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NASA’s Perseverance rover has rewritten its own record book again. On 12 October 2026 the six-wheeled explorer completed the longest self-planned drive of a single Martian day in its mission, days after its odometer overtook every other vehicle humanity has operated on another world. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the run beat the rover’s previous … Read more
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has quietly expanded a vulnerability-auditing programme built around artificial intelligence, and the results deliver two very different headlines. The first is encouraging: AI agents proved remarkably effective at hunting down security flaws across government infrastructure. The second is far more uncomfortable, and it is the one the official … Read more
Meta has lifted the curtain on Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, a two-tier model family that, per the technical notes published on October 12, 2026, finally places the company at the frontier of generative AI after several quarters spent losing ground to OpenAI and Anthropic. Benchmark parity: Wonder Full scores 56 on the Artificial … Read more
WhatsApp users have long accepted one hard rule: tapping send means the message leaves immediately. That assumption is now being rewritten in beta, where the messaging giant is testing the ability to compose something today and have it arrive at a chosen moment tomorrow — or two weeks from now. The option appears in the … Read more
Roughly 250 French supermarkets have been forced to bin refrigerated stock after a cyberattack knocked out the systems that keep their industrial chillers and freezers under control. Approximately 150 Intermarché outlets and fewer than 100 Super U stores discarded dairy, meat and other chilled goods once malware blocked the panels staff rely on to monitor … Read more
Google has taken the wraps off the Fitbit Edge, a health-tracking band it positions squarely between the entry-level Fitbit Air and its Pixel Watch line. Announced on the company’s official blog on October 12, 2026, the device goes on sale October 27 at $179.99 (roughly €169), and it arrives with a feature almost unheard of … Read more
Tesla’s driverless taxi program is drawing fresh federal scrutiny: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is evaluating a defect petition alleging that its robotaxis exceed posted speed limits in active school zones, an early-stage review that could complicate the company’s expansion plans in the United States. Roughly 1,000 vehicles in scope: The review covers model-year … Read more
Microsoft has unveiled Maia 300, an inference accelerator that the company says will make its own silicon the primary engine behind Copilot, Azure OpenAI and its in-house models from 2027. The headline claims: 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems and up to seven times the rack-scale token throughput of its predecessor, Maia … Read more
NASA and the US Department of Energy have locked in a decade-long partnership to put fission reactors in space, signing a memorandum of understanding titled Accelerating American Leadership in Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion. The document was signed on 8 October at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s “Science: A New Golden … Read more
CMF, the budget-minded sub-brand of Nothing, has entered portable audio with its first two Bluetooth speakers: the compact Speaker S and the dual-driver Speaker M. Rather than chasing the loudest output in the mid-range bracket, CMF is betting on tactile, rearrangeable hardware and a silhouette borrowed from the supermarket dairy aisle. Both models are on … Read more