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Schneider Electric raised its 2026 adjusted EBITA growth forecast to 18% to 21% following record third-quarter revenue of €11.46 billion. The French firm attributed the surge to AI data center demand, with energy management sales growing 18.8% organically.

Mynt, owner of the Philippines' GCash digital wallet, begins trading Tuesday as the region's biggest IPO this year, raising 60.9 billion pesos or about $971 million.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to spend $100 billion to $200 billion on artificial intelligence by 2026, nearly doubling the $72.2 billion spent last year. The company paid $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI to hire Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, aiming to build a core team of fewer than 200 researchers.

Turkey confirmed the arrest of Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart on Oct. 14 in Istanbul. Police seized $7.15 million in cash, six cold wallets, and 1,400 rounds of ammunition during searches of 15 addresses. The detained founder faces an Interpol Red Notice issued on behalf of Finland since December 2024 regarding crypto fraud and tax evasion allegations.

Internal documents reveal Amazon uses its Atlas AI tool to predict unionization risk in warehouses across the US, Canada, and UK. The system scores sites from 100 to 900 based on social media posts and survey responses. Sixteen warehouses are currently flagged as Tier 1, including a £500m robotic centre in Sutton Coldfield.

Hackers breached Microsoft 365 tenants through a ConnectWise supply-chain attack starting October 15. The malicious actor accessed at least 162 compromised tenants identified by Huntress. Microsoft confirmed unauthorized authentication attempts from IP 144.172.64.128 on October 15. ConnectWise shut down customer access to its Cloud Backup service on October 17 at 05:01 UTC.

Drupal patches two critical remote code execution flaws affecting over one million websites before October 14. The security team urges administrators to update to versions 10.6.19, 11.3.19, or 11.4.10 to prevent attackers from exploiting CVE-2026-108097 and CVE-2026-108099 within hours or days.

Global solar generation exceeded nuclear output for the first time in April 2026, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026. While wind surpassed nuclear in March 2025, solar alone overtook it by April, with global solar capacity rising 27% to 2,383 GW versus 399.5 GW for nuclear.

SpaceX agreed to purchase 800 MHz spectrum for $8 billion to build a terrestrial network supporting its Starlink service. This move follows a previous $20 billion EchoStar spectrum deal and FCC approval for 15,000 next-gen satellites, positioning SpaceX to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon as a major US carrier.

Cybersecurity researchers discovered the malicious npm package 'imgdecode' on September 30, 2026, which hides a shellcode loader in a Windows native addon. Uploaded by user malfexteste8, the package was downloaded 979 times and remains available. It decrypts encrypted shellcode from GitHub and injects it into a new dllhost.exe process, targeting Windows systems as part of the MALFEX campaign.