The news of Monday 12 October 2026

Hardware 202 stories

1. MIDI iPhone 18 Pro (2001), PHILIPPINE iPhone 17 Pro
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:56 UTC Translated from Vietnamese
2. According to the news, the development of GTA 6 is over 200 GB, and the retail version is probably even smaller.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:55 UTC Translated from zh-cn
3. IT Morning Post 1013: The Kang Yee Automotive denies that the SUV will be produced for Cyrus; China covers items such as mobile phones for registered "Starming" trademarks; China broke 20 million aggregates for folding screen mobile phones; 5999 plus 16 releases
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:52 UTC Translated from zh-cn
4. Because of the illegal sharing of Grindr user-sensitive data, the Norwegian Data Protection Agency issued Xandr the largest ticket in the history of the Agency.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:41 UTC Translated from zh-cn
5. Young Weeda RTX Spark Global Inspector declared that Beijing and so on will open up the experience and win Huang In-hoon's signed notes. Ben.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:38 UTC Translated from zh-cn
6. How to boost your GPU performance without buying a new one
   Engadget 23:30 UTC

   With an older GPU, you'll need to go without some of the fancy features, but you can still enjoy high frame rates with the right changes.

Semiconductors 87 stories

1. Japan's Omron to buy US-based OnLogic for $630m in physical AI push
   Nikkei Asia 23:55 UTC
2. Carbon-Dot Interface Enables Ultrathin High-κ Dielectrics on 2D Semiconductors (UIUC, NETL, Argonne, Monash)
   Semiconductor Engineering 22:55 UTC

   Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory , and Monash University published a technical paper titled “Integration of high-κ oxide on 2D semiconductors…

3. On-Chip Monitors Detect Bit-Flip Attacks in AI Accelerators (UF, UT Dallas, RPI)
   Semiconductor Engineering 22:34 UTC

   Researchers at the University of Florida, University of Texas at Dallas , and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute published a technical paper titled “BARE-AI: Bit-Flip Attack Resilience in AI Hardware through Built-in Performance Monitors.”…

4. Deterministic Nucleation Enables Controlled Growth of 2D Semiconductors (KAIST, TDS, Hanyang et al.)
   Semiconductor Engineering 22:25 UTC

   Researchers at KAIST, TDS Innovation, Hanyang University, UNIST , et al. published a technical paper titled “Spatially deterministic nucleation of 2D semiconductors by etching flux.” Abstract Excerpt: “Nucleation control is fundamental to…

5. Singapore's climate tech startups ride government's green energy ambitions
   Nikkei Asia 21:53 UTC
6. Japan's foreign worker system strains as officials eye quota shifts
   Nikkei Asia 21:53 UTC

Software Engineering 64 stories

1. The Origin Story of Kid Pix
   Hacker News Front Page 23:52 UTC

   Article URL: http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064673 Points: 180 # Comments: 42

2. Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
   Hacker News Front Page 23:34 UTC

   https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13634082/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064536 Points: 143 # Comments: 94

3. I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
   Hacker News Front Page 23:07 UTC

   Article URL: https://nirajrajgor.com/blog/kindle-photo-frame-with-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064318 Points: 123 # Comments: 79

4. RJ Mitte has died
   Hacker News Front Page 22:15 UTC

   Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063831 Points: 186 # Comments: 56

5. Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD
   Hacker News Front Page 22:05 UTC

   Article URL: https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063717 Points: 203 # Comments: 74

6. AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
   Hacker News Front Page 21:40 UTC

   Article URL: https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427 Points: 741 # Comments: 573

Tech Market & VC 40 stories

1. CEO Interview: Sixfold
   CB Insights 20:55 UTC

   Alex Schmelkin , Founder and CEO at Sixfold , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How would you define the market you compete in, and what is a customer buying from you? So, at Sixfold, we create…

2. Executive Interview: April
   CB Insights 20:49 UTC

   Raj Doshi , Chief Operating Officer (COO) at April , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define the market you compete in — and what is a customer buying from you? Want to see more…

3. CEO Interview: H1
   CB Insights 20:11 UTC

   Ariel Katz , CEO and Co-Founder at H1 , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How would you define the market H1 competes in, and what is a customer buying from you? Our mission is to connect the…

4. Australian startup funding rose 80% in Q3, even without the Firmus megaround, but big deals still dominated
   StartupDaily (AU) 19:50 UTC

   Startup cash jumped 80% in Q3, but mega-deals and AI hype hogged the spoils while women got crumbs.

5. Congress wants to keep AM radio in every new car
   Fast Company Tech 19:04 UTC

   In the era of streaming music and satellite radio, traditional broadcast stations are easy to overlook. AM radio, in particular, has fallen out of favor with younger drivers. So it’s perhaps no surprise that some automakers have begun…

6. Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
   TechCrunch 17:56 UTC

   Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.

Artificial Intelligence 36 stories

1. Humanoid bottlenecks emerge amid US-China tensions
   AI Business 18:33 UTC

   Rising production volumes are increasing pressure on suppliers, while U.S.-China tensions could make it harder for Western manufacturers to secure alternatives to Chinese suppliers.

2. "The 3D machine that works with the word Han Mind"... "Anatomi for the clamping code" released
   AI Times (Korea) 18:00 UTC Translated from Korean
3. Ai2, MoE learning efficiency 2.7 times higher open source framework ‘Omo Core 3’ released
   AI Times (Korea) 17:54 UTC Translated from Korean
4. Sakana AI, LLM-based colleague review system with paper core claim error 73%
   AI Times (Korea) 17:50 UTC Translated from Korean
5. ‘Data Center=Profit’...The reason for Antarpic in front of IPO
   AI Times (Korea) 17:44 UTC Translated from Korean
6. Can we change an AI model＆#8217;s architecture without retraining it from scratch?
   Amazon Science Blog 17:36 UTC

   AI agents are rapidly scaling: longer sessions, deeper reasoning chains, more autonomy. But the Transformer architecture underneath them still pays a memory tax that grows with the number of tokens it processes. As agents become more…

Cybersecurity 33 stories

1. Flock can now issue CVEs for its own products. Should we trust it?
   CyberScoop Asia 22:11 UTC

   Flock, the controversial public safety company entangled in controversy amid recurring law enforcement abuse of its products, gained authority to assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities in its own products and grade those defects as a CVE…

2. Norway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing
   BleepingComputer 20:13 UTC

   Norway's Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Microsoft-owned advertising company Xandr NOK 92 million ($9.6M) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country. [...]

3. Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files
   BleepingComputer 19:23 UTC

   Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. [...]

4. Anthropic takes risky AI tests offline after models breach govt sites
   BleepingComputer 18:51 UTC

   Anthropic announced that its internal AI models undergoing "high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations" no longer have internet access following incidents involving U.S. government websites at the federal, state, and local levels. [...]

5. IonQ to buy zero-trust security firm Elisity in deal valued at up to $1.3 billion
   CyberScoop Asia 18:12 UTC

   IonQ announced Monday that it will acquire Elisity, a zero-trust network security firm, in an all-stock transaction valued at up to $1.3 billion that folds enterprise access control into the quantum computing company’s expanding…

6. Claude sent a false homicide tip to police – and it’s part of a troubling AI pattern
   ZDNet Security 17:45 UTC

   Models routinely take shortcuts to pass evaluations. Who gets to decide what incidents are innocuous?

Quant Finance 33 stories

1. Blur to shut down frontend next month as NFT trading volume dwindles
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 21:49 UTC

   The NFT marketplace's frontend next month while the protocol stays onchain. The BLUR token fell more than 20%.

2. CFTC’s new crypto framework could face 2028 election deadline, says TD Cowen
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 20:53 UTC

   Newly proposed rules for leveraged and margined crypto trading may be too late as the 2028 election cycle looms, according to TD Cowen.

3. Binance launches AI trading tool after 150,000-user beta
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 18:44 UTC

   Binance rolled out Binance AI, a free generative-UI trading interface, to all English-language users after a beta with about 150,000 testers.

4. Corporate Expense Cards: Transforming Reimbursements into Real-Time Cash Flow Data
   Finextra 18:00 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

5. Bank or e-money institution: what really changes for an international structure
   Finextra 17:26 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

6. StoneX raises Securitize price target 50% as tokenized stock platform opens new revenue stream
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 17:06 UTC

   StoneX lifts SECZ price target to $18 from $12, citing new revenue from the Securitize Stocks tokenized trading platform on Solana.

Energy & Green Tech 31 stories

1. BYD Has Now Produced 150,000 Commercial Plugin Vehicles
   CleanTechnica 23:30 UTC

   Just a week ago, I covered BYD’s September commercial electric vehicle growth, which is up tremendously year over year. BYD’s commercial vehicle sales increased 113% year over year last month. Across the first nine months of the year…

2. Ford’s electric pickup is suddenly selling like hotcakes at 50% off used
   Electrek 21:22 UTC

   Once America’s most popular electric pickup, Ford’s F-150 Lightning is finding a second life on the used market. more…

3. Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2026: Celebrations Of Respect
   CleanTechnica 20:05 UTC

   Indigenous Peoples’ Day was first officially proclaimed by US President Joe Biden in 2021. Acknowledging that it is imperative to uphold the rights and dignity of the indigenous people who were here long before colonization of the Americas…

4. These are the top 10 best-selling EVs in the US through Q3
   Electrek 19:27 UTC

   The US electric vehicle market delivered its strongest performance in a year in the third quarter. Here are the top 10 most popular so far this year. more…

5. Pebble Upgrades the 2027 Flow, Turning It Into A Microgrid To Power Your Adventures ＆ Your Home,
   CleanTechnica 19:24 UTC

   Pebble was one of the first fifth-wheel manufacturers to truly embrace the promise of automotive-grade lithium batteries, rooftop solar, and public EV chargers bundled into a tech-centric living space. That’s right up our alley, which is…

6. Tesla ordered to pay $162,000 for Model X fire after failed ‘vandalism’ defense
   Electrek 18:57 UTC

   Tesla told a Quebec court that car fires are “generally” caused by misuse or vandalism. The judge didn’t buy it, and Tesla Canada now has to cover the C$161,700 an insurer paid out for a Model X that burned in Montreal. An expert report…

Geopolitics & Policy 31 stories

1. Nato’s top commander says alliance does not want war but is ‘ready to fight tonight’
   South China Morning Post Tech 23:25 UTC

   Nato’s top military commander said the alliance is “ready to fight tonight” if it is attacked, as European officials warn Russia could test Nato’s defences with increased covert attacks or a limited military incursion. European nations…

2. Philippine Lower House Passes Bill Restricting Social Media Access of Minors
   The Diplomat Tech 23:22 UTC

   If passed into law, the country will become the fourth in Southeast Asia to introduce youth social media restrictions of some kind.

3. Breaking Bad actor and disability rights champion R.J. Mitte dies at 34
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:55 UTC

   Actor RJ Mitte, whose personal experience living with cerebral palsy informed his role as Walter White Jnr, the physically disabled son of a methamphetamine kingpin in the landmark television series Breaking Bad, died on Monday at age 34…

4. 2 dead, 10 missing as hurricane and tropical storm hit Mexico
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:23 UTC

   Rains and flooding along Mexico’s Pacific Coast from Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel have left five people dead, authorities said Monday. The El Nino phenomenon, characterised by rising water temperatures in the Pacific, is…

5. Canada’s PM Carney makes case for Canadian unity as Alberta referendum nears
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:28 UTC

   Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday urged Alberta to remain in Canada, warning that a vote next week on whether to hold a referendum on leaving Canada would begin a “long and uncertain process” at a dangerous time for the…

6. Catholics in US Army must not take part in firing squad, armed forces archbishop says
   South China Morning Post Tech 20:41 UTC

   Catholics serving in the US Army should not take part in the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan that the Pentagon is planning to live stream on December 3, a prominent US archbishop said on Monday. In an unusually…

Cloud & Infrastructure 12 stories

1. Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions
   AWS News Blog 22:34 UTC

   Today, we’re announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions , a new form factor that lets you run standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting your code into an event handler. You can take a standard port-listening server built with…

2. “A major overhaul”: OpenCode 2.0 puts its terminal, desktop, and web apps on one shared service
   The New Stack 21:11 UTC

   OpenCode 2.0 is getting a formal unpacking today, some three months after its public beta launch . The sizable architectural upgrade introduces a shared background service connecting its terminal, web and desktop interfaces, alongside a…

3. GPUs on Kubernetes are bring-your-own-everything, starting with the bill
   The New Stack 20:48 UTC

   If you run a Kubernetes platform, you’ve probably got at least one Grafana dashboard for resource visibility on your workloads. It shows what a container asked for versus what it used, making it relatively easy to point at the deployment…

4. Google paid $90,000 for this bug, then waited two months to fix it
   The New Stack 20:47 UTC

   Google took two months to patch an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability in its developer documentation infrastructure. The problem was a reused OAuth client secret, which DevSite stored in a Flask session cookie and also used to sign…

5. Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy.
   The New Stack 19:28 UTC

   Build-or-buy is usually framed as an engineering trade-off, where developer time is weighed against integration and migration overhead, and control against the maintenance burden of a bespoke build. When we put together the 2026 Future of…

6. Introducing TimesFM 3.0 with multivariate time-series forecasting in BigQuery
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   Overview Since introducing zero-shot time-series forecasting in BigQuery with AI.FORECAST — initially powered by TimesFM 2.0 and later upgraded to TimesFM 2.5 — you have been able to generate forecasts directly in SQL without training or…

Biotech & Medtech 11 stories

1. First Tracks climbs on ‘impressive’ celiac study data
   BioPharma Dive 21:26 UTC

   Initial study findings strengthened some analysts’ belief that First Tracks’ drug, one of a few in development aimed at the protein CD122, might have “pipeline-in-a-product” potential.

2. Parkinson’s cell therapy developer files to go public
   BioPharma Dive 15:58 UTC

   Aspen Neuroscience is looking to join the Nasdaq and raise more money to support its lead program, which aims to turn a patient's own cells into dopamine-producing neurons.

3. Bristol Myers dips on ‘confounding’ lung drug results
   BioPharma Dive 15:35 UTC

   Only the lower of two tested doses of the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis drug admilparant met the trial’s main objective, adding to analyst questions about the therapy’s prospects.

4. Asahi Kasei Acquisition Pays Off With FDA Approval for Novel Herpes Drug
   MedCity News 14:44 UTC

   Asahi Kasei’s Hovilpri is now approved for treating lesions caused by herpes simplex virus infection. This daily pill came from the $919 million acquisition of AiCuris Anti-Infective Cures. The post Asahi Kasei Acquisition Pays Off With…

5. Outro Raises $7M To Support Safe Deprescribing
   MedCity News 14:42 UTC

   Outro’s funding included participation from Listen Ventures, Cake Ventures, Jason Calicanis’s LAUNCH, Actions Capital, Hannah Grey Ventures, SemperVirens, Brock Recovery Group and Pave Health Ventures. The post Outro Raises $7M To Support…

6. Pediatric Innovation Isn’t a Small-Market Problem, It’s an Incentive Problem
   MedCity News 13:46 UTC

   Investing in pediatric care is not simply a moral imperative. It is one of the most practical long-term investments the healthcare system can make. The post Pediatric Innovation Isn’t a Small-Market Problem, It’s an Incentive Problem…

Quantum Computing 9 stories

1. Podcast with Walter Raquet, Chairman and CEO of Symmatrics
   Quantum Computing Report 18:25 UTC

   Yuval Boger speaks with Walter Raquet, Chairman and CEO of Symmatrics, a company that has revived the one-time pad symmetric key encryption concept — once used exclusively by US intelligence agencies — and brought it to the internet age…

2. WISeSat.Space Develops Post-Quantum Security for Satellite Communications
   The Quantum Insider 17:50 UTC

   Insider Brief WISeSat.Space is developing a satellite communications and IoT security architecture that integrates post-quantum cryptography (PQC), digital identity, and cryptographic key management across connected devices, ground…

3. SEALSQ Unveils VaultIC409 Secure Element for Post-Quantum Cryptography
   The Quantum Insider 17:05 UTC

   Insider Brief SEALSQ has unveiled VaultIC409, a secure element built on its QS7001 platform to support post-quantum cryptography in connected devices without requiring customers to redesign their existing hardware security architecture…

4. IonQ Demonstrates Scheduled qLDPC Error Correction to Accelerate Fault-Tolerant Gate Execution by up to 74x
   Quantum Computing Report 15:03 UTC

   IonQ researchers have developed a new hybrid physical/logical execution strategy for quantum error correction, significantly accelerating fault-tolerant quantum computing. This approach, detailed in a recent arXiv paper, utilizes scheduled…

5. In Step Toward Quantum Networking, Penn Study Finds Quantum Light Pattern Can Survive Loss of Entanglement
   The Quantum Insider 15:01 UTC

   Insider Brief Penn-led researchers used a photonic chip to transfer a winding pattern from one photon to a shared two-photon state, preserving the pattern under noise even after entanglement disappeared. The winding pattern remained stable…

6. IonQ to Acquire Elisity for Up to $1.3 Billion to Integrate Zero Trust with Post-Quantum Cybersecurity
   Quantum Computing Report 14:47 UTC

   IonQ is set to acquire Elisity for up to $1.3 billion in an all-stock deal, integrating Elisity's Zero Trust cybersecurity with IonQ's post-quantum cryptography. This acquisition, expected to close in Q4 2026, aims to enhance IonQ's…

Space & Aerospace 4 stories

1. CRS-35 set to launch to ISS with final iROSA arrays, experiments, and other items
   NASASpaceFlight 21:08 UTC

   The International Space Station, fresh off a crew handover and the return of Crew-12 to Earth, is about to receive a new cargo ship. SpaceX Cargo Dragon C211, making its fourth flight, launched successfully on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 6:33 AM…

2. NASA’s SpaceX CRS-35 Mission to Launch Health Research
   NASA News 17:45 UTC

   NASA experiments focused on human and plant health and drug-resistant organisms will travel to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station…

3. NASA Wants More Than 70 Moon Landings in the Next Decade—But How?
   IEEE Aerospace 15:27 UTC

   At Firefly Aerospace in Texas, engineers have been doing what NASA’s chief, Jared Isaacman, likes to call “the near-impossible.” The Firefly team has been assembling Blue Ghost Mission 2 , a robotic spacecraft intended to land on the far…

4. Jena-Optronik is proud to partner with MDA Space for its first ASTRO HP mission.
   SpaceNews 13:00 UTC

   MDA Space, a global leader in communications satellites, Earth and space observation, space exploration and infrastructure, will utilize Jena-Optronik’s ASTRO HP star sensor on a LEO mission. This milestone underscores […] The post…

DevOps & SRE 2 stories

1. GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase
   GitHub Blog 17:43 UTC

   Context matters when you’re working with AI. Every codebase has its own house rules: how components are structured, which scripts to run, and which conventions apply to different frameworks and file types. Copilot can help you make changes…

2. Docker Hub security advisory: personal access tokens transferred during account-to-organization conversions
   Docker Blog 16:00 UTC

   On September 30, 2026, security researchers reported a vulnerability in Docker Hub’s identity and access management through our Vulnerability Disclosure Program. We confirmed the report and deployed a fix to production the same afternoon…