IT, AI & Telecommunications

Global – October 31, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has expanded its public Prompt Injection Taxonomy to 222 techniques, adding attacks that target how autonomous AI agents plan rather than only what they are prompted to do.

Attackers shape the context agents plan from

An agent breaks a goal into steps, picks tools and executes. Attackers no longer need to push one forbidden request past an input or output filter. They can instead shape the context the agent plans from, so a restricted action looks like the logical next step. Because each step can look benign alone, defenses that check steps in isolation may miss what the full plan adds up to.

Global – October 31, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has added Third-Party IOC Management to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, letting security teams ingest, curate and manage externally sourced threat indicators in the same platform that holds their security telemetry.

The feature targets a "bring your own intelligence" model. Indicators from commercial providers, ISACs, government sources, open-source research, partners and internal incident response often sit in spreadsheets, ticketing tools and separate threat intelligence platforms. CrowdStrike says manual imports across those tools add operational overhead, delay detection, generate unnecessary alerts and slow investigations.

Ingestion covers IPs, domains, URLs and file hashes via STIX/TAXII, APIs and uploads

Teams can onboard IOCs through STIX/TAXII, APIs or direct uploads. The platform automatically consolidates duplicate indicators across sources.

COLUMBUS – October 31, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has launched a global ecosystem offering that combines an expanded collaboration with Dow and a new partnership with Solenis to manage liquid cooling as a single, integrated thermal system for AI-scale data centers.

The initiative pairs Vertiv's infrastructure, monitoring and global service capabilities with fluid chemistry, coolant and water treatment expertise from the two partners. Dow supplies advanced coolant technologies, while Solenis contributes specialty chemicals and water treatment solutions.

Vertiv extends Dow Coolant Care Network collaboration and adds Solenis

Vertiv expanded its work with Dow through the Dow Coolant Care Network and started a new partnership with Solenis to support end-to-end fluid management and thermal infrastructure services. Both are integrated with Vertiv's monitoring and lifecycle capabilities.

Orlando – October 31, 2026 -- Springbrook Software has made AI Invoicing and AI Permitting available today on its Cirrus cloud ERP platform. It also previewed natural language reporting and a resident-facing Citizen Portal at its Activate 2026 customer conference in Orlando.

The Innovation Roadmap targets three pain points the company says local governments face everywhere: reporting, ease of use and support. Attendees tested forthcoming features and gave live feedback.

AI Invoicing and AI Permitting go live with staff sign-off

AI Invoicing reads incoming invoices, captures the details and matches each one to its purchase order, cutting manual data entry for accounts payable staff. AI Permitting advises applicants, checks applications for completeness and performs a first review of the content.

In both tools, AI does the first pass and staff review and approve the result before anything is returned or approved.

Switzerland – October 31, 2026 -- Sword Switzerland has extended the internship of Elio Biffiger, its digital marketing intern, by a further six months. The initial placement ran six months from November 2025 and forms part of his Master's degree at CREA Geneva.

Intern runs social channels and editorial calendar for Sword Switzerland

Biffiger works alongside the marketing team on brand visibility and communication initiatives. He produces LinkedIn content, newsletters and marketing materials, including posts, carousels, visuals and partner announcements.

He also manages Sword Switzerland's social channels and its editorial calendar.

Biffiger handles event communication from agenda draft to guest list

His event remit runs end to end. It covers landing pages and registration in HubSpot, invitations and follow-ups, visual assets, and coordination with partners.

PLANO, Texas – October 31, 2026 -- Securus Technologies has made the Academy Award-eligible short film "Basement People" available across its network of more than 550,000 secure tablets in U.S. correctional facilities. The film was written by an incarcerated screenwriter.

Securus distributes the film through its Media Store from Oct. 22

The company, which serves more than 1,800 correctional agencies, added the title to the Securus Media Store on Oct. 22, 2026. It frames the release as a way to widen access to content tied to education, rehabilitation and reentry. The film also screens at the 2026 San Quentin Film Festival, now in its third year and described as the first film festival established inside a U.S. prison.

Miami – October 31, 2026 -- ERMProtect, a Miami-based cybersecurity and digital forensics firm, briefed a delegation from 32 countries on how the United States combats cybercrime, in a session run under the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program on Oct. 29, 2026.

Global Ties Miami nominated the firm, and the State Department selected it for the session.

ERMProtect covers legal, forensic and law enforcement angles of U.S. cyber defense

The firm outlined how U.S. laws and regulations, cybersecurity standards, law enforcement and private-sector expertise work together against cybercrime. Its team also covered how digital forensics and cybercrime investigations are conducted. Threats discussed included data breaches, cryptocurrency theft, fraud and ransomware.

PALO ALTO – October 31, 2026 -- KRAFTON subsidiary Ludo Robotics presented Ludi 0.2, the second iteration of its robotic intelligence system, at the 2026 Bay Area Robotics Symposium (BARS) at UC Berkeley, and confirmed that a next-generation foundation model, Ludi 1.0, is in development.

Ludi 0.2 adds five capabilities to August's Ludi 0.1 release

Ludi 0.1, introduced in August 2026, combined a vision-language model for reasoning and dialogue with specialized navigation and manipulation functions. It was built to interpret spoken instructions, maintain conversational context, ask clarifying questions and adapt to changing tasks in supported environments.

Ludi 0.2 extends that base in five areas:

San Francisco – October 30, 2026 -- The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) launched mischief 1, an image-to-video AI model that generates video 5x faster than its base model, on the fal and OpenRouter marketplaces. TBC says it is the lowest-priced image-to-video model on both platforms.

The model is priced at half a cent per second of video. A five-second clip costs 2.5 cents, and 100 clips cost $2.50.

TBC builds mischief 1 on Wan 2.2 and says quality matches the base model

Mischief 1 is built on Wan 2.2, a widely used open-weight video model. TBC says it matches the base model's quality while cutting generation time fivefold and cost to a fraction of the original.

SHENZHEN – October 30, 2026 -- TerraMaster is paying developers up to $30 per eligible app listed in its TOS App Center by April 30, 2027, as the NAS maker launches its TOS Developer Platform and App Listing Reward Program.

The company is targeting independent developers, open-source project maintainers, homelab users and self-hosting advocates worldwide. Approved applications will be published in the global TOS App Center and distributed to TerraMaster NAS users. Rewards scale with the number of eligible apps a developer publishes.

Platform accepts Debian and Docker packages with automated validation

The platform provides development documentation and packaging templates for Debian (.deb) and Docker. Developers can submit online, track review status and use API access to connect submissions to existing CI/CD release workflows. Automated validation is built into the process.