The news of Thursday 29 October 2026

Hardware 190 stories

1. IT Morning 1030: China calls the pharmaceutical legion "no drugs" AI Enabling Pharmaceuticals; the national game "The Shadows Zero" is first on the Steam Global Bestslist; the Google plate goes over 13 percent, the biggest single-day drop in history...
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:57 UTC Translated from Chinese

   Hello, everyone. It's Friday, October 30, 2026. As Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Corps, Zhu Jie Zhui Zhui Zhui, wants to become the technical base of the pharmaceutical industry For Wigand, who is of concern to the outside world, whether…

2. The director of Obsession put a new horror short on YouTube
   The Verge Hardware 23:57 UTC

   Curry Barker, the director behind the hit horror film Obsession , just published a new horror short on YouTube. The short, titled "Mama Bear," is nearly five minutes long. The video is pretty unnerving, and fair warning that it gets a…

3. Amazon’s $42.4 Billion Cash Burn Delivers Final Blow In a Rough Week For AI
   Gizmodo 23:51 UTC

   Only one of the four AI hyperscalers reported positive free cash flow in this round of earnings.

4. CFO: The better we sell the tram, the more profitable we are.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:48 UTC Translated from Chinese

   On October 30th, information from IT House, the popular group CFO and COO Ano Andretz, in his performance statement for the first three quarters, said, "The better we sell electric cars, the more profitable we are, because, at this stage…

5. Goodbye to Naked Run and registration of core trademarks such as ZXMOTO
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:45 UTC Translated from Chinese

   News from IT House, October 30, October 29, Chongqing's Intellectual Property Authority officially revealed that recently, core trademarks such as "ZXMOTO" of a snow locomotive were officially registered. IT House noted that Zhang Xue…

6. Intel 2026Q3 received $16.5 billion more than expected: data centre operations surged nearly 80% to their highest growth in 15 years.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:45 UTC Translated from Chinese

   IT House News, October 30, Pacific Time, October 29th, at 2 p.m. (5 a.m. Beijing time, October 30th), held the third financial season of the 2026 fiscal year (28 June 2026 to 26 September 2026) at the Press Telephone Conference, where the…

Semiconductors 80 stories

1. BYD eyes ultra-luxury sedan priced above CNY2 million
   DigiTimes Daily 23:58 UTC

   BYD's premium Yangwang brand has named its ultra-luxury flagship sedan "Altior," with the model expected to sell for more than CNY2 million (US$300,027.8). Developed over approximately three years, the sedan is set to debut in the United…

2. Silicon Motion posts fourth straight revenue record, eyes 100% 2026 growth
   DigiTimes Daily 23:58 UTC

   Silicon Motion Technology reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of about US$560 million, marking a record high for the fourth consecutive quarter. Revenue rose 24% quarter-over-quarter and surged 131% year-over-year, putting the company on…

3. China AI stock bubble bursts as STAR 50 plunges 40%, erasing billions in market value
   DigiTimes Daily 23:57 UTC

   Chinese AI, robotics, and semiconductor stocks have suffered a steep sell-off in less than four months, casting a shadow over Beijing's push to achieve global technology leadership. According to Reuters , the Shanghai STAR 50 Index has…

4. Taiflex, E Ink accelerate PTFE development for AI connectivity materials
   DigiTimes Daily 23:57 UTC

   Flexible copper-clad laminate (FCCL) maker Taiflex Scientific announced on October 28 that its board had approved a memorandum of understanding with global e-paper leader E Ink Holdings (EIH) to jointly develop AI high-speed connectivity…

5. Elite Material posts record 3Q26 revenue on AI demand
   DigiTimes Daily 23:57 UTC

   Elite Material Co. (EMC), a copper-clad laminate (CCL) maker, reported record third-quarter 2026 revenue of NT$60.88 billion (US$1.875 billion), driven by strong demand for high-end materials used in AI products and fully loaded production…

6. Analysis: Can Kazakhstan really be Europe's AI factory?
   DigiTimes Daily 23:56 UTC

   Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Kazakhstan highlights a widening contest over AI computing capacity, as Europe seeks alternatives to infrastructure concentrated in the US and Asia. Kazakhstan, with 21 million people, is developing data…

Tech Market & VC 79 stories

1. Crypto trading software startup Copy Geek pockets $2 million pre-seed
   StartupDaily (AU) 23:55 UTC

   Copy Geek grabs $2M to make copy-trading less fake, syncing every fill across major crypto exchanges.

2. Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’
   TechCrunch 23:44 UTC

   The success of blockbuster hits like "Project Hail Mary" and "Verity" is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says.

3. AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.
   TechCrunch 23:42 UTC

   Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.

4. A critical flaw affecting 70% of all websites has the cybersecurity world panicked
   StartupDaily (AU) 23:31 UTC

   A PHP flaw puts 70% of the web in the blast zone; patch now, audit your stack, and keep sensitive data off shaky sites.

5. Inside Nigeria’s $7.5M Gates-backed AI scaling hub 
   TechCabal (Africa) 22:51 UTC

   At Moonshot by TechCabal 2026, the Nigeria AI Scaling Hub (NAISH) showcased five organisations developing artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare, agriculture, and local languages, underscoring how shared digital infrastructure…

6. The Halloween market map
   CB Insights 22:30 UTC

   We have 39 companies for you this Halloween, and a few are going to need some explaining. There’s lab-grown blood, body preservation, and computers made with living neurons. We also included candy companies, because we respect the holiday…

Software Engineering 46 stories

1. XSS in yarr RSS reader
   lobste.rs 23:55 UTC

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2. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer
   Hacker News Front Page 23:25 UTC

   Instead of trying to run DOOM on things, I have instead decided to use DOOM (many, many, many doom games actually) to create a transformer. For a lot of the math required I essentially had to use DOOM game mechanics and voodoo dolls (DOOM…

3. A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)
   Hacker News Front Page 22:26 UTC

   Article URL: https://journal.animationstudies.org/article/id/66/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297089 Points: 131 # Comments: 32

4. Building an AI-native engineering org
   Hacker News Front Page 21:58 UTC

   Article URL: https://twitter.com/sgondala2/status/2115832070274723875 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296730 Points: 141 # Comments: 176

5. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
   Hacker News Front Page 21:40 UTC

   Article URL: https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296486 Points: 369 # Comments: 149

6. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
   Hacker News Front Page 21:38 UTC

   Article URL: https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296470 Points: 1672 # Comments: 1132

Cybersecurity 37 stories

1. OpenAI doubles ChatGPT Pro usage limits after backlash over planned 50% cut
   BleepingComputer 23:35 UTC

   OpenAI says it won't reduce usage limits for the $100, $200, and $500 ChatGPT Pro plans, as well as Business Premium, and it also promised to keep Dots usage independent. [...]

2. Binance probes potential $5.8 billion crypto-theft hack
   BleepingComputer 22:45 UTC

   Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurrency hack in history. [...]

3. Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining
   BleepingComputer 22:09 UTC

   A crypto-mining campaign abusing Hugging Face models returned days after takedown, hijacking GPU servers and planting backdoors, with one model downloaded over 28,000 times. Separately, a fake Solana starter kit on GitHub is positioned to…

4. Japan Airlines suffers third-party data breach exposing passenger info
   BleepingComputer 22:08 UTC

   Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that a data breach at Amadeus's Passenger Service System exposed the data of about 92,000 customers. [...]

5. Polymarket halts trading after crypto-draining script breach, $2.5M traced
   BleepingComputer 21:47 UTC

   Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-draining JavaScript, with approximately $2.5 million in assets traced to a…

6. Leaked DHS employee archive, Icepick, faces challenges to stay online
   CyberScoop 20:58 UTC

   A company working on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security sought to cut off online access to information on more than 41,000 employees that hacktivists said they obtained from a database breached at DHS. A search tool for the…

Quant Finance 32 stories

1. Binance investigating hack as suspicious outflows reach up to $5.8 billion
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 21:49 UTC

   Tether and Circle froze $1.79 billion in USDT and USDC after billions moved out of Binance hot wallets. Binance says it is investigating.

2. Strategy reports $19.5 billion in Q3 net income as preferred shareholders approve daily dividends
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 20:58 UTC

   Strategy reported $19.53B in Q3 net income on a $20.91B bitcoin gain, holds 848,517 BTC, and moves preferreds to daily dividends.

3. Polymarket pauses trading after $2.65 million exploit, says third-party provider was compromised
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 19:00 UTC

   After over $2.5 million was lost within minutes on Polymarket, the platform said it has since placed its exchange in cancel-only mode.

4. Visa and Tencent ink agentic commerce and cross-border payments MoU
   Finextra 18:57 UTC

   Weeks after securing the regulatory green light to step up its operations in China, Visa has inked a deal with the country's tech behemoth Tencent spanning cross-border payments and AI-powered commerce.

5. When an AI Agent Moves Money, Who Pays for the Mistake?
   Finextra 18:31 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

6. BofE consults on tokenised collateral in central clearing
   Finextra 17:23 UTC

   The Bank of England has launched a consultation supporting central counterparties (CCPs) acceptance of tokenised forms of eligible collateral.

Energy & Green Tech 29 stories

1. Volkswagen Q3 Loss Largest Since Dieselgate
   CleanTechnica 23:44 UTC

   The Volkswagen Group on Thursday posted its worst quarterly numbers in more than a decade. According to German news source DW, the company reported an operating loss of €5.86 billion for the period July 1 through September 30, 2027. A…

2. Ford Wants Utilities To Help Make Bidirectional EV Charging Cheaper For Everyone
   CleanTechnica 21:32 UTC

   The new Ford Fathom electric pickup truck is still under camouflage, but Ford wants everyone to know about its built-in inverter for bidirectional EV charging. The post Ford Wants Utilities To Help Make Bidirectional EV Charging Cheaper…

3. BYD spotted testing a new minivan [Video]
   Electrek 21:27 UTC

   BYD’s upcoming multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) was spotted on a car carrier and at one of its Flash Charging stations ahead of its expected debut later this year. more…

4. Rivian’s electric van gets 30% more range and AWD, now delivering
   Electrek 20:04 UTC

   Rivian has started delivering the first major hardware upgrade to its electric van since production began in 2021: a bigger LFP battery pack good for 30% more range, and a new dual-motor AWD version. The company confirmed in its Q3 2026…

5. Toyota’s EV sales more than doubled in a year, but gas cars are getting crushed in China
   Electrek 20:02 UTC

   Toyota’s EV sales have jumped 127% through September, but that isn’t telling the whole story. Slumping demand for gas and hybrid cars in China has pushed global sales lower for three months in a row. more…

6. Rivian (RIVN) Q3 2026 earnings: revenue up 38%, R2 now its best-seller
   Electrek 20:02 UTC

   Rivian (RIVN) just released its Q3 2026 earnings, with revenue up 38% year-over-year to $2.155 billion. The R2, in its first full quarter of deliveries, is already the company’s best-selling vehicle, ahead of both the R1 and the Amazon…

Geopolitics & Policy 26 stories

1. Netanyahu’s party claims election ‘stolen’ as results show him losing majority
   South China Morning Post Tech 23:32 UTC

   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp finished ahead of the opposition but remained well short of a majority, final results from Israel’s general election showed on Friday, setting the stage for tough coalition talks or potentially…

2. ASEAN Special Envoy Concludes Humanitarian Mission to Myanmar
   The Diplomat Tech 23:17 UTC

   During the two-day visit, Philippine Foreign Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro oversaw the distribution of humanitarian aid and met with Naypyidaw's foreign minister.

3. Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro mocked at home after self-exile to US
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:42 UTC

   In a viral wave of mockery, Brazilian pop star Anitta declared herself free of cellulite, one influencer declared himself the “true president” of Twitter, and another social media user proclaimed himself the winner of the next lottery. The…

4. Can Canada, UK and Australia grasp chance offered by US-China rivalry?
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:30 UTC

   As middle powers, Australia, Britain and Canada can do more than most other nations to influence global peace in the face of a new great power rivalry between China and the United States. These three nations owe their citizens, and perhaps…

5. Patrick Stewart, of Star Trek and X-Men fame, dies at 86
   South China Morning Post Tech 20:17 UTC

   Patrick Stewart, who rose from poverty in England to become an accomplished Shakespearean stage actor and then achieved global stardom as the erudite Captain Jean-Luc Picard in ⁠television’s Star Trek: The Next Generation and the…

6. EU considering Canada as ‘associate member’ despite internal opposition
   South China Morning Post Tech 19:43 UTC

   European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday the EU and Canada continue to explore Canada becoming the union’s first “associate member”, a term so divisive among member countries that it does not appear in a joint…

Artificial Intelligence 18 stories

1. Antropic Introduces ‘Call’ Self-Conversation Monitoring Technology...Used 78% Detection
   AI Times (Korea) 23:25 UTC Translated from Korean

   Andropic has developed a technology that assesses the risk of user and eye conversations and applied to real services. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will…

2. OpenAI, AI Agent Era, Acting Principles Reorganization..."Intent Understanding Core"
   AI Times (Korea) 22:05 UTC Translated from Korean

   OpenAI has been suggested based on the core ability to deploy AI model’s behavior principles and understand human intentions. AI develops complex tasks to perform autonomously, and it is difficult to control all the situations by the…

3. Concentration of 'GPT-6 Astra' with Deep Secret AI and Anti-Focus Defense
   AI Times (Korea) 22:05 UTC Translated from Korean

   China AI companies have been known to be the 'GPT-6 Astra' of openAI in the 'Callload' of Antropic, which is focused on analyzing state-of-the-art model performance. Deepshik and Moonshot AI developed a recently released AI model, which…

4. [October 29] A person who recalls himself to AI 'special point' prophecies...'other than me' is the same person
   AI Times (Korea) 22:05 UTC Translated from Korean

   The world’s future leaders Ray Kirswath (78), who prophesied the future by human and AI. This AI recreates face and voice, as well as knowledge and thinking methods, and communicates with people. We’ve been designed to learn new…

5. Mistral Launches ‘Rage 4’ Badge Release... European Cyber Security Market
   AI Times (Korea) 22:05 UTC Translated from Korean

   Mistral AI has released a formal release of ‘Mistral Large 4)’, the first preview of the month. The API can only be used in existing, but now the company and developers have been able to run and add models from their own system. In…

6. Andropic, SpaceX sales 34.5% accounting...Maximum customers beyond the government
   AI Times (Korea) 22:05 UTC Translated from Korean

   Andropic has won the U.S. government and ranked as the largest customer in SpaceX. In the third quarter of this year, space X 34.5% of total sales was reported that it occurred to provide AI computing resources to Andropic. Bloomberg cited…

Biotech & Medtech 17 stories

1. What’s Driving the Rise of Consumer Diagnostics?
   MedCity News 22:06 UTC

   At MedCity INVEST Digital Health, experts from Jona, Labcorp and Evvy discussed the drivers of consumer diagnostics. The post What’s Driving the Rise of Consumer Diagnostics? appeared first on MedCity News .

2. Labor Department finalizes sweeping PBM disclosure rule
   BioPharma Dive 20:30 UTC

   Starting in 2027, the controversial drug middlemen will have to share a broad swath of fee and compensation data with self-funded employer clients. Employers cheered the rule, while PBMs slammed it as government overreach.

3. BioMarin Expands Again in Enzyme Replacement, Paying $70M for Long-Acting Fabry Drug
   MedCity News 19:39 UTC

   BioMarin gains rights to a Fabry disease enzyme replacement therapy with potential dosing advantages over products from Sanofi and Chiesi Group. BioMarin’s new clinical-stage asset could reach patients ineligible for the Fabry drug that…

4. STAT+: Federal judge rejects new Medicaid ‘frailty’ definition for work requirements
   STAT News 18:57 UTC

   A federal judge on Thursday rejected the federal government’s new definition of “medical frailty” and ruled that states did not have adequate time or resources to overhaul their eligibility systems, injecting new uncertainty into the…

5. STAT+: New federal rule will require prescription drug middlemen to share secret payments data
   STAT News 16:44 UTC

   The middlemen that oversee prescription drug spending for employers and workers will soon have to tell their clients all the different ways they get paid, a significant move that will unlock reams of highly protected data. The Trump…

6. STAT+: The EPIC investigation, and a Teladoc surprise
   STAT News 16:15 UTC

   Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Good morning health tech readers! Big…

Space & Aerospace 15 stories

1. Slice of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001
   NASA News 23:32 UTC

   1 Min Read Slice of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001 <div data-sanitized-class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0 color-carbon-30"

2. Halloween Aboard the International Space Station 
   NASA News 21:44 UTC

   Although no ghouls, goblins, or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire…

3. Blue Origin attempts end of year return and eyes Artemis IV selection
   NASASpaceFlight 21:02 UTC

   With Blue Origin moving towards a potential return to flight by late 2026, NASA has formally integrated a Blue Moon Mark 2 (Mk2) test article into its revised Artemis III low-Earth orbit (LEO) flight profile. Under the updated plan, the…

4. NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found
   NASA News 18:18 UTC

   5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Called Teghaza 001, this rose-colored rock is one of the most ancient Martian meteorites ever found on Earth. Credit: © Darryl Pitt / Maine Mineral & Gem…

5. Turning a solar power system into its own backup
   Ars Technica Space 18:02 UTC

   Rather than directly converting photons into electricity, concentrated solar energy uses mirrors to turn sunlight into heat, which can then be used to drive traditional generating turbines. Up to about a decade ago, there was a case to be…

6. NASA Names Troy Asher Armstrong Flight Research Center Director
   NASA News 18:00 UTC

   Photo of Troy Asher NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Troy Asher director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Asher, a veteran test pilot and aerospace engineer with decades of experience in…

Cloud & Infrastructure 15 stories

1. Sam Altman almost scrapped token pricing. Here’s why he backed off.
   The New Stack 22:19 UTC

   OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model , letting developers submit a prompt and receive a price for the work, before negative customer feedback convinced the company to back away from the idea, CEO Sam Altman…

2. AWS’s Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents’ mistakes
   The New Stack 21:53 UTC

   Earlier this month, the team behind Hydro developed a new way to check that a distributed system still works correctly when it resends messages after a failure. This produced what Shadaj Laddad described to me as “like a 5000 line PR.”…

3. Microsoft’s new Copilot harness makes agents easy — until you want to switch
   The New Stack 20:54 UTC

   Microsoft is opening up the GitHub Copilot agent harness to outside developers through Microsoft Foundry, bringing the same orchestration infrastructure used across its Copilot products into a managed service for building and deploying…

4. Azure Cloud HSM Hardware Audit Logging: Verifiable audit trails for security and compliance
   Azure Blog 16:00 UTC

   Organizations running regulated and security-sensitive workloads need trusted evidence of which authenticated users performed management operations on their hardware security modules (HSMs), what actions they took, and when. Today, we are…

5. Querying Databricks Apache Iceberg Tables with the borderless Lakehouse
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   Enterprise organizations often leverage multiple data platforms, including Databricks, to execute heavy Apache Spark jobs alongside BigQuery to power highly concurrent analytics workloads. Historically, bridging these systems often meant…

6. Cloud CISO Perspectives: Introducing new $250,000 tier for Google Cloud VRP (Q＆A)
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Chris Betz talks with Michael Cote, our vulnerability rewards program lead, about the new tier of our Cloud VRP program and the current state of vulnerability rewards…

DevOps & SRE 5 stories

1. Introducing the Context Quality Score (CQS): a new framework for measuring and optimizing AI context
   Atlassian Blog 15:55 UTC

   After 25+ years partnering with customers to unlock teamwork, we’ve seen firsthand the hardest challenge isn’t executing the task, but connecting the right context to the flow of work. And as AI takes on more work, the advantage isn’t a…

2. Grafana 13.3 release: manage variables across dashboards, share findings with Notebooks, a UI refresh, and more
   Grafana Blog 15:01 UTC

   Grafana 13.3 is here, bringing more consistency and control to how you work across Grafana. Cross-dashboard variables help you manage shared dashboard controls from one place, while Notebooks let you capture and share findings from across…

3. Bliki: LLM Voice
   Martin Fowler 14:28 UTC

   Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my…

4. Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
   Martin Fowler 13:50 UTC

   TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These…

5. Coding Agent Horror Stories: The CVE That Did Not Exist
   Docker Blog 13:00 UTC

   This is Part 6 of our AI Coding Agent Horror Stories series , where we look at real security incidents involving AI coding agents and at how Docker Sandboxes contain agent execution at the boundary rather than at the command line. Every…

Telecom & 5G 4 stories

1. Direct-to-device leaves the lab as Orange, Skylo and Kyivstar sell continuity
   RCR Wireless News 18:53 UTC

   Two direct-to-device services, one from GEO, one from LEO In sum – what to know: For all the discussion of 6G architectures and WRC-27 agenda items, direct-to-device (D2D) is already a…

2. T-Mobile beats forecasts, sets-out mid-term AI build-out and pay-out
   RCR Wireless News 15:03 UTC

   T-Mobile has raised its full-year guidance, but its earnings call pointed to bigger bets ahead: more spectrum spending, edge compute economics, and AI-driven network efficiency – as it, again, rejects…

3. Telia expands 5G SA push as Norway RAN deal reshapes network
   RCR Wireless News 14:32 UTC

   Speaking during Telia Company’s third-quarter earnings call, the company’s chief executive officer and president Patrik Hofbauer said the operator was expanding commercial 5G standalone capabilities for connectivity, security and new…

4. Building the 6G standard: Narrowing the path to Release 21
   RCR Wireless News 11:27 UTC

   New 6G reference-device types, higher uplink modulation for fixed wireless access and open questions on migration as Release 21 takes shape What you should know: As discussed in our previous…