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Semrush has acknowledged that some Google ranking data collected by automated tools can be distorted by “poisoned SERPs.” The company’s October 27 update says some automated Google requests may return …
Employment and Social Development Canada has opened employer applications for Canada Summer Jobs 2027, giving eligible organizations until December 3, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time to apply for federal …
The European Union is adding a new layer of data and cost controls to cross-border e-commerce on Nov. 1, 2026, when mandatory product identifiers and a €2 Union handling fee …
OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a lower-priced model aimed at visual reasoning, computer use and everyday professional tasks, with standard API prices of $1 per million input tokens and $5 …
Walter Koenig, the actor and writer best known as Pavel Chekov on Star Trek: The Original Series, has died at 90. Representatives for Koenig said he died Sunday, Oct. 25, …
The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the first time since July 2023. The central bank increased its target for the overnight rate by 25 basis …
Automattic has begun layoffs after a failed board move against CEO Matt Mullenweg. TechCrunch reported on October 21, 2026, that the cuts had affected Automattic’s communications team, social team, WordPress.com …
Ontario employers that scheduled staff during Monday’s municipal council and school board elections had a specific legal obligation to account for voting time. Ontario’s regular municipal election was held on …
Grok Imagine has posted the first public episode of its AI-generated Odyssey project, delivering about seven minutes of footage after Elon Musk promised a full-length version earlier this year. The …
Security firm Forever Security reported on Oct. 22, 2026, that it stopped a live attempt in which a plain-text AGENTS.md file in a customer’s Downloads folder steered an AI coding …
HubSpot’s cutoff for creating new legacy private apps has now reached existing customer accounts, closing a familiar account UI path for internal API credentials. HubSpot said in its Developer Changelog …
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said on Oct. 27, 2026, that Commissioner Philippe Dufresne has opened an investigation into Navigate360 related to a cybersecurity incident involving tips …
Dockworker unions are preparing a coordinated day of industrial action on Friday, October 30, 2026, in a campaign that began among European and Mediterranean ports and has since drawn support …
SpaceX is reportedly seeking at least 80,000 U.S. cell sites. Bloomberg reported on Oct. 22 that SpaceX is in talks with cellular infrastructure companies, including Crown Castle, citing people familiar …
Lindt & SprĂĽngli executive chairman Ernst Tanner told NZZ am Sonntag, in comments reported by Reuters, that the Swiss chocolatier “overestimated how much we could raise prices without hurting demand.” …
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat announced a new Cabinet Directive on Regulatory Competitiveness and Red Tape Reduction on October 21, 2026. What the new directive requires Starting December 31, …
Ontario’s development-charge reductions are spreading beyond the first large-city agreements, with new October 23 announcements linking lower residential fees to federal and provincial infrastructure money in Windsor, Tecumseh, Essex County …
Shopify has added guaranteed flat-rate international shipping to Managed Markets, according to an October 24, 2026, changelog update. Managed Markets is Shopify’s cross-border selling service that uses Global-e as the …
The PHP Foundation’s staffing has become part of the story around last week’s PHP security emergency. Reuters reported on October 23 that Executive Director Elizabeth Barron said the nonprofit has …
Meta has revised the U.S.-English wording in its upcoming Commercial Terms after publishers and legal experts warned that the earlier text could be read as permission to crawl websites tied …
Canadian manufacturers faced another month of higher upstream costs in September, but the pressure was heavily concentrated in energy. Statistics Canada reported on October 22 that raw materials purchased by …
Arc, the experimental browser from The Browser Company, now has an end date. The company says Arc for macOS and Windows will stop working on December 22, 2026, with Arc …
Travis Knight has put LAIKA’s latest film at the centre of Hollywood’s generative AI debate. The Wildwood director and LAIKA chief executive told The Verge that generative AI is “antithetical …
A fifth Halloweentown film is in early development at Disney, with Lily Houghton and Ryan Koehn writing a script based on characters created by Paul Bernbaum, according to TheWrap and …
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada said Industry Minister MĂ©lanie Joly unveiled the $1.75 billion Venture and Growth Capital Plan in Toronto on October 22, 2026. The package combines the …
Google has changed its privacy policy to create a new exception around how connected Gmail, Drive and Google Photos data can affect personalized advertising. The Oct. 1 version of Google’s …
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) said Canadians reported approximately $351 million in fraud losses in the first six months of 2026. The first-half 2026 total should not be treated as …
LiteLLM says its public release pipeline was compromised on October 21, 2026, producing a malicious litellm==1.107.0 release on PyPI and compromised public Docker images. LiteLLM’s incident post says the affected …
Etsy’s Oct. 22 update tightens its rules for AI use in listings. In a company news post and seller handbook update, Etsy said AI should support creativity and craftsmanship rather …
Amazon MGM Studios’ long search for Daniel Craig’s James Bond successor has reportedly reached its final screen-test stage, with multiple Hollywood trades reporting auditions planned to begin as early as …
Toronto-based 1Password announced 1Password for Agents on October 22, a platform designed to let supported personal AI agents sign in to accounts without seeing or storing the passwords, secrets, or …
Shopify has opened a new route for third-party AI shopping agents to search Shopify Catalog, create carts and move shoppers toward checkout through Shop Pay. In an October 13 developer …
Google’s AI Overviews are moving deeper into commercial search results, according to a Semrush study published October 21, 2026. Semrush found that AI Overviews appeared on 88% of a fixed …
The Bank of Canada’s latest consumer survey found that spending plans weakened in the third quarter, even as consumers reported better financial health and slightly improved views of the labour …
Roundcube has released security updates for the 1.6 LTS and 1.7 branches of Roundcube Webmail, moving those branches to 1.6.20 and 1.7.5 with fixes for 20 security issues. The Roundcube …
Apple’s WebKit team has confirmed a Safari privacy protection that blocks network access to identity resolution infrastructure. The change applies in Safari and WebKit across Apple’s iOS, iPadOS, macOS and …
Employment and Social Development Canada announced the launch of an online application form for the Workforce Retention and Retraining Program (WRRP) on October 22, 2026. ESDC says the program is …
AI companies can build agents that browse, compare, click and buy. That does not mean websites have agreed to let them in. The first wave of AI access disputes focused …
Canada is changing how Express Entry ranks skilled worker candidates, adding new Comprehensive Ranking System points for Canadian work experience and high-wage job offers while removing the Labour Market Impact …
Visa is widening its Canadian small-merchant interchange program starting Saturday, October 24, 2026. Visa’s current small-merchant guide lists businesses as eligible when they have Visa volume of C$300,000 or less …
Several Shopify app vendors have acknowledged unauthorized changes that caused some storefronts to send shoppers from a checkout button to fake payment pages in October 2026. Public reports and vendor …
Railway says an October security incident may have exposed customer environment variables after an unauthorized third party gained access to a subset of its internal systems. Railway first disclosed the …
Reuters reported on October 20 that ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, carrying a collective sticker price of …
Google says it has resolved a bug that caused some 2026 Google Home Speaker units to download unusually large amounts of data in the background, in some cases while the …
Netflix has named Peter Rice as its next chief content officer, putting the former Disney and Fox executive in charge of its global programming operation days after the company announced …
The Bank of Canada is heading into its Oct. 28 interest rate decision with a more uncomfortable inflation outlook, after Governor Tiff Macklem warned that high crude oil and petroleum-product …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT browser extension now supports Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi, according to an Aug. 31, 2026 entry in the company’s ChatGPT release notes. The company’s current browser-extension documentation …
Google Cloud says a power failure in its London cloud region disrupted services for more than six hours Tuesday, affecting banks and public-sector websites as other businesses reported problems. Google’s …
Rank Math has warned that some Rank Math PRO 3.0.123 packages downloaded or installed through updates during an 11-hour window on Oct. 15 and 16 contained malware, turning what would …
Google started rolling out Universal Cart in the United States on Oct. 15, 2026, giving shoppers one cart that follows products across Google Search and the Gemini app. Google’s support …
OVHcloud says a compromised developer GitHub account was used to replace official release binaries for its OVHcloud CLI with secret-stealing malware on Oct. 19, 2026. The affected tool is a …