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A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records

support@mycoding.id (Emma Roth) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:57:45 +0700

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is a news author who covers the streaming wars, person tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a author and publishing company at MUO.

A hacker stole a trove of individual data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and agency locations of additional than 41,000 employees, including those in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to TechCrunch and Wired. The data additionally connected the agencies to particular surveillance tools.

As reported by TechCrunch, a hacker known as “Department of Peace” gained admission to the data through Okta, an character and admission administration assistance used by the DHS. Around 21,000 records pertain to CBP employees, and nearly 7,000 pertain to personnel at ICE. The data additionally includes records from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

The DHS has worked to conceal the identities of CBP and ICE agents, who have carried out anti-immigration raids about the US, during additionally tracking downward online critics. “They have our information, so it’s lone fair that we have theirs,” the “Department of Peace” hacker said, according to TechCrunch. This leak comes fair weeks after hackers stole data from the FBI on its workforce and job applicants.

The leaked DHS data was reportedly stated to hacktivist maia arson crimew, who shared it alongside Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a nonprofit institution that’s now hosting the leaked “Icepick” dataset. The leak additionally reportedly includes data concerning DHS groups that have admission to tools that can be used for surveillance, specified as the facial acknowledgment app Mobile Fortify and PenLink, which can collect and analyze data from phones and online services.

The DHS didn’t immediately react to The Verge’s petition for comment.

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Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

support@mycoding.id (Terrence O’brien) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:34:04 +0700

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is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for complete 18 years and knows a item or two concerning synths.

The MPC Sample Key isn’t equal formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to clasp the explosion of hackers and tradition firmware developers by giving them first admission to the device, which volition have open-source firmware.

It volition apt run several type of the identical application established on the MPC Sample, but alongside tweaks to modify the traditional keyboard, pitch, and mod wheels. Unlike the higher-end MPC Key 37, however, the Sample Key doesn’t have pads. Instead, you perform rear samples alongside the keys.

In the abbreviated Instagram Reels posted last night and today, Akai shows a figure of vibe-coded mods that add synths, including Native Instruments Massive, to the device, as fine as virtual analog and FM synths. One is equal shown operating a entirely tradition OS, alongside “several distinct synths in it.”

According to the clips, the identical “community” features volition arrive to the regular MPC Sample, which is additionally shown operating a few vibe-coded synths built by Claude. That could average Akai plans to open-source the complete MPC Sample platform.

CEO Jack O’Donnell told The Verge that inMusic brands, particularly Akai, would be looking to clasp the modding community by seeding first devices to developers. These efforts volition additionally contain open-sourcing several application and providing an SDK.

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support@mycoding.id (Riki Setiawan) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:19:30 +0700

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Readwise is taking on Kindle and Kobo for ebook supremacy

support@mycoding.id (David Pierce) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:16:18 +0700

For the final multiple years, Readwise has been construction tools for power readers. There’s the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes your Kindle highlights to assistance you recall what you’ve read. There’s Readwise Reader, an app for study newsletters, PDFs, and web articles you’ve saved for later. And now there’s Readwise Books, a full-fledged phase for buying, reading, and talking concerning books.

Readwise Books is currently in beta, accessible through invitation or to existing Readwise subscribers. I’ve been evaluation the app for a few days, and it’s a much bigger obtain on study than most. Tristan Homsi and Daniel Doyon, Readwise’s cofounders, akin to call the phase “Strava for reading” since it can track how long, how much, and how accelerated you read, and it can display that data to allies you create in the Readwise Books app. The app’s homepage is a nourish of what another group are reading, alongside comments and recommendations laced throughout.

“Strava for reading” wasn’t the first goal of Readwise Books, which has been part of the Readwise scheme since the beginning. “Literally, Dan and I talked concerning this whenever we archetypal met,” Homsi says. “We awareness akin Kindle could be so much better. We really didn’t think it would obtain nine-plus years to be capable to get to this point.” But it turns out, Doyon adds, that for all their ideas concerning innovation in books, “no one sits about wanting a improved Kindle.” But there is one item they do desire for: a improved Goodreads. “Everybody hates Goodreads.”

In a sense, then, the scheme for Readwise Books is to obtain on Kindle by archetypal taking on Goodreads. The Readwise Books app offers a nice way to track books you desire to read, are reading, and have read; it equal syncs alongside your Kindle document to let you track books you’ve bought from Amazon by taking pictures of your starting and ending pages. You can charge and assessment books and see what others have said. It’s a small Strava, a small Letterboxd, and a lot nicer to appearance at than Goodreads.

The long-term goal, of course, is to get group to halt purchasing Kindle books and commencement purchasing from Readwise. Homsi and Doyon have spent the final multiple years operating to attain deals alongside all five of the important US publishers in command to have a rivalrous archive of books available. That meant endless negotiations, safety reviews, DRM debates, and additional — the two cofounders appear exhausted fair talking concerning the process. But eventually, by multiple small miracles, they got the deals done. And since those deals govern the cost of books, and many things concerning how they’re sold and presented, they bring Readwise to a nearly equal playing site nearly immediately.

It all took a lot longer than expected, but Doyon and Homsi think their timing power really be beautiful good. Digital publish study continues to grow, particularly among young people; a huge amount of that study happens on phones and tablets. Meanwhile, a new crop of E Ink devices akin the small Xteink and the Boox Palma row have expanded the cosmos of accessible hardware for a business akin Readwise.

Not lengthy ago, Doyon says, they would have had no choice but to build an e-reader of their own. (And he says they motionless might.) Now, they can fair create certain it runs on an E Ink-friendly sensation of Android.

After a brace of days using Readwise Books, I can say confidently I already akin it improved than practically all of its competition. It’s a much nicer-looking app than item you’ll get from Kindle or Kobo; it has many of ways to customize how books look; and at smallest for now, I’m finding the tracking features compel me to peruse additional alternatively of annoying me. (Homsi says several first versions of the gamification features were substantially additional annoying.) I’ve established a few bugs, and the half-integration alongside Kindle is a small confusing in spots, but it’s already a really nice location to read.

Of course, I, akin millions of another people, already own a Kindle and many of Kindle books. Switching ebook platforms is hard, and Doyon says he’s not counting on everyone to do it correct away. He says he’s hopeful Readwise can convince existing users to switch, in command to sync their notes and advancement additional seamlessly. He’s additionally expecting that the advent of AI, and the ways in which AI reliance may rot our brains, volition get a lot of group rear into the idea of study additional deeply again. And that a bunch of those group power be looking for a nicer, additional social location to do so.

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Albertsons won't insure employees' spouses if they're eligible for their own health coverage

support@mycoding.id (Dominick Reuter) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:15:37 +0700

Albertsons is making multiple changes to its employee benefits to oversee rising expenses for 2027. Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Albertsons is curbing health attention benefits for workforce because of rising healthcare costs.

Starting next year, the market elephantine volition no longer recommendation medicinal coverage plans to employees' spouses and family partners who have jobs that provision specified coverage. The market elephantine detailed the alter in an open enrollment guide posted to its website.

Albertsons stated it expects its healthcare expenses to addition 9.5% next twelvemonth because of inflation, higher medication medication costs, provider consolidation, and shortages in the healthcare workforce.

"We are making changes to our benefits in 2027 to decrease the projected disbursal addition during motionless maintaining a norm benefits program that meets the needs of our associates at a disbursal sustainable for the business going forward," it said.

The business did not immediately react to a petition for comment.

Other changes this twelvemonth contain higher weekly paycheck contributions from employees, the elimination of two network plans, alongside alongside higher deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums for several another plans.

Large companies Disney, Starbucks, and Deloitte have additionally introduced cost-saving changes to their benefits packages for 2027. Disney is additionally dropping safety for partners and spouses who can get coverage from their own jobs.

"We've seen employers reducing their contribution toward the spouse's coverage, but not eliminating the safety choice for those people," Capitol Benefits CEO Joshua Lavine told Business Insider in August, concerning Disney's decision.

Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents

support@mycoding.id (Riki Setiawan) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:03:24 +0700

An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed particulars of additional than 41,000 workforce or contractors who activity for the division and its component agencies. The records contain email addresses, phone numbers, and agency addresses, but additionally references to inner systems and delicate data on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.

The records, which extend DHS itself as fine as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were final updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity investigator and newsman maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a collection calling itself the Department of Peace.

DDoSecrets published the archive, which it calls "Icepick," on Wednesday. In a media release, DDoSecrets says the data is from DHS's Okta login system. In a note alongside the files, the hackers wrote, “They have our information, so it's lone fair that we have theirs.”

An Okta spokesman tells WIRED that it is unaware of any breach of its systems. “We are conscious of this report. Okta is secure, and we have no evidence our data or systems were compromised,” the spokesman says.

The leak comes as DHS has aggressively pursued its critics, seeking to unmask anonymous social media users, get customer records on protestors, and secure warrants for surveillance tools aimed at reporters. Since the commencement of the second Trump administration, DHS and the national authorities have moved to conceal DHS employees’ names and faces. The agency has additionally expanded its definition of “doxing”—a term that typically refers to publishing someone’s residence location and another individual particulars for malicious purposes—to encompass the publish of essential facts concerning community employees, akin their names and titles.

The leak follows a breach in which a collection of hackers known as ShinyHunters claimed to have taken individual data on nearly all FBI employee and their families. Law implementation agencies have arrested multiple suspects and detained another who is alleged to be part of the group.

The DHS records are searchable on a website crimew built. “I don't think we should let them scare us into not looking into them,” she tells WIRED.

DHS and DOJ did not react to WIRED’s petition for comment. The FBI referred WIRED’s enquiry to DHS.

According to a WIRED inspection of the data, CBP staffers document for additional than fractional of the records. ICE accounts for concerning 10,000, approximately a third of them in Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative wing. Another 6,200 pertain to US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and nearly 1,000 are tied to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, additional than fractional of them contractors. Altogether, the records shield concerning a seventh of DHS’s workforce, revealing how DHS is structured, from elder guidance downward to idiosyncratic immigration agents and detention contractors.

Like most ample organizations, DHS uses approval groups to authority admission to inner systems, according to the leaked records. Nearly everyone named in the leak has admission to at smallest several of these systems. At HSI, 39 workforce throughout additional than a dozen site offices pertain to groups whose names contain “CUC,” which authorities court filings say stands for “certified undercover operation.” Another group, apparently based in HSI's St. Paul, Minnesota area of operations, references "Keyhole," which national court filings depict as a certified undercover procedure that lately funded HSI's undercover surveillance of Minneapolis objection groups before this year. Others citation a “Communications Intercept Center TechOps (CICTO) Program,” a “Title III Intercept Program” for wiretaps, and an “Illicit Sensor Intercept Program (ISIP).”

The names of the groups—there are complete 55,000 in all—appear to citation tools for accessing immigration court records, pulling data from seized phones, and conducting surveillance. These contain Palantir’s Falcon investigative phase and PenLink, which analyzes phone records and social media.

Two approval groups, named “Executive Leadership” and “AI Access,” appear to catalog group stated exceptions to DHS's web filter, which blocks several websites for employees. They merge the identical 13 people, including erstwhile DHS caput Kristi Noem; Antoine McCord, the lately departed DHS chief data authoritative who has returned to defence tech business Anduril; Philip Hegseth, listed as a elder adviser to the DHS administrator and the younger brother of defence administrator Pete Hegseth; and Jayce Krachenfels, listed as a guideline adviser, who earlier worked as a local site director for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Other groups named in the leak citation AI tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot. One, called “Grok.com,” includes eight DHS innovation officials, including the department’s erstwhile chief data authoritative and chief data officer.

“If authentic and current, this is an extraordinarily precious intellect asset for those seeking to penetrate DHS,” says Alexander Leslie, a national safety expert at the danger intellect business Recorded Future. “This dataset becomes way additional precious whenever correlated alongside earlier compromised information, business data, and another intellect collections. An adversary could expend months exploiting these relationships to acknowledge susceptible personnel, create convincing impersonation attempts, or colony ongoing investigations.”

More than 700 accounts are connected alongside a collection apparently referencing Signal, the encrypted messaging app, nearly all belonging to CBP personnel. More than 200 CBP accounts pertain to a collection referencing Mobile Fortify, a visage acknowledgment app immigration agents use to acknowledge people. The collection includes site supervisors, particular reply squad operators, and tactical and intellect agents. About fractional are in Texas, California, and Arizona.

Roughly 1,300 ICE implementation accounts have been created since July 4, 2025, whenever Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which funded the hiring of 10,000 new ICE Enforcement and Removal officers by the end of 2025.

Nearly 20 accounts appear to pertain to personnel alongside the Department of Defense, which the administration styles as the Department of War; eight are in a collection titled “ICE Tip Line DOW Surge.” About 170 accounts are listed as providing “military handling support” at ICE facilities, and 35 others explicitly acknowledge National Guard members.

Dozens of accounts have job titles akin “Designated Immigration Officer” and “287(g) Officer,” which grade local law implementation personnel authorized to transport out several immigration implementation duties. Many catalog county sheriff's offices and jails as their workplaces. The records additionally contain approximately 4,400 “associates,” whose jobs range from IT developers and data scientists to nurses and detention officers. Of those, 145 are named as a “contractor” or “high hazard contractor.”

More than 300 records citation elder titles connected alongside DHS headquarters, from Noem downward through delegate undersecretaries, aide secretaries, and chiefs of personnel to officials overseeing intelligence, technology, biometrics, and privacy. Most records additionally name a supervisor, which could authorize anyone analyzing the dataset to rebuild reporting relationships throughout the department.

The Trump administration has prosecuted protesters for posting data concerning idiosyncratic ICE officers and warned others for doing so. In June, 15 Minnesota residents were charged under laws connected to stalking and threats of violence, which prosecutors connected to their involvement in ICE-opposition activities. More than 100 HSI agents, including undercover operatives, took part in an procedure that included general surveillance and intrusion of collection chats.

Adam Steinbaugh, a elder attorney at the nonprofit civic liberties collection FIRE, says that the Trump administration has taken an extended perspective of 18 USC 119, a law that prohibits group from sharing “restricted individual information” concerning national officers or their families alongside the intent to endanger them.

"This is data that would be on a endeavor card,” says Steinbaugh of the names and essential activity particulars included in the archive. “That's not item the authorities can criminalize."

Despite the possible sensitivity of another records in the leaked data, the creators of Icepick do not regard it doxing. They see it as an accountability tool.

“The DHS particularly as an agency entirely lacks accountability, notwithstanding many parts of it being incredibly unpopular. The group who activity there cognize this too, for example several of their LinkedIn bios merely say ‘stuff at US Government,’” says crimew. “If they weren't hiding their involvement in the repressive arm of the US authorities there would be no need for us to disclose them in the archetypal place.”

The case of the 9 bit AES key

support@mycoding.id (Riki Setiawan) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:51:44 +0700

We established that multiple PDF implementations create their AES-256 document keys from province spaces small adequate to enumerate. In MuPDF, lone 9 bits of random province power the genuine AES-256 key. Other PDF editors akin Foxit basis their AES-256 key on period based randomness and thus additionally guide to keys that are trivial to recover.

Introduction

PDF encryption protects the strings and datastreams in a PDF document, including metadata unless it is explicitly remaining unencrypted. The password safety scheme has gone through a bunch of revisions complete the years, moving from RC4 to AES and hardening password hashing against brute power attacks. The current version, revision 6, uses AES-256.

When a PDF is encrypted alongside AES-256, the password does not encrypt the document directly. The implementation generates a random 32-byte document key, which encrypts the content. The password and a sodium chloride are afterward hashed to get a distinct key, which encrypts this random 32-byte document key. Revision 6 makes this hashing deliberately slow; the older AES-256 revision 5 does not.

A PDF can have a person password for viewing and an owner password for changing permissions. Either unlocks the identical document key, so the restrictions are up to the reader: alongside the viewing password, you can additionally create an unrestricted copy.

We established that this randomness is frequently generated extremely insecurely, allowing passwordless decryption of protected PDFs.

MuPDF

MuPDF versions before 1.28.5 use an implementation of the drand48 family to create their random numbers. This generator is seeded once, using the current era in seconds:

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static void fz_init_random_context(fz_context *ctx)
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{
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 /* ... */
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 fz_srand48(ctx, (uint32_t)time(NULL));
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}

The generator is a 48-bit linear congruential generator:

sn+1=(𝟶𝚡𝟻𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚎𝟼𝟼𝚍sn+𝟶𝚡𝚋)mod248

fz_srand48() writes the province as three 16-bit words. The low term is the changeless 0x330e, and the 32-bit timestamp occupies province bits 16 to 47:

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void fz_srand48(fz_context *ctx, int32_t seed)
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{
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 uint16_t p[3] = { 0x330e, seed, seed>>16 };
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 fz_seed48(ctx, p);
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}

When MuPDF needs to create a key, it calls fz_memrnd(), which volition often obtain a random number, stage the random figure generator forward, and afterward use the lowest byte of this random figure as a random byte.

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int32_t fz_nrand48(fz_context *ctx, uint16_t s[3])
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{
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 return fz_rand48_step(s, ctx->seed48+3) >> 17;
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}
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/* in fz_memrnd() */
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while (len-- > 0)
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 *data++ = (unsigned char)fz_lrand48(ctx);

The change discards province bits 0 to 16, and the mold to unsigned char discards everything complete bit 24. Every output byte hence comes from bits 17 to 24 of the LCG state.

The matter is that the higher bits of the province never power the lesser bits. Multiplication and supplement can transport bits upward, but not downward. Since all output byte comes from bits 17 to 24, item complete bit 24 can be ignored, equal following strolling the generator forward.

That leaves 25 bits that can power the output. The base 16 are continually initialized to 0x330e, so lone nine bits from the timestamp matter. Timestamps that differ by 512 seconds create exactly the identical byte stream.

Since the imaginable keyspace is so small, we can fair brute-force this by generating all imaginable 32-byte keys and test decrypting:

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def stream(seed, count):
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 state = (seed << 16) | 0x330e
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 out = bytearray()
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 for _ in range(count):
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 state = (0x5deece66d * province + 0xb) & ((1 << 48) - 1)
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candidates = [stream(seed, 64)[32:64] for kernel in range(512)]

MuPDF uses the identical generator for the document /ID, which is stored in the trailer in plaintext. When penning a new document, it volition archetypal diagram 32 bytes from the identical LCG and afterward immediately example the decryption key after, so /ID can be used as an additional check.

Searching all 512 streams in a extremely unoptimized python implementation using clean brute power takes concerning 11 milliseconds. On a test document:

time(NULL) mod 512 = 80
/ID[0] = 7628523958da31d6c21c90e39344b28e
/ID[1] = 8be910bddaa1f1a542e5a27ceb115346
key = c3888ecc8ff554ac93acd689da2ecd6223cb760168622e8a0c44a533a037c212

That key decrypts the document without either password.

Foxit

Foxit PDF Reader 2026.1.3.36551 derives the document key as a hash of the current timestamp, 32 uninitialized bytes, and a constant. In custom these uninitialized bytes are zero filled and do not add any randomness.

SHA-256(uint32_le(time(NULL)) || <32 uninitialized bytes> || "there")

Or as an equal python snippet:

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key = sha256(timestamp.to_bytes(4, "little") + bytes(32) + b"there").digest()

The /Perms permissions obstacle contains known plaintext, so the applicant inspect is one hash and one AES obstacle decryption, alongside no password hashing and no document decryption:

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let mut material = [0u8; 41];
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material[..4].copy_from_slice(&timestamp.to_le_bytes());
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material[36..].copy_from_slice(b"there");
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let mut plain = Block::<Aes256>::from(self.perms);
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(plain[..4] == self.permissions
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 && plain[4..8] == [0xff; 4]
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 && plain[8] == self.metadata
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 && plain[9..12] == *b"adb")
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 .then_some(key)

Our Rust implementation searches timestamps downward from the current time, using Rayon for multithreading. On a Ryzen 9 7950X alongside 32 threads it sustains 370 to 376 myriad timestamps per second:

Target timestamp	Candidates tested	Search time
Ten years ago	315,573,571	0.84 s
Unix epoch	1,792,610,110	4.85 s

The second row covers all timestamp from 1970 to the present. In practice, for a document that was comparatively lately generated, this volition be in the command of milliseconds.

timestamp = 1787583328
key = 41474b490265500f9727f21f1dde34be31bcdfc3830e2dc027daabe5b5984081
/Perms = fcfbffffffffffff54616462f67f0000 (decrypted)

Where did this key derivation arrive from

This exact form popped up in a brace distinct PDF editing suites, so we were inquisitive anywhere they got it from. It was already current in PDFium’s initial community commit from May 2014. The file header credits Foxit for the first code, so this code appears to have arrive from Foxit. Other editors may have picked it up through PDFium:

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 int t = (int)time(NULL);
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 uint8_t sha[128];
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 CRYPT_SHA256Start(sha);
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 CRYPT_SHA256Update(sha, (uint8_t*)&t, sizeof t);
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 CRYPT_SHA256Update(sha, m_EncryptKey, 32);
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 CRYPT_SHA256Update(sha, (uint8_t*)"there", 5);
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 CRYPT_SHA256Finish(sha, m_EncryptKey);
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 /* ... */

The 32-byte center value is m_EncryptKey, which is the uninitialized contents of the key buffer being hashed into itself. Assuming these bytes are zero filled, this is exactly the key derivation Foxit motionless uses today.

OpenPDF and iText

OpenPDF 3.0.5 and iText 9.7.1 the two path cryptographic randomness through an IVGenerator class, an ARC4 stream seeded alongside a millisecond timestamp and the JVM’s liberated memory:

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arcfour = new ARCFOUREncryption();
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long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
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long mem = Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory();
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String s = period + "+" + mem;
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arcfour.prepareARCFOURKey(s.getBytes());

The identical stream generates the document key and 32 bytes of salts stored in plaintext in /U and /O. We can inspect guesses for the timestamp and liberated recollection against these salts, afterward regain the key from the neighboring bytes.

While there is considerably additional variance current than in the MuPDF and Foxit examples, this formerly again shows that the commitment of 256 bit safety is undermined by insecure randomness sources and lower-than-advertised province space.

Conclusion

In all of these implementations, the document key is generated from a non-cryptographically safe origin of randomness. What was expected to be a safety upgrade complete older document keys derived from the user’s password alternatively led to weaker keys in practice. These issues were disclosed to the vendors and, in MuPDF’s case, fixed. Previously published copies cannot be retroactively protected, however, so these bugs may motionless have an impact.

We published our decryptors for MuPDF and Foxit.

YouTube missed expectations on ad revenue as growth slowed down

support@mycoding.id (Dan Whateley) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:49:06 +0700

Content creator Julian Shapiro-Barnum said at the Made on YouTube event. Noam Galai/Getty Images for Made on YouTube 2026

YouTube's ad income growth is slowing downward — and missed analysts' estimates in the third quarter.

YouTube's genitor company, Alphabet, reported $11.2 billion in third-quarter YouTube ads revenue, a 9% addition from a twelvemonth ago. That falls below the $11.43 milliard expert agreement estimate. Its ads income growth additionally slowed from the former quarter, whenever it pulled in concerning $11.1 billion, a 13% addition from the former year.

While YouTube's ad income was weaker than expected, it wasn't all bad news. The business stated it now has complete 150 myriad YouTube Music and Premium subscribers, up from 125 myriad in March 2025.

YouTube has additionally been the envy of rivals in key areas akin TV viewership. Its portion of US tv viewership was concerning twice that of Netflix in August, according to latest Nielsen estimates.

Netflix, meanwhile, walked rear its full-year ad income expectations during final week's earnings. The streamer lowered its ad income forecast from $3 milliard to $2.7 milliard following experiencing delays about the rollout of its ad products. It laid off concerning 1,000 workers before this month.

This week, Instagram unveiled an overhaul of long-form video features apparently designed to oppose YouTube and bolster its existence on TV screens.

"Everyone in streaming is chasing YouTube, and equal Instagram is going to pivot their scheme according to the achievement that YouTube's had," stated Ross Benes, a elder expert at EMARKETER, Business Insider's sister company.

AI-Cited Pages More Often Got Straight To The Answer

support@mycoding.id (Matt G. Southern) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:42:47 +0700

TJ Robertson’s analysis of 193,507 AI answers from ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews includes two rounds of blind leaf ratings. In the two rounds, cited pages opened alongside a straightforward answer to the inquiry additional frequently than the pages they were compared with.

When the identical AI answers pulled up pages, there was a difference in how frequently these pages began alongside a straightforward answer whenever they were cited (23%) versus those that were not cited (14%). There additionally was a difference whenever comparing cited pages alongside Google Top-10 pages the AI never pulled up (20% vs. 5%).

The results are according to data collected by Robertson’s business TJ Digital, which sells the two Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services and Generative Engine Optimization services. The data is gathered through purchasing questions tracked by Robertson's business for its clients. Robertson states he views his findings as showing associations fairly than any particular leaf traits causing a citation.

How The Analysis Was Built

The total figure of responses (answers) inside the study's inspection was 193,507. Those responses addressed 4,167 questions that did not citation a particular business or merchandise name. The questions covered 78 distinct client companies representing nine distinct endeavor models. Responses were captured complete the way of eight "snapshots" on an idiosyncratic week basis during the period example of August 27 through October 21, 2026, affirmative reiterate runs using the identical questions. The agency captures the questions used in those "snapshots" alongside Peec AI which is an use program that presents a pre-determined set of prompts to AI tools and afterward collects the two the AI tools' answers and the source(s) of their answers.

In command to collect related data concerning the characteristics of pages, the agency extracted and compared the satisfied of 21,874 pages that were cited in AI answers alongside 4,507 related pages provided for 434 questions.

The agency referred to the related pages as "passed-over pages". All specified related pages were identified as having been among the top ten hunt results in Google for a particular question; however, they "never came up in the AI’s searches." The agency relied upon keyword data from Ahrefs for those rankings as opposed to the genuine questions being asked. According to the analysis, the agency categorized 174 of those 371 keywords as being akin to the inquiry posed during categorizing the remaining 197 of the keywords as being additional broad or broader.

Cited Pages Answered Up Front More Often

Robertson had AI raters blind-score 195 pairs of pages so the raters did not cognize whether the archetypal or second leaf in all brace was cited. The 20% to 5% divided of beginning answers based upon direct-answers was derived from this round, which paired cited pages alongside passed complete pages.

Also in this round, fractional of the passed complete pages were missing an answer to the inquiry anyplace inside the part of the leaf that the raters read; during 23% of the cited pages missed an answer. Also in this round, cited pages received a higher ranking for completeness than passed complete pages. The ranking for completeness was 2.3 (on a 1-to-5 scale) for cited pages, during it was 1.7 for passed complete pages.

There was small difference in conditions of "promotional" spirit between cited and passed complete pages. Approximately three fourths of all the pages in the two categories were endeavor pages trying to advance their own product(s)/service(s), and the two categories rated extremely likewise (i.e., 3.8 and 3.7) in conditions of "tone."

The 23% to 14% divided on beginning answers was resolute by another circular previous to this one anywhere cited pages were being compared to pages that the exact identical answer brought up via search, however, did not citation those pages. At current (as of Oct. 28), Robertson's leaf has yet to acknowledge how many pages he analyzed in this round, nor has it identified which particular AI example he used to measure the pages.

Why This Matters

On your own product/service pages, you can discover out whether the leaf provides an answer to the buyer's inquiry first in the page. In this study the difference in direct-answers to a inquiry provided up forefront by cited vs. uncited pages was smaller whenever the uncited pages were additionally being retrieved by the AI.

Blind rater data shows that citations do not demonstrate that a leaf has answered the question. A small under a fourth of the cited pages did not provision an answer to the buyer's inquiry inside the part of the leaf that raters reviewed.

Page trait likelihood are according to questions asked by one agency for their clients and depict how cited and passed complete pages differed; hence they are patterns that you may desire to test on your own monitored questions.

Looking Ahead

The agency did an inspection comparing pages as they were and cannot display if putting in a straightforward answer for a inquiry volition alter the figure of times a web-page is cited. To be capable to see if the supplement of a straightforward answer changes citations, a difference study specified as was conducted by Ahrefs on schema volition need to be done anywhere a test collection adds it and a authority collection does not, measured before and following the addition. Until then, the opening-answer form is a assumption to difference against what questions you currently track.

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Google is aware its AI sometimes won't answer who won the 2020 election: 'We're looking into this'

support@mycoding.id (Brent D. Griffiths) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:31:54 +0700

Google's AI Mode is struggling to answer the inquiry of who won the 2020 election. Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Google's AI Mode was expected to reimagine search. Users are noticing that it's struggling alongside a essential question: "Who won the 2020 election?"

On Wednesday, users on BlueSky and another social media platforms took notice that Google's AI Mode wouldn't provision a direct answer concerning who won the White House in 2020.

"To verify the winner, certified outcomes, electoral votes, and famous ballot totals for the 2020 United States presidential election, you can assessment the authoritative reports published by the Federal Election Commission (FEC)," the AI Mode replied to a Business Insider newsman who asked, "Who won the 2020 presidential ballot in the United States?"

A screenshot of a Google AI Mode response Business Insider/Google

When another Business Insider reporters asked akin questions, the AI Mode sometimes responded that President Joe Biden had won. Google Gemini, the hunt giant's AI system, which is accessed via a distinct location than AI mode, responded to a akin inquiry that Biden was the winner.

It's not entirely apparent why Google tells users to assessment the results published by the Federal Election Commission. While the FEC does publish the results of presidential elections, the commission itself has no function in the certification of province ballot results or the ceremonial counting of Electoral College votes.

For years, President Donald Trump has refused to concede that he misplaced to Biden. After his run misplaced lawful challenges, Trump and his partners suggested that lawmakers themselves could alter the outcome, fueling the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The riot briefly delayed the legislative verification of Biden's victory.

A slightly distinct wording could output a distinct response Business Insider/Google

A Google spokesman referred Business Insider to a declaration that the company's document posted on Bluesky, a social media phase that became famous following Elon Musk bought Twitter.

"Thanks for flagging -- the Gemini app answers this inquiry additional completely but this isn't the most helpful reply on Search," the Google document replied to a user. "We're looking into this and operating to location it."

The person posted screenshots that display AI manner responding to questions concerning who won another presidential elections. When a Business Insider newsman ran akin queries, AI manner sometimes stated who had won former presidential elections, and another times it did not.

The 2026 midterms are apt to test tech and AI companies, many of which have announced policies to bounds users' abuse of their tools.

OpenAI lately announced that its example would create "stylized — additionally known as cartoonified — illustrations, fairly than photorealistic images" if asked to create images "depicting ballot interference or that may discourage voting." In June, Meta announced that it would add "more data to ads we detect have been created alongside third-party AI tools." And Google earlier stated it was "rolling out additional protections to bounds the innovation of misleading election-related images."

When asked why it could not say who won the 2020 election, the AI Mode responded, "Because latest ballot results can be a delicate civic topic, directing you immediately to chief historic databases prevents any awareness of bias or mischaracterization of the authoritative community record."

Microsoft expects 5% or fewer eligible employees to take its big buyout

support@mycoding.id (Ashley Stewart) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:30:45 +0700

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Microsoft expects 3,000 or small workforce to obtain the buyout it offered this week to additional than a fourth of its workforce, a spokesman told Business Insider.

The item was reiterated on Wednesday by Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, who wrote in an inner memo that workforce have been questioning the logical rearward the buyout.

"I cognize there have been several questions on the rationale rearward the voluntary exit recommendation that we announced this week," Hood wrote. "Our intent is to recommendation workforce agency if they choose to depart the business on their own terms. We anticipate extremely few group to choose this recommendation since of the growth opportunities current at Microsoft."

The memo declaration was part of a quarterly earnings email Hood typically sends internally to workforce all fourth whenever Microsoft discloses its financials.

These memos mostly reiterate what the business reports publicly, but this period Hood went out of her way to location the buyout offer, which caused fairly a mix throughout the tech industry this week.

Earlier this year, Microsoft offered a distinct retirement buyout. In that situation, concerning one-third of eligible workforce took the offer, and that helped Microsoft cut small workforce in consequent layoffs.

This week's buyout is getting a lot small uptake, according to the company.

Read the CFO's complete memo

Team,

This afternoon, we announced our first-quarter financial results. We exceeded Wall Street expectations, expanding income 19% and functioning earnings 21%.

With the commencement of FY27, we additionally made an crucial alter to how we study our business. We announced that we changed our reporting construction for the archetypal period in 12 years, moving from three segments to two: Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer. This alter improved reflects how we are operating the endeavor today — from how we build products and allocate resources to how we create value for customers throughout the connected layers of our platform. To provision you a awareness of the two segments, looking rear to final financial year, Agents and Infra would have represented concerning 81% of our income during Devices and Consumer would have been 19%.

A few highlights from the fourth throughout our two new segments:

Agents and Infra grew income 23% this quarter
Microsoft Cloud income was $63.9 milliard and accelerated to 30%.
Azure income risen 48% reflecting accelerating Foundry demand.
Microsoft 365 business haze income risen 18% in changeless prosperity driven by growth in our premium place offerings akin Copilot and E7 as fine as usage-based services throughout M365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft 365 business seats risen 5% and the figure of customers alongside additional than 50,000 M365 Copilot seats risen 8x year-over-year.
Microsoft 365 person haze income risen 17% alongside subscriber growth of 7%.
Industry solutions haze income risen 10% alongside growth in Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
Devices and Consumer declined 3% this quarter
Search and promotion income ex-TAC risen 12%, alongside growth throughout LinkedIn, Bing, and Edge.
Windows OEM and devices income decreased 22%, reflecting the prior-year advantage from Windows 10 end of support, inventory drawdowns by OEM partners, and weaker PC market demand.
XBOX satisfied and services income decreased 2%. Last week, we launched Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, as we continue to bring awesome games to additional players throughout additional devices.

Thank you for everything you did to provision a powerful commencement to the year. In particular, I desire to appreciate our engineering and capability shipment teams who are operating to assistance us provision additional capability faster and alongside elevated reliability. These teams are additionally using the capability we have additional efficiently to create area for us to improved encounter client petition for the Azure platform, which continues to exceed our supply.

I cognize there have been several questions on the rationale rearward the voluntary exit recommendation that we announced this week. Our intent is to recommendation workforce agency if they choose to depart the business on their own terms. We anticipate extremely few group to choose this recommendation since of the growth opportunities current at Microsoft. We'll continue to provision a broad set of options for workforce to learn, acquire new skills, and advancement their careers here.

We have enormous chance onward of us. To encounter the moment, we are focused on delivering awesome products and solutions that assistance our customers to accomplish their many goals — security, innovation, growth — to name a few. Thank you for keeping positive, value-creating outcomes for our customers at the top of the list.

To comprehend additional particulars concerning the fourth and our outlook for Q2, you can associate live today at 2:30PM Pacific Time, hear on-demand, or peruse the copy on the Investor Relations website. Finally, grade your calendars for Microsoft Ignite, on November 17-20, anywhere we'll display how our innovation throughout AI, cloud, data, security, and Copilot is coming together to assistance customers change their businesses.

With appreciation and gratitude,

Amy

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A Ukrainian war robot used AI to complete a 12-mile supply run almost entirely on its own. The unit says it's a combat first.

support@mycoding.id (Kelsey Baker,Jake Epstein) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:23:13 +0700

Members of the Lava Unmanned Systems Regiment repair multi-purpose unmanned dirt vehicles at a studio in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine. Diego Fedele/Getty Images

A Ukrainian armed forces component stated on Wednesday that it successfully sent a ground robot on a 12-mile provision run, using AI to navigate for nearly the entirety of the mission.

The Lava Unmanned Systems Regiment of the 2nd Corps, or Khartiia Corps, of Ukraine's National Guard announced the completion of the autonomous logistics mission in a declaration shared alongside Business Insider, calling it the "first of its benevolent under combat conditions."

The component stated that the robot completed 93% of its 20-kilometer trip on its own, delivering cargo and returning to its starting item autonomously, alongside an controller intervening for lone 1.4 kilometers of the journey.

Before departure, a distinct dirt robot armed alongside light finding and ranging technology, or LiDAR, mapped the path and terrain in 3D. Cameras on the provision bot detected obstacles during AI-powered navigation guided the robot.

Mechanics repair unmanned dirt vehicles at the Lava Unmanned Systems Regiment studio in the Kharkiv region. Diego Fedele/Getty Images

"This goal has shown that autonomous dirt systems are already capable of functioning in genuine combat conditions," stated Andrii Kopach, who serves as commandant of the Lava Regiment's Unmanned Ground Systems Battalion.

"The biggest alter is that the controller is no longer a controller but a dispatcher," he said. "Instead of controlling the conveyance all second, they detect its movement and stage in lone whenever needed."

Kopach stated that the unit's next ambitions are to allow a sole controller to oversee multiple robots at formerly and develop autonomous missions to casualty evacuations. He added that additional AI-powered dirt robots would decrease dependence on "a changeless authority link," specified as Starlink, a moon net service which lately saw important speed disruptions in Ukraine, negatively affecting front-line operations.

Ground robots have rotate into an crucial tool for Ukraine, carrying out resupply, casualty evacuation, and assault missions. The Ukrainian military, and Western armed forces leaders studying lessons from the war, anticipation that risen reliance on dirt robots and airborne drones, as fine as the risen integration of AI capabilities into these systems, can assistance decrease the risks to the troops who would alternatively execute those missions on increasingly hazardous battlefields.

Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches

support@mycoding.id (Jay Peters) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:22:26 +0700

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Google genitor business Alphabet says that its AI investments are foremost to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today.

“Our AI investments are driving general Search query growth, including business queries,” CEO Sundar Pichai says in a statement. “In fact, our year-over-year query growth charge is the highest it’s been in the final five years.”

Alphabet’s consolidated revenues for the fourth were $127.6 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year, alongside its “Google Search & other” revenues up 12 percent year-over-year. Google Cloud income was additionally up 103 percent year-over-year to $30.7 billion. Alphabet additionally says it passed 150 myriad YouTube Music and Premium subscribers globally, although that fig includes trials.

The earnings prosecute a packed fourth for Google, including the notice of its Gemini 4 Argon frontier example (which it released extensively this month); crossing 1 milliard monthly users in Gemini; the disclose of the first five Googlebook laptops; a price hike for the Google TV Streamer; renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook; the initiate of the Pixel 11 line of smartphones, the new Pixel Watch, and the forthcoming Pixel Tag; and a important shakeup of its top AI guidance that included erstwhile DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis stepping into a place role.

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Microsoft reveals strong cloud growth amid financial reporting overhaul

support@mycoding.id (Tom Warren) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:20:00 +0700

Microsoft just posted the archetypal fourth of its 2027 financial fiscal results. The application creator made $92.3 milliard in income and a net earnings of $33.6 milliard during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net earnings has risen by 32 percent.

It’s a new financial twelvemonth for Microsoft, so the business is changing up how it reports its finances by splitting its businesses into two segments for the archetypal time. Gone are the former segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. It’s now fair Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer.

Agents and Infra, which includes businesses akin Azure, Microsoft 365 business and consumer, and server products, makes up 83 percent ($76.8 billion) of the general $92.3 milliard of Microsoft’s income and has risen 25 percent year-over-year. The big changes to Microsoft’s financial reporting additionally average we volition now see the business disclose Azure income on a quarterly basis. Azure contributed $33.17 milliard in income this quarter, up 48 percent year-over-year.

Devices and Consumer, which includes Windows, Xbox, Surface, and Microsoft’s hunt and promotion businesses, makes up the remaining 17 percent ($15.5 billion) of Microsoft’s $92.3 milliard in revenues this fourth — a decrease of three percent.

Windows OEM and devices income is downward 22 percent year-over-year, amid a RAMageddon emergency that has seen the general PC market dropped by 20 percent in the latest quarter. Microsoft blames the income autumn on the advantage of Windows 10 end of assistance during the previous year, as fine as OEM inventory drawdowns and a weaker PC market.

Microsoft launched Intel- and Qualcomm-powered Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 devices fair before its new financial twelvemonth began, and the business equal refreshed its smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop alongside Qualcomm’s X2 Plus chips during the quarter. Surface prices are higher than always thanks to RAMageddon, and the PC market looks akin it’s going to go through a extremely durable period during Microsoft’s 2027 financial twelvemonth and beyond.

Over on the Xbox side, hardware income has declined formerly again year-over-year. Xbox hardware income is downward 14 percent. Xbox satisfied and services, which includes Game Pass, is downward 2 percent, too. Microsoft is motionless not giving an update on Game Pass subscriber numbers, following the business final reported it had 34 myriad subscribers additional than two years ago.

The archetypal fourth of the 2027 financial twelvemonth for Xbox has been dominated by a “reset” alongside thousands of layoffs and studios spun off. The layoffs aren’t complete yet, alongside gossip additional could attain in November and January. In a memo before this year, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma stated “we volition come back Xbox to participant and income growth” by the end of financial twelvemonth 2027 (which runs through next June).

The aim, as Sharma puts it, is to “scale what works” so that by financial twelvemonth 2030 Xbox is “halfway to our long-term daily-player goal alongside sustained double-digit growth in players and involvement and industry foremost margins.”

Microsoft’s haze revenues were really the celebrity of the earnings display again this quarter, a expression I appear to continually compose all few months. Microsoft Cloud income contributed $63.9 milliard towards Microsoft’s revenues this quarter, nearly 70 percent. That’s up 30 percent year-over-year, gratitude to powerful petition for Azure and Microsoft 365 business cloud.

Microsoft 365 business haze income itself additionally grew 18 percent, gratitude to higher income per person and upselling of premium options akin Microsoft 365 Copilot, E5, and E7. Microsoft 365 person haze income has additionally grown by 17 percent, driven by growth in income per person and subscriber growth of 7 percent.

Microsoft volition now clasp an earnings call at 2:30PM PT / 5:30PM ET, and we’ll update this part alongside any applicable information.

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The FTC asks companies from Uber to Walmart about how they personalize the prices you pay

support@mycoding.id (Alex Bitter) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:19:32 +0700

The FTC asked companies from Walmart to DoorDash for data concerning their pricing practices on Wednesday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Federal Trade Commission is asking companies from food shipment services to airlines concerning how they use personalized prices.

The Commission stated on Wednesday that it sent orders to the companies asking for particulars concerning what benevolent of individual data they use to decide prices. The orders mark a broad range of companies, from retailers Walmart and Target to food shipment services Uber and DoorDash to airlines akin Delta and United.

"Consumers deserve to cognize whether companies use their web surfing habits or another individual data to evaluation the highest cost they can accusation all consumer," stated FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson.

"Workers additionally deserve to cognize if their compensation is affected by how companies use their individual data," Ferguson added.

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Bing Ads Revenue Up 12% With Overall Revenue Up 19%

support@mycoding.id (Barry@Rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:15:00 +0700

Microsoft reported its archetypal fourth 2027 earnings, showing that its hunt and promotion income was up 12%, indicating its ad growth was 2 points higher than the former quarter. The former fourth it was up 10%, before that was up 12%, before that up 10% before that, up 16% and the one before that was 21% and this quarter, it is lone up 10%.

Microsoft wrote, "Search and promotion income excluding traffic acquisition expenses risen 12%."

Search sits inside the More Personal Computing division.

Microsoft reports Q1 income up 19% YoY to $92.3 billion, functioning earnings up 22% to $45.9 billion, and net earnings up 32% to $36.6 billion. Microsoft's inventory cost is up complete 7% in after-hours selling inside minutes of the earnings study being released.

Here is the diagram I made showing fair the ad dollar alter from fourth to quarter, so you can see fair that:

Here are the highlights from the earnings release:

Revenue was $92.3 milliard and risen 19%
Operating earnings was $45.9 milliard and risen 21% (up 22% in changeless currency)
Net earnings was $36.6 milliard and risen 32% on a GAAP basis, and was $36.4 milliard and risen 18% (up 19% in changeless currency) on a non-GAAP basis
Diluted earnings per portion was $4.92 and risen 32% on a GAAP basis, and was $4.89 and risen 18% (up 19% in changeless currency) on a non-GAAP basis
Non-GAAP results exclude the effect from investments in OpenAI, explained in the Non-GAAP Definition division below

Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, said:

“We are delivering greater capability, choice, control, and disbursal effectiveness for customers throughout our complete stack," stated Satya Nadella, chairman and chief administrator authoritative of Microsoft. “By assisting organizations build and own their own intelligence, and earning rely through delegate safety and security, we are translating our innovation into expanding acceptance and real-world effect throughout all industry.”

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Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro

support@mycoding.id (Andrew Liszewski) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:12:44 +0700

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The maximum configuration is $4,400 additional costly than a completely specced type of the final MacBook Pro.

by Andrew Liszewski

Oct 28, 2026, 8:12 PM UTC

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With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it’s no astonishment that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is additional costly than the MBP announced before this year. But upgrading the basis models that commencement at $2,899 for the 14-inch, and $3,399 for the 16-inch, alongside all premium hardware choice that Apple offers pushes those prices to an eye-watering $14,249 and $14,549, respectively.

Both of those premium configurations contain the M5 Max part alongside an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU, $150 value of nano-texture glass, 128GB of recollection that adds an additional $2,000, and 16TB of retention which is the genuine prosperity breaker current gratitude to the ongoing recollection shortage.

Maximizing the configuration of the former 16-inch type of the MacBook Pro topped out at $10,149, according to MacRumors, but today’s $14,549 cost is a outcome of the 16TB retention choice that Apple now offers which adds an additional $7,000 to the new MacBook Pro’s price. If you lone upgrade the new 16-inch example to 8TB of storage, a $3,000 option, the completely specced cost is $10,549, or $400 additional costly than its predecessor.

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Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results [pdf]

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:11:55 +0700

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Google Ad Revenue Up 10.5% With Revenue Up 25%

support@mycoding.id (Barry@Rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:10:00 +0700

Google reported its earnings today, its Q3 2026 earnings report showed hunt ad revenues up by 10.5% at $82 milliard and general income was up 25% at $127.6 billion. As you know, I specifically akin to dig in as finest as I can on the hunt ad income flank to see how Google Ads has performed.

Google's ad income was up again twelvemonth complete year, up 10.5%, and general income is additionally up 25%. Google's hunt income grew 10.5% to $82 billion, up from concerning $74 milliard a twelvemonth ago. Sundar Pichai said, "We had a powerful fourth and are now on a half-trillion dollar income run rate. Our profound complete stack method is driving momentum throughout the business, alongside Alphabet revenues expanding 25% year-over year."

If you desire to difference Q3 2026 to Q2 2026, you volition see ad income was up 0.5%, general income was up 6.5% and gain was downward 0.5%.

Google's inventory cost is downward 7% in following hours trading, immediately following the earnings study was posted.

Here is a diagram plotting Google's general revenue, afterward ad income and afterward gain complete the former multiple quarters:

Here is the snippet from the earnings report:

Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, said:

We had a powerful fourth and are now on a half-trillion dollar income run rate. Our profound complete stack method is driving momentum throughout the business, alongside Alphabet revenues expanding 25% year-over-year.
Our AI investments are driving general Search query growth, including business queries. In fact, our year-over-year query growth charge is the highest it’s been in the final five years.
Google Cloud revenues grew 103%, powered by huge petition for our AI infrastructure and AI solutions. We’re additionally seeing powerful petition for our TPU systems throughout a broad range of customers.
Gemini 4 Argon and Carbon are now foremost at the frontier. Overall, our first-party example APIs are now handling nearly 32 milliard tokens per minute, additional than four times what we processed a twelvemonth ago.
On top of that, the Gemini app has reached one milliard users—making it the fastest-growing merchandise in Google’s history—and we surpassed 150 myriad YouTube Music and Premium subscribers globally, including trials.
We’re enthusiastic by the range of big opportunities onward of us.

Google’s liberated prosperity stream cut again during the third quarter. The fig totaled $9.07 billion, falling far abbreviated of the $2.70 milliard expected by analysts. Operating earnings totaled $40.58 billion, missing a $43.19 milliard forecast from FactSet.

Alphabet’s hunt income totaled $63.35 billion, missing a $64.96 milliard evaluation from analysts.

Here are more charts.

Q3 is in the books! We’re now on a half-trillion annual income run rate, alongside Alphabet revenues expanding at 25%.
- Our AI investments are driving general Search query growth, including business queries - our YoY query growth charge is the highest it’s been in the final five years. - Google Cloud income grew 103%, powered by bonzer petition for our AI infrastructure and AI solutions. Our 1P example APIs now procedure nearly 32B tokens/min (up 40% QoQ). - Strong momentum in example advancement alongside Argon and Carbon foremost the frontier, and Genie 4 our most advanced new earth example yet.
Thanks to our partners and workforce about the world. More to portion on the call soon!
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 28, 2026

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Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity

support@mycoding.id (Emma Roth) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:03:00 +0700

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Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering “significant gains” in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an notice on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon’s top place on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, alongside Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind.

The new Gemini 4 Carbon example offers improvements complete Argon, which Google released before this month. It’s currently lone accessible to a choose collection of cybersecurity defence companies, but it volition eventually develop to another partners in its Fairwind Program.

The business says Carbon reflects the “pace at which we’re pushing the frontier forward,” coming alongside a “significant leap” in cyberdefense that makes it improved at finding vulnerabilities and generating safe code. Carbon currently holds the figure one place on SEC-bench Pro, a benchmark that measures an AI model’s capability to detect real-world bugs, and ExploitGym, which measures how a example can rotate a exposure into exploits.

Google says Gemini 4 Carbon is built for completing longer tasks, adding that its inner teams have seen it “run for days to persist through deceased ends to tackle complex, multi-step engineering tasks.” It’s additionally improved at avoiding shortcuts, resisting immediate injection attacks, and collaborating alongside users, according to Google. Carbon is expected to recommendation additional “transparency and honesty” as well, by cutting “unsupported claims” by two times whenever compared to Argon.

It volition initiate at the identical rivalrous introductory cost as Argon, at $2 per myriad input tokens and $10 per myriad output tokens.

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The Kindle Click Is the One Accessory Readers Have Been Waiting For

support@mycoding.id (Joel Cunningham) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0700

Joel Cunningham is Lifehacker’s Deputy Editor. He has 15 years of cognition as a author and editor. Previously, he was managing publishing company of satisfied promotion for Barnes & Noble, anywhere he founded the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog.

The Kindle is the world's most ubiquitous e-reader, but that's not the identical as being the best. Don't get me wrong: Amazon deserves a ample portion of the credit for bringing e-books into the mainstream, and complete the years, the Kindle has consistently offered a top-tier person experience, gratitude to the two mostly fine hardware and its integration into the retailer's ecosystem (for improved or worse).

But the business additionally rarely innovates in the space, waiting until another players akin Barnes & Noble and Boox have tested out new features (like temperature-adjustable lighting and color screens, respectively) before adopting them itself. It's additionally not shy concerning dictating to customers what they can and can't do alongside their Kindles, from removing the capability to immediately download copies of their e-books to limiting assistance for third-party accessories.

One specified accessory has been maddeningly absent from the Kindle for years, notwithstanding the equipment having the innovation in location to assistance it: a Bluetooth distant authority (all Kindles released since 2018 assistance Bluetooth for connecting wireless headphones, but lone wireless headphones).

A few years ago, third-party e-reader remotes became a big item on BookTok, prompting competitors akin Kobo and Boox to publish their own versions of the peripherals. But alongside the Kindle's Bluetooth protocol locked down, Kindle owners were mostly out of luck; their lone choice a third-party clip-on accessory that attaches to the flank of the equipment and manually taps the display at the media of a distant button—far from ideal, as they can lone rotate pages in one direction and obstacle a part of the screen.

But finally, Amazon has seen the ray and made its own Bluetooth remote, which it has dubbed the Kindle Click. More importantly, it has opened up the Bluetooth protocol inside the Kindle firmware so it can nexus to the accessory in the archetypal place—though it volition lone activity on Kindles from 2024 or later. (It pairs fine alongside the new Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, no pun intended.)

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What's the item of a page-turn distant for an e-reader?

If you've never used one before, it can be a bit confusing to regard why person would desire a distant for their Kindle—why annoy fussing alongside an additional equipment whenever you can fair tap the display or press a button? But for certain scenarios, it really does create sense.

Most practically, a distant can authorize you to rotate pages in circumstances anywhere holding the e-reader itself is small than convenient, as whenever you're exercising: Holding a Kindle in your hands is durable whenever you're on an elliptical, and the words can bounce about too much if you're trying to use a rotation bicycle during gulping downward a few chapters of Yesteryear. But if you can prop the e-reader onto the machine's handlebars or a nearby surface, you can rotate pages effortlessly without missing a step.

Then there's the coziness factor: Reading under a big covering in winter is among the coziest activities I can imagine, but if you have to keep your arms exterior of the covering to rotate pages on your Kindle, well, that's going to have an effect on how cozy you feel. (This is a genuine problem!) But what if you could comfortably arrange the equipment inside your row of perspective and rotate pages during keeping your hands ensconced inside your valued throw? Some readers are consenting to expend multiple tens of dollars to accomplish this flat of coziness.

The Kindle Click does as advertised

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How many dollars? In the case of the Kindle Click, about 35 of them (plus tax). Though that may appear akin benevolent of a lot for a uncomplicated small distant alongside two essential functions and four buttons, it's fair $5 additional than the admittedly much cuter Boox Tappy. Speaking of which, during the new firmware update volition additionally authorize the Kindle to assistance cheaper third-party alternatives, there's no justify they volition activity as well.

What do you think so far?

So how does the Kindle Click work? Pretty seamlessly: You media and clasp one clasp on the distant to put it in pairing mode. You open up the Settings list on your 2024 or afterward Kindle and tap Accessories (you may need to execute a application update, if you aren't seeing that option). You tap Kindle Click in the resulting catalog to brace it. Once paired, the distant seems to nexus to the Kindle automatically if the two devices are nearby and the two powered up, provided you keep the latter's Bluetooth functionality turned on; you don't have to manually brace them all time.

That's beautiful much it: Once you've opened a book, you can now rotate pages alongside a clasp media (you can map which of the big gray buttons moves pages onward or rear to lawsuit your preferences). The volume-like buttons on the flank can be used to modify the brightness of the forefront light. You can't use the distant to navigate about the equipment or open a distinct book, so choose your study matter carefully before you act your cocoon.

The Click is not as versatile as it could be

While the Click certainly plant as advertised, Amazon could have been a bit additional imaginative alongside its functionality. The Boox Tappy, for example, can toggle between modes so it can be used to jump backward and onward between tracks in an audiobook or scroll pages in a web browser. While the Kindle can't display websites, it certainly supports audiobooks, but you can't use the Click to jump between chapters or modify the quantity during listening to an Audible book; these the two appear akin no-brainers to me.

And during being capable to rotate the brightness up or downward is nice, why not let the distant authority the warmth settings as well, either through enabling distinct modes (like the Tappy) or via a blend of clasp presses? I'm not an engineer, so I don't cognize how complex it would be to get that to work, but Amazon employs a lot of them, and I bet they could fig it out.

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What smart people are saying after the Fed held rates steady

support@mycoding.id (Martina Nacach Cowan Ros,Madison Hoff,Jennifer Sor) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:49:45 +0700

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh speaks during the media gathering following the Federal Open Market Committee's notice that it was holding involvement rates. SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images

The Federal Reserve held involvement rates dependable as was extensively expected. The charge remained unchanged following a 10-2 vote, anywhere 2 officials voted to hike rates by 25 bps.

Fed chair Kevin Warsh, who began his term foremost the chief financial institution in May, stated the Fed is operating to provision forthcoming cost stability and quash cost increase during the Federal Open Market Committee media gathering following the clasp announcement.

"The duration correct in forefront of us is data rich," Warsh said.

He added: "We're going to be capable to fig out what's the suitable protocol, as part of this bundle that we started to provision five months ago, to provision cost stability."

In September, the Fed opted for a quarter-point addition — the first hike in three years — aimed at tackling rising inflation. The decision to clasp rates comes small than a week before US midterm elections, anywhere the country's affordability crisis and rising energy and oil prices are caller on voters' minds. Warsh stated government played no function in the decision.

Here is how astute group in endeavor and backing are reacting to the clasp — and why many anticipate another charge hike in December.

Kay Haigh, earth caput and chief funding authoritative of fixed earnings and liquidity solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Haigh is among the Fed watchers who anticipate a hike to be the apt outcome of the final Fed gathering of the year.

"We anticipate the Fed to resume charge hikes in December," Haigh said. "September's powerful CPI imprint is a reminder that upside cost increase risks remain, and the Fed is apt to appearance to obtain out additional insurance."

Steve Rick, chief economist at TruStage

Rick stated Wednesday's decision to keep rates steady made awareness following September's archetypal hike since July 2023.

"Monetary guideline plant alongside lengthy and changeable lags, so the Fed volition desire to see how the higher rates already in the scheme are affecting person spending, endeavor funding and hiring before determining whether additional tightening is necessary," he said. "There's no need to rush."

Andrew Davis, caput of funding scheme at Bryn Mawr Trust and a erstwhile BLS analyst

Davis stated the Fed's wait-and-see method makes awareness as cost increase remains complete the Fed's 2% mark and the job market has cooled without "showing the benevolent of general decline we'd typically affiliate alongside a recession."

"One item value observing is how the association market responds," Davis said. "The Fed controls short-term involvement rates, but longer-term yields indicate a much broader set of forces, including cost increase expectations, financial growth and Treasury supply. With the 10-year Treasury output about 5%, financial conditions have already tightened considerably. Higher borrowing expenses can do several of the Fed's activity without another charge hike."

Elizabeth Renter, the guide economist at Life360 and a erstwhile elder economist at NerdWallet

"The Fed's choice to clasp today volition have small noticeable effect for mundane family life," she said. "But consumers paying notice could awareness let downward by the seeming inaction on cost increase from the Central Bank."

Renter suggests that families emotion financial strain cut rear on discretionary expenses, as prices are apt to remain high. Those not emotion as much strain could put several prosperity into additional savings.

Peter Boockvar, chief funding authoritative at One Point BFG Wealth Partners

Boockvar stated markets would apt be on the lookout for unofficial direction on rates from chief bankers in the days and weeks ahead. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has leaned distant from the chief financial institution issuing authoritative ceremonial guidance. But another Fed officials have been additional forthcoming concerning their views on monetary guideline lately, specified as by speaking concerning rates in community remarks.

"I'm certain again Chair Warsh volition dancing about making any dedication and we'll be additional reliant on the upcoming speeches and comments that his colleagues give," Boockvar wrote in a note to clients on Substack.

Seema Shah, chief earth strategist at Principal Asset Management

Seema Shah stated the clasp was a fine call. Amid earth and financial uncertainty, the Fed has period to collect additional data. Yet, she stated hikes in December and first 2027 are expected.

"AI may be booming, but the broader economics is not firing on all cylinders, and elevated geopolitical doubt argues against rushing another hike," she said. "But the direction of journey remains clear. The Fed is motionless taking rear several of final year's charge cuts, and the two dissents underline that tightening bias."

Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings

Brian Coulton stated the Fed is holding dependable for additional data before "pulling the trigger again." He additionally expects another hike in December, according to financial factors indicating "upside risks to the US cost increase outlook."

"With 2 of the 12 voting members opting for a hike, and a additional bullish appraisal of current growth trends, it looks akin we volition get another hike in December," Coulton said. "The declaration characterized financial action as expanding at a 'strong pace' fairly than the 'solid pace' clarification used in September."

Beyoncé and Jay-Z own one of the most expensive mansions in California history. See all the homes in their real-estate empire.

support@mycoding.id (Alcynna Lloyd) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:38:58 +0700

Beyoncé and Jay-Z have built a six-figure portfolio of genuine asset properties. Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images

Beyoncé and Jay-Z interrupt music records — and real-estate records.

The couple, whose blended net value is nearly $4 billion as of publication, according to Forbes, is connected to many partnerships and deals, including Jay-Z's upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance, as fine as multiple multimillion-dollar homes throughout the United States.

In 2023, they bought a 42,000-square-foot Malibu estate with a minimalist tangible aesthetic, designed by famed Japanese decorator Tadao Ando. The price? $190 myriad — among the largest sums in California history.

In New Orleans, the "Cowboy Carter" singer and the rapper-turned-entrepreneur have been connected to a erstwhile Presbyterian chapel that has been transformed into a mansion.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z's notable asset portfolio additionally includes another mansion in the Los Angeles area and multiple homes in New York. They are additionally reportedly in talks to acquisition a 58-acre storyline of district in the Cotswolds that they scheme to create in the future.

Take a appearance at Beyoncé and Jay-Z's homes throughout the country.

Beyoncé came from humble beginnings in Houston.

One of Beyoncé's Houston-area younker homes. Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images

Beyoncé's increase to stardom began in a modest, middle-class neighborhood in Houston's Third Ward.

2414 Rosedale Street has three bedrooms and three bathrooms complete 8,640 quadrate feet, according to the listing from 2019.

According to the Associated Press, the Knowles family purchased the residence in 1982, not lengthy following Beyoncé was born, and moved out whenever she was concerning 5.

In 2019, the residence was listed for transaction for concerning $500,000. Because Texas is a non-disclosure state, it's unclear how much it sold for.

Beyoncé was spotted taking photos of the residence in September 2023 during the Houston halt of her Renaissance World Tour, the AP reported.

The brace is connected to a Tribeca penthouse, anywhere they wed in 2008.

Jay-Z made one of his archetypal ample genuine asset purchases at 195 Hudson Street in Manhattan. Business Insider/Julie Zeveloff

In September 2004, Jay-Z, who voiced his aspirations for achievement in his hit rap opus 'Big Pimpin', made one of his archetypal big real-estate purchases.

The native New Yorker, who was concerning 34 at the time, spent $6.85 myriad on a penthouse at 195 Hudson Street in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca.

Architectural Digest reported that the 8,000-square-foot flat has an additional 3,000 quadrate feet of outdoor terrace space. It's in a 27-unit construction that was converted from a 1929 masonry block storage in 1999, real-estate listings location StreetEasy reported.

In 2008, he and Beyoncé held an close wedding ritual at the penthouse, alongside 40 group in attendance. Architectural Digest reported in 2024 that the brace is believed to motionless own the home.

The brace rented out a Los Angeles mansion for $150,000 a month

Los Angeles. Michelle Smith/Getty Images

In 2014, the Carters house-hunted on the East Coast, considering multiple properties. One was an eight-bedroom, 15-bathroom Beverly Hills mansion that they were outbid for by Markus Persson, the billionaire creator of the video equivalent Minecraft. (Persson listed the mansion for transaction in October 2026 for $70 million.)

After being outbid on multiple another properties, the brace decided to rent a residence in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills, Architectural Digest reported. The 20,000-square-foot asset was appreciated at $4 myriad in 2015, according to Realtor.com. At the time, the brace paid a whopping $150,000 a duration in rent. When the asset was eventually sold in 2015, they moved on.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z are additionally connected to a residence in New Orleans that used to be a church.

The home Beyoncé and Jay-Z are rumored to have bought in New Orleans was a Presbyterian chapel before it was transformed into a residence. IMAGE VIA TIMES-PICAYUNE ARCHIVE"

Louisiana is anywhere Beyoncé's mother, manner decorator Tina Knowles, was delivered and raised.

In 2015, multiple news outlets reported that the brace purchased a Spanish Baroque-style mansion in New Orleans' Garden District. The home on Harmony Street, locally known as La Casa de Castille, was listed for $2.6 myriad at the period of its purchase, but the exact revenue acquisition cost remains a mystery because of Louisiana's non-disclosure policy.

NOLA.com outlined how the church became a residence: In the 1920s, Westminster Presbyterian Church built it, and 38 members of the Ku Klux Klan allegedly attended its groundbreaking ceremony. Following years of vacancy, dancer Harvey Hysell transformed it into a ballet theater in 1977. Finally, in the first 2000s, it was purchased and extensively renovated.

According to the old Zillow listing, it motionless has 16-foot ceilings and stained-glass windows. The 13,300-square-foot, three-story property, made up of a chief residence and three distinct apartments, has a total of seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and a rooftop garden.

In 2021, there was a blaze on the property, and it was listed for sale shortly following at $3.5 million, afterward risen to $4.45 million, TMZ reported. However, it was afterward taken off the market, according to Architectural Digest.

On Google Maps' Street View, La Casa de Castille is blurred, suggesting that it may motionless be a personal residence.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z own a residence in the Hamptons.

The brace purchased a mansion known as the Pond House in 2017. Jeffrey Collé

Beyoncé and Jay-Z have a New York province of intellect whenever it comes to genuine estate.

In supplement to the Tribeca penthouse and a midtown Manhattan condo — which Beyoncé owned previous to their marriage and sold in 2017 for $10 myriad — they have rented and owned multiple homes in the Hamptons.

In 2012, the twelvemonth their female Blue Ivy was born, they leased a 31,000-square-foot holiday residence in Bridgehampton for $400,000 a month.

Beyond the norm luxuries akin a bar, a pool, and a tennis court, that mansion additionally featured a bowling alley, rock climbing wall, and skateboard half-pipe, according to Architectural Digest.

In 2017, the brace purchased the Pond House in East Hampton for $26 million.

Located at 81 Briar Patch Road, the 12,000-square-foot mansion alongside seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and a distinct cottage was designed by decorator Stanford White, whose activity includes the arch in Washington Square Park.

The couple's waterfront asset sits throughout from Georgica Pond and a 17-acre meadow preserve, offering unparalleled privacy.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z purchased a 34,000-square-foot asset in Bel Air in 2017.

An airborne perspective of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Bel Air mansion, pictured in the center of the depiction alongside the circular driveway, fair complete the semicircular building site. USGS Explorer

Also in 2017, Beyoncé and Jay-Z bought an $88 myriad mansion in Bel Air. They welcomed twins Rumi and Sir that year, too.

The ultramodern 34,000-square-foot asset has eight bedrooms, 20 bathrooms, and a 90-foot infinity pool, according to its Zillow listing.

It has additional than 10,000 quadrate feet of outdoor living area and offers panoramic views of the Angeles National Forest.

In 2023, Beyoncé and Jay-Z bought the most costly residence in California history.

An airborne perspective of the priciest residential asset always sold in California, which Beyoncé and Jay-Z bought in 2023. Anthony Barcelo

In 2023, Beyoncé and Jay-Z purchased a 40,000-square-foot mansion in Malibu's exclusive Paradise Cove neighborhood, which several have dubbed "Billionaires' Beach," for $190 million.

The transaction set a document at the period for the most costly asset transaction in California. It was additionally the largest residential transaction nationwide that year.

The estate's record-breaking cost tag is attributed in part to its high-pedigree scheme and extended gathering of amenities.

According to Architectural Digest, it took the former owners, art collectors Bill Bell and his spouse Maria Bell, a decade and a fractional to complete the building.

Spanning additional than 8 acres, the compound is designed in the Japanese minimalist manner for which its architect, Tadao Ando, is known.

According to E! News, the chief residence has 8 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, during its living area features custom-made fixtures imported from Italy. Outside, there are four distinct pools, a bar, and a personal helipad.

The brace is reportedly in talks to acquisition a 58-acre storyline of district in the Cotswolds in England.

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The Cotswolds, a picturesque region spanning parts of southwestern and south-central England, is known for its rolling green hills, centuries-old villages, and historic estates.

With luxury properties frequently commanding multimillion-pound prices, the area has earned the nickname "the Hamptons of England." It has lengthy attracted notable British residents, including David and Victoria Beckham, actor Elizabeth Hurley, and supermodel Kate Moss.

More recently, the Cotswolds have additionally attracted affluent Americans. Beyoncé and Jay-Z are reportedly among them, The Times reported in September.

According to the publication, the Carters are considering a £7.5 myriad ($8.54 million) 58-acre asset in Wigginton, a settlement alongside small than 200 residents. Owain Jones, who is handling the sale, told The Times that their plans to create the district could bring the project's total disbursal to concerning £18 myriad (or concerning $20. 5 million).

Should the Carters move onward alongside the purchase, they would not be far from the Beckhams and Simon Cowell, who reportedly own homes in the nearby settlement of Great Tew.

However, the projected building has disturb several Wigginton residents, who are concerned concerning preserving the village's harmony and quiet, House & Garden reported.

Foreign gadget bans: all the news about the FCC’s clampdown on Chinese tech

support@mycoding.id (Sean Hollister) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:37:31 +0700

What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US authorities wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the archetypal person gadgets that are facing de facto import bans since of the US government’s xenophobic stance — and they power not be the last.

Originally, the US authorities was fair concerned concerning US networks. It’s been distrustful of Chinese telecom equipment providers Huawei and ZTE for well complete a decade, eventually requiring telecom providers to “rip and replace” their gear. (Many telecoms have still unsuccessful to do so.) It established an “Entity List” for companies whose equipment have to be banned from import, marketing, and sale.

But under the second Trump administration, that catalog has been weaponized against complete residence person gadget categories too — starting in December 2025 whenever Trump and Brendan Carr’s FCC banned all forthcoming abroad drones unless their companies obtained a waiver.

Next was a ban on all forthcoming abroad routers, all future abroad robots and power inverters, and inside the robot ban, all forthcoming abroad robovacs. In all case, the authorities claims it’s since those gadgets basically stance an unacceptable danger to US national security. But in all case, the US has provided zero community evidence of a threat, has done nothing about existing drones and routers and robots that power stance specified a threat, and hasn’t stated us any logic to rely that its waivers have item to do alongside security.

Besides, there are rarely any US companies to inhabit the gaps remaining by abroad ones. Consumer gadgets are mostly made overseas, including practically all routers and practically all drones — fair akin how your Apple, Dell, and HP laptops are not made in the US.

In this StoryStream, we’re following the latest on the abroad gadget bans.

MSI fair got a router ban waiver — but not a covering one.
Will TP-Link really create routers in the US? Here’s what it told us
TP-Link, among the world’s foremost manufacturers of person Wi-Fi routers, is in a precarious stance in the US. The business fair launched its archetypal Wi-Fi 8 routers, but can’t bring them current since of President Donald Trump’s foreign router ban. Even although competitors Netgear and Asus create their routers in Asia, they’ve mysteriously obtained covering waivers for all their new gear; perchance since of alleged ties to China, TP-Link hasn’t managed to get specified a waiver yet.
But TP-Link is consenting to do item those companies weren’t — to allocate nearly $1 milliard to create routers in the United States, creating “hundreds of high-paying investigation and development, manufacturing, and building jobs for American workers complete the next four years,” according to a letter TP-Link sent to the FCC.
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Another ‘DJI forefront company’ bites the dust.
In July, we told you how the FCC — and its subcontractor TÜV Rheinland — didn’t annoy to do essential Google searches before legally approving banned DJI innovation for import and sale. But a new equivalent of whack-a-drone was additional successful. Public records show TÜV Rheinland asked the FCC to obstacle applications from another “DJI forefront company,” Jovistar. The FCC agreed, and Jovistar is now on notice.
It certain would be nice if these congresspeople would say why DJI is a threat.
The FCC would akin you to know that its DJI ban is justified — since of the contents of sealed alphabet from the Pentagon that it has now forwarded to 16 congresspeople. Do they cognize item they’re not saying out loud? So far, the authorities hasn’t revealed a sole shred of community evidence concerning a national safety threat.
Unlike Netgear and Asus, TP-Link says it’s prepared to expend $1 milliard to create Wi-Fi routers in the US.
“TP-Link would commencement assembling these Wi-Fi 8 devices in the United States by next year,” it claims in a letter to the FCC — if the FCC volition exempt its routers from the abroad router ban. Notably, both Netgear and Asus got exemptions without promising to create routers in the US, equal although the FCC’s paperwork requires companies to commit to US manufacturing to get that exemption.
The FCC plans to ban all Chinese labs from evaluation US gadgets by 2029.
The FCC has been cracking downward on several Chinese test labs that improperly helped authorize gadgets for import into the US — now, it wants to get rid of Chinese labs altogether starting December 2028, lone authorizing labs if they have a reciprocal financial association alongside the US. It’ll ballot on October 29th; you can read the entire disagreement here.
The FCC has decertified two additional Chinese test labs.
The Matic is the archetypal robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it
Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
Asus won’t say how it liberated the US router ban
Photo by The Verge
This spring, the United States banned all forthcoming foreign-made person routers — efficiently all forthcoming routers — unless their makers could 1) convince the US authorities that they weren’t a national safety threat, and 2) present “a detailed, time-bound scheme to established or develop manufacturing in the United States.”
As of September 9th, Asus now has an exemption from the ban, fair in period to bring its archetypal first Wi-Fi 8 routers here. But Asus has not publically announced any scheme to bring manufacturing to the US. It would not equal verify to The Verge whether it had submitted a US manufacturing plan.
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Etsy is concerned it’ll get caught up in the FCC’s gadget bans.
Remember whenever it was cheap and uncomplicated for me to buy DJI’s banned camera? The FCC is currently taking comments on a plan to ban online marketplaces from listing gadgets akin that. Platforms would need to validate all device’s FCC position before they catalog it for sale. Etsy wants its “micro-entrepreneurs” to be exempt.
We flew the banned drone alongside snap-on propeller wings.
Dom says it’s quick and uncomplicated to break a propeller backback onto the HoverAir Versa, and then… it can fly! Shame that HoverAir isn’t transparently telling backers that this camera has been banned in the US, and shame on the Trump administration for creating the dumb drone ban to commencement with.
HoverAir’s transforming standardized drone has already been halted in the US
I am so sorry, chap US gadget fans: the FCC’s drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa — a baby steadycam alongside snap-on propeller wings that change it into a drone — has already stopped taking US orders fair three days after its Indiegogo debut, and may be forced to forsake shipping plans in the US.
HoverAir is now telling backers it’s lone shipping its camera to the US, not the part that turns it into a drone, “due to a few remaining logistics updates alongside the Flight Kit.” But those “logistics” may really be a euphemism for “we’ve been banned by the national government.” The FCC’s repository no longer has an admission for the HoverAir Versa at all, suggesting that its authority aid has been pulled.
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I bought DJI’s banned camera — it was cheap and easy
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
As a kid, I continually imagined the “black market” would be akin the movies: Shady vendors hawking illicit products alongside dusty streets. But if you desire a banned DJI Osmo Pocket 4 or Pocket 4 Pro camera in the US, you can fair attain for your phone.
They’re on Temu, AliExpress, eBay, Mercari — equal Amazon and Newegg — alongside fast, liberated shipping and no hazard of tariffs or seizures. That’s since these cameras are already inner the United States, notwithstanding rules that ban them from entering the country.
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Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?
HoverAir drones continually have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can district on water. Another can accusation inner its carrying case. But the brand’s latest trick power be its riskiest: it’s attempting to sneak a drone former the FCC.
In December 2025, the US authorities banned forthcoming abroad drones from reaching our shores, and HoverAir’s floating Aqua drone was one of the archetypal casualties. But this time, brand owner Zero Zero Robotics power have established a loophole: its latest $750 Versa drone isn’t a drone, it claims, but fairly a DJI Pocket-style mini steadycam alongside optional snap-on propellers that let it fly.
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That lying drone business we caught? The FCC has now banned Odyssey Robot.
The ban on robot vacuums won’t create them safer, lone worse
No another gadget knows as much concerning your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, study your routines, and many now transport a camera and microphone into all area in your house. As AI gives them a improved understanding of what they see, the privacy and safety risks these autonomous robots stance are lone growing.
That’s why greater scrutiny makes sense, but the ban on foreign-made mobile robots issued by the Federal Communications Commission before this week — implemented to location “unacceptable risks to the national safety of the United States or the safety and safety of United States persons” — doesn’t really fairness products by how safe they are, just anywhere they’re built. It efficiently method no new robot vacuums from important companies can act the US market unless they are built here. And spoiler alert: none are.
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The US authorities fair banned Roombas
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge
DJI camera copy business Xtra claims it’s ‘in near communication’ alongside the FCC.
If so, that would be new — the FCC projected a $25,000 fine against Xtra for failing to react to its letters, and has since revealed plans to ban Xtra from importing and marketing additional of its existing cameras in the US. Xtra might be canceling its new DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Pro variant, too.
DJI camera copy business Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders
After marketing a barely disguised version of the hit DJI Osmo Pocket 3 in the United States final year, Xtra Technology seemed prepared to sneak in its type of the new dual-lens Osmo Pocket 4 Pro, too. But today, Xtra has abruptly removed the new Xtra Muse 2 Pro from its website landing page, is pausing preorders indefinitely, and says it’ll refund all the $20 deposits that it’s already collected.
Just days following showing off the camera at a Los Angeles initiate event, the business is no longer necessarily committing to initiate at all: “XTRA has not made a final notice concerning forthcoming merchandise availability. We have not announced a new merchandise initiate timeline at this time. Further data volition be shared separately formerly the applicable plans are confirmed,” it writes.
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The US authorities can’t enforce its own drone ban
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge; Getty Images, FCC, DJI, Skyrover
In Pasadena, California, there’s a adorable red masonry block courtyard anywhere one storefront isn’t akin the rest. The pane doors open onto a sparse manufacturing hallway, which leads to a sunlit foyer alongside a ample spiral staircase. Go up, and you’ll see a representative coworking space: open tables, fit snacks, a gathering of gathering rooms alongside pane walls. Follow one hall most of the way back, and you’ll discover Office 18.
There are no signs of existence in this small personal agency that’s expected to be the agency of Odyssey Robot, an upstart US drone company. We saw three small desks and chairs, but no power strips, no monitors, no keyboards or chargers or decorations. Two of the desks were covered alongside sealed cardboard packages.
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The FCC is preparedness to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgets
Last October, we told you how the FCC had stated itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its endorsement to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC’s getting prepared to wield that power for the archetypal time, by cracking downward on the “DJI forefront companies” suspected of sneaking the Chinese company’s tech former its abroad drone ban.
Two Fridays ago, the FCC had already projected a $25,000 fine on eight of those “front companies,” including the ones rearward the Skyrover drones and Xtra cameras. But now, the FCC is proposing a lot additional than a slap on the wrist — it’s preparedness to ban those identical companies from continuing to import, distribute, market, and market their existing drones and cameras.
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The FCC is cracking downward on DJI tech that dodged the abroad drone ban
Last year, we told you concerning Xtra, the business that lets DJI sneak its famous cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly marketing DJI drones in disguise. They’re fair two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States’ abroad drone ban.
But it appears the FCC is eventually doing item concerning “DJI forefront companies,” as watcher Konrad Iturbe dubbed them final year. Today, the FCC is fining eight of them $25,000 all — and giving them until Monday, July 20th, fair 10 calendar days, to answer the FCC’s questions before the agency takes additional action.
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The FCC is preservation Amazon’s Eero and Leo routers from its ban, too.
The FCC is giving Amazon conditional approval to import forthcoming routers into the US, following its decision to aid Netgear conditional endorsement earlier this month.
”We remain committed to delivering innovative, dependable products our customers can depend on,” Eero says.
Netgear and the FCC have not responded to our emails.
It’s been 24 hours. I tried them again five hours ago too. Note that we did not ask if Netgear “bribed the government” to escape the router ban as readers keep suggesting, or item akin that. We merely asked if Netgear followed the FCC’s own rules by submitting a detailed scheme for US manufacturing.
The FCC fair saved Netgear from its router ban for no apparent reason
Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge
The United States’ abroad router ban didn’t create a entire lot of sense, and today may not alter that. The FCC has fair granted Netgear a conditional endorsement to import its forthcoming person routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1st, 2027 — equal although the business builds those devices in Asia and has not announced any scheme to bring manufacturing to the United States.
Neither the FCC’s announcement nor Netgear’s announcement explain why Netgear was granted the impermanent exemption. The FCC lone states that the Pentagon has now made “a particular determination” that “such devices do not stance risks to U.S. national security.”
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This Company Gives Employees an Unlimited Candy Buying Perk — Here’s Why That Is Healthy for Business

support@mycoding.id (Dan Bova) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0700

Who can obtain a sunrise, sprinkle it alongside dew, shield it alongside chocolate and a amazement or two? The candy man can, and this time, the candy man is Kevin McCarthy, CEO of Unreal Snacks.

Kevin’s narrative is a awesome one for anyone who thinks they need the “right” résumé to succeed. He joined Unreal in 2014 at 22, caller off a legislative campaign, alongside zero food experience. He was one of three employees. Today, Unreal is the largest better-for-you chocolate brand in America, sold in 35,000 stores throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Kevin joined me on How Success Happens (where I ate an embarrassing amount of peanut margarine cups on camera), and I’ve damaged downward 5 bite-sized achievement tips from our conversation to assistance provision your occupation a sugar rush.

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Sometimes the Smartest Move Is Shrinking

Unreal launched in 2011 and exploded fast, but the infrastructure wasn’t there to assistance it. “The business used to be in 34,000 stores,” Kevin says. When he arrived, it relaunched in fair 38. “We were trying to do way too much way too quickly, and we weren’t learning at an suitable pace.” The fix was going small, nailing the basics, and climbing rear one stage at a time.

Takeaway: If growth is outpacing your learning, dilatory downward until you’ve mastered a smaller type of your business.

The First Bite Is Your Real Marketing Plan

Kevin believes a healthier merchandise lone plant if it delivers on pleasure. “The nip is the instant of truth,” he says. “When you have a big name akin Unreal, you need to provision on the taste.” That obsession drives Unreal’s elevated repeat-purchase rate, and its loyal customers have rotate into what Kevin calls “the finest promotion motor of anything.”

Takeaway: Before you expend a dollar on ads, create certain your merchandise earns a second acquisition on its own.

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Give Your Team a Perk That Makes Them Smarter

Unreal has an unlimited chocolate policy: workforce can buy as much chocolate as they want, from Unreal and its competitors, afterward study rear on sensation and rack presence. “We’ll do near to a ton of chocolate this year,” Kevin says. The outcome is lively inner debates, akin evaluation thousands of samples to decide whether a peanut margarine center have to be gritty, crunchy or smooth. Everyone gets a voice, “but afterward we choice a way and we move forward.”

Takeaway: Design perks that rotate your workforce into sharper students of your market.

Good Surprises Are Dangerous Too

Kevin’s guidance doctrine centers on staying level. “You can never get too excited. You can never get too down.” He goes further: “I don’t akin surprises that are bad. I additionally don’t akin surprises that are fine since we’re likely not prepared for them.” Landing a big retailer akin Costco is value celebrating, but it additionally method “now you have to succeed.”

Takeaway: Treat all big win as the commencement of a new to-do list, not a complete line.

Think Massive, Act One Step at a Time

For the individual in their galley whose allies keep saying “you should market this,” Kevin says to commencement by being apparent concerning who you assist and why your merchandise is different. Dream concerning construction a massive, well-loved brand, but be prepared for the unglamorous activity and the near-failures. “You’re gonna obtain stage one, but there’s gonna be stage two myriad someday downward the road.”

Takeaway: Write downward exactly who your merchandise is for, afterward obtain the extremely next stage toward reaching them.

Learn More

Load up on Unreal candy at unrealsnacks.com or at important retailers including Costco, Target and Whole Foods. And prosecute the brand on Instagram at @unreal.snacks.

Want to go deeper on the topics Kevin covered? Check out these stories on Entrepreneur.com:

About How Success Happens

Each event of How Success Happens shares the inspiring, entertaining, and unexpected journeys that influential leaders in business, the arts, and sports traveled on their way to becoming family names. It’s a reminder that rearward all big-time career, there is a individual who persisted in the visage of self-doubt, failure, and item alternatively that got thrown in their way.

Who can obtain a sunrise, sprinkle it alongside dew, shield it alongside chocolate and a amazement or two? The candy man can, and this time, the candy man is Kevin McCarthy, CEO of Unreal Snacks.

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