthropic Gave Police a Chat Log Containing Threats; Florida Woman Charged
Carli Michelle Heller of Bonita Springs wrote to the Claude chatbot about a threat to carry out a shooting at the Lee County Sheriff's Office. Anthropic passed the conversation to…
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