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Microsoft shipped its October 2026 Patch Tuesday on October 13, and the release has rewritten the record books: somewhere between 1,407 and 1,415 vulnerabilities were closed in a single monthly batch, the first four-digit total in the programme’s 23-year history and more than the roughly 1,100 fixes Microsoft shipped across the whole of 2025. The … Read more
Google’s long-promised Universal Cart is now live for shoppers in the United States, appearing inside both Google Search and the Gemini app. Announced on October 15 in an official company blog post signed by Suresh Ganapathy, senior director of product for consumer shopping, the tool lets people collect items from competing merchants, monitor price movements … Read more
WhatsApp is opening its calls to people who do not have the app — or even an account. In an announcement published on 14 October 2026, the company introduced guest calls, a format in which a host generates a link and anyone who receives it can join from a desktop browser after typing a name … Read more
A team at the Delft University of Technology has taught a palm-sized drone to find its way through pitch-black rooms the way a rodent does: by touch. Fitted with two artificial whiskers and running every calculation onboard, the aircraft steers along walls in complete darkness using navigation algorithms that occupy just 34 KB of memory. … Read more
A proposed nationwide class action filed in California federal court accuses OpenAI of training its models on children’s private ChatGPT conversations without valid parental consent. The remedy it seeks is barely conventional: a slice of the company itself, or its cash equivalent. The 81-page complaint was lodged on October 13, 2026 in the U.S. District … Read more
Most power banks die a wasteful death. The cells inside fade, and the charging electronics, ports and shell — all still perfectly functional — end up in a drawer. ZERO, a modular external battery from Paris-based CTRL ENERGY, is designed to prevent exactly that. Rather than sealing its energy storage away, it hides six standard … Read more
Beijing-based robotics developer NeodraDynamics has unveiled Neo1, a four-metre-class humanoid that abandons the all-electric formula in favour of a hybrid hydraulic-electric drivetrain. The machine appeared at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, held from 19 to 23 August, and was later shown alongside JD Industrial at the 2026 China International Industry Fair. NeodraDynamics is pitching … Read more
NASA and France’s CNES space agency have delivered something hydrologists have wanted for decades: a direct, month-by-month accounting of how much water the world’s rivers gain and lose over a full year. During its first observation cycle, running from October 2023 to September 2024, the SWOT satellite logged a swing of roughly 313 cubic kilometers … Read more
Researchers at Stanford Medicine have used a computational screening pipeline to identify a naturally occurring peptide that curbs appetite in animals without the digestive side effects that make semaglutide — the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy — difficult for some patients to tolerate. The molecule, a 12-amino-acid peptide dubbed BRP, was described in a … Read more
Less than two weeks after shipping a free, open-source rebuild of Adobe’s creative suite, software engineer Brandon Thomas has set his sights on office software. His latest releases — WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft — replicate Word, Excel and PowerPoint as free, local applications written in Rust with substantial help from Anthropic’s Claude model. They open … Read more