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Last updated Saturday, October 31, 2026 — 4:30 PM EDT
OpenAI chief Sam Altman said it is ‘quite terrible’ that people keep a share of the world’s limited DRAM in personal computers used 5 percent of the time, as AI data-center demand drives memory prices higher.
Cursor confirmed that tampered versions of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension were distributed through its marketplace for about 11 hours on Oct. 29, exposing thousands of developers to software that installs a persistent SSH backdoor.
NASA issued a request for information Oct. 29 asking the commercial space industry to propose boosting and servicing the 36-year-old Hubble telescope, or a controlled deorbit if rescue proves impossible.
Records identifying more than 41,000 Homeland Security employees and contractors, among them undercover ICE agents, were published online in a dump dubbed IcePick, according to WIRED, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and TechRadar.
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier AI model it says leads rivals at finding, exploiting and patching software vulnerabilities. Access is restricted to approved defenders through the Fairwind Program.
Xreal opened preorders for its Aura extended-reality glasses, its first device built on Google’s Android XR platform, priced at $1,279 with shipping in mid-November. The glasses pair Sony micro-OLED displays with a separate compute puck.
A 36-year-old Ukrainian living in Barcelona was sentenced to 70 months in US prison for affiliate roles in the Nefilim and Hive ransomware operations. A reward of up to $11 million remains open for the Nefilim boss, who is at large.
Apple announced its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and OLED display, with base prices of $2,899 and $3,399. Loaded with 128GB of memory and 16TB of storage, the 16-inch model reaches $14,549, driven by the AI-fueled spike in memory prices.
Apple updated its Creator Studio software suite with a MotionVFX effects library, a curated Content Hub, cross-app editing and AI assistants, timed to the launch of the M6 iMac and new 14-inch MacBook Pro.
Discord will publish Server Web Pages for its largest public servers from Nov. 16 and begin listing individual messages verbatim in search results from mid-December, with opt-outs for admins and users.
Elon Musk said SpaceX restricted Ukraine’s Starlink access because Kyiv’s forces used the civilian service for offensive drone strikes, a claim Ukrainian officials dispute as connectivity is largely restored.
Microsoft confirmed Monday that it is offering voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees in the United States, Canada, India and Britain, a figure approaching a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce.
Apple unveiled a redesigned iPad mini on Monday with an 8.5-inch Super Retina XDR OLED display, the A20 Pro chip and IP67 water resistance, the first major update to its smallest tablet in five years. Pre-orders open October 28.
NASA said Artemis III, launching in 2027, will spend about 14 days in low Earth orbit docking Orion with test versions of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon and SpaceX’s Starship, a rehearsal that will also decide which lander flies the 2028 lunar landing.
Reviewers are debating Apple’s first foldable phone after The Verge scored the $1,999 iPhone Duo 7/10 on its podcast, while CNET called its fold ‘genuinely practical’ and Gizmodo compared its size with Android rivals.
Researchers created the first detailed 3D map of brain lipids, identifying 539 distinct chemical zones in mouse brains, ScienceDaily reported.
Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a personal AI agent in a research preview that Engadget called Anthropic’s answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots.
Electronic Arts is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect game has been cancelled, with Gizmodo reporting cuts of 3% of EA’s workforce.
OpenAI will make its models available through Google Cloud, a move The Information said lessens OpenAI’s reliance on Microsoft.
Ars Technica reported that Xbox plans hour-based charges of 24 to 40 cents per hour for streaming games users have already purchased.
Meta said during its Q3 earnings call that its Muse AI app has over 10 million users, with shopping a top activity; it has paused the app’s conversation share-link feature after researchers enumerated thousands of discoverable links.
Apple said Apple Stores will have limited iPhone Duo units for walk-in customers when the foldable phone launches Friday, after online preorders sold out quickly with some delivery estimates slipping into next year.
