The news of Saturday 24 October 2026

Hardware 205 stories

1. INTERVIEGATION INTERVIEW -Chrome.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:57 UTC Translated from Vietnamese
2. Accelerator, Tesla New.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:48 UTC Translated from zh-cn
3. Half of the design team for the same person to become official: Sabbunk 2077 was a model author who had been "assembled."
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:47 UTC Translated from zh-cn
4. How to extend the battery life of your Apple AirTags
   Engadget 23:45 UTC

   An AirTag's battery is easy to replace, but you don't want it to run low at a critical moment.

5. A new series of Triple Cosmos, "Stretching Three Brains."
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:40 UTC Translated from zh-cn
6. Nintendo Switch 2 is moving forward with the "Tranquoise Blood" resource release.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:36 UTC Translated from zh-cn

Software Engineering 52 stories

1. Scrawl: show an agent the problem
   lobste.rs 23:38 UTC

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2. Why Gopher in 2026?
   Hacker News Front Page 23:33 UTC

   Article URL: https://gopher.muffinlabs.com/sdf.org/users/nervtoji/phlog/001.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226577 Points: 106 # Comments: 57

3. America Has Lost 200k of Jobs in Media, Film and the Arts. How Much Is AI?
   Hacker News Front Page 23:11 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419 Points: 460 # Comments: 480

4. SIMD and Go
   lobste.rs 23:11 UTC

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5. We should be more ambitious with the software we build
   lobste.rs 23:06 UTC

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6. An animated explainer of the PHP2Shell vulnerability
   lobste.rs 22:48 UTC

   Hi all! 3 days since the Internet almost melted down, I've wanted to know how you can pwn any PHP server with a single request, and the explanations have been mostly "something about out-of-memory." I found the official write-up to be…

Semiconductors 34 stories

1. China urges US to halt proposed expansion of outbound investment curbs
   Nikkei Asia 23:28 UTC
2. Succession: Stephen Schwarzman (24)
   Nikkei Asia 22:27 UTC
3. Japan PM Takaichi to urge Germany for favorable EV treatment in EU
   Nikkei Asia 22:27 UTC
4. Tokio Marine first Japan nonlife insurer to cover AI-enabled robots
   Nikkei Asia 20:26 UTC
5. ADT R27A-BK3 U.2 to PCIe Adapter Review
   ServeTheHome 18:55 UTC

   We test the cheap ADT R27A-BK3 card to see what the U.2 SSD to PCIe card slot adapter offers, and how the cooling works The post ADT R27A-BK3 U.2 to PCIe Adapter Review appeared first on ServeTheHome .

6. More PHP-scale dangers lurk on the internet, CloudFlare CEO says
   Nikkei Asia 18:23 UTC

Energy & Green Tech 25 stories

1. Volkswagen’s new electric Jetta offers 285 miles of range for under $12K
   Electrek 22:32 UTC

   Volkswagen is offering its Chinese-market Jetta M6 electric sedan with nearly 290 miles of CLTC-rated range for less than $12,000 (USD), and if that’s not what “der people’s wagen” should be all about, I don’t know what is. more…

2. Canada And EU Are Slip Sliding Away On Vehicle Emissions
   CleanTechnica 22:00 UTC

   J. Wellington Wimpy, of Popeye comics fame, had a favorite expression. It went like this: “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a cheeseburger today.” As the Earth gets hotter and hotter, most countries have made commitments to reduce their…

3. If Tesla’s Robotaxi Miles Keep Compounding at 20% a Week, the Math Gets Interesting Fast
   CleanTechnica 19:47 UTC

   Tesla just passed Waymo in Austin in weekly driverless miles. If its recent 20% weekly growth holds, it passes Waymo nationally in roughly 11 weeks and is doing the volume of Uber + Lyft across three Texas metros by mid-February. The…

4. Volkswagen Unleashes Wicked ID. Unyx 09 in China for $27,000
   CleanTechnica 18:23 UTC

   Volkswagen, like pretty much all foreign brands, has really been struggling in China in recent years. The whole German auto industry is basically in crisis because their cash cow in China has shifted and now prefers buying cool new EVs…

5. Zayed Sustainability Prize Picks Finalists from 10,233 Submissions
   CleanTechnica 17:13 UTC

   The Zayed Sustainability Prize recently made its final cuts to determine the finalists for the 2027 edition. I used to cover the prize very closely and thoroughly, back when it was called the Zayed Future Energy Prize. I think the name was…

6. Energy Transition Plans Keep Freezing Today’s Demand Into Tomorrow
   CleanTechnica 16:53 UTC

   Before choosing the replacement technology, forecast the future market. Bad assumptions about demand can make weak solutions and oversized investment opportunities look compelling. The post Energy Transition Plans Keep Freezing Today’s…

Artificial Intelligence 22 stories

1. “Compliance first commitment to developing high-tech AI even when it comes to cloud sales”
   AI Times (Korea) 20:38 UTC Translated from Korean
2. OpenAI Research Institute Three Happiness, ‘Circulating Cruising’ Flux...Circuit Cruising
   AI Times (Korea) 19:53 UTC Translated from Korean
3. OpenAI reopens a model learning that stopped by AI security bypass...Powered Internet blocking
   AI Times (Korea) 19:13 UTC Translated from Korean
4. SK “AI Data Center 5GW 464 trillion is required”...
   AI Times (Korea) 18:37 UTC Translated from Korean
5. Launched ‘managed closure’ with the latest features of Google Cloud
   AI Times (Korea) 18:03 UTC Translated from Korean
6. Google Cloud Launches ‘Computing Engine’ for Agents...Insulating Security with MicroVM
   AI Times (Korea) 17:30 UTC Translated from Korean

Tech Market & VC 18 stories

1. Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine
   TechCrunch 20:46 UTC

   Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access.

2. Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
   TechCrunch 20:15 UTC

   The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."

3. The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
   TechCrunch 19:00 UTC

   From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

4. Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber
   TechCrunch 16:30 UTC

   Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.

5. Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
   TechCrunch 16:00 UTC

   Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

6. PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
   TechCrunch 15:30 UTC

   Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.

Geopolitics & Policy 14 stories

1. Obama blasts Trump’s ‘chaos and cruelty’ while campaigning for Democrats
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:50 UTC

   Former US president Barack Obama delivered a scathing critique of his successor, Donald Trump, at a rally in Ohio on Saturday to support Democratic candidates ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. “After two years of chaos and cruelty…

2. Trump, a critic of early voting, votes early in Florida
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:58 UTC

   US President Donald Trump cast his ballot for the midterm elections in Palm Beach on Saturday, opting to vote early in his adopted home state of Florida. At rallies ahead of Election Day on November 3, Trump has been urging Republicans to…

3. How to share AI wealth? Neither the US nor Asia has the answer
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:30 UTC

   On October 18, Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory preparing one of the largest listings in history, committed 5 per cent of its shares to a public benefit fund. The next day, Elon Musk promised one SpaceX share, next…

4. Ukraine’s Starlink speeds restored after week of frontline disruption
   South China Morning Post Tech 18:00 UTC

   Elon Musk said on Saturday that his company SpaceX had throttled the Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, disrupting operations that the country relies on to defend itself against Russia. Musk’s admission on social media came…

5. German man detained after fire wrecks Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ mountain retreat
   South China Morning Post Tech 16:35 UTC

   Firefighters battled on Saturday to put out flames that tore through Adolf Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” mountain retreat while police detained a suspect who investigators said may have psychiatric problems. The alarm was raised late on Friday…

6. Saudi strikes kill 11 in Yemen as Houthi missiles target Saudi cities
   South China Morning Post Tech 14:33 UTC

   Houthi media reported that Saudi strikes killed 11 people in Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday, shortly after the Saudi-led coalition fighting them said it had intercepted two missiles targeting Saudi cities. The Houthis’ Al-Masirah outlet…

Quantum Computing 13 stories

1. New Mexico Deploys JTIP Workforce Grants to Support Quantum Hardware Hiring at IonQ and Bandelier Technologies
   Quantum Computing Report 23:57 UTC

   New Mexico has allocated over $12 million in Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) funding for Q1 FY22, with a focus on quantum technology. IonQ Inc. and Bandelier Technologies received grants to support hiring in hardware engineering…

2. California Awards $5.7 Million in Workforce Grants to Establish Sub-Doctoral Quantum Hardware and Technician Pipelines
   Quantum Computing Report 22:29 UTC

   The California Workforce Development Board has granted $5.74 million in Workforce Accelerator Fund 14 grants to establish sub-doctoral quantum hardware and technician pipelines. These grants aim to address the talent bottleneck in the…

3. Who’s News: Strategic Appointments at EY, Zapata Quantum, IQM, Sparrow Quantum, and Symmatrics
   Quantum Computing Report 18:52 UTC

   EY appointed Dr. Philip Intallura as Partner, Global Quantum Leader. Zapata Quantum added Dr. Peter Shor and other experts to its Scientific Advisory Board. IQM Quantum Computers hired Dr. Voica Radescu as Director of Commercial…

4. BIRD Foundation Backs Qarakal Quantum and Quantum Elements for Quantum-Accelerated Catalysis Modeling
   Quantum Computing Report 18:24 UTC

   The BIRD Foundation has awarded a conditional grant to Qarakal Quantum and Quantum Elements for a joint quantum computational chemistry project. This initiative aims to develop a platform using quantum algorithms to accurately simulate…

5. NowSecure Benchmark Finds 97% of Mobile Applications Lack Post-Quantum Cryptography Ahead of Mandated Timelines
   Quantum Computing Report 18:02 UTC

   A recent study by NowSecure, evaluating over 136,000 mobile apps, reveals that 97% lack Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), leaving them vulnerable to future quantum attacks. This "mobile gap" is largely due to reliance on third-party SDKs…

6. Arqit Invests in Sirius to Scale Tactical Edge Quantum-Safe Networking Following NATO Contract Selection
   Quantum Computing Report 17:38 UTC

   Arqit, a quantum-safe encryption provider, has invested in Sirius Computer, a tactical communications developer, to enhance post-quantum security for defense and intelligence. This partnership follows Arqit's selection for a NATO contract…

Quant Finance 6 stories

1. Burnham at 100 days: sterling has held its nerve. The Budget is the real test.
   Finextra 19:49 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

2. Crypto longs lose $404 million in four hours as bitcoin briefly slips below $80,000
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 17:44 UTC

   Spot bitcoin ETFs lost $773 million on Thursday and Friday after three days of net inflows, per SoSoValue data.

3. With Just 2 Months Left for 2027, the Vibe Check: Fintech enters a brutal hard-monetisation era
   Finextra 17:31 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

4. Beyond Readiness: The Core Themes Defining Global Fintech Success in 2026
   Finextra 17:17 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

5. Argentine judge clears Milei and 10 others in LIBRA case, finding no ‘criminally relevant deception’
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 16:24 UTC

   The judge's 60-page ruling concluded Argentine President Javier Milei's post promoting the LIBRA token did not, by itself, establish fraud.

6. The New Geopolitics of Fintech: Mapping the Top 6 Global Powerhouses
   Finextra 09:06 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

Cybersecurity 6 stories

1. BlackX UEFI bootkit exploits Baton Drop flaw to bypass Secure Boot
   BleepingComputer 14:17 UTC

   A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with security solutions from Kaspersky and…

2. Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline
   The Hacker News 11:03 UTC

   LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27…

3. Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared With AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads
   The Hacker News 10:36 UTC

   Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google…

4. Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet
   The Hacker News 09:04 UTC

   Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the…

5. Brotli Decoder Flaw Behind Node.js RCE Also Affects Bun, Python and Other Widely Used Software
   The Hacker News 08:45 UTC

   A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, Microsoft's .NET, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli…

6. CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited Critical Flaws in Collabora Online and Arista VeloCloud
   The Hacker News 06:25 UTC

   The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two vulnerabilities impacting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)…

Cloud & Infrastructure 4 stories

1. AWS says its AI security agent fixes 89% of bugs — but there’s a catch
   The New Stack 14:30 UTC

   AWS made Continuum for code vulnerabilities generally available on Thursday. The service finds and validates bugs in your repositories, checks them against your AWS environment, and opens pull requests with proposed fixes. The 89%…

2. Building an agentic software factory? Start with the sensor.
   The New Stack 14:00 UTC

   A gap has long existed between the shipping velocity of the best engineering teams and the rest of the bell curve. For most of the industry’s history, it was a multiple measured in deploys per week. Agents are turning that multiple into an…

3. Why Kubernetes autoscalers keep fighting each other (and why the solution must be autonomous)
   The New Stack 13:00 UTC

   Ask an SRE a deceptively simple question: What is the right size for checkout-api , and how many replicas should it run right now? Their Helm values specify replicas: 3, cpu: 1000m , and memory: 2Gi . But the live cluster tells a different…

4. Before you expand your GPU pool, measure the outcome
   The New Stack 12:00 UTC

   For teams running AI workloads on Kubernetes, a fully allocated GPU pool and a growing batch-job queue might make expanding the pool seem like the obvious next step. But a growing queue could point to timing, serving capacity, or the…

Space & Aerospace 4 stories

1. A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
   Ars Technica Space 11:50 UTC

   Every morning during the Martian spring and summer, a thin and extremely long cloud emerges, only to disappear again. The wispy formation appears near the volcano Arsia Mons and gradually elongates until it reaches over 1,000 miles—about…

2. Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
   Ars Technica Space 11:00 UTC

   Barnes Ice Cap sits on the central plateau of Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic. It is the last surviving fragment of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, which at its peak buried most of Canada under…

3. APOD: 2026 October 24 – Rosetta’s Selfie
   NASA News 04:05 UTC

   APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 24 –… Today’s APOD <a hr

4. NASA Artemis Update: SLS Stacking, Sortie Suit, Dual 2028 Paths
   NASASpaceFlight 03:25 UTC

   NASA released its October Artemis Update on Friday, covering the near-term status of the Space Launch System (SLS), a lighter “sortie” version of the lunar spacesuit, and two parallel architectures for delivering astronauts to the lunar…

Biotech & Medtech 3 stories

1. STAT+: The ESMO presentation everyone’s been waiting for
   STAT News 17:00 UTC

   You’re reading our ESMO in 30 Seconds newsletter. Sign up here to get updates from the major European cancer conference in your inbox. Hello again from Madrid, where we can tell you it’s Day 2 of the European Society for Medical Oncology’s…

2. Opinion: Christina Applegate puts a face on one of the most consequential challenges in neurology
   STAT News 11:00 UTC

   Five years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, actor Christina Applegate revealed this week that she had been misdiagnosed. Her experience puts a public face on one of the most consequential challenges in neurology: how to…

3. Opinion: STAT readers on Elizabeth Holmes, cancer screening, and more
   STAT News 11:00 UTC

   First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith…

Robotics & Automation 2 stories

1. Eka Robotics raises $150M to scale its vision-force-action model for robots
   The Robot Report 12:34 UTC

   Eka says its model can generalize across objects, tasks, and environments. | Source: Eka Robotics Eka Robotics this week said it has raised $150 million in Series A funding. The startup said the new funding will help it scale its…

2. Eka Robotics raises $150M to scale its vision-force-action model for robots
   Robotics Business Review 12:34 UTC

   Eka says its model can generalize across objects, tasks, and environments. | Source: Eka Robotics Eka Robotics this week said it has raised $150 million in Series A funding. The startup said the new funding will help it scale its…