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Space and Space Technologies

NASA Develops Solid-State Batteries to Operate in the Moon’s Extreme Cold

NASA tested prototype cells from the SPEARS project under severe thermal and vacuum conditions, demonstrating their ability to operate at temperatures as low as 80 degrees Celsius below zero while remaining intact after exposure to a harsher temperature range. The technology is intended to power future equipment, robots, and tools at the Moon’s south pole.

2026-10-14

Programming and Software Development

GitHub Reveals Details of Reliability Improvements After Two September Outages

GitHub announced that it reduced database pressure, added load-control and fault-containment tools, and moved more production workloads to Azure after two incidents affected its services during September 2026. However, the company failed to meet its goal of deploying all production services in the Central US region and recorded an outage affecting Copilot code reviews.

2026-10-14

Cybersecurity

Android Expands User Protection Against Scam Messages and Data Leaks During Screen Sharing

Google announced a new and expanded set of Android protection tools, including Gemini-powered warnings about scam messages, on-device link analysis, and the hiding of banking data during screen sharing. Some features will expand to additional devices and manufacturers, while a bank call verification tool launched in Brazil has blocked more than three million fraudulent calls.

2026-10-14

Electric Cars

Ford Opens Registration for Preorder Invitations for Its Fathom Electric Truck

Ford has begun accepting registrations for preorder invitations for the Fathom electric truck, which will start at $28,350 before delivery fees, with orders officially opening in early 2027. The truck is based on the UEV platform and uses LFP batteries, but the company has not yet disclosed its range or towing capacity.

2026-10-14

Energy and Green Technologies

Tesla Home Batteries Feed More Than 600 Megawatts Into California Grid in Record

More than 85,000 Tesla Powerwall systems supplied over 600 megawatts during peak demand in California on October 6, as part of a collective discharge reaching 745 megawatts. The figure is 28% higher than the previous record, but it does not show the total amount of energy or the duration of supply.

2026-10-14

Electric Cars

Volvo Delays U.S. Deliveries of EX60 Electric SUV Due to Production Setbacks

Volvo has delayed U.S. deliveries of its EX60 electric vehicle after facing difficulties in ramping up production of the first model based on the SPA3 platform and new manufacturing processes. The company expects inventory to remain limited until early 2027, even though the vehicle offers up to 330 miles of range and fast charging at up to 370 kilowatts.

2026-10-14

Artificial intelligence

Stella & Dot Founder Raises $5 Million to Develop an AI Platform for Brand Marketing

Jessica Herrin, the founder of Stella & Dot, raised $5 million in seed funding for Marklo, which is developing a platform that uses artificial intelligence and sales, inventory, and marketing data to help brands choose the right products and campaigns.

2026-10-14

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Introduces MySQL Support in Hyperdrive After Fixing a Rare Caching Bug

Cloudflare announced the general availability of MySQL support in Hyperdrive, a database connection pooling service for the Workers platform, after fixing a protocol bug that caused empty responses or hangs in approximately 0.001% of cached requests.

2026-10-14

Cybersecurity

CISA Warns of Ivanti Vulnerability Exploited as a Zero-Day and Calls for Immediate Updates

CISA warned of a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure that has been exploited since early October to execute commands remotely without authentication. Ivanti released urgent updates, while the agency recommended conducting forensic analysis and rebuilding compromised devices when necessary.

2026-10-14

Cybersecurity

Cisco Addresses Exploited Zero-Day in Secure Email Gateway with Root Privileges

Cisco has released an update to address CVE-2026-76519 in Secure Email Gateway, which allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute commands with root privileges through malicious email attachments. The company confirmed that it observed active exploitation of the vulnerability and urged customers to inspect devices and logs and remediate systems that may have been compromised.

2026-10-14

Cybersecurity

FBI Dismantles Computer Farms Linked to North Korean Tech Workers in Texas

U.S. authorities seized approximately 187 computers during raids targeting infrastructure used to enable North Korean tech workers to work remotely under fake identities. The operation resulted in the arrest of two Americans and charges against 14 people in cases involving fraud, identity theft, and money laundering.

2026-10-14

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Amazon S3 Arrives on Marketplace and v0 from Vercel to Support Storage, Analytics, and AI Applications

Amazon S3, including S3 Tables and S3 Vectors, is now available directly through Vercel Marketplace and v0, enabling developers to create storage resources and connect them to their applications without manually configuring static access keys. The integration covers general-purpose storage, Apache Iceberg analytics, and vector search for AI applications.

2026-10-14

Artificial intelligence

Designing AI-Engineered Enzymatic Proteins to Break Down Proteins Linked to Neurological Diseases

Researchers from David Baker’s team at the University of Washington used AI protein-design tools to build proteases capable of cleaving specific protein sequences, including targets associated with Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. The designs showed measurable activity and major improvements after the introduction of optimized mutations, but they remain less efficient than natural enzymes and face significant obstacles before any therapeutic use.

2026-10-14

Cybersecurity

Chainguard Launches Harness to Discover Vulnerabilities and Safely Complete the Work of Coding Agents

Chainguard has launched the Harness platform, which uses advanced artificial intelligence models to discover exploitable vulnerabilities that traditional scanning tools may miss, alongside isolated microVM environments and the execution of CI checks within coding agents’ workflows. The launch comes with survey results indicating that 66% of companies with more than $1 billion in revenue sometimes leave high or critical vulnerabilities unpatched.

2026-10-14

Energy and Green Technologies

Cambridge Heavy Industries Develops Desktop-Sized Nuclear Fusion Device

The startup Cambridge Heavy Industries is working on a small, laser-powered nuclear fusion device and has raised $6.2 million to develop it. It plans to use prototypes to produce tritium before testing a larger power plant in roughly a decade.

2026-10-13

Privacy and Technology Policies

U.S. Judge Orders OpenAI to Hand Apple Hiring Records in Trade Secrets Case

A U.S. federal judge ordered OpenAI to provide Apple with interview materials it collected from former Apple employees, along with private messages and testimony related to a lawsuit alleging that confidential information was transferred to OpenAI’s consumer hardware project.

2026-10-13

Robotics and Automation

Industrial Next Develops Industrial Robots That Change Tasks in Minutes Instead of Weeks

Industrial Next is working on autonomous robotic workstations powered by AI foundation models, with the goal of automating complex and precise industrial tasks and reconfiguring production lines in minutes. The company announced a collaboration with BMW Group Technology Office to evaluate its technology in manufacturing.

2026-10-13

Cybersecurity

Microsoft Launches KB5126657 Extended Security Update for Windows 10

Microsoft has released update KB5126657 for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC users and subscribers to the ESU program, with security and bug fixes and changes to ReFS, storage, backups, and Secure Boot. The installation updates the system to version 19045.7807, while a known issue affecting some USB Audio Class 1.0 devices remains.

2026-10-13