The news of Saturday 31 October 2026

Artificial Intelligence 278 stories

1. Samsung Asset Managementcompliance review No.2018-189 (2018.05.21)
   AI Times (Korea) 20:25 UTC Translated from Korean

   Sam Altman OpenAI CEO discussed the management strategy of the AI era, meeting 50 people in Samsung Group’s major officials. He simply emphasized how fast to move and better products using AI is difficult to secure competitiveness. Samsung…

2. How to Build Bug-Free Applications with Claude Code
   Towards Data Science 16:00 UTC

   Use E2E tests to minimize bugs The post How to Build Bug-Free Applications with Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science .

3. We Taught AI to Answer Questions. Who Taught It to Change Its Mind?
   Towards Data Science 14:00 UTC

   When new evidence kills one conclusion, do the decisions built on it change too? I tested six update strategies, then a local model. The post We Taught AI to Answer Questions. Who Taught It to Change Its Mind? appeared first on Towards…

4. I Told an AI Agent That Its Wrong Answers Were Right. One Model Believed Me.
   Towards Data Science 12:00 UTC

   A research paper claims reward labels barely change how agents learn. I tested that on three models, and one of them did exactly what the wrong labels told it to. The post I Told an AI Agent That Its Wrong Answers Were Right. One Model…

5. "Odyssey" opens the AI version of Musk and Glan.
   AI Times (Korea) 11:35 UTC Translated from Korean

   The first video of the AI film, declared that the CEO of Sunon Musk said to make the film 'Odysey' by Christopher Fran Director. A 7-minute work using AI 'Grok Imagine' in its own video production, the small-scale producer implemented a…

6. Google, the first AI abstract success in the space data center satellite...
   AI Times (Korea) 10:25 UTC Translated from Korean

   Google has succeeded to transfer datacenter-grade AI semiconductor TPU from the satellite launched on Earth orbit, and the results of the AI model to the ground. As the first case of the actual AI work with the data center grade TPU in the…

Hardware 188 stories

1. OpenAI: Starting in December, ChatGPT will share with Codex
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:58 UTC Translated from Chinese

   IT House News, November 1, OpenAI announced that, starting in December, users of the Plas, Pro and Business subscriptions will share the same amount of use between ChatGPT and Cordex, as the smart body capabilities of Work are introduced…

2. BLG 2:0 HLE: Heroes Alliance S16 Global Finals 8 Strongborn, 3 promotions in LPL
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:53 UTC Translated from Chinese

   IT House News, November 1st, in today's Heroes League 2026 World Finals Swiss Round 8th, the 2nd seed BLG from the LPL area of mainland China won the 2nd seed HLE team from the LCK area of Korea with a ratio of 2:0 to be the eight most…

3. CEO Wang Shi: A mature process is expected to increase by about 10% next year
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:46 UTC Translated from Chinese

   According to information from IT House on 1 November, at the third quarter of UMC ' s corporate statement meeting on 28 October, Chief Executive Officer Wang Shih indicated to investors that the combined average sales price (ASP) for the…

4. How big and powerful is SpaceX's Starship rocket?
   Engadget 23:45 UTC

   SpaceX's Starship has a big role to play in NASA's plans to land astronauts on the Moon. Here's how big this rocket is and how its two stages work together.

5. AI needs surge: Intel fire speeds the transformation of CPU manufacturing plants from desktop processor to data centre processing Device
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:44 UTC Translated from Chinese

   According to information from IT House on 1 November, Tom's Hardware yesterday reported that, although the consumer-grade PC market was shrinking, Intel was confident that demand from the AI industry would offset the decline in the client…

6. IT Morning 1101: Apple Smart Introduction page for Apple Chinese Official Online; new rice SU7 Ultra undiscovered; our first man-to-moon multiplication programme is composed of three people...
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:40 UTC Translated from Chinese

   This is Sunday, 1 November 2026. Apple Service Online Apple Smart Introduction page: The first core features were launched later this year, asking for integration Apple China District Officer's Network has launched the Apple Smart…

Software Engineering 37 stories

1. Altoids Project
   Hacker News Front Page 22:54 UTC

   Article URL: https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321048 Points: 149 # Comments: 7

2. Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
   Hacker News Front Page 22:46 UTC

   Article URL: https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320995 Points: 415 # Comments: 202

3. An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
   Hacker News Front Page 22:41 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963 Points: 805 #…

4. Effective Type: Part 1
   lobste.rs 21:59 UTC

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5. ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging
   Hacker News Front Page 21:49 UTC

   Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320588 Points: 164 # Comments: 101

6. Novellas with groff
   lobste.rs 20:31 UTC

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Semiconductors 24 stories

1. FBI Says North Korea Behind $6.3 Billion Binance Hack
   The Information 23:17 UTC

   The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Saturday that North Korea was responsible for the $6.3 billion theft from crypto exchange Binance, the largest crypto hack in history. The FBI said the agency, working with the U.S. Secret Service…

2. Time for Japan to develop people who can sell content
   Nikkei Asia 20:16 UTC
3. Yen bond offerings hit record $16bn as AI funding race reaches Japan
   Nikkei Asia 20:16 UTC
4. Grab the award-winning Bambu Lab P1S 3D printer with AMS for $70 off
   Tom's Hardware 19:19 UTC

   If you have been considering getting into 3D printing, now might just be a good time to take the plunge. The Editor's Choice Award-winning Bambu Lab P1S, bundled with the AMS color printing module, is currently on sale and is available at…

5. French lawmakers approve $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage, costs $0.65 per gigabyte of content accessed
   Tom's Hardware 16:11 UTC

   Edit 11/1/2026 4:25am PT: Clarified title to state the bill still has to pass the Senate after being added to the budget. France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in…

6. Meta Built Humanoid Prototype With Chinese Startup To Ramp Up Robotics Push
   The Information 16:00 UTC

   Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version, as the social media giant steps up efforts to develop robots for people’s homes, according to people familiar…

Tech Market & VC 24 stories

1. Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
   TechCrunch 21:41 UTC

   Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.

2. 4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale
   TechCrunch 21:36 UTC

   On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the trajectory of your idea and startup. Register before all…

3. Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
   TechCrunch 21:17 UTC

   An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.

4. Verve plans phone tap-to-pay and AI agent payments, CEO says
   TechCabal (Africa) 17:13 UTC

   Verve, Nigeria’s largest card scheme, plans to let customers pay by tapping their phones and, eventually, to let AI assistants make payments on their behalf, its chief executive, Vincent Ogbunude, said on Thursday. Speaking on the Big Tech…

5. Intra-African payment rails are key to cutting cross-border friction, says Grey
   TechCabal (Africa) 17:12 UTC

   Grey is building its own payment connections between African markets to make cross-border transfers more reliable and to secure the foreign currency needed to settle them, Idorenyin Obong, its co-founder and chief executive, said at a…

6. OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
   TechCrunch 16:12 UTC

   OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.

Geopolitics & Policy 14 stories

1. FBI blames North Korea for stolen billions from Binance in biggest hack in history
   South China Morning Post Tech 23:49 UTC

   The theft of billions of dollars from Binance within a matter of minutes, the biggest cryptocurrency heist in history, was orchestrated by North Korean hackers, the FBI said on Saturday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a…

2. Judge throws out Trump lawsuit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday letter
   South China Morning Post Tech 20:24 UTC

   Saying the US president was “grasping at straws”, a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump’s US$10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to wealthy…

3. G20 foreign ministers end Atlanta meeting without consensus on key issues
   South China Morning Post Tech 19:32 UTC

   As Washington seeks to loosen China’s dominance over critical minerals, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged other members of the Group of 20 (G20) to strengthen supply chains and secure strategic trade routes as the group’s foreign…

4. Clashes break out at France’s Halloween protests, as hundreds of thousands take to streets
   South China Morning Post Tech 18:23 UTC

   Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters in Paris and elsewhere on Saturday as hundreds of thousands marched across France against soaring living costs and police violence, with some demonstrators dressed as clowns and witches for…

5. German police fire water cannon during tense ‘Gen Z’ protests
   South China Morning Post Tech 17:35 UTC

   German police fired water cannon to disperse firework-hurling protesters on Saturday and were also pelted with other projectiles, as tensions rose at the end of massive youth-led protests. In Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and dozens of other…

6. Quad diplomats finalise first leaders’ summit in two years before Trump-Xi meeting
   South China Morning Post Tech 16:17 UTC

   US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or the Quad, was not an “anti-China” coalition, as the grouping’s top diplomats finalised preparations for the leaders’ summit in the Philippines…

Cybersecurity 12 stories

1. Northflank security breach leads to abuse of customers' AI API keys
   BleepingComputer 18:01 UTC

   Cloud application hosting platform Northflank is warning customers to rotate all credentials and secrets stored on its platform after a security breach led to unauthorized use of customers' AI API keys. [...]

2. New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones
   BleepingComputer 15:35 UTC

   A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets attackers remotely disrupt cellular service or crash phones by…

3. Reddit to lock content behind logins to fight scrapers
   BleepingComputer 14:05 UTC

   Reddit announced in a post by co-founder Steve Huffman that the site will gradually become a "logged-in service," offering limited access to visitors without accounts. [...]

4. From Beginner to Bug Hunter: Learning Cybersecurity in the AI Era.
   BleepingComputer 13:10 UTC

   AI-generated vulnerability reports are overwhelming some bug bounty programs, making it harder for aspiring security researchers to know where to start. TryHackMe explains how beginners can build practical cybersecurity skills, use AI…

5. Chainalysis discloses data breach from "offensive agentic techniques"
   BleepingComputer 12:50 UTC

   Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis disclosed a data breach after attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to access internal systems and tools, exposing customer names, email addresses, user IDs, and organizational roles. [...]

6. Chainalysis Confirms Intrusion Into Internal Tools and Exposure of Customer Identity Data
   The Hacker News 12:01 UTC

   American blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said it was the target of a cybersecurity incident in which an external actor accessed non-sensitive customer data. However, the company noted that the breach did not result in unauthorized…

Cloud & Infrastructure 6 stories

1. The context problem: How Docusign built agents that understand the business behind contracts
   The New Stack 16:13 UTC

   Ask a general-purpose language model to summarize a contract, and it will probably do a reasonable job. Ask it to calculate what a company owes a supplier, accounting for three amendments, a revised pricing schedule, and an internal…

2. Five years after the fork, OpenSearch is slowly stepping out of AWS’s shadow
   The New Stack 16:02 UTC

   OpenSearch has come a long way since Amazon Web Services first announced the project back in January 2021, in response to Elastic’s decision to move Elasticsearch and its accompanying visualization tool, Kibana , away from Apache 2.0 and…

3. Developers ask AI which tool to use. Here’s how we track the answer.
   The New Stack 15:00 UTC

   We asked Claude “Which CMS platforms support MCP integration ?” It searched the web and put Webflow in its first group, Headless and SaaS CMS platforms with hosted MCP servers, sixth in the list, with this line: “A hosted server for…

4. Amazon CEO predicts 6 to 8 AI models will be ‘good enough’ for almost everything
   The New Stack 14:30 UTC

   Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects the frontier AI model race to produce several competitive models rather than a single winner, telling analysts on Amazon’s Q3 2026 earnings call Thursday that the challenge ahead will be choosing among models…

5. GPT-6.1 Terra vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper and faster in three tests at max effort
   The New Stack 14:00 UTC

   OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, and included two direct comparisons with Opus 5.5 in its marketing materials. It claimed Terra came within five percentage points of Opus 5.5, with fallbacks at less than one-fifth the estimated…

6. Shielding the patch gap: The exploit doesn’t wait for Patch Tuesday
   The New Stack 14:00 UTC

   Four years after Log4Shell became one of the most consequential vulnerabilities in software history, vulnerable instances of the library are still turning up in production environments. That persistence isn’t really a failure of tooling…

Energy & Green Tech 5 stories

1. Record Demand Catches (Some) OEMs with Their Pants Down — Europe September 2026
   CleanTechnica 18:43 UTC

   Record Month — BEVs Reach 31% Market Share! BEVs remain in high demand in Europe, with pure electrics reaching a record 31% share last month thanks to a record 422,000 fully electric passenger cars being registered in Europe, which is not…

2. Elon Musk’s Attack Ads Are Backfiring As Midterms Near
   CleanTechnica 17:54 UTC

   US Federal Election Commission data revealed this week that Elon Musk has donated at least $445 million into Republican-aligned political action committees and groups since last year. Interestingly, it seems that Musk’s deep influence…

3. Antwerp’s Electric Cranes Can Handle More Than Today’s Cargo
   CleanTechnica 17:02 UTC

   Katoen Natie has put two all-electric mobile harbour cranes into service at the Port of Antwerp, with four more joining them across three deep-sea multipurpose terminals. The completed fleet will include four 200-tonne cranes and two…

4. Can Silicon Valley Build A Safe Class 8 Truck? Early EV Semi Fires Expose The Experience Gap
   CleanTechnica 12:55 UTC

   If you drove through the East Bay area of California on Tuesday night, you probably got caught in a nightmare. A Tesla Semi traveling down Interstate 880 in Hayward caught fire during the evening commute. There was no crash, no…

5. Indian PV at a turning point
   PV Magazine 05:00 UTC

   India’s module manufacturing capacity has expanded at remarkable speed, while domestic content requirements are pushing investment into the more complex cell manufacturing sector. Suppliers are also eyeing moves into wafer and ingot…

Quantum Computing 5 stories

1. University of Stuttgart Deploys Quantum Dot QKD Link Using Frequency Conversion Over Campus Fiber
   Quantum Computing Report 15:04 UTC

   The University of Stuttgart, in collaboration with Saarland University and Leibniz IFW Dresden, successfully deployed an entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD) link using a quantum dot photon source. The system generated 14.2…

2. Chalmers University Demonstrates Hardware-Level Microwave Crosstalk Suppression via Parasitic Capacitance Engineering
   Quantum Computing Report 14:58 UTC

   Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new method to eliminate microwave crosstalk in superconducting processors. Their research shows that by engineering on-chip parasitic capacitances, they can achieve…

3. Los Alamos and QC Ware Model Correlated Iron Oxides Using Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization on IBM Hardware
   Quantum Computing Report 14:48 UTC

   Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and QC Ware developed a hybrid quantum-classical workflow to simulate strongly correlated transition metal oxides. They used Sample-based Quantum Diagonalization (SQD) on IBM Quantum…

4. IBM Launches Unified Quantum Safe Software Suite to Automate Enterprise PQC Migration
   Quantum Computing Report 14:21 UTC

   IBM has launched IBM Quantum Safe, a software suite designed to help enterprises migrate to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This platform offers tools for strategic assessment, automated source-code discovery, and dynamic network…

5. Julien Camirand Lemire (Nord Quantique): One Cavity, One Error-Corrected Qubit
   The Quantum Insider 08:00 UTC

   Julien Camirand Lemire, co-founder and CEO of Nord Quantique , is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Julien discusses Nord Quantique ‘s bosonic code approach, which uses microwave photons in superconducting cavities to achieve quantum error…

Space & Aerospace 3 stories

1. Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
   Ars Technica Space 11:15 UTC

   Flying across several time zones often causes jet lag, a feeling where the body insists it's the middle of the night while the clock says it's lunchtime. Now it turns out this nuisance is not exclusive to humans. A new Science study on…

2. The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
   Ars Technica Space 11:02 UTC

   In May 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration released a lengthy briefing document on an experimental medication for a rare autoimmune form of vasculitis that often damages the kidneys and lungs. The agency was on the fence about…

3. APOD: 2026 October 31 – Night on a Spooky Planet
   NASA News 04:05 UTC

   APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 31 –… Today’s APOD <a href="https://scien

Quant Finance 2 stories

1. Hackers hijack a dozen DeFi websites, all registered with Name.com, and steal about $138,000
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 15:26 UTC

   All 12 hijacked domains are registered through Name.com, according to registry records accessed by The Block, suggesting a compromise.

2. Chainalysis says hacker using ‘offensive agentic techniques’ accessed its customers’ names and emails
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 13:27 UTC

   The firm has also been tracking Binance’s separate multibillion-dollar hack, and said the attackers are using a Tron protocol to dodge stablecoin freezes.

Robotics & Automation 1 stories

1. Unusual robotic animals can prove their utility
   The Robot Report 12:30 UTC

   Korean researchers have developed a beetle-like soft robot. Source: KAIST When we hear the word “robot,” we still conjure up images of mechanical figures from old science fiction films. However, reality has long since evolved: We’re…

Biotech & Medtech 1 stories

1. STAT+: What are the health stakes of the midterms? Policymakers, lobbyists, and experts weigh in
   STAT News 11:00 UTC

   WASHINGTON — No matter what happens on Election Day, the midterms will have sweeping implications for American health care. The future of essential health policies, the politics surrounding health issues, and insight into the inner…