Tech news, September 30, 2026

Vercel Agent can install private dependencies from npm and custom registries using credentials stored as shared environment variables on Vercel.

In this episode of PING, Verisign's Duane Wessels discusses the transition to the third DNS root KSK key pair, which is scheduled to begin signing the root zone on 11 October 2026.

Railway experienced a platform-wide disruption to domain routing on September 30, 2026.

Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 spec, along with column default values, deletion vectors, and row lineage.

AWS today announced the general availability of AMD-based R8a and M8a database instances for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors.

New Copilot UX components heading to Generally Available in October 2026, SPFx 1.24 Beta 5 is now available, React 18 support is coming in 1.24.

Developers can now programmatically create, read, and manage comments across Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides using their respective developer APIs.

Trusted publishing configurations for npm can now be granted permission to manage dist-tags (e.g., promoting a version to latest, updating next and beta pointers) using short-live…

Browserbase Search and Fetch are now available through AI Gateway.

In August, we released Dogwood, an open source governance language for agents and their actions.

Today, AWS expanded the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) commands for the Agent Toolkit for AWS with two new capabilities that make it easier to keep agent skills up to date.

Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre filtering, delivering up to 5x higher recall on filtered searches.

Amazon S3 Vectors now supports pre-filtering, which evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter i…

Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense, rolling out soon.

CDN Requests is now the name for the usage metric previously called Edge Requests.

Captions in Google Vids are now fully customizable.

New features implemented on RFC-Editor.org aim to make the site more useful and engaging for RFC consumers.

Team Authorizations let you create and manage API tokens and OAuth authorizations at the team and team’s resources level instead of tying them to one person’s account.

AI infrastructure engineers, storage developers, and cloud service providers need fast and secure access to high-capacity file and object storage to support AI...

HeyGen Video is a general-purpose video generation model from HeyGen.

Tev1 4B Experimental is an experimental decision model from Together AI, a supervised fine-tune of Qwen3.5-4B trained to choose one option from a structured state, question, and l…

Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.

rerank-3-lite is a reranker optimized for both latency and quality and a drop-in upgrade to rerank-2.5-lite, improving on it by 0.94% NDCG@10 on average across domain evaluations…

rerank-3 is a reranker optimized for quality and a drop-in upgrade to rerank-2.5, improving on it by 0.80% NDCG@10 on average across domain evaluations and by 3.35% on long-docume…

Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.

Local privilege escalation in the Cato VPN Client through the split-tunnel upload flow, from named pipe to SYSTEM delete and Windows Installer rollback.

Unit 42 is aware of possible 0-day activity against NetScaler devices.

This year at Microsoft Ignite, we spotlight our AI-first, end-to-end security platform designed to protect identities, devices, data, applications, clouds, infrastructure, and the…

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog   awallace Sep 30, 2026 Release Date September 30, 2026 Description CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Kn…

See how attackers like GootKit and WhisperGate abuse Windows Defender exclusions to hide malware from AV scans — and how Huntress detects it.

Generative recommender (GR) systems are emerging as a powerful new approach for large-scale personalization.

A redesigned checkout button is meant to lift sales.

Most RAG systems today score how semantically similar a new query is to stored text chunks and return a list of the best matches.

Prove your multi-AZ architecture can sustain a real impairment.

Posted by Pavlo Stavytskyi, Software Engineer, Meta and Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, Google This blog post is written in collaboration with the Meta team.

MHK built the SmartProminence AI Orchestrator, a HIPAA-eligible agentic workflow framework on AWS using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon ECS, and event-driven patterns.

In this post, we show you how to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) resource tags and next-hop metadata, two new capabilities in Version 11 of Amazon Virtual Private Cl…

Synchronizing Video, Audio, Whiteboard Events, and Distributed Backends at Scale What happens when thousands of students join a live classroom, rewind a lecture by 30 seconds, and…

In Part 2 of this AI Object Storage series, Learn to configure LOTA, pre-staging, cross-region write acceleration, and the Archive tier with Python examples.

Lakebase is a fully managed Postgres database, built for the operational realities...

AI Now's Senior Research Scientist, Boyan Milanov, points out how AI doomerism isn't based on any scientific work and that calls for regulation from within the industry are, in re…

With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to its familiar voice assistant, Siri.

With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.

Email is one of the highest-volume support channels in most contact centers, and one of the most manual.

A voice-activated AI agent can make contact center management significantly faster when the AI agents handling your calls need urgent changes.

Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.

Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.

Cockroach Labs co-founder Peter Mattis discusses building reliable distributed systems and how AI helps him write more code without sacrificing quality.

They will come for your thoughts, and I’m not sure what your defense will be.

The leaders in AI were invited to the White House.

Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them.

Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task.

Large language models (LLMs) deployed through text-only APIs face model extraction risks, as adversaries can collect their responses to train surrogates that reproduce their capab…

Join discovery aims to identify tables from large data repositories that can augment a query table with complementary information, enabling downstream tasks such as data explorati…

Recent studies suggest that not every token needs to pass through all Transformer layers, motivating token-level adaptive models that selectively skip layers to reduce computation.

Contextual security defenses prevent AI agents from taking rogue actions by synthesizing a task-specific policy and enforcing it on the agent's tool calls.

A correctly governed LLM agent can reach a state in which neither continuing execution nor automatically halting is admissible: the system has detected a persistent failure of its…

Image watermarking supports provenance and attribution by embedding verifiable identity information into images.

Cyber attack agents are typically trained and evaluated within a single simulator, making it unclear whether learned policies transfer beyond the environments in which they were d…

Memory tiering has been used to expand memory capacity, particularly in datacenters, by combining fast DRAM with slower tiers, including CXL-attached memory.

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an interview with NewsNation’s On Balance.

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an op-ed published by War on the Rocks.