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Sunday 18 October 2026

The news of Sunday 18 October 2026

368 stories from 37 sources, topic by topic. Every title links to its publisher.

Hardware 178 stories

  1. SpaceX, CEO Shortwell, looks at Tesla's account.
    CNIT Home (EN Mirror) Translated from zh-cn
  2. Ideas for wisdom to bring in technocrats, and the message is that former China is the core member of the ADS founding team.
    CNIT Home (EN Mirror) Translated from zh-cn
  3. Why you should never point a laser pointer at a security camera
    USEngadget

    Laser pointers are known to damage security cameras, but do they really? Here's what damage can actually be done.

  4. FIGIER, Anthropic 0110
    CNIT Home (EN Mirror) Translated from Vietnamese
  5. No longer a fixed line, AI module NPCTalk allows GTA 5 NPC to achieve real-time no-script voice dialogue
    CNIT Home (EN Mirror) Translated from zh-cn
  6. How to use Google's SynthID AI detection website
    USEngadget

    It's a simple way to check whether an image has been created or manipulated, with a few caveats.

Software Engineering 52 stories

  1. Superoptimizing an FPU emulator
    USlobste.rs

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  2. William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://colo.to/cyberspace.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146625 Points: 254 # Comments: 114

  3. How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-quickly-can-dod-rebuild-and-recast-munitions-industrial-base Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146624 Points: 119 # Comments: 183

  4. August in Servo: CSS Grid, text selection, and more
    USlobste.rs

    Comments

  5. Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
    USHacker News Front Page

    I wanted my humble Claude on mobile to access my WhatsApp messages but the only options I could find either required WhatsApp Business or an actual server to run Baileys on. I wanted to run it for free on ClaudeFlare and with my personal…

  6. If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145507 Points: 261 # Comments: 179

Semiconductors 39 stories

  1. Nanoelectromechanical Switches Target More Efficient Embedded DRAM (UC Berkeley, Samsung, Intel)
    USSemiconductor Engineering

    Researchers at the UC Berkeley, Samsung Electronics , and Intel published “Nanoelectromechanically Gated Gain Cell eDRAM.” Abstract Excerpt : “The memory wall and the slowdown of static random access memory (SRAM) scaling have renewed…

  2. Edgcomb: Stephen Schwarzman (18)
    JPNikkei Asia
  3. A Composable Thermal Solver For Heterogeneous 2.5D/3D-IC Packages (Cadence, Notre Dame)
    USSemiconductor Engineering

    Researchers at Cadence Design Systems and the University of Notre Dame published “A Composable AI-Accelerated Iterative Solver for 3D-IC Thermal Modeling.” Abstract : “Accurate thermal analysis of heterogeneous 2.5D/3D-IC packages is…

  4. GL.iNet Comet Q GL-RMQ1 Review A Single USB Type-C Cable Remote KVM Device with Tailscale
    USServeTheHome

    In our GL.iNet Comet Q (GL-RMQ1) review, we see how this USB Type-C remote KVM device with Tailscale makes connectivity easy The post GL.iNet Comet Q GL-RMQ1 Review A Single USB Type-C Cable Remote KVM Device with Tailscale appeared first…

  5. Thermal Side Channels Create New Security Risks For Autonomous Vehicles (Missouri S＆T)
    USSemiconductor Engineering

    Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology published “Can Autonomous Vehicles Keep Their Cool? A Survey of Thermal Side-Channel and Perception Attacks.” Abstract excerpt : “This survey systematizes thirteen representative…

  6. Meta, Tesla and Netflix Q3 Updates Coming This Week
    USThe Information

    Tech earnings season is back (yes, I know it feels like it never ends). This time, we’ve got a slight twist: Meta Platforms has broken with the pack and is reporting its September-quarter earnings on Wednesday, a week ahead of its big tech…

Geopolitics & Policy 35 stories

  1. Albanian PM Edi Rama refuses to quit as violent protests enter 6th day
    HKSouth China Morning Post Tech

    Albanian police fired water cannon and tear gas Sunday as violent anti-government protests entered a sixth day and Prime Minister Edi Rama rejected demonstrators’ demands that he resign. Violent demonstrations have rocked Tirana since…

  2. Albanian PM rejects resignation calls as violent protests enter sixth day
    HKSouth China Morning Post Tech

    Albanian police fired water cannon and tear gas Sunday as violent anti-government protests entered a sixth day and Prime Minister Edi Rama rejected demonstrators’ demands that he resign. Violent demonstrations have rocked Tirana since…

  3. How China made climate resilience part of its economic growth strategy
    HKSouth China Morning Post Tech

    The war in the Middle East has disrupted oil and gas supplies, leaving governments to confront energy pressures as they prepare for next month’s Cop31 UN climate conference in Antalya, Turkey. The crisis raises an enduring question: how…

  4. How China made climate resilience part of its economic growth strategy
    HKSouth China Morning Post Tech

    The war in the Middle East has disrupted oil and gas supplies, leaving governments to confront energy pressures as they prepare for next month’s Cop31 UN climate conference in Antalya, Turkey. The crisis raises an enduring question: how…

  5. China vs Europe
    USThe Wire China

    Also, dual-use farms and basic scientific research. The post China vs Europe appeared first on The Wire China .

  6. Backing the Basics
    USThe Wire China

    China has been pouring money into blue-sky scientific research as the U.S. backs away. The post Backing the Basics appeared first on The Wire China .

Artificial Intelligence 18 stories

  1. Antropic Clod, released a 25-year-old password standard Mystery... “Not 30 minutes”
    KRAI Times (Korea) Translated from Korean
  2. 'Jeminai 4 Argon', Role-Delivered MarinCraft Clear in 27 hours
    KRAI Times (Korea) Translated from Korean
  3. OpenAI, ‘GPT-6 Astra Pro’ upgrade.. . Support for parallel execution
    KRAI Times (Korea) Translated from Korean
  4. Requid AI, Jib Performance Frontline Multimodal Decision Model ‘d1-Ultra’ released
    KRAI Times (Korea) Translated from Korean
  5. [AI Model New] 6 types of video creation ‘Clean 4.0’, Sound-Regulating Voice ‘Drama 3’, etc.
    KRAI Times (Korea) Translated from Korean
  6. Google, QuantumComputer Core Error Reduced by 40 minutes...Silver Dissolution
    KRAI Times (Korea) Translated from Korean

Tech Market & VC 15 stories

  1. No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market
    USTechCrunch

    Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most storied firms

  2. Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
    USTechCrunch

    The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as “large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.”

  3. Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’
    USTechCrunch

    "You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.

  4. Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
    USTechCrunch

    The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.

  5. TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act
    USTechCrunch

    Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

  6. Cabinet approves Go-Delhi Foundation to help young innovators, startups
    INYourStory (India)

    The Delhi government has approved setting up Go-Delhi Foundation with a corpus of Rs 50 crore to empower young innovators and startups, said a CMO statement on Sunday. The approval was given in a recent Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief…

Energy & Green Tech 9 stories

  1. From excavators to hypercars, these LEGO kits were made for EV fans (2026)
    USElectrek

    Over the past few years, LEGO has quietly added an impressive array of plug-powered machines to its block-based lineup, from hybrid racers to battery-powered excavators and garbage trucks. We’ve rounded them up here. more…

  2. Paris Auto Show — European OEMs Strike Back
    USCleanTechnica

    (But will it be enough?) The 2026 Paris Auto Show felt different this year. Despite some notable absences (BMW, MG, most Japanese OEMs…), it was bigger than in past editions. The bright, confident stands of Chinese automakers—from BYD to…

  3. Electrification Changes What Energy Security Means
    USCleanTechnica

    For most of the fossil-fuel era, energy security meant securing a continuous flow of things that disappeared when they were used. Oil arrived in tankers, natural gas crossed pipelines or oceans as LNG, and coal moved by rail and ship. Burn…

  4. PGE gets it: electric semi trucks provide HEAVY DUTY backup for the grid [video]
    USElectrek

    Oregon utility Portland General Electric (“PGE”) is highlighting the environmental, health, and grid benefits to electrifying medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, calling the battery-backed big rigs “batteries on wheels.” more…

  5. Tiny Titan: new residential battery system from EcoFlow starts small
    USElectrek

    EcoFlow is hoping to make a titanic splash with its new, smaller (but scalable!) residential energy storage lineup that the company is calling a more approachable entry point to its backup battery offerings. more…

  6. Volkswagen Thinks The US Could Be Its Economic Savior. Is It Chasing A Pipe Dream?
    USCleanTechnica

    In January, 1949, two Volkswagen Type 1 Beetles arrived in New York City. Six years later, Volkswagen of America was founded. The original Beetle was cute in an ugly sort of way. It was under-powered and its heater was anemic, but it was…

Biotech & Medtech 5 stories

  1. Startup OMass Secures $310M to Advance Drug for Rare Endocrine Disorder
    USMedCity News

    OMass’s molecule is vying to become an alternative to a Neurocrine Biosciences drug that is currently the only FDA-approved therapy for congenital adrenal hyperplasia. But Vertex Pharmaceuticals could also compete with a drug candidate…

  2. Allswell Raises $7M to Grow LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Platform
    USMedCity News

    Allswell’s seed round was led by Rethink Impact, and included participation from Magnify Ventures, Ulu Ventures and Hopelab Ventures, joining existing investors Techstars and Amboy Street Ventures. The post Allswell Raises $7M to Grow…

  3. The Antibiotics Exist —The System Cannot Deliver Them
    USMedCity News

    This is not a discovery problem. It is a market entry and access problem, and it is far more tractable than the pipeline crisis we spend most of our attention on. The post The Antibiotics Exist —The System Cannot Deliver Them appeared…

  4. Exercise is Prescribed Like Advice When It Should Be Delivered Like Treatment
    USMedCity News

    Health care routinely recommends movement without providing assessment, dosage, progression, and follow-up that turn good advice into usable care. The post Exercise is Prescribed Like Advice When It Should Be Delivered Like Treatment…

  5. UPMC Enterprises Invests in VeloSource to Expand AI-Enabled Clinician Staffing Platform
    USMedCity News

    UPMC Enterprises is making a strategic investment in VeloSource with plans to further develop its AI-enabled staffing management platform. The post UPMC Enterprises Invests in VeloSource to Expand AI-Enabled Clinician Staffing Platform…

Space & Aerospace 4 stories

  1. Falcon 9 set to launch Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida
    USNASASpaceFlight

    Following on from the successful Transporter 18 mission at the beginning of the month, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 vehicle launched an additional 32 rideshare payloads for the Bandwagon-5 mission on Tuesday, Oct. 20, delayed by a day due to…

  2. SpaceX working through Starship Flight 15 and 16 milestones
    USNASASpaceFlight

    SpaceX is advancing toward its next two Starship missions as the company looks to close out 2026. Flight 15 is targeting November, with the goal of catching both the booster and the Ship. Flight 16 is currently aimed for December and could…

  3. Hera Mission Prepares for Follow-Up Asteroid Imaging
    USIEEE Aerospace

    In one month, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission will make history. Moving at 12 kilometers per second relative to Earth, the mission is about to rendezvous with the binary Dimorphos-Didymos asteroid pair. NASA’s Double Asteroid…

  4. APOD: 2026 October 18 – Sonified: Eagle Nebula Pillars
    USNASA News

    APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 18 –… Today’s APOD <a href="https://scien

Cybersecurity 4 stories

  1. Hackers exploit SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands as SYSTEM, root
    USBleepingComputer

    Attackers are targeting an OS command injection vulnerability in SiteGuard Server Edition that lets them execute commands as root or SYSTEM on affected servers. [...]

  2. Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files: YARA Rule, (Sun, Oct 18th)
    USSANS ISC

    Here is the YARA rule I used to detect "Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files".

  3. US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars
    USSecurityWeek

    CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a mixed bag. The post US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars appeared first on SecurityWeek .

  4. ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup After Attackers Compromise Microsoft 365 Tenants
    INThe Hacker News

    ConnectWise on Saturday said it has disabled seven ConnectWise application identities as it continues its investigation into an incident in which unknown threat actors obtained unauthorized access to the application identities and…

Cloud & Infrastructure 3 stories

  1. Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate
    USThe New Stack

    When Google announced Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of testers on September 30, it came with a benchmark table that put Argon ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 on 14 of 18 tests. Those include DeepSWE (77.9% vs. 74.2%) and GraphWalks at 256K to 1…

  2. Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it recognized the sandbox
    USThe New Stack

    Liquid AI’s new reasoning model was built to solve coding problems, but during training it kept combing Git history, GitHub, PyPI, and Hugging Face for answers, and as it did so, it appeared to grasp that it was running inside a sandbox…

  3. Scale isn’t one number: three ways a Kubernetes control plane runs out of room
    USThe New Stack

    Three clusters in trouble , and they look nothing alike. The first is a training fleet. It sat at a few thousand nodes for months, then a new run landed, and it’s at fifteen thousand. Kube-apiserver starts eating memory. Etcd starts…

Quant Finance 2 stories

  1. Crypto.com, Novig sue Missouri over sports event contracts; Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood hold off
    USThe Block (Crypto／Fintech)

    Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood and Underdog, which also received cease-and-desist orders, have not filed suits in Missouri, according to court records.

  2. Cysic suspends bridge after attacker mints tokens and moves $727,000 to Ethereum
    USThe Block (Crypto／Fintech)

    The attacker, after minting 10 million CYS, managed to bridge about $727,000 in proceeds to Ethereum through Mayan, deBridge and SWFT's Bridgers.

Cyber — Video 2 stories

  1. Hackers Turned GitHub Against Its Own Users | Threat Wire
    USHak5

    💾 How are hackers exploiting GitHub Actions to steal credentials and secrets from hundreds of repositories in a growing supply chain attack? This week on Hak5, we investigate the GhostAction campaign, Anthropic’s new AI vulnerability…

  2. 🍍📟 New Deauth Attack for WPA3 - WiFi Pineapple Pager #pentesting #cybersecurity Aircrack-NG PR 2724
    USHak5

    💾 Mad props to Singe on this implementation of Mathy's work, and Dragorn for coding it into PineAP. See the Aircrack-NG PR at github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng/pull/2724

Robotics & Automation 2 stories

  1. How to choose a BLDC motor for robotic arms and mobile robots
    USRobotics Business Review

    There are several factors to choosing brushless DC or BLDC motors for robots. Source: Faisal Mahmood Selecting a brushless DC, or BLDC, motor for robotic arms or mobile robots starts with the mechanical system, not the controller catalog…

  2. How to choose a BLDC motor for robotic arms and mobile robots
    USThe Robot Report

    There are several factors to choosing brushless DC or BLDC motors for robots. Source: Faisal Mahmood Selecting a brushless DC, or BLDC, motor for robotic arms or mobile robots starts with the mechanical system, not the controller catalog…