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Hardware 200 stories

1. Motorola Edge 70 Neo key specifications leak
   GSMArena 20:12 UTC

   Motorola accidentally teased the yet to launch Edge 70 Neo back in August, which was followed by leaked renders later that month. The renders showcased the phone’s design and color options, but a new leak has now revealed its key…

2. Ancient Roman Nanotech Made This Cup Change Color. Scientists Finally Cracked the Formula
   Gizmodo 20:00 UTC

   The Lycurgus Cup is an iconic artifact from Roman times. After 1,600 years, the technical mastery behind this masterpiece has been brought back to life.

3. Apple adds more Siri AI tools in its 27.2 system updates, out today
   Engadget 19:47 UTC

   Apple has rolled out software updates for all its platforms today.

4. Apple AirTags (2nd Gen) Are on Sale for 20% Off Right Now
   Wired Gear 19:40 UTC

   Track down your suitcase, car keys, and other essentials with this $23 Bluetooth tracker.

5. The Xbox Ally Handhelds Are Getting an Upscaled Lease on Life
   Gizmodo 19:25 UTC

   A small software update does wonders for Xbox’s only handhelds (that aren’t made by Xbox).

6. Ghost of Yōtei studio Sucker Punch reportedly lays off 24 workers
   Engadget 19:15 UTC

   Developer Sucker Punch just released a well-received expansion for Ghost of Yōtei a few weeks ago.

Tech Market & VC 80 stories

1. Some Observations About Anthropic’s IPO Filing 
   Crunchbase News 20:10 UTC

   In an S-1 filing today preceding what could be the largest IPO ever , Anthropic laid out extensive new details about its earnings, growth, key stakeholders and the risks it faces going forward. Clocking in at 335 pages, the document wasn’t…

2. Uh oh, it sounds like the iPhone Duo keeps cracking and users aren’t happy about it
   TechCrunch 19:22 UTC

   A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking.

3. 14 repeat defense tech founders to watch
   CB Insights 19:14 UTC

   Some defense tech founders have spent decades delivering military programs. Others previously built gaming hardware, travel apps, or cybersecurity businesses. Using CB Insights People data, we profiled repeat founders behind 10 defense…

4. Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?
   TechCrunch 18:59 UTC

   Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?

5. Great Scott! The ‘Back to the Future’ mall could become a data center
   Fast Company Tech 18:35 UTC

   Oh, this is heavy, Doc . The Puente Hills Mall in Industry, California, is better known to fans of Back to the Future as the Twin Pines Mall. That, in case you haven’t watched the film lately, is where Marty McFly and Doc Brown were chased…

6. Anthropic’s IPO filing is the start of the put-up-or-shut-up era of AI
   Fast Company Tech 18:08 UTC

   Tech’s worst-kept secret is finally out: Anthropic has filed its S-1 with the SEC , paving the way for an IPO and a reported investor roadshow beginning as soon as November 9 in an attempt to drum up interest befitting its targeted $1.5…

Semiconductors 55 stories

1. Japan life insurers eye purchases of higher-yielding JGBs
   Nikkei Asia 19:48 UTC
2. DoorDash Nears Deal to Buy Instacart in $17 Billion Deal
   The Information 19:44 UTC

   DoorDash is in advanced talks to buy Instacart for around $17 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. A deal could be announced in the coming days, assuming it doesn’t fall apart at the last minute, some of the people said…

3. Tunable gate electrodes could help semiconductors operate at lower voltages
   TechXplore Semiconductors 19:40 UTC

   Smartphones and computers process information by switching the current that flows inside semiconductors on and off. The gate electrode delivers the signal that controls this switching. Until now, gate electrodes have typically been made…

4. OpenAI Unveils Cheaper Terra Model Amid Anthropic Pricing Battle
   The Information 19:39 UTC

   OpenAI on Monday unveiled the latest iteration of its GPT-6.1 model, a mid-priced version that the company said is significantly cheaper and more efficient than the version of this tier it released three months ago. According to OpenAI…

5. Intel quietly confirms Raptor Lake Next CPUs through internal driver publication
   Tom's Hardware 18:50 UTC

   Intel has published an internal test driver with the "RPL-NEXT" label, presumably in reference to Raptor Lake Next CPUs that Tom's Hardware first reported on in June. On the same day as the driver was uncovered, shipping manifests from…

6. Cyberattack on Japan internet provider GMO threatens customer computers
   Nikkei Asia 18:47 UTC

Artificial Intelligence 49 stories

1. Anthropic maintains its focus on safety in IPO filing
   AI Business 19:23 UTC

   Anthropic structured its corporate voting power in a special LLC to maintain its mission of building safe AI technology.

2. AI learning experiment without breakdown, 4000 times faster in heat,...1.76 hours→1.6 seconds
   AI Times (Korea) 19:07 UTC Translated from Korean

   In public experiments learning language model without breakdown, time to reach target performance decreased from 1.76 hours to 1.6 seconds. The open source community improves learning algorithms and GPU integration. Although it’s not…

3. RTX 30 Graphic Card ‘Unlocked’ tool...AI Image and video processing up to 60% increase
   AI Times (Korea) 18:52 UTC Translated from Korean

   An open source tool that pushes some AI operational restrictions on the GeForce 'RTX 30' series graphics card in NVIDIA. In user testing, image/video generation processing increased by about 60%. If you do not buy a new graphics card, you…

4. "Exhibition" with 1024 AI collaboration without MS and administrators...
   AI Times (Korea) 18:36 UTC Translated from Korean

   Microsoft (MS) has released the system to open source collaboration with 1024 AI coding agents without central administrators. In a way that agents choose their work and share their results, the size of the cursor code review and the role…

5. Honda demonstrates remote-controlled robot for complex physical tasks
   AI Business 18:31 UTC

   The system illustrates how remote human control could help robotics developers deploy machines before AI can reliably handle complex physical tasks on its own.

6. Hegging Face, DNA Reads and Answers to ‘Carbon-X’ Reveals...Electronic Analysis Cost Low
   AI Times (Korea) 18:12 UTC Translated from Korean

   When hegging face enters DNA sequence, he revealed the AI model ‘Carbon-X’, which predicts the impact of the gene change and explains the reason. In self-evaluating, large-scale general-purpose AI has greatly reduced the cost of churon. It…

Software Engineering 39 stories

1. A faster way to compute signed 64-bit floor division by constants
   lobste.rs 18:44 UTC

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2. Type Server Protocol
   Hacker News Front Page 18:14 UTC

   Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248371 Points: 112 # Comments: 61

3. GPT-6.1 Terra
   Hacker News Front Page 18:01 UTC

   Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248124 Points: 311 # Comments: 166

4. Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
   Hacker News Front Page 17:57 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-employees-denounce-interference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248061 Points: 105 # Comments: 13

5. Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
   Hacker News Front Page 17:56 UTC

   Article URL: https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248055 Points: 112 # Comments: 42

6. Less Is More: From 1M Lines of Firmware to 300 of Assembly
   lobste.rs 17:56 UTC

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Cybersecurity 36 stories

1. DreamHost forces password resets in ongoing "incident"
   BleepingComputer 19:26 UTC

   DreamHost has forced password resets for email and FTP/SFTP users following an incident that disrupted connections to the File Manager interface. [...]

2. Hackers Infect 953 Online Stores With Scanner-Evading JavaScript, Mostly on Magento
   The Hacker News 18:12 UTC

   An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec, the activity is designed to add a small…

3. Senators, rights groups say Trump administration breaking law by withholding surveillance court opinion
   CyberScoop Asia 18:05 UTC

   The Trump administration is breaking the law after being more than a month overdue on declassifying a court opinion on the surveillance of U.S. citizens, according to two senators and a coalition of civil liberties groups. Release of the…

4. PHP Issues Second Windows Security Update in Five Days to Fix Brotli Code Execution Flaw
   The Hacker News 17:45 UTC

   PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include. The flaw can let an attacker corrupt memory and potentially run code. PHP…

5. Authorities extradite Chinese national for alleged $37M investment scam
   CyberScoop Asia 17:33 UTC

   A 44-year-old Chinese national was extradited to the United States and arraigned in federal court for his alleged involvement in a sweeping investment scam network that tricked at least 174 U.S. residents out of nearly $37 million, the…

6. Github competitor Entire is live now – how the agent-first platform works
   ZDNet Security 17:00 UTC

   Now that agents are writing so much code, Entire is trying to reinvent the coding platform itself.

Energy & Green Tech 34 stories

1. BMW’s new iX5 looks like a big upgrade next to the old X5 [Images]
   Electrek 19:49 UTC

   BMW’s new iX5 is hard to miss with its distinct Double-X headlights. Here’s how it stacks up against the outgoing X5, side by side. more…

2. Three Upgrades That Fix the Everyday Headaches of Owning a Chevy Silverado or GMC Sierra
   CleanTechnica 18:59 UTC

   Full-size trucks are brilliant at the big jobs and surprisingly annoying at the small ones. The climb into the cab gets old when you’re in work boots, dress shoes, or carrying a toddler. The carpet takes a beating from mud, beach sand, and…

3. Big Oil Wins Big In BC Election
   CleanTechnica 18:07 UTC

   This month, the Conservative Party in British Columbia won its first major victory in nearly a century. Reuters reports that the result “marks an end to nine years of power for the left-of-center New ​Democrats, who voiced opposition to…

4. Bluetti Elite 300 3,014Wh power station $600 off, EGO Select Cut + Touch Drive mower with 10.0Ah battery $909 low, more
   Electrek 18:00 UTC

   We’ve got power station sales and tool lows filling this week’s Green Deals kickstart, starting with Bluetti’s fresh Halloween Sale lineup that has deals like the 2026 Elite 300 3,014Wh Portable Power Station down at $1,099 , as well as…

5. The 2027 Lexus RZ starts at under $50,000 and offers over 300 miles of range
   Electrek 17:54 UTC

   The 2027 Lexus RZ will begin arriving at dealerships early next year, with prices starting at under $50,000. more…

6. Germany’s 300-Meter Wind Tower Faces a 199-Meter Competitor
   CleanTechnica 17:52 UTC

   Germany’s GICON has completed one of the more remarkable wind-turbine construction projects in recent years. Its Schipkau prototype reached a hub height of 300 meters in September, putting the upper blade tip at a reported 365 meters. The…

Quant Finance 34 stories

1. CZ pitches BNB Chain’s role in AI as BNB Standard rings Nasdaq bell
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 19:43 UTC

   CZ sees AI driving crypto use, while BNB Standard plans to expand beyond holding tokens in its treasury.

2. Hyperliquid says Kraken parent Payward to be first CFTC-regulated HIP-3 deployer
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 18:21 UTC

   Hyperliquid plans to make Kraken parent Payward the first CFTC-regulated HIP-3 deployer, a step toward regulated U.S. perpetual futures.

3. Y Combinator-backed Mochatrade raises $5.5 million to offer US stock perpetuals to Indian traders
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 17:55 UTC

   The platform is in beta and plans to open to the public in the coming weeks, co-founder Chetan Manda told The Block.

4. Prediction markets and derivatives drive Bernstein’s crypto stock outlook for Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 16:36 UTC

   Bernstein cuts Coinbase’s target while raising Circle’s as new products shift their earnings outlook.

5. NBA becomes third league to sign CFTC prediction market pact, taps Kalshi and Polymarket
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 16:27 UTC

   The CFTC and NBA have agreed to put in place standards to protect the integrity of the game when it comes to prediction markets.

6. AI software engineering firm Cognition expands UK presence
   Finextra 15:12 UTC

   Cognition, the company behind AI software engineer Devin, today announced the expansion of its London presence, as the company grows its UK team and customer base and invests in its operations across EMEA.

Biotech & Medtech 22 stories

1. Obesity Biotech Corxel Is Going Public in a Merger as Oral GLP-1 Heads to Phase 3
   MedCity News 19:53 UTC

   Corxel Pharmaceuticals is catching up to others with oral GLP-1 obesity drugs, but the biotech claims its small molecule could offer better tolerability compared to the rest of its class. The SPAC merger taking Corxel public is expected to…

2. Sutter Health Expands Remote Monitoring Program to Patients with Heart Failure
   MedCity News 17:48 UTC

   Sutter Health, a nonprofit healthcare system based in Sacramento, California, is expanding its digital chronic disease management program, Sutter Sync, to include patients with heart failure. The expansion adds a remote monitoring…

3. STAT+: House lawmaker probes PBMs for ‘punitive’ audits of independent pharmacies
   STAT News 16:26 UTC

   A House lawmaker is investigating whether the three largest pharmacy benefit managers targeted independent pharmacies with audits in retaliation for supporting a bill that would require the companies to adjust payments to the retailers…

4. STAT+: GSK sees its return to cancer start to pay off
   STAT News 16:20 UTC

   MADRID — In the past week, a GSK cancer drug picked up an approval for another tumor type, the company unveiled the first data from a global study of a promising next-generation chemotherapy, and a medicine that the firm has licensed got…

5. BioNTech, DualityBio say ADC had ‘modest’ benefit in breast cancer study
   BioPharma Dive 16:06 UTC

   The companies said the findings suggest the treatment has a “limited” impact in HER2-low breast cancer, an area where AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu has already set a high bar.

6. ESMO ‘26: A cancer vaccine debate, Roche’s KRAS progress and Amgen’s ‘unprecedented’ data
   BioPharma Dive 15:58 UTC

   At one of the year’s premiere meetings for cancer research, melanoma vaccine data hailed by scientists sparked a share sell-off on Wall Street, while a lung drug received a standing ovation.

Geopolitics & Policy 19 stories

1. Mecca pact countries in Iran in bid to stop war restarting
   South China Morning Post Tech 19:47 UTC

   Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan held talks with Iran in Tehran on Monday in an attempt to stop the Middle East war from reigniting. Officials from the three Mecca pact countries flew to Iran as part of efforts to…

2. Tensions Rise
   War on the Rocks 19:45 UTC

   Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranIndications of a return to direct hostilities…

3. Burnham rules out UK return to EU free movement without referendum
   South China Morning Post Tech 19:16 UTC

   British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he would not return the UK to EU freedom of movement rules without a referendum, after ruling out the prospect of Britain rejoining the bloc within this parliamentary term. It comes after his…

4. 6 US citizens sue Trump, saying media ban deprives them of news as audience stakeholders
   South China Morning Post Tech 18:56 UTC

   In the increasingly bitter legal stand-off between US President Donald Trump and media outlets whose reporting he dislikes, a new and crucial third party has emerged: citizens who watch and read the news and need it to do their jobs. A…

5. Are Critiques of Zelensky a Side Effect of Societal Exhaustion?
   War on the Rocks 18:45 UTC

   Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each week, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media…

6. Ebola patient evacuated from Nigeria to Switzerland
   South China Morning Post Tech 18:21 UTC

   ⁠A woman infected with ⁠the Ebola virus and her husband, a ⁠Swiss diplomat, were flown from Nigeria to hospitals in Switzerland on Monday, Swiss authorities said. The Ugandan-born wife of the diplomat, based in Abuja, was being treated at…

Cloud & Infrastructure 14 stories

1. AI is changing Kubernetes; is your platform ready for 2027?
   The New Stack 19:51 UTC

   AI workloads, including those using agentic AI , will only add to and change the questions Kubernetes teams have to answer. It’s no longer merely enough to ask if the pods are running. Or how long it takes a model to produce its first…

2. Most of Anthropic’s Q3 revenue came from models that barely existed six months ago
   The New Stack 18:29 UTC

   Anthropic’s long-awaited S-1 , filed Monday ahead of its planned Nasdaq debut under the ticker ANT, shows how quickly customers are spending on its newest models. According to the filing, models released in the six months leading up to…

3. Making Failure Diagnosis Reliable with Pensive AI
   Netflix Tech Blog 17:04 UTC

   By Praneeth Yenugutala , Victor Dusa , Anastasia Samoilova , Megan Ren , Justin Wei , Marcelo Mayworm At Netflix, data and machine learning practitioners run millions of workloads each day across orchestration systems and compute engines…

4. Ex-GitHub CEO launches a GitHub rival that reinvents the pull request
   The New Stack 17:00 UTC

   Entire, the startup founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke , on Monday launched its GitHub alternative that replaces the traditional pull request model with a new agentic code review system called Trails. The company has been launching…

5. Multi‑Ratio Video Resizing for Mobile Feed and Marketing
   Netflix Tech Blog 16:01 UTC

   Serdar Cellat , Yuchen Xie , Bernadette Marcu , Blaid Burgess , Cody Jarrett , Carlos Pereira , Qing Shi , Samuel Carvajal , Manuel Pamplona , Dorothy Jung , Feiko Ritsema , Benjamin Klein , Alex Woo , Eugene Lok , Anna Pulido , Rebecka…

6. Scale agents securely with IAM Helper Agent Skills and MCP Tools
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   As organizations adopt autonomous agents to build applications, securing identities and access has become more challenging. Developers relying on agents to provision cloud resources, write Terraform, and deploy microservices at…

Space & Aerospace 7 stories

1. Flexell Space Establishes French Subsidiary to Strengthen European Presence
   SpaceNews 20:00 UTC

   – Paris-based FLEXELL SPACE FRANCE SAS creates a local business hub in Europe– New entity to support ongoing contract and volume-production discussions with European customers, from technical reviews to supply […] The post Flexell Space…

2. NASA SEES Interns Tackle Real-World Challenges in Lunar Exploration
   NASA News 19:28 UTC

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3. NASA Invites Media to Moon Landing Simulation Experience in California
   NASA News 17:13 UTC

   2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Members of the media are invited to tour a new lunar landing simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Thursday, Oct. 29, and…

4. NASA’s X-59 Aircraft and Test Pilot
   NASA News 15:25 UTC

   NASA/Carla Escamilla NASA test pilot Mike Lippert poses for a photo ahead of his first time flying the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Oct. 21, 2026. The X-59 has flown numerous times since its inaugural flight in…

5. NASA, USDA Sign Agreement Advancing Earth Science, Agriculture  
   NASA News 13:54 UTC

   U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, left, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman signed a Memorandum of Understanding advancing agriculture and Earth science during an event at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Saturday…

6. Astranis Upgrades Falcon 9 Launch Contract to Dedicated Mission for Entire Block 4 Production Run of Satellites
   SpaceNews 13:00 UTC

   SAN FRANCISCO —October 26, 2026—Today, Astranis announced it has upgraded its 4th launch to a dedicated mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to launch in 2028, allowing it […] The post Astranis Upgrades Falcon 9 Launch Contract to…

Telecom & 5G 7 stories

1. ‘No magic wand, no secret sauce. No shortcut’ – Verizon bats away SpaceX hype (Telco Diary)
   RCR Wireless News 19:18 UTC

   From the newsletter (October 26; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Verizon has raised its full-year guidance for the third consecutive quarter, signed $4 billion in AI infrastructure…

2. 6G ISAC pushes channel modeling past statistical averages
   RCR Wireless News 18:55 UTC

   Why site-specific channel modeling matters once 6G radios start sensing In sum – what to know: For years, the wireless industry has leaned on standardized statistical models to test and…

3. Why the network unleashes the value of AI
   RCR Wireless News 16:22 UTC

   For much of the AI era, the spotlight has been firmly fixed on models and compute. Bigger models, more GPUs and larger AI clusters have defined the race to build…

4. Elisa says mobile recovery continues at moderate pace as 5G and AI-RAN advance
   RCR Wireless News 14:15 UTC

   Elisa recently ran what it claims to be Europe’s first voice, mobile data, and video analytics simultaneously on the same AI-RAN platform over Elisa’s 5G Advanced network In sum –…

5. Bullish Nvidia proclaims AI-RAN work with Nokia as EMEA telcos pile in (and AI markets grow twitchy)
   RCR Wireless News 13:17 UTC

   Nvidia and Nokia (and a rush of operators) have announced progress with AI-RAN – a year to the day practically after Nvidia pumped a billion into the Finnish firm. The…

6. How AI agents are reshaping the internet – and network economics (Analyst Angle)
   RCR Wireless News 10:27 UTC

   AI agents could reshape internet traffic by shifting work from customer devices to distributed computing networks, changing where data travels, how capacity is used and which providers control routing, connectivity…

Cyber — Video 3 stories

1. How the $2,000 php2shell Challenge Was Solved
   LiveOverflow 18:49 UTC

   💾 The "Steal My Bitcoin" php2shell challenge was solved, but the timer is misleading. At first it was not exploitable, then the servers crashed, and the wallet was wrong. Here is everything that I learned while making my own exploit more…

2. AI Meets Minecraft
   John Hammond 18:01 UTC

   💾 What if you could explore malware research inside Minecraft? I’ve been using AI to build a mod that gamifies cybersecurity research, and for this experiment, I switched up the models to see what would happen. Things didn’t go quite as…

3. 🍍📟 Theme Hacking Tip - WiFi Pineapple Pager #pentesting #hacking #cybersecurity
   Hak5 17:32 UTC

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