Thursday, October 8, 2026
Samsung has reported a record quarterly profit of $80 billion, driven by surging demand for AI memory chips. The result cements the South Korean giant's position as the world's largest memory-chip maker and signals that the AI hardware boom is still very much running hot.
The Democratic National Committee has filed a federal lawsuit demanding a judge halt a series of government-funded ads that promote Donald Trump personally, arguing they constitute illegal propaganda. The suit lands amid bipartisan criticism, and Trump's Super PAC has declined to reimburse the more than $12 million already spent.
Houthi forces have struck two Saudi international airports, killing three people in one of the most direct attacks on Saudi civilian infrastructure in the Yemen conflict. The strikes come as Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces claim advances in the mountain belt above Taiz's coastline.
The World Health Organization is demanding more information after an employee at a Russian plague research institute died, with Russia attributing the death to pneumonia of unknown origin. A senior WHO official has publicly urged Moscow to be more forthcoming, while Russia is dismissing reports of a second suspected pneumonic plague case as misinformation.
Margaret Hamilton, the MIT computer scientist whose software kept Apollo 11 on course to the moon, has died aged 90. Hamilton essentially invented the discipline of software engineering before the term existed, and later received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for work that prevented a mission abort just minutes before Neil Armstrong landed.
