Shanghai – October 12, 2026 -- Forty-two multinational executives from 14 countries told Shanghai to use artificial intelligence to link services with manufacturing and consumption, at the 38th meeting of the International Business Leaders' Advisory Council for the Mayor of Shanghai (IBLAC) on Oct. 11.

The session was held under the theme of innovation-driven development of the service sector. IBLAC was initiated in 1989 and now serves as a think tank for Shanghai mayors.

PwC chairman points to Shanghai's industrial base and Yangtze River Delta ties

Mohamed Kande, global chairman of PwC, cited Shanghai's strong industrial base, close links with the Yangtze River Delta region and mature service industry as advantages. He urged the city to connect technologies, research and capital with international service providers to address real-economy challenges.

Linköping – October 12, 2026 -- UK digital pathology provider Diagnexia has signed an annual, renewable agreement with Sectra (STO: SECT B) covering up to 100,000 cases in the first year, enabling it to receive, send and report pathology cases digitally for NHS organisations.

The contract was signed in the second quarter of Sectra's 2026/2027 fiscal year. It uses Sectra's service for advanced share and collaborate workflows to connect Diagnexia with NHS bodies that need external specialist support.

Diagnexia reporting capacity becomes available through existing Sectra connections

Hospitals already connected to the Sectra Image Exchange Portal (Sectra IEP) can reach Diagnexia's reporting capacity through the same connection and workflows. Jane Rendall, Managing Director for Sectra UK and Ireland, said this requires no new integration, no separate supplier onboarding and no additional infrastructure.

Stockholm – October 12, 2026 -- Ericsson's treasury stock stands at 125,805,951 Class B shares after repurchases made on Nasdaq Stockholm between October 5 and October 9, 2026, under its SEK 15 billion buyback program.

Buyback program runs to March 31, 2027

Ericsson announced the program of up to SEK 15,000,000,000 on April 16, 2026. Repurchases started on April 23, 2026, and can continue until March 31, 2027 at the latest.

Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE carries out all acquisitions on Ericsson's behalf. The program follows the EU Market Abuse Regulation (No 596/2014) and the Safe Harbour Regulation (Delegated Regulation 2016/1052).

Board plans to propose cancellation of repurchased shares at 2027 AGM

The Board of Directors intends to ask the 2027 Annual General Meeting to cancel the repurchased shares. Shares used to fulfil obligations under Ericsson's share-related incentive programs are excluded from that proposal.

Taipei – October 12, 2026 -- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: ASX, TAIEX: 3711) has published unaudited consolidated net revenues for September and the third quarter of 2026, including a separate breakdown for its assembly, testing and material (ATM) business.

ASE files monthly revenue disclosure to meet Taiwan rules

The company said the release is intended to comply with Taiwan regulatory requirements. The figures are unaudited and cover two reporting periods: the month of September and the full third quarter of 2026.

ASE reports ATM net revenues as a separate line from consolidated net revenues. The ATM line covers its assembly, testing and material operations.

ASE lists cyclicality, trade policy and cross-strait ties among risk factors

ASE's accompanying safe harbor notice names several factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements. They include:

Atlanta – October 12, 2026 -- Colquitt Regional Health System in Moultrie, Georgia, is the subject of an upcoming Public Television segment on how a South Georgia hospital used graduate medical education and expanded specialty services to build a regional training and care hub.

All Access crews filmed the Moultrie segment on September 21, 2026

The segment comes from "All Access hosted by Andy Garcia," an independent short-form documentary series produced for Public Television stations nationwide. It examines how localized investment affects patient outcomes and covers data diversity and local workforce development in rural health networks. Targeted facility expansions and intentional culture shifts are presented as the factors that attract top medical talent.

Austin – October 12, 2026 -- NVIDIA introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open source platform and reference design that applies multi-layered security controls across the software, runtime and infrastructure where AI agents operate, with CrowdStrike collaborating on the effort.

NVIDIA Sentry enforces policy from BlueField-4 DPUs and can quarantine agents in milliseconds

At the software layer, NVIDIA OpenShell provides an open source secure runtime that governs how agents execute, what they can access and where inference occurs. NVIDIA Sentry adds an independent watchdog running on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs. It uses NVIDIA DOCA for out-of-band, in-silicon monitoring of agent activity and policy enforcement.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Incidents involving fake CAPTCHA lures rose 563% in 2025, according to the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report, as adversaries including STARDUST CHOLLIMA and VOODOO BEAR adopted the social engineering technique known as ClickFix.

ClickFix turns the victim into the execution mechanism

The attack shows a fake error, CAPTCHA or system message and tells the user to copy a command into the Windows Run dialog, PowerShell or Terminal. In some variants, malicious JavaScript places the command on the clipboard directly.

The pasted command can launch PowerShell, VBScript or another legitimate interpreter to fetch further payloads. CrowdStrike observations show follow-on activity including malware deployment, credential theft, persistence, command and control, and data theft.

United States – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike's Falcon Next-Gen SIEM has been added to CISA's SIEM-as-a-service (SIEMaaS) technology stack, giving eligible federal agencies a path to modernize security operations without using their own program funding.

DEFEND F mechanism acquires SKUs on behalf of agencies

The offering runs through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense (DEFEND) Group F shared service. It is delivered via CGI Federal's CDM DEFEND F SIEMaaS service. Eligibility is limited to federal civilian agencies that participate in CISA's Persistent Access Capability program and already use CrowdStrike endpoint detection and response (EDR) modules.

CISA has described SIEMaaS as "the Rosetta Stone" for visibility.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike is adding third-party application insights and AI-enhanced remediation to Falcon Cloud Security, so security teams can identify which cloud-native applications are exposed when an external provider is compromised.

Application code analysis maps vendor dependencies and API operations

Cloud-native applications increasingly rely on third-party and SaaS services for critical business functions. Without dependency visibility, assessing exposure after a provider compromise can mean manually searching code and application inventories.

Global – – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has made Falcon Data Security for SaaS generally available, starting with Microsoft 365 coverage across SharePoint, OneDrive and Copilot, with plans to add more SaaS applications over time.

Platform classifies PII, PHI and payment card data as files change

The product continuously discovers and classifies sensitive data as files are accessed, modified and shared. Out-of-the-box patterns cover personally identifiable information, protected health information and payment card data, and custom patterns can be added for business-specific content. A classification engine shared across SaaS, endpoint and cloud is meant to close policy gaps between disconnected tools.