The news of Thursday 15 October 2026

Hardware 177 stories

1. IT Morning 1016: Cook says Apple is testing at the end of the month in China; Zhuang responded to a joint investigation into the breaking of brake pedals by three departments; Microsoft announced the optimization of Win11 memory management; DeepSeek crash 5 hours of compensation release...
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:59 UTC Translated from zh-cn
2. INTERVIE MacBook Pro, 1801 M7 Pro / Max IS 2027 01
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:53 UTC Translated from Vietnamese
3. Google announced that the Android earthquake warning system had reached a billion times, expanding its coverage to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:46 UTC Translated from zh-cn
4. Young Weida, CEO, Wong In-hoon said: I made several phone calls to contact the station and no one. Come back.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:37 UTC Translated from zh-cn
5. Spirit Island with new skills: AppleSports Upgrade, and the playtime break automatically triggers "core data"
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:35 UTC Translated from zh-cn
6. Amazon launches Bee Frontier AI wearable and Bee Eclipse phone attachment
   GSMArena 23:33 UTC

   Amazon today introduced two new Bee personal AI devices: the Bee Frontier wearable and the Bee Eclipse phone attachment. Both are meant to listen to your conversations and turn them into summaries, to-dos, reminders, and insights in the…

Semiconductors 73 stories

1. Thunder Tiger debuts new loitering munition drone at AUSA 2026
   DigiTimes Daily 23:57 UTC

   Thunder Tiger showcased its latest defense systems at AUSA 2026, the Association of the United States Army's annual exhibition in the US, marking its fourth consecutive appearance at the event and its largest booth to date. The…

2. Nvidia unveils PTFE switch board at OCP, names Taiwan partners
   DigiTimes Daily 23:57 UTC

   Nvidia showcased the latest developments in its MGX server platform ecosystem at the OCP Global Summit 2026, unveiling for the first time a switch board sample using polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and naming seven supply-chain partners…

3. Samsung SDI targets 2027 LFP BBU battery production
   DigiTimes Daily 23:56 UTC

   Samsung SDI will begin mass-producing cylindrical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for AI servers as early as June 2027, marking the first adoption of cylindrical LFP backup batteries by a South Korean battery maker. The move expands…

4. AI power crunch drives data center demand for self-generation
   DigiTimes Daily 23:56 UTC

   The focus of the global AI race has shifted from securing advanced chips to securing access to electricity, with electrical power now becoming the deciding factor for computing capacity. As power consumption surges at AI data centers…

5. MediaTek ASIC deal with ByteDance would expand data center push
   DigiTimes Daily 23:56 UTC

   ByteDance is in advanced talks with MediaTek to purchase custom data center chips, with the companies potentially reaching an agreement soon, according to people familiar with the matter. A deal would help ByteDance secure critical chip…

6. Linde LienHwa tackles hydrogen transport dilemma with HaaS
   DigiTimes Daily 23:56 UTC

   As hydrogen development and applications take center stage at Energy Taiwan 2026, industrial gas giant Linde LienHwa Group is introducing an end-to-end "Hydrogen-as-a-Service" (HaaS) business model. To support this push, the company plans…

Software Engineering 47 stories

1. Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30
   Hacker News Front Page 23:37 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111852 Points: 427 # Comments: 153

2. Announcing Rust 1.99.1
   lobste.rs 23:03 UTC

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3. Laptop Based on 6502 CPU
   Hacker News Front Page 22:56 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.maddox.pro/?p=448 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111537 Points: 180 # Comments: 92

4. Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable
   lobste.rs 22:48 UTC

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5. MCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them.
   Stack Overflow Blog 20:39 UTC
6. What I Self-Host
   Hacker News Front Page 20:23 UTC

   Article URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Points: 537 # Comments: 343

Quant Finance 41 stories

1. MSCI finalizes index rules that put Strategy, crypto treasury firms at risk of exclusion
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 22:15 UTC

   MSCI's new non-operating company rules could exclude Strategy, Metaplanet and SharpLink. The final list of affected firms is due Nov. 11.

2. Farcaster acquired by Balaji’s Network School, with new ‘social smart contract’ for users
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 21:41 UTC

   Balaji Srinivasan's Network School acquired Farcaster from Neynar. Users must sign a "social smart contract" or drop to read-only access.

3. PEX brings AI-powered finance workflows to ChatGPT and Claude
   Finextra 18:42 UTC

   PEX, a leading corporate card and spend management platform, today launched PEX AI, a set of capabilities that automates everyday finance work, runs multi-step workflows and connects PEX to AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT.

4. Beyond the Hype: The Unseen Economics Driving B2B Embedded Finance
   Finextra 16:43 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

5. B2B eCommerce in Dubai: Digital Procurement And Payments System
   Finextra 16:31 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

6. How B2B Digital Commerce Is Changing Procurement and Payments Across the GCC
   Finextra 16:31 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

Tech Market & VC 39 stories

1. When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
   TechCrunch 23:44 UTC

   The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.

2. And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems
   TechCrunch 23:33 UTC

   Intero Biosystems beat out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home the $100,000 grand prize at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

3. Role Call: appointments at Aurora Labs, NZ Tech Institute, Powerhouse Venture Partners, Main Sequence, Oli
   StartupDaily (AU) 23:01 UTC

   Track the power reshuffle: Aurora, NZIAT, Main Sequence, Powerhouse and Oli install new leaders.

4. 40+ startups calling BS on AI fakes
   CB Insights 22:30 UTC

   Meet Ervin Hoskins. He wrote op-eds about the Iran war. A small Florida newspaper ran one. Small problem. Ervin isn’t real. Last week, OpenAI said he was one of seven fake journalists run out of Iran, with ChatGPT polishing the copy. AI is…

5. We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView
   Wired Business 21:18 UTC

   This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

6. AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For
   Wired Business 21:00 UTC

   Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re being encouraged to adopt those same tools.

Artificial Intelligence 36 stories

1. Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint
   Hugging Face Blog 20:34 UTC
2. Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
   OpenAI Blog 19:00 UTC

   Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.

3. SpaceXSI, the highest performance ‘Glock Voice 3.0’ released... “Secure Phone Resolution No. 1”
   AI Times (Korea) 17:55 UTC Translated from Korean
4. DeepCock Low-cost technology, performance in accordance with the information location, simplicity exposure
   AI Times (Korea) 17:48 UTC Translated from Korean
5. Liquid AI, Flagship Model 'LFM2.5-24B-A2B' Released..."OnDevice Agent aimed at"
   AI Times (Korea) 17:39 UTC Translated from Korean
6. ‘Melon’ A2O Lite, AI Avatar
   AI Times (Korea) 17:21 UTC Translated from Korean

Cybersecurity 34 stories

1. Proofpoint to buy Varonis for $6.3 billion
   CyberScoop Asia 21:13 UTC

   Proofpoint agreed Thursday to acquire Varonis Systems in a cash transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion, combining two companies that have positioned themselves around a shared bet: that securing data has become the central…

2. Hackers exploit Collabora RCE flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers
   BleepingComputer 20:25 UTC

   Threat actors are exploiting a critical command execution flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-110447, in the Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server app (richdocumentscode) for Nextcloud. [...]

3. Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory
   The Hacker News 20:24 UTC

   A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The…

4. Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls
   BleepingComputer 19:48 UTC

   Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices. [...]

5. The next election influence campaign will target your AI chatbot
   CyberScoop Asia 19:29 UTC

   Election influence campaigns, particularly ones playing out over social media, are a dime a dozen. Such campaigns – sometimes devised by foreign powers, other times by domestic groups – are often designed to influence the U.S. electorate…

6. ThreatsDay: Adobe RCE, DNS Wallet Theft, NVIDIA Container Escape, Self-Healing Backdoor + 23 More
   The Hacker News 18:49 UTC

   Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small…

Geopolitics & Policy 30 stories

1. Indonesian President Replaces Head of Disaster Management Agency
   The Diplomat Tech 23:35 UTC

   The move comes amid growing scrutiny of Jakarta's response to the forest and peatland fires that have drastically reduced air quality across the region.

2. Multiple victims, including children, in Oregon school shooting
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:39 UTC

   A teenager shot and killed three children and a teacher on Thursday at an elementary school in the US state of Oregon, police said, adding the assailant was later killed by an armed community member who pursued him into the building…

3. Bus hits train near Channel Tunnel in France, injuring 19
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:25 UTC

   A minibus collided with a stationary train in a Channel Tunnel vehicle boarding area in France on Thursday evening, injuring the driver and 18 passengers, authorities said. Five people were severely injured, though no one’s life appeared…

4. The China decoupling paradox: why the world still needs its manufacturing machine
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:00 UTC

   Talk of global decoupling from China has persisted for years, as has speculation that emerging economies such as India and Vietnam could soon replace it as the “world’s factory”. But for Indian hardware engineer Neeraj Arora, the growth of…

5. Cambodia’s NGO Sector Is Collapsing. Does It Matter?
   The Diplomat Tech 21:40 UTC

   Imported by international donors in the 1990s, NGOs have supplanted rather than strengthened local forms of political organizing.

6. Nepal Should Not Shoulder the Himalayan Climate Crisis Alone
   The Diplomat Tech 19:36 UTC

   “No matter how much we reform our internal engineering, a frontline nation simply cannot manage the shocks of a global systemic failure alone.”

Energy & Green Tech 29 stories

1. Europe’s EV sales soar as North America drops 44% – here’s the catch
   Electrek 23:01 UTC

   Europe’s EV sales just posted a record September, as global market growth shifts toward Europe and beyond its largest established markets. more…

2. Company that put gas engines in Teslas goes bankrupt owing $37 million
   Electrek 21:26 UTC

   Obrist, the Austrian engineering firm famous for ripping battery cells out of a Tesla Model 3 and bolting a gas engine into the frunk, is bankrupt. Three companies in the Obrist Group are insolvent with combined debts of about €31.8…

3. Tech giants want clean energy in N.C. Is Duke finally ready to help?
   Canary Media 20:25 UTC

   In North Carolina, tech giants and other large corporations that want their own 24/7 carbon-free electricity have a problem. Across most of the state, only Duke Energy, the state’s vertically integrated utility, can sell them power, and…

4. Rivian limits point-to-point driving to invite-only testers under NDA
   Electrek 18:42 UTC

   Rivian’s point-to-point driving feature will first reach owners through an invitation-only “Autonomy Early Access Program,” and the owners it picks will have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get in. The program, laid out on a new…

5. Ford’s Fathom EV pickup spotted again ahead of its upcoming debut
   Electrek 18:00 UTC

   Ford’s next electric pickup will start at around $30,000 when it goes on sale in early 2027. As its official debut draws closer, a disguised Fathom prototype popped up outside of Ford’s World Headquarters. more…

6. Velotric Nomad 2 e-bike + FREE $550 extra battery, Bluetti 900Wh alternator charger bundle, Hiboy kids electric dirt bikes, more
   Electrek 18:00 UTC

   Our Thursday Green Deals this week has a nice mix of deals across EVs, power stations, security systems, and tools, starting with Velotric’s FREE $550 extra battery bundle on the Nomad 2 Off-Road e-bike at $1,999 that gives it up to 130…

Quantum Computing 24 stories

1. Google Quantum AI ＆ DeepMind Demonstrate Modular Hyperbolic Codes for Over 30x QEC Overhead Reduction
   Quantum Computing Report 23:14 UTC

   Researchers from Google Quantum AI, Google DeepMind, and MIT have developed a modular quantum error correction (QEC) architecture that significantly reduces the physical qubit overhead required for quantum computing. This new approach…

2. Germany Issues Joint Federal PQC Migration Guidelines to Align with EU Post-Quantum Roadmap
   Quantum Computing Report 22:53 UTC

   Germany has released national guidelines for migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), aligning with the EU's roadmap. The strategy, driven by advancements in AI and threats to classical encryption, outlines a three-phase migration…

3. IBM Research Automates QEC Decoder Chip Design Using Open AI Agent Factories at 11.5x Lower Inference Cost
   Quantum Computing Report 22:27 UTC

   IBM Research has developed an AI agent factory to automate the design of QEC decoder chips, achieving up to 204x hardware speedup and 11.5x lower AI inference costs. This system utilizes autonomous multi-agent search and open-weight…

4. FirstQFM Foundation Model Cuts Quantum Gate Times by 33% on QuantWare QPU via NVIDIA Computing
   Quantum Computing Report 22:10 UTC

   FirstQFM AB has achieved a 33% reduction in single-qubit gate execution times on QuantWare’s 21-qubit Contralto-D21 superconducting quantum processor, without compromising gate fidelity. This was accomplished using their patented quantum…

5. Classiq Partners with FreeYa Mind Campus to Launch Quantum Applications Hub in Romania
   Quantum Computing Report 21:54 UTC

   Classiq has partnered with FreeYa Mind Campus to open a Quantum Applications Hub in Iași, Romania, which will serve as Classiq's regional headquarters. This hub integrates Classiq's quantum software platform with the campus's IBM Quantum…

6. Stony Brook Quantum Memory Named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026
   The Quantum Insider 19:50 UTC

   Insider Brief Stony Brook University ‘s patented quantum memory technology, commercialized by Qunnect as Qu-MEM, has been named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 list in the Experimental category. Qu-MEM is a room-temperature quantum…

Cloud & Infrastructure 23 stories

1. Hackers hijacked 1,900 GitHub accounts. Then they went after 30,000 repos.
   The New Stack 21:13 UTC

   Hackers accessed roughly 1,900 GitHub accounts, then used them to slip credential-stealing workflows into more than 30,000 repositories. The malicious GitHub Actions jobs targeted CI/CD secrets, cloud access keys, and AI provider API keys…

2. Vercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend
   The New Stack 18:45 UTC

   Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco on Thursday, the company introduced Daemons, a new service for continuously running background workers, and made…

3. OpenAI promised developers six months’ notice. GPT-4o users got three.
   The New Stack 17:52 UTC

   OpenAI is retiring four GPT-4 models from its API on January 14, 2027. The deprecation notice the company sent developers Wednesday covers GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4.1 mini, along with their dated snapshots and every…

4. A fully programmable secure web gateway
   Cloudflare Blog 17:11 UTC

   Every secure web gateway on the market works the same way: traffic matches a condition. A terminal action fires. Allow, Block, Isolate, Log. This model has been the foundation of network security for nearly 30 years, and it handles the…

5. Meta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models
   The New Stack 17:00 UTC

   Meta on Thursday launched Muse Spark Open, a new 816B open model (with 42B active parameters) that the company argues is the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” The new model is available through the APIs of Baseten, Fireworks AI…

6. How Visko streams real-time world models on Google Cloud TPUs
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   Editor's note: Generative AI startups are moving rapidly beyond static clip generation to build interactive, real-time worlds. In this technical deep dive, we explore how AI startup Visko collaborated with Google Cloud TPU engineers to…

Biotech & Medtech 16 stories

1. Rosarium Health Forms Home Modification Partnership with Anthem Medi-Cal
   MedCity News 22:53 UTC

   Rosarium Health partnered with Anthem Medi-Cal to provide home safety modifications for eligible members. The post Rosarium Health Forms Home Modification Partnership with Anthem Medi-Cal appeared first on MedCity News .

2. Trump administration advances plan for peptide drugs favored by RFK Jr.
   STAT News 20:46 UTC

   WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials are moving ahead with a plan to allow specialty pharmacies to produce certain peptides , a class of largely unregulated injections that have become popular among followers of Health Secretary Robert F…

3. Merck and Moderna have ‘lot of exploring to do’ after initial cancer vaccine success
   STAT News 19:58 UTC

   After public school teacher Gary Keblish was diagnosed with melanoma in 2019, a surgeon cut out the tumor. But he wasn’t out of the woods. In some patients, melanoma aggressively recurs after surgery, so his doctors referred him to a new…

4. AI Biotech Iambic Gets $150M in IPO Cash for ‘Molecular Superintelligence’ Drug R＆D
   MedCity News 19:18 UTC

   Iambic Therapeutics, an AI-enabled biotech company, will apply the IPO proceeds toward clinical development of its pipeline of internally discovered and wholly owned cancer drugs. Iambic also has R&D alliances with companies such as Bayer…

5. The Trump administration is doubling down on health care fraud investigations
   STAT News 18:09 UTC

   The Department of Justice has a warning for health care executives: Don’t be another Theranos. As the Trump administration continues its fight against Medicare and Medicaid fraud, it is also expanding its investigations into corporate…

6. Mass. lawmaker Auchincloss favors boosting U.S. biotech over targeting China
   STAT News 17:19 UTC

   Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) has some advice for fellow lawmakers: unapologetically support the biotech industry, vilify insurance companies, and focus on making America a biotech research haven, instead of relying on protectionism…

Space & Aerospace 15 stories

1. Oct. 29: Applying AI to the GEOINT Mission
   SpaceNews 20:41 UTC

   Join us for a conversation on how machine learning is transforming the GEOINT mission across different markets The post Oct. 29: Applying AI/SI to the GEOINT Mission appeared first on SpaceNews .

2. NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars’ Moons in Upcoming Mission
   NASA News 19:58 UTC

   NASA is playing an important role in JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars’ moons and build on the agency’s long history of exploring the Red Planet. The…

3. What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
   Ars Technica Space 19:10 UTC

   The Liberty Bell , with its famous crack, hasn't been rung in 180 years, but that hasn't stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation's 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn…

4. Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
   Ars Technica Space 18:39 UTC

   One reason plastics are used so often is that they’re chemically inert, meaning bags, food containers, and cups don't react with what we put in them. Yet they can still break down into microplastics, which turn up in drinking water, human…

5. NASA Satellites Observe Historic 2026 El Niño
   NASA News 17:59 UTC

   6 Min Read NASA Satellites Observe Historic 2026 El Niño This visualization compares three ocean data products, sea surface temperature anomaly, apparent visible wavelength, and sea surface height anomaly, over the same months in 2025 and…

6. Power Up: Roll Out Solar Arrays Boost Space Station Power Supply
   NASA News 17:30 UTC

   2 Min Read Power Up: Roll Out Solar Arrays Boost Space Station Power Supply From the International Space Station’s unique position 250 miles above Earth, the Sun is a vital source of energy. Solar power supports the station’s life support…

DevOps & SRE 5 stories

1. Get observability in your pocket with the Grafana mobile app
   Grafana Blog 22:39 UTC

   When you’re on the go, your phone is often the only observability tool you have. And what you can do with it in the first few minutes matters.

2. The next developer interface is ambient intelligence
   GitHub Blog 19:39 UTC

   For most of my career, building software started with the same setup: keyboard, mouse, editor, terminal, browser, and an impressive number of tabs I was definitely going to look at later. The tools changed, but the relationship did not…

3. Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org
   GitHub Blog 18:00 UTC

   Working with outside collaborators can add more work for a repository owner. You need to confirm who still needs access, change permissions as projects evolve, and archive repositories once they’ve served their purpose. To keep up…

4. Coverage-first or cost-first: two ways to automatically apply Adaptive Metrics' recommendations
   Grafana Blog 13:50 UTC

   Adaptive Metrics , which is part of the Adaptive Telemetry suite, looks at how your metrics are actually used and recommends how much detail you should keep for each metric.

5. When Software Meets Hardware
   Martin Fowler 13:25 UTC

   When software meets hardware, engineering principles remain largely the same, but the sensible defaults often change. Kuldeep Singh describes our experience modernizing a large IoT fleet of battery-powered sensors. Our familiar principles…