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October 29, 2026

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MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

Apple unveiled a new MacBook Pro featuring a proprietary PROLED XDR display with touch capability, marking a significant departure from existing Mini-LED technology and introducing touch interaction t...

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Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only

Orange Tsai (DEVCORE) built a completely handmade, logic-only Microsoft Edge full chain for Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, chaining five logic bugs with no memory corruption and no AI assistance. The chain esca...

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Apple launches its new touchscreen MacBook Pro

Apple has launched a touchscreen MacBook Pro starting at $2,899, marking a major shift after nearly 10 years of resisting touch input on Macs. The device features M5 Pro/Max chips, up to 128GB unified...

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A hidden ocean change near Antarctica could have global consequences

A major shift in Antarctic Intermediate Water salinity has been detected in the Southern Ocean, reversing decades of freshening in just a few years. This change, linked to rapid Antarctic sea ice loss...

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Gemini 4 Carbon

Google has introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new addition to its Gemini model lineup. The announcement represents an iteration in Google's ongoing efforts to expand and refine its AI capabilities across m...

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Emacs Turns 50

MIT Technology Review reflects on Emacs celebrating its 50th anniversary, tracing the history of one of computing's most enduring and influential text editors. The article explores how Emacs has shape...

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Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

Apple's git toolchain continues to trust SSL certificates issued by eMudhra, a certificate authority whose certificates were previously compromised. The article highlights that despite known security ...

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This is not sustainable

The author critiques the unsustainable pace of 0-day vulnerability disclosures during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, arguing that broken disclosure practices, marketing-driven embargoes, and the hype ...

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Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

Dayjob conducts an evaluation of AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments, assessing their performance in real-world tax scenarios. The study highlights both the capabilities and limitations of cu...

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Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++

Daniel Lemire presents techniques for building extremely fast lookup tables in C++ that can achieve billion queries per second. The approach leverages cache-friendly data structures and SIMD-optimized...

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Scalable Vector Grief

PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes tested eight popular SVG sanitizer libraries and bypassed six of them, revealing critical vulnerabilities in widely-used security tools. The research demonstrates n...

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Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

Wiz CTO discusses the ongoing aftermath of PHP2Shell, two critical vulnerabilities in PHP affecting ~70% of websites that forced organizations to take sites offline for patching. The cleanup from the ...

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Trump DOE loans $5B to nuclear plants that will power data centers

The Trump administration's Department of Energy has approved $5 billion in loans to Constellation Energy for modernizing nuclear reactors, with most of the new capacity already committed to power majo...

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As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland

The European Union has designated the Pan-Arctic Cable as a flagship project to build the first subsea Internet cable directly linking Europe to Greenland, with potential future extensions to Canada, ...

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China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech

A new US government-commissioned report identifies Google and Meta's Pacific undersea cables as among the most vulnerable to potential sabotage by China. Chinese research and commercial ships have bee...

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GitHub Octoverse 2026

GitHub released its 2026 Octoverse report, highlighting that merged pull requests tripled to 220 million per month and commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion, driven largely by the rise of agentic ...

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Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

The article examines how a fingerprinting script could have unintended consequences related to bioweapon development or tracking. It explores the intersection of digital fingerprinting techniques with...

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CNC Stone Carving

An overview of CNC stone carving as a modern digital fabrication technique, combining traditional craftsmanship with computer-controlled precision. The article explores how CAD/CAM workflows enable co...

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GOTO Considered Totally Sick (for error handling in C)

The author, a Go developer returning to C after years away, discovered that reading John Carmack's notes on inlined code led to an epiphany about using goto as a clean error-handling pattern in C. The...

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Who’s 0xabadbabe and why? (2011)

Daniel Stenberg recounts his work debugging simulated USB disk issues in Windows 7, where he discovered the OS writing the magic value 0xabadbabe to a reserved EHCI register during boot. He found this...

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Making SIMD Code Scale to Any Vector Width

The article demonstrates techniques for scaling SIMD code beyond typical 4-component XMM registers to support 8-wide or 16-wide vectors using a transpose strategy. It covers both basic N dot products ...

6.0

Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A on the Way?

Device tree files in the Linux kernel suggest two new Raspberry Pi boards are in development: a Zero 3 W featuring the Pi 4's BCM2711 SoC and a Pi 4 Model A. The rumored Zero 3 W would offer a signifi...

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Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

Google is rolling out AI Search ads globally as its core advertising growth slows, marking a strategic pivot toward AI-driven ad products. The announcement accompanied Alphabet's Q3 earnings, showing ...

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Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

Microsoft reported $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangements with OpenAI in the quarter ending September 30, 2026. The figure highlights the substantial financial scale of their partners...

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Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row

Microsoft reported its 10th consecutive quarter of record-breaking revenue, reaching $92.3 billion with a 19% year-over-year increase. The result underscores Microsoft's strong financial performance d...

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Xreal Aura is a new wired headset powered by Android XR

Xreal has launched the Aura, a wired smart glasses headset powered by Android XR and Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite platform, announced at the Android Dev Summit. The glasses feature Sony Micro-O...

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Reddit is the latest platform to embrace the ‘For You’ feed

Reddit is rolling out a 'For You' feed that blends posts from communities users have already joined with algorithmically tailored recommendations based on their browsing behavior and interests. The mo...

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Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model

Nvidia released a free open speech-to-text transcription model supporting up to 40 languages. The model is designed for recording-based transcription rather than live audio, making it particularly use...

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South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks

South Korea's financial institutions have been targeted by a fresh wave of cyberattacks, raising concerns about the increasing threat of AI-driven hacking across Asia. The incident underscores growing...

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TikTok expands into restaurant guides with ‘Must Eat’ feature

TikTok is launching 'Must Eat,' a community-driven restaurant guide feature that aggregates over 40 million posts and comments to curate dining recommendations across U.S. cities. The feature splits r...

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ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th

ULA is scheduling its Vulcan rocket for a return-to-flight mission on November 13, nine months after solid rocket booster nozzle failures grounded the vehicle. The mission will deploy 40 satellites fo...

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Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too

Amazon has released the Echo Studio with Home Camera, adding a 13MP camera to its premium Echo Studio smart speaker without significant audio upgrades. The camera enables remote room monitoring, occup...

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Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac

Ars Technica got a brief hands-on with Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro featuring an OLED display, Dynamic Island, and a lighter chassis. The OLED panel draws high praise while the Dynamic Island i...

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Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

Google's AI Mode is giving evasive answers when asked about recent US presidential election results, directing users to external sources rather than providing direct answers. This selective behavior c...

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Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV

Cadillac's Escalade IQ is a massive 4-ton electric SUV with over 200 kWh of battery and a claimed 460-mile EPA range. It shares its platform and battery pack with other GM EVs like the Silverado EV, G...

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Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches

Alphabet reported that its AI investments are driving the highest year-over-year search query growth in five years, according to its Q3 2026 earnings. Revenue rose 25% to $127.6 billion, with Google C...

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A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records

A hacker known as "Department of Peace" compromised DHS systems via Okta, exposing personal data of over 41,000 ICE and CBP employees. The breach also revealed connections between these agencies and s...

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Hands-on with the new OLED iPad Mini

Apple has launched a new iPad Mini featuring a larger OLED display and optional nano-texture matte finish, addressing glare issues effectively. The redesign also moves the front-facing camera to the l...

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The October inflection point for vibe game development

Simon Willison argues that October 2026 marks an inflection point for vibe-coded computer games, driven largely by Claude Opus 5.5's improvements in 3D modeling, music generation, and game design. Aft...

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Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

Formlabs has entered the budget resin 3D printer market with the Studio 1, priced at $699 as a 'Basic Founders Edition.' This marks a significant shift for Formlabs, which has traditionally focused on...

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Hoot 0.10.0 released

Spritely Institute released Hoot 0.10.0, a Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile that enables running Scheme in the browser. The update includes R6RS library versioning support, fixes for m...

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The Benchmarking Crisis

The article discusses concerns about the current state of performance benchmarking in the tech industry, likely highlighting how benchmarks may no longer reliably reflect real-world performance or how...

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Introducing the Accessible Components Library

TetraLogical has open-sourced its Accessible Components Library v1.0.0, featuring eight UI components with full HTML, CSS, JS, documentation, and automated tests. The library stands out by mapping eac...

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Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’

Instagram head Adam Mosseri predicts that public frustration and anger toward AI will continue to worsen, particularly among creative industries. He acknowledged this growing negativity during an appe...

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Readwise is taking on Kindle and Kobo for ebook supremacy

Readwise, known for its Kindle highlight tools and Reader app, is launching Readwise Books, a full ebook platform for buying, reading, and discussing books, currently in beta. The move positions it as...

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Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

Akai is releasing the MPC Sample Key with open-source firmware, embracing the modding community by giving hackers and custom firmware developers early access. The device is similar to the MPC Sample b...

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New Kindle Colorsoft Has Obvious Light Bleed Issue

The 2026 Kindle Colorsoft has been released and received by a reviewer who discovered an obvious light bleed issue with the E Ink display. The author notes they no longer own a first-gen Colorsoft, so...