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Eight TLS certificates issued by Indian CA eMudhra have been compromised due to extremely weak private keys, allowing anyone to forge trusted certificates for any website—a threat described as potenti...

The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. These certificates chain to roots trusted by Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple, and Chrome, meaning any software with bund...

Google has open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend specifically designed for TPUs. This enables PyTorch developers to directly leverage Google's TPU hardware for training and inference without...

Mistral AI released Voxtral 3, an updated multilingual speech-to-text and speech recognition model. The new version features improved accuracy, faster inference speeds, and support for more languages ...

The PHP security team announced an upcoming critical security release scheduled for October 21, 2026, addressing two vulnerabilities rated CVSS 9.2. They also released PHP 8.4.26 as an immediate secur...

Quantinuum announced that its latest quantum hardware significantly exceeds the breakeven point for quantum error correction, with each increase in logical qubit size improving performance by over a f...

SpaceX plans to attempt catching Starship and its Super Heavy booster for the first time next month, aiming to fully recover the orbital launch system — a historic first if successful. Elon Musk calle...

The author reflects on 2026 as an exciting year for the Rust compiler ecosystem, sharing personal milestones alongside significant technical developments in the Rust toolchain.

A Google Cloud outage has disrupted nearly all banking and financial operations across Europe, taking down services at major institutions including HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, and Equifax...

DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, an open-source high-performance inference framework optimized for their DeepSeek models. The framework aims to deliver efficient and scalable serving capabilities, ref...

The curl project announced a major policy change to its vulnerability disclosure program, effective October 26, 2026. LOW and MEDIUM severity vulnerabilities will now be reported and fixed publicly on...

EDG's C++ front end, a production-quality compiler used across the industry for 30 years, went open source on September 30, 2026. The C++ Alliance, a nonprofit with fiscal sponsorship infrastructure a...

Jepsen tested Orkes Conductor versions 5.3.2–5.5.0-rc2 and found serious safety issues that caused permanent abandonment or forgetting of workflow executions, along with frequent concurrent task execu...

LeanIn is a concurrency runtime and work-stealing scheduler for Lean 4, inspired by Tokio and Node.js. It demonstrates that high-performance async concurrency patterns can be implemented within a proo...

SpaceX's AI operations are significantly outperforming expectations, now accounting for 52% of total revenue in Q3 2026. The company reported $14.6 billion in quarterly revenue, with its renamed 'Supe...

OpenAI has acquired startup Orchestra Bio to strengthen its biotech division, integrating Orchestra's team and technology into its Rosalind AI model for life sciences research and its Rosalind Workben...

The U.S. government has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and any third-party services built on its technology from their systems, citing national security concerns. This m...

Elon Musk stated on SpaceX's Q3 earnings call that merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a good idea, citing synergies in AI, chip design, robotics, and satellite connectivity. Special committees of indep...

Police in Guinea-Bissau raided offices of Danish vaccine researchers allied with RFK Jr. that were planning an unethical hepatitis B vaccine trial on newborns, seizing vaccine doses. The trial had bee...

Google is rolling out Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature to Android Auto and Google Built-in vehicles, enabling the AI to pull from your Gmail, Calendar, and photos to provide contextual, personal...

With SpaceX withdrawing the Falcon 9 from the commercial market by 2028, a new generation of US medium-lift rockets is emerging to fill the gap, featuring domestically built engines and cores as lesso...

Ukraine has successfully performed a drone-based medical evacuation of a wounded soldier from a frontline area where ground rescue was impractical due to Russian drones and landmines. The operation us...

Meta has been ordered by a judge to identify executives who authorized the piracy of copyrighted books via torrents for AI training, after the company attempted to blame lower-level staff. The discove...

Meta Muse's conversation-sharing feature exposed sensitive personal and business data due to predictable URL generation, allowing researchers to enumerate over 6,800 shareable links. Sensitive informa...

Slate Motors opened its first customer experience showroom in Chicago's Fulton Market District, showcasing its $24,950 bare-bones electric pickup truck with a 205-mile projected range. The minimalist ...

Japan has launched the MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) spacecraft, a mission aimed at returning samples from Phobos, one of Mars's moons. The mission will culminate in 2029 with up to two landing atte...

Startup Electric Plant has developed an AI-powered system that interprets the subtle electrical signals emitted by plant stems, effectively translating plant bio-electric activity into a form humans c...

Sixteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, deep-sea ecosystems show remarkably limited recovery, contradicting earlier optimistic assessments. New research from Yale's Environmental 360 high...

Facebook Pages now require a paid subscription to post more than two links per month, marking a significant restriction on organic reach for content creators and businesses. This move reflects Meta's ...

Cloudflare released Tsrs, a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, aimed at significantly improving compilation performance. The project brings TypeScript type-checking and code generation into the Rus...

Apple appears to have broken an essential iPad presentation feature in a recent update, causing significant user frustration. The issue has generated substantial discussion on HackerNews with over 470...

OpenBSD 8.0 was released on October 20, 2026, marking the 61st release of the operating system. Key improvements include a significantly expanded amd64 kernel virtual address space (4G to 512G), hiber...

Mastodon 5.0 introduces a major UI overhaul aimed at improving newcomer accessibility while preserving power-user functionality, guided by community feedback and principles like clarity over convenien...

Mahdi Bahrami presents a new high-performance IPv4 parsing algorithm in Swift that achieves ~3ns latency (~75 instructions, 15 CPU cycles) on Apple M6 processors. The work is part of swift-endpoint, a...

An in-depth technical exploration of declarative interfaces for WebAssembly's GC (Garbage Collection) extension, focusing on the challenges of modeling recursive type groups. The author highlights gap...

Anthropic is facing difficulties securing sufficient compute resources from cloud providers who increasingly see it as a competitor rather than just a customer. The company's infrastructure spending i...

Anthropic has proposed an AI safety bill that would require judicial approval before federal agencies can block a model's release if it poses a risk of 50+ casualties. The policy aims to prevent AI ru...

Google is integrating its Gemini Personal Intelligence feature into cars, enabling the AI assistant to pull data from Gmail, Calendar, Maps, YouTube, and other Google services to provide more personal...

Google has released a developer tool to help PyTorch users migrate their applications off Nvidia GPUs, following a similar move by Amazon. This signals a growing effort by major cloud providers to red...

ChatGPT has introduced a new chat locking feature that allows users to secure individual conversations behind a passcode or biometric lock. The feature targets users who want to keep personal discussi...

Ex-Nvidia VC Amulya Vishwanath compares the current state of Physical AI to the LEGO era, suggesting we're in an early building phase. He predicts this is the pivotal 'ChatGPT moment' for robotics tha...

Meta's AI companion app Muse has reached 10 million U.S. downloads within its first 40 days, joining an elite group that includes Threads. The app is also outperforming rival AI companions in user ret...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly holds approximately 1% stake in Anthropic, roughly half of CEO Dario Amodei's 2% ownership, following his Series A investment in 2021. With Anthropic expected...

JustWatch, the popular streaming search guide used by 50 million people, is launching its own streaming service with free ad-supported content and a $3.99/month ad-free tier. This marks a significant ...

SpaceX alumni-founded Reliable Robotics secured a $115M Series D extension, pushing its valuation above $1 billion. The Mountain View startup has now raised $380M total as it works toward FAA certific...

Eka Robotics has achieved a $1.45B valuation driven by its physical AI model for robotic arms, which experts praise for its ability to pick a wide range of objects with smooth, human-like dexterity. T...

JustWatch, the streaming guide platform founded in 2015, has launched its own streaming service called JustWatch TV. The service offers a free ad-supported tier with selected titles, rentals, and a $4...

Meta has removed the word "train" from its commercial terms of service following backlash from legal experts who warned the language could allow indiscriminate scraping of websites linked on business ...

Microsoft reportedly plans a 2028 Project Helix console priced between $1,200 and $1,800, alongside a next-gen handheld by late 2027. Internal disputes continue over whether the handheld will run a st...

OpenBSD 8.0 is now available as the project's 61st release, maintaining its strong security record with over 30 years of only two remote holes in default installations. Key updates include Intel Arc g...

TP-Link announced plans to assemble its Wi-Fi 8 routers domestically in Mississippi by partnering with Keytronic, aiming to gain FCC approval to sell its new routers in the US market. The company, fou...

The Trump administration awarded YouTuber Nick Shirley $10,000 and launched a $25 million public bounty program for reporting fraud, following Shirley's viral video alleging fraudulent daycares in Min...

Netflix is prioritizing monetization improvements as viewing time declines, planning to raise prices occasionally and boost advertiser demand. The company will focus on original titles, live events, a...

SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in Q3 revenue, up 161% year-over-year, with its Super Intelligence (SI) segment accounting for $7.6 billion—driven by new cloud service agreements, the Cursor acquisition...

Snap has hired Robert Downey Jr. as the Chief Customer Experience Officer for its Spectacles AR glasses, leveraging his Iron Man fame to promote the product. The partnership includes promotional video...

Permit is an interactive web tool by Peter Cai that lets users explore city permit and zoning data in a SimCity-like interface, visualizing building permits across a city. It combines gaming aesthetic...

UK communications regulator Ofcom has abandoned its regulatory action against 4chan, conceding defeat in a high-profile case that examined whether the site's content violated communications rules. The...

A Tor infrastructure operator describes the process and tactics used to get over 300 Tor exit nodes removed from the network. The post details the methods of identifying problematic nodes and leveragi...

MicroG is an open-source re-implementation of Google's proprietary GMS Core, providing Google Play Services functionality on Android without requiring Google's closed-source software. The project has ...

Nicolas Mattia shares a guide on creating SSH identities using macOS's Secure Enclave and Touch ID, eliminating the need for traditional SSH key files. The setup involves creating a secure identity th...

A detailed annotated disassembly of the original 8 KiB firmware for the DEC VT100 terminal, launched in 1978 as DEC's first microprocessor-based terminal using the Intel 8080. The project provides ful...

Raymond Chen explains why x86 provides a dedicated ud2 instruction rather than relying on int 6 to generate invalid opcode exceptions. The key difference is that ud2 is a fault, reporting the faulting...

SpaceX and Tesla boards have formed special committees of independent directors to review a potential merger between the two companies. Elon Musk expressed support for the idea but clarified he will n...

Clem Delangue, co-founder of Hugging Face featured in Netflix's documentary 'AI Gone Rogue,' criticized the film as inaccurate and said it went 'full doomer mode' in its portrayal of the OpenAI hack i...

GM is closing its Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant in Detroit, but the shutdown is unrelated to its EV strategy. The decision reflects operational restructuring rather than a pullback from electrific...

Court documents reveal TikTok employees expressed frustration over how executives handled child safety concerns raised within the company. The internal complaints highlight a potential gap between sta...

Figma co-founder Dylan Field expressed concerns about the MCP (Model Context Protocol) standard while announcing 20 new MCP partners at Config India. He questioned why Anthropic, the creators of MCP, ...

Polestar partnered with University of Oxford researchers to study the human driving experience behind the wheel of performance electric vehicles, going beyond traditional spec-sheet metrics. A pilot s...

YouTube is testing a change that would move the dislike button from its prominent position next to the like button into a three-dots submenu, significantly reducing its visibility and ease of access. ...

Oura is launching two new cardiovascular health tracking features — Cardio Effort and automatic VO2 Max — for its Gen 3 smart rings. The features help users understand how exercise impacts long-term h...

Simon Willison built Battle Drones, a browser-based RTS game inspired by Command & Conquer, through 12 iterations using Claude Code in a "vibe coding" approach. The game supports two-player multiplaye...

Good e-Reader publishes a first look and unboxing review of the 2026 Amazon Kindle e-reader in Ube, covering its resolution, specifications, and real-world performance. The article provides early impr...