|
A manhunt has been launched after a teenager was injured in a hit and run incident in Midlothian
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
A convicted criminal killed a woman amid claims his treasured watch had been stolen
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
I spent last weekend trying to figure out why my smart vacuum kept bumping into the same chair leg, and it occurred to me that we are all just one firmware update away from our appliances deciding to …
more
Mila Cohen (via Forkast)
|
10/18/26
|
|
Mastercard has finally stopped pretending that stablecoins are a peripheral experiment. On October 15, 2026, the company launched its Global Money Platform, a move that looks less like a product …
more
Nolan Pratt (via Forkast)
|
10/18/26
|
|
An appeal has been launched to trace a man, James Booth, missing from Falkirk who has not been seen for two weeks
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
The shift from blocking to building Financial institutions are currently caught in a high-stakes standoff with autonomous software. Major firms like Schwab and JPMorgan have responded to the …
more
Priya Nair (via Forkast)
|
10/18/26
|
|
Fewer than 11% of small merchants are ready for AI shopping agents. Agentic orders across Forter’s network have quadrupled since August. Automated fraud has doubled in two months. On October 13, …
more
Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
|
10/18/26
|
|
Anthropic is currently attempting to justify a $2 trillion valuation target while reconciling a 2025 performance that saw a net loss of $42 billion on just $4.6 billion in revenue. This stark …
more
Lena Park (via Forkast)
|
10/18/26
|
|
Threat actors weaponized a vendor-managed credential in ConnectWise Cloud Backup to authenticate across 173 Microsoft 365 tenants on October 15, 2026. The credential lived in ConnectWise’s own …
more
Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
|
10/18/26
|
|
An 'area of interest' has been identified in the search for two missing men and their boat, which failed to arrive in Lewis on Tuesday night
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
In a wide-ranging interview with The Herald, Dr Ali Afshar, managing director of AMA (New Town) Limited, outlined his vision for the venue.
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
Amid claims of US meddling, oil-rich Alberta will vote on whether to hold a binding referendum on leaving Canada. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines what’s at stake
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
Campaigners are outraged at the SNP’s stewardship of the sea. Our Writer at Large hears from them, and their fishing lobby opponents who have just hired an SNP minister as CEO
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
Seven years after the BBC Scotland channel launched with big ambitions, its audience is shrinking and its future is in doubt. I spent an evening watching it to find out what has gone wrong.
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
A Labour government in Westminster should always have been a problem for the SNP, especially a deflated, too-long-in-government SNP which had failed to deliver on many of the left-wing policies it …
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
THIS week’s Scottish Icon was a Broadway star and understudy to Barbra Streisand. She was also a secret habitué of the Barras.
more
Via The Herald Scotland
|
10/18/26
|
|
On October 15, 2026, Visa announced that its stablecoin capabilities are moving from pilot stage to commercial deployment. That sentence reads like a press release, but the structural shift …
more
Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
|
10/17/26
|
|
On October 16, Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster confirmed in a Bloomberg TV interview that the firm is actively blocking unauthorized AI agents, such as Meta Muse, from executing transactions on …
more
Priya Nair (via Forkast)
|
10/17/26
|
|
On October 15, 2026, India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued a critical-severity advisory, CIAD-2026-0049, titled ‘AI Agents as Attack Vectors: Unauthorized Access by Agents …
more
Priya Nair (via Forkast)
|
10/17/26
|
|
As of October 17, 2026, exactly 36 days remain before the current revision of the ID-JAG draft expires on November 22. While draft expiration is routine, this one highlights the chasm between …
more
Blair Hayes (via Forkast)
|
10/17/26
|