26 October 2026

On the intervening night of 21st/22nd October, 2026, Air Cargo Complex (ACC) Imports Commissionerate, Delhi Customs officers have made another major breakthrough in their ongoing investigation against narcotics trafficking networks.

The consignment came under scrutiny following the interrogation of an individual found to be linked with the person arrested earlier on 15th October,2026 in the first seizure.

“Without deep OS-level support from Apple or Google, continuous SIM validation is technically infeasible,” said Parag Kar, telecom specialist and former Qualcomm Vice President for Government Affairs (India & South Asia) after the SIM Binding rules were first announced in November 2025.

Similarly, Arattai has also confirmed to MediaNama that it will also implement the SIM binding.

While the uncertainty applicability pertaining the e-SIMs persists, CNBC report claimed that “WhatsApp and Telegram Messenger will require a Physical Sim to operate.”

In 2021, after she became a researcher, she stumbled upon the creature again while drawing water from a well.

After the collection process, specimens were photographed and preserved for forensic examination.

According to Ralf Britz, a German ichthyologist who is also the lead author of both the studies, the area in which both G. nakana and R. anchi have been found is the most unexpected habitat for subterranean fishes.

The move comes a week after ProPublica published an investigation showing how $470 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits were stolen from recipients last year alone, in large part because these cards are technologically outdated.

Dubai Humanitarian has launched a new air bridge to deliver winter relief to Gaza.

The first flight, carrying essential humanitarian supplies including thermal blankets for Unicef, arrived in Al Arish, Egypt, before being transferred to Gaza.

Dubai's final bridge at the World Trade Centre roundabout will open on Friday, cutting travel time between two key streets from six minutes to one.

The final bridge of the World Trade Centre roundabout project will open in Dubai on Friday, the emirate's transport authority confirmed.

Stretching over a kilometre, the bridge has the capacity to carry 3,000 vehicles per hour and will reduce travel time between Al Majlis Street and 2nd December Street from six minutes to one, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) said on Sunday.

In a victory for data privacy, a federal court in New York definitively ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents.

In a summary judgment ruling issued on October 20, 2026, the court found that OPM violated two provisions of the Privacy Act—one restricting disclosure of personal records between agencies and another requiring agencies to protect the security and confidentiality of records.

CISA added CVE-2025-39682, affecting Linux Kernel, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Linux Kernel contains an improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in the TLS receive path which allows a zero-length record retrieved from the rx_list to bypass the intended recvmsg() record-type handling, potentially causing subsequent TLS records to be processed using incorrect zero-copy and queuing assumptions. The impacted product(s) could be end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users are advised to discontinue use and/or transition to a supported version.

The catalog lists 2026-09-21 as the due date; that date had passed by this edition.

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The European Space Agency Council has approved the appointment of two new directors: Andrzej Banasiak as Director of Commercialisation and Industry Partnership, and Nicolaus Hanowski as Director of Space Operations.

Andrzej Banasiak will take up duty as Director of Commercialisation and Industry Partnership on 1 January 2027.

Nicolaus Hanowski will take up duty as Director of Space Operations on 1 January 2027.

Companies owned by Hungarian oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros — a longtime friend of former prime minister Viktor Orbán — donated heavily to a right-wing influence operation that peddled propaganda online for the ruling Fidesz party, according to a new investigation by ICIJ media partner Direkt36.

Megafon was founded in 2020 to enlist “professional Facebook warriors” to spread conservative ideas, according to the independent media outlet Telex, which found that the organization later outspent both Fidesz and the Hungarian government on political advertising on the platform.

Engineered to lift 23-kilogram bins onto high shelves and with a battery that can run for 90 minutes on a 9-minute charge, Digit 5’s goal is to handle heavy warehouse tasks shift after shift, filling the need for labor in jobs that are too physically stressful or too dull for humans to want to do.

ATRIAS looked like a large microwave on stilts because it was only intended to demonstrate the physics of human walking and running.

Digit 5 will be Agility’s first real step toward a general-purpose robot.

Earlier this morning, Railway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables.

Until builds are restored, you will not be able to roll out new versions.

Follow this incident to be notified when builds resume.