QUICK HITS

1 Hacking suspect: The Seattle software engineer known online as “erratic,” who is accused of hacking into Capital One’s computer systems and compromising the personal data of more than 100 million customers, pleaded not guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to federal wire- and computer-fraud charges. The federal magistrate judge set a Nov. 4 jury trial for Paige Thompson and ordered her remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.

2 More protests: Students and graduates from at least five Hong Kong schools formed human chains Friday to raise awareness of the four remaining demands of protesters involved in months of demonstrations in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.

3 Publisher sued: An Illinois woman and her daughter filed a lawsuit against education publishing giant Pearson, accusing the British-owned company of negligently handling student data and causing a data breach that compromised the personal information of nearly one million students in 13 states, including tens of thousands in the Chicago area.

4 Pregnant woman sent back: Eight-and-a-half-months pregnant and experiencing contractions, an El Salvadoran woman who had crossed the Rio Grande and was apprehended by the Border Patrol was forced to go back to Mexico. Agents took her to the hospital, where doctors gave her medication to stop the contractions.

5 Actress dies: Carol Lynley, a former child model who had an intense film acting career mirroring the country’s transformation from the modest Eisenhower era into the sexually frank 1960s, died at her home in Los Angeles. She was 77.

The cause was a heart attack.