Ultra-hot Jupiter in death spiral may reveal how rocky worlds are born
Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet’s orbital decay, confirming it is spiralling towards…
Amazon to hire 250,000 workers during holiday season for third straight year
By Reuters Published October 14, 2025 Amazon said it plans to hire 250,000 workers for the holiday season across its fulfillment and transportation networks in the U.S., the same number as the last two years, as the e-commerce behemoth prepares for a surge in orders. Reuters The announcement on Monday, however, comes amid concerns that…
Fashionphile expands to the UK with acquisition of Luxe Collective
Published October 14, 2025 Luxury re-commerce brand Fashionphile has entered the UK market through the acquisition of the intellectual property, customer database, and social media channels of Luxe Collective, a former UK-based luxury resale marketplace. Fashionphile expands to the UK with acquisition of Luxe Collective. – Fashionphile Founded in 2018 by brothers Ben and Joe…
Brunello Cucinelli says multi-brand retailers are special and inspiring, but must remain consistent across physical and digital channels
Published October 14, 2025 Brunello Cucinelli spoke at the NE(x)T Retail – The Future of Multibrand between Continuity, Transformation and Made in Italy conference, organised by Camera Buyer Italia in collaboration with the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy and under the patronage of Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, praising the role of multibrand…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2025 Security Update Review
As cybersecurity threats evolve, Microsoft’s October 2025 Patch Tuesday delivers one of the most comprehensive security updates of the year. Here’s a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2025 This month’s release addresses a staggering 193 vulnerabilities, including nine critical and 123 important-severity vulnerabilities. In this month’s updates, Microsoft…
Medicare Beneficiaries Have 32 Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans Available, on Average, for 2026
In anticipation of the Medicare annual open enrollment period, which runs from October 15 to December 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released information about Medicare Advantage plans for the coming year. News articles following the release of plan information report that Medicare Advantage insurers are scaling back their offerings in…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday October 2025
.NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability CVE-2025-55247 No No – – Important 7.3 6.4 .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2025-55248 No No – – Important 4.8 4.2…
Martian volcanoes may have transported ice to the planet’s equator
Ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars may have deposited ice at the planet’s equator RON MILLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The warmest parts of Mars host a strange, thick layer of ice beneath the surface, and we may have finally figured out how it got there. It might have been shifted from the inside of the planet by extraordinary…
How Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import streamlined LLM deployment for Salesforce
This post is cowritten by Salesforce’s AI Platform team members Srikanta Prasad, Utkarsh Arora, Raghav Tanaji, Nitin Surya, Gokulakrishnan Gopalakrishnan, and Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare. Salesforce’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform team runs customized large language models (LLMs)—fine-tuned versions of Llama, Qwen, and Mistral—for agentic AI applications like Agentforce. Deploying these models creates operational overheads: teams spend…
US retailers brace for impact as Trump’s 100% China tariffs loom
By Reuters Published October 14, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump‘s threat of additional 100% tariffs on Chinese imports has sounded alarm bells among retail and trade experts, who caution it could lead to more price increases and squeeze demand. Reuters The fresh levies, set to take effect November 1, would come as shoppers and retailers enter the…
‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War
OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. The company says the deals, some of which are being coordinated with the US government, are part of a broader push to give national leaders more control over a technology that…
