The news of Tuesday 13 October 2026

Hardware 196 stories

1. Apple v. OpenAI New Developments in the Stolen Business Secrets: The Court granted Apple access to the latter ' s recruitment materials
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:57 UTC Translated from zh-cn
2. Adress: No. 5 Yard, 7th Guanggu Street, Badaling Economic Development Zone, Yanqing District, Beijing, China
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:55 UTC Translated from Korean
3. IDC claims 2026Q3 Chinese smartphones dropped 15.4 per cent, with China increasing by 17.3 per cent.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:50 UTC Translated from zh-cn
4. Neuralink's former CEO's vision chip, re-reading the words of a genetic eye patient.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:49 UTC Translated from zh-cn
5. Zuckerberg: Meta promised a few hundred billion dollars of gambling, but AI was once completely uncertain about success.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:48 UTC Translated from zh-cn
6. AIRA: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra 01010110 01
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:44 UTC Translated from Vietnamese

Tech Market & VC 60 stories

1. An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
   Wired Business 23:17 UTC

   Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.

2. Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient
   TechCrunch 23:13 UTC

   Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).

3. Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home
   TechCrunch 23:05 UTC

   Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.

4. Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks
   TechCrunch 23:00 UTC

   Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.

5. Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings
   TechCrunch 22:36 UTC

   Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.

6. ‘A sword to send companies into bankruptcy’: audit ‘hell’ looms as R＆D goalposts shift
   StartupDaily (AU) 22:22 UTC

   The rule changes could mean surprise bills down the track - and a nasty cash-flow crunch.

Semiconductors 57 stories

1. The founding: Stephen Schwarzman (13)
   Nikkei Asia 22:16 UTC
2. Mitsui Fudosan eyes Japan's first next-gen geothermal power site
   Nikkei Asia 22:16 UTC
3. OpenAI in Early Talks to Buy Security Startup Trail of Bits
   The Information 22:07 UTC

   OpenAI, which is trying to develop a substantial cybersecurity business, is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a firm that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software, according to people familiar with the matter. The size of…

4. Amperesand Aims to Smooth AI Data Center Power Spikes
   EE Times 22:00 UTC

   Singapore-based solid-state transformer (SST) startup Amperesand aims to help AI data centers smooth the spikes in their electrical demand that can stress power grids. “When a glitch happens, we

5. Microsoft Cloud President Asks Leaders to Find 20% Cost Cuts
   The Information 21:42 UTC

   Microsoft has discussed making significant cost reductions in its Azure cloud-server-rental unit, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. Girish Bablani, president of Azure, in recent weeks told senior leaders in his…

6. OpenAI Employee Arrested For Allegedly Installing Office Listening Device
   The Information 21:22 UTC

   An OpenAI employee, Abdulrahman Alfozan, has been arrested in connection with a hidden listening device uncovered at one of the company’s San Francisco offices, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The employee, who has been terminated…

Software Engineering 50 stories

1. Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine
   Hacker News Front Page 23:13 UTC

   Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions stay on the machine…

2. Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary
   Hacker News Front Page 23:00 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080155 Points: 230 # Comments: 177

3. Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
   Hacker News Front Page 22:46 UTC

   Article URL: https://anitab.org/press-release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080007 Points: 195 # Comments: 140

4. Recreational Programming
   Hacker News Front Page 22:33 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079865 Points: 272 # Comments: 115

5. The 2026 Maintainers Summit
   lobste.rs 22:25 UTC

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6. The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio
   Hacker News Front Page 22:17 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079701 Points: 125 # Comments: 45

Cybersecurity 46 stories

1. Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws
   Krebs on Security 23:24 UTC

   Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today’s epic patch batch dwarfs September’s record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times…

2. Employee Arrested After Listening Device Found in OpenAI Conference Room, FBI and the Company Say
   SecurityWeek 23:07 UTC

   Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested Friday and terminated by OpenAI. The post Employee Arrested After Listening Device Found in OpenAI Conference Room, FBI and the Company Say appeared first on SecurityWeek .

3. OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office
   BleepingComputer 22:33 UTC

   A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations. [...]

4. Ivanti misses opportunity to fix vulnerability before attackers got to work and made it a zero-day
   CyberScoop Asia 22:10 UTC

   Ivanti customers are in familiar territory, responding to yet another actively exploited zero-day affecting one of the vendor’s most commonly targeted security products. Volexity researchers, which discovered in-the-wild exploitation…

5. DOJ charges 14 over a sprawling North Korean remote work scheme
   CyberScoop Asia 21:43 UTC

   Federal authorities have charged 14 people and seized roughly 187 computers in their newest effort to disrupt North Korea’s remote IT worker scheme. The Justice Department announced the indictment Tuesday, highlighting two arrests and…

6. Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads
   BleepingComputer 21:33 UTC

   A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could allow remote code execution through specially crafted PDF files. [...]

Artificial Intelligence 40 stories

1. Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely
   Google DeepMind 19:43 UTC
2. Your Agent Doesn't Need More Freedom
   Towards Data Science 18:28 UTC

   Agents got good. The hard part now is everything around them. The post Your Agent Doesn't Need More Freedom appeared first on Towards Data Science .

3. "Over 5.5". .Intropicious, next generation model routing tests
   AI Times (Korea) 17:55 UTC Translated from Korean
4. Copyright (c) 2015 SHINSEGAE. All Rights Reserved. "1 year ago
   AI Times (Korea) 17:50 UTC Translated from Korean
5. OpenAI, 'GPT-6.1 Brush' Context Length 50 million tokens
   AI Times (Korea) 17:35 UTC Translated from Korean
6. MS releases ‘code video model’ that accurately controls the physics of the video by code
   AI Times (Korea) 17:20 UTC Translated from Korean

Quant Finance 32 stories

1. SBS unveils sovereign AI platform for core banking
   Finextra 23:08 UTC

   French software firm SBS has launched what it claims the world's first sovereign AI platform to be developed for the banking market.

2. National Bank of Bahrain and TerraPay link up for cross-border payments
   Finextra 23:03 UTC

   The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB), a leading bank in Bahrain has entered into a strategic partnership with TerraPay, a global digital money movement company, to expand its international payout capabilities and enhance cross-border payment…

3. MAS Markets appoints APAC head
   Finextra 22:53 UTC

   MAS Markets, a globally recognised provider of institutional-grade liquidity and trading solutions, has today announced the appointment of Simon Naish as Head of APAC.

4. Bajaj Broking launches algorithmic trading platform
   Finextra 22:45 UTC

   Bajaj Broking, a full-service stockbroker, today announced the launch of its algorithmic trading platform, enabling users to access ready-made, exchange-registered strategies or build customised trading strategies using a range of…

5. B2Prime extends liquidity management tool
   Finextra 16:42 UTC

   B2PRIME Group, a global financial services provider for institutional and professional clients, has announced a material expansion of its institutional liquidity architecture.

6. HID appointed to FIDO board
   Finextra 16:38 UTC

   HID, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, has joined the FIDO Alliance Board of Directors to help accelerate the shift to passwordless authentication across the enterprise.

Energy & Green Tech 30 stories

1. Electric cars saved $20B in oil – and the US is falling behind
   Electrek 23:01 UTC

   EVs are giving oil-importing countries some breathing room during the Hormuz energy crisis. Between March and August, their EV fleets displaced an estimated $20 billion worth of crude oil, according to new analysis from energy think tank…

2. Electric cars saved $20B in oil – and the US is falling behind
   Electrek 23:01 UTC

   EVs are giving oil-importing countries some breathing room during the Hormuz energy crisis. Between March and August, their EV fleets displaced an estimated $20 billion worth of crude oil, according to new analysis from energy think tank…

3. The Citroen 2 CV Is Back And Ready For The 21st Century
   CleanTechnica 22:22 UTC

   After World War II, manufacturing on the Continent was severely degraded. Automakers in France, Germany, and Italy began producing cars that were simple and cheap — cars like the Isetta, Messerschmidt, and Fiat Cinquecento. In 1949, the…

4. What to say to Californians worried about grid batteries
   Canary Media 22:06 UTC

   This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Wednesday via Substack. Hi everyone! Welcome back to California Wire. Last Thursday, I took the train up to…

5. The BMW i3 is nearly $80 less a month to lease than the new iX3, but it’s the same price
   Electrek 21:08 UTC

   The 2027 BMW i3 and iX3 start at $61,500, but the electric sedan is nearly $80 less a month to lease. more…

6. The BMW i3 is nearly $80 less a month to lease than the new iX3, but it’s the same price
   Electrek 21:08 UTC

   The 2027 BMW i3 and iX3 start at $61,500, but the electric sedan is nearly $80 less a month to lease. more…

Geopolitics & Policy 23 stories

1. US fines Bank of America US$1.2 billion, says it violated money laundering, sanctions laws
   South China Morning Post Tech 23:55 UTC

   The US Treasury Department said on Tuesday that it was imposing US$1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money-laundering and sanctions laws. The fines on America’s second-biggest bank amount to the…

2. Russia detains Japanese journalist on suspicion of spying
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:08 UTC

   Russia’s FSB security agency said on Tuesday it had detained a Japanese journalist for alleged espionage, and Moscow’s Foreign Ministry said it regretted that Tokyo was using correspondents to carry out spying. In a statement on its…

3. Cornell suspends frat parties after alleged gang rape
   South China Morning Post Tech 20:50 UTC

   Cornell University on Tuesday suspended fraternities’ parties and social events for the remaining academic year following outcry over an alleged gang rape at one of the elite college’s all-male clubs. The 2024 incident, as alleged in a…

4. What the Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Tell Us About Central Asia’s Digital Infrastructure
   The Diplomat Tech 20:31 UTC

   Drone strikes on Yandex data centers near Moscow triggered service outages in Central Asia, too.

5. Peru governor touts Chinese interest in deep-water port pitched as Chancay alternative
   South China Morning Post Tech 20:10 UTC

   A planned US$844 million port in southern Peru has drawn interest from several foreign investors, including Chinese companies, a regional governor said on Monday, as the government began promoting the project abroad. “Several companies…

6. Pope Leo’s lung surgery successfully completed, Vatican says
   South China Morning Post Tech 20:04 UTC

   Pope Leo XIV spent a peaceful night in Rome’s Gemelli hospital after doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung and confirmed he has cancer, the Vatican said on Wednesday. The surgery confirmed that the pope had the most common type…

Biotech & Medtech 17 stories

1. Happy Health’s Cuffless BP Device Wins FDA Clearance
   MedCity News 22:01 UTC

   Happy Health has received FDA clearance for its wearable ring, which continuously measures blood pressure without a cuff or external calibration. The post Happy Health’s Cuffless BP Device Wins FDA Clearance appeared first on MedCity News .

2. Decreasing process variability in fluid management systems
   BioPharma Dive 21:00 UTC

   Discover why flow paths, tubing and connectors may limit your bioprocess performance

3. Another Paragon spinout goes public through reverse merger
   BioPharma Dive 20:35 UTC

   One lawyer involved noted how it's yet another example of Paragon and key investor Fairmount — which have helped transform the reputation for reverse mergers — quickly executing on a complicated deal.

4. STAT+: BlackRock to buy majority stake in Humana’s CenterWell clinics for $2.8 billion
   STAT News 20:25 UTC

   Humana is swapping out private equity sponsors for its CenterWell Senior Primary Care clinics. Good bye, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Hello, BlackRock. The health insurer announced Tuesday that BlackRock is buying out Welsh Carson’s…

5. Roche Puts Up $100M to Pursue Promising But Competitive New Target in Obesity
   MedCity News 20:13 UTC

   Roche gains global rights to a Rona Therapeutics RNA interference drug designed to target ALK7, a genetically validated target for obesity and other metabolic indications. The growing field of companies pursuing ALK7 includes GSK and…

6. Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
   STAT News 18:11 UTC

   Helen Branswell, a renowned infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials around the world with her accessible, prescient dispatches on scourges from influenza to polio and Ebola to Covid-19…

Cloud & Infrastructure 14 stories

1. Anthropic’s red team ran AI on 15 cheap TV boxes. Then the math got unsettling.
   The New Stack 16:40 UTC

   For roughly $825, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team built a cluster of 15 off-brand Android TV boxes that runs an AI model at 0.39 tokens per second, painfully slow for a chatbot but fine for software with nowhere to be and nobody waiting on…

2. Under the hood, off the hot path: how D1 scales to millions of databases
   Cloudflare Blog 16:20 UTC

   Traditional database architecture assumes you have one or two big database clusters per application, usually accompanied by a connection pooling solution. AI-assisted development and vibe coding platforms turn this model inside out and are…

3. Advancing hardware security with open-source Integrated HSM technology
   Azure Blog 16:15 UTC

   At this year’s OCP Global Summit , Microsoft announced Project Tessera, the evolution of the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module (HSM), into a fully open-source initiative developed in collaboration with Marvell®, Oracle, and Open…

4. Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration
   Azure Blog 16:15 UTC

   At Microsoft, our vision is to build a Frontier Firm : one where people and technology work together, combining human expertise, context, and judgment with technology that can extend intelligence throughout everyday work. The potential is…

5. Gemini 4 Argon debuts with a unified 1M input/output token limit
   The New Stack 16:00 UTC

   On Tuesday, Google made Gemini 4 Argon , the company’s new flagship model, available to developers on the paid tier of the Gemini API through Google AI Studio, as well as in several of the company’s other developer and consumer tools…

6. Cross-cloud conversational analytics made simple with open standards
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   The reality for most organizations is that data lives everywhere. As engineering teams expand and adopt specialized platforms for their workloads, enterprise data naturally disperses across multiple clouds and operational systems. When…

Space & Aerospace 13 stories

1. Launch Preview: Falcon 9, ZhuQue-2E to launch during quiet week
   NASASpaceFlight 22:09 UTC

   This week features a relatively quiet launch manifest, with SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 comprising much of the launch schedule. Three Falcon 9 missions will launch a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, a batch of…

2. NASA Names Astronaut Christina Koch Acting Deputy Chief Engineer
   NASA News 20:41 UTC

   NASA astronaut Christina Koch stands inside Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building on July 14, 2021, in front of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that ultimately powered the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis I mission…

3. Comparing Off-World Rover Driving Distances
   NASA News 17:56 UTC

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4. NASA’s Record-Setting Perseverance Rover Team
   NASA News 17:48 UTC

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5. Perseverance Navcam Image Marks Record Drive
   NASA News 17:42 UTC

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6. Transporter-18 SmallSats Encapsulation
   NASA News 17:38 UTC

   SpaceX Three NASA-supported small spacecraft, along with many commercial payloads, are shown before being encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9 ahead of launch on Oct. 1, 2026. The ASCENT Propulsion Dual Mode CubeSat, the Supernova Remnants…

Robotics & Automation 7 stories

1. NYSOFA expands partnership with Intuition Robotics to bring ElliQ to more seniors
   The Robot Report 23:22 UTC

   ElliQ extracts memories from every conversation with the user and classifies them based on importance and relevance, injecting context into future conversations. | Source: Intuition Robotics The New York State Office for the Aging, or…

2. NYSOFA expands partnership with Intuition Robotics to bring ElliQ to more seniors
   Robotics Business Review 23:22 UTC

   ElliQ extracts memories from every conversation with the user and classifies them based on importance and relevance, injecting context into future conversations. | Source: Intuition Robotics The New York State Office for the Aging, or…

3. Hello Robot, A＆K Robotics to discuss how robots navigate crowded indoor spaces at RoboBusiness
   The Robot Report 19:48 UTC

   On the left, Hello Robot’s Stretch 4, and on the right, A&K Robotics’ Cruz autonomous pod. | Source: Hello Robot, A&K Robotics Consumer-facing spaces are dynamic, crowded, and highly unpredictable, requiring robots to safely navigate…

4. Hello Robot, A＆K Robotics to discuss how robots navigate crowded indoor spaces at RoboBusiness
   Robotics Business Review 19:48 UTC

   On the left, Hello Robot’s Stretch 4, and on the right, A&K Robotics’ Cruz autonomous pod. | Source: Hello Robot, A&K Robotics Consumer-facing spaces are dynamic, crowded, and highly unpredictable, requiring robots to safely navigate…

5. Q＆A: Mars Perseverance Rover Distance Record
   IEEE Spectrum Robotics 15:02 UTC

   On 11 October , the Perseverance rover completed a drive that brought its total distance traveled on Mars to 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers). This is a new record for Mars rovers, enabled in large part by Perseverance ’s ability to drive…

6. Promise Robotics partners with D.R. Horton on physical AI for homebuilding
   The Robot Report 13:00 UTC

   Promise Robotics says it can accelerate homebuilding by standardizing component manufacturing. Source: Promise Robotics The construction industry is fragmented and has been relatively conservative about adopting new technologies, but…

Quantum Computing 6 stories

1. Coinbase Urges Early Work on Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Transition
   The Quantum Insider 16:12 UTC

   Insider Brief Coinbase urged early preparation for Bitcoin’s transition to quantum-resistant security, citing the years needed to update network rules and migrate funds. The company called for evaluating signature systems that balance…

2. Quantum Firms Backed to Keep UK Railways Running And Cut Waiting Lists
   The Quantum Insider 14:50 UTC

   Insider Brief The UK government announced £78 million to support businesses developing quantum sensing, navigation and communication technologies and expand workforce training. A £50 million competition will support projects including a…

3. Infleqtion Receives £9 Million to Develop Quantum RF Sensing System
   The Quantum Insider 14:43 UTC

   Insider Brief Infleqtion has received £9 million from Innovate UK to develop Quantum Spectrum-DF, a deployable quantum radio frequency direction-finding system under the second phase of the QuDiFi project. The system uses Rydberg atoms and…

4. Google Researchers Propose Using Error Records to Improve Quantum Results After Computation
   The Quantum Insider 13:05 UTC

   Insider Brief Google Quantum AI researchers developed a method that uses saved error-correction records to reduce distortion in quantum results after a calculation, achieving more than 1,000-fold suppression in simulations. The method…

5. Quantum XChange CEO to Lead Post-Quantum Cryptography Panel at ACT-IAC 2026 Cyber Summit
   The Quantum Insider 11:58 UTC

   Insider Brief Quantum XChange CEO Eddy Zervigon will moderate a panel on post-quantum cryptography implementation at the ACT-IAC 2026 Cyber Summit on October 14 in Reston, Virginia. The discussion will cover crypto-agility, encryption…

6. SkyWater and D-Wave Sign Multi-Year Quantum Manufacturing Agreement
   The Quantum Insider 11:51 UTC

   Insider Brief SkyWater Technology and D-Wave Quantum have signed a multi-year agreement to continue specialized semiconductor process development and manufacturing for D-Wave ’s superconducting quantum systems. The agreement extends a…