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Japanese hotel-booking software firm Temairazu says details of up to about 4.45 million guests may have been viewed or obtained. What it confirms.

The US Labor Department has suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcing firms from the PERM labour-certification process, the first step towards a green card. What the announcement confirms, what the fraud claims are, and what Microsoft says. Plus a pointer to TSN's separate post on Axios's report about AI companies' "day after" planning.

JR East and Viewcard say about 6.09 million accounts, mostly email addresses, may be exposed after the IDC Frontier ransomware attack. What the companies and Japanese media report, what is not affected, and what it does not prove.

Three security items from 8–9 October 2026: a security firm reports attack attempts against a patched, maximum-severity SonicWall SMA1000 flaw (success unconfirmed); Pwn2Own Ireland pays $1,262,000 for 98 zero-days; and Microsoft says Windows Update certificates expire on 17 May and 19 June 2027.

A preprint from EPFL researchers, listed on Apple's research site, finds a single minimal coding-agent session matched or beat elaborate machine-learning agent systems in its tests. Pasqal releases skills that let coding agents prepare quantum experiments, and Microsoft makes 30 Dynamics 365 CRM skills generally available, with Autopilot still in private preview.

Travel site skyticket says about 14.64 million records were taken. Bookoff says up to about 6.43 million, and Times Car, Lawson, karaoke firm Daiichikosho, H.I.S. and resort operator Resorttrust have also disclosed leaks. What each company has confirmed, what Kyodo reports, and what it means for customers.

Update, 9 Oct 2026: Bloomberg reports that OpenAI expects to reach or exceed $70bn in annualised revenue by the end of the year, citing people familiar with the matter. That is a projection, not current revenue, and OpenAI declined to comment. The Financial Times reports that OpenAI told investors its annualised revenue was "approaching $50 billion" at the end of September, about $20bn below figures reported last month. What "annualised" means, why OpenAI and Anthropic count differently, and what the report does not prove.

Three newly disclosed incidents: Ginkgo Bioworks says an outsider accessed data from cloud environments tied to its former biosecurity business; Turkey's data regulator says a ransomware attack on Yıldız Technical University may affect about 140,000 students and 4,500 staff; and Green Clinic in Ruston, Louisiana, is rebuilding after ransomware locked its records. What each organisation has confirmed.

DARPA has moved Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ into the final, hands-on stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, and says it increasingly expects a useful quantum computer by 2033. UK trapped-ion firm Universal Quantum has raised more than $100m, IonQ claims big speed-ups for error-corrected operations in simulations, and a peer-reviewed Cornell paper shows a full gate set on a qubit that partly tolerates its main error. Plus a Jülich preprint and Infineon's ion-trap chips. What each confirms, and what is only claimed.

Duke Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have filed a North Carolina settlement that makes big data centres pay upfront, sign 10–15 year contracts and accept some power cuts. Indiana approved Google paying the full cost of serving a 390 MW site, and a bipartisan Senate bill would make data centres pay for the grid upgrades they trigger. And gas equipment is being shipped straight to AI projects: a 380 MW Doosan turbine for SpaceXAI and 282 MW of Wärtsilä engines. What is agreed and what still needs approval.