Google will turn off Search for school accounts that refuse its AI features
Gemini and Search go dark for K-12 student accounts until administrators opt in. Schools that want no AI may lose Search too, though Google disputes that.
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Cloud infrastructure, software pricing, security, and what actually ships.
Reported by Mara Voss, Theo Lindqvist
Gemini and Search go dark for K-12 student accounts until administrators opt in. Schools that want no AI may lose Search too, though Google disputes that.
· 3 min read
Lumentum holders get 4.500 Marvell shares each, and the deal is not expected to close until the first half of 2028.
Dozens of stores in Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden, plus 13 in Ireland, reported overheated cold storage overnight. No attacker has been named, and none of the reports identify a controller vendor.
The company's help page is dated October 1, but notices are reaching users in phases this week. Scribd has not said how many accounts or how the intruder got in.
The trillion-parameter model's weights are public under a modified MIT license that requires a commercial deal for hosted services. Mistral's own post concedes its cyber guardrails still need work.
The Icepick archive lists names, phone numbers and internal permission groups. Two outlets reviewed it, but they got it from the same sources, and the cause is unexplained.
CVE-2026-97631 sits in the network-boot code behind most server UEFI firmware. The advisory still says "Not patched currently," and no firmware vendor has given a ship date.
The voluntary exit offer covers about 27 percent of Microsoft's workforce. A spokesperson says AI is not driving it, and the memo as reported does not say how many exits the company wants.
Researcher log4j says Samsung's Tizen software on a 2025 TV profiles viewers for ads. Samsung has not responded, the full writeup is unpublished, and the one outside mic test saw five seconds of recording.
CRN reports a mid-single-digit increase on Cisco networking and security software, with Splunk excluded. Cisco's earlier price hikes were pinned on memory chips, which software does not use.
PwC says the hacked learning-records site held no client data. Everest says it took 590 GB of HR and course data. PwC will not say how much was stolen or who the vendor is.
A key ceremony flaw gave a certificate authority intermediate keys anyone could rebuild. eMudhra says none issued a certificate, but about 30,000 certificates still have to move.
A judge cut the state's $219 billion maximum to $25 billion in the Cambridge Analytica case. Meta says it will appeal, and the state's own lawyer expects that to take three to five years.
PHP's security team announced a Wednesday release for two critical vulnerabilities and withheld the affected versions. The claim that PHP 5 onward is exposed traces to a social media post, and the supported list starts at 8.2.
Meta's spokesperson says the account was flagged on October 17 for bot-like reading, then restored. The explanation never says who was running the tool, and the group says the lockout lasted hours.
The Surveillance Layer shipped, and it shows which way each plate reader points. As of October 19, MapQuest has published no camera count, no data source and no accuracy figure.
Rep. Ritchie Torres announced a bill telling the FTC to require ownership and offline modes for purchased games. His own example, NBA 2K25, loses MyCareer and every online mode on December 31 while staying installable.
All eight configurations showed a January 25 ship date within 30 minutes of pre-orders opening. The only output figure on record is a few hundred units a day in late August.
Ray-Ban Meta owners report conversations saved without the wake phrase. Meta's only statement is one sentence: the issue "has been resolved." No cause, count, or firmware version has been published.
Founder Dylan Conkle says XClause lets a managed service provider add a client's small favor to the agreement the client already signed, so the work is defined and billable.