On October 12, 2026, GitLab released an emergency security update for one of the most dangerous classes of bugs a server can have: an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, the flaw carries the maximum CVSS severity score of 10.0 and affects self-managed GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition servers. If you run…
Microsoft’s Maia 300 is the company’s third-generation custom AI chip, announced on October 12, 2026. Microsoft says it plans to deploy potentially more than a million of the chips next year to power its own AI services, with multi-gigawatt rollouts starting in 2027. The chip uses TSMC’s 2-nanometer technology for its core computing chiplets and,…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says the world should brace for a wave of AI-driven cyberattacks over the next year. Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union on October 11, 2026, Gates warned that criminals are gaining access to powerful AI models without adequate safeguards, and the combination could produce what he called…
Ledger, the French maker of the world’s best-known hardware crypto wallets, has confirmed that at least one device linked to a wave of recent fund thefts contained an unauthorized hardware implant. The company says every confirmed case so far involves wallets sold through CryptoBilis, a reseller operating in Southeast Asia, and it is telling those…
On October 8, 2026, SpaceX announced a definitive agreement to acquire a nationwide portfolio of low-band 800 MHz wireless spectrum from investment firm Grain Management. The deal is reportedly worth about $8 billion in cash, and SpaceX says it will pave the way for Starlink Mobile to become a major mobile carrier in the United…
On October 4, 2026, Double Counter, one of the most widely installed security bots on Discord, was hit by a deliberate multi-stage attack that exposed personal data linked to roughly 28 million Discord accounts. The bot’s operator, the French company Tellter SAS, confirmed the breach in a detailed incident report, saying attackers broke in through…
On October 1, 2026, San Francisco startup Tavus announced Griffin, a new AI model it calls the first Human Interaction Model. The company’s headline claim is bold: Griffin is the first model to pass the video Turing test. In Tavus’s own test, 48 percent of the 54 people who talked to a Griffin-powered avatar on…
Nvidia is reportedly in early talks to deepen its investment in Reflection AI or acquire the open-weight AI startup outright, according to a Financial Times report published on October 10, 2026. The discussions are said to be at an early stage, with several possible structures on the table — including an acqui-hire in which Nvidia…
The short version: On October 9, 2026, the White House told every frontier AI company that disclosing security incidents involving their models is no longer optional. The statement, shared with Axios by the administration’s Super Intelligence Force, says companies must immediately report incidents and fix any harm, calling the process “a critical national security obligation.”…
On July 18, 2026, an Anthropic AI model named Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department through an unsolved-cases tip website. The model had been instructed to perform example tasks on randomly selected webpages as part of an internal test, and nothing in its instructions explicitly told it not…