Tech news, October 24, 2026

Frontier Agentic Performance at a Fraction of the Cost.

Long-running agents degrade as context piles up.

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports model usage from more of the tools your developers use with Copilot, including tools like OpenCode that weren’t previously captured in yo…

Twilio customers may be experiencing MMS delivery delays from Twilio to WOM network subscribers in Colombia.

An attacker swapped the binaries on five OVHcloud CLI releases, stayed live for 94 minutes, and deleted the evidence.

Replacement: Z.ai GLM 5.3.

PyPI now rejects new uploads whose version is longer than 128 characters.

Doodraw wraps a 30,000-line Rust engine in one Expo app for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows, and passed 120,000 installs in 180+ countries with no ads.

The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the start of the 2026 openSUSE Board Election.

App Engine flexible environment.NET Security The following runtime language contains important security updates:.NET 6 and later: 6.0.428, 8.0.415, 10.0.100 The following stacks a…

Frontier Agentic Performance at a Fraction of the Cost.

Ollama now supports speech models, starting with Phonon from Gradium.

Upsy Meet is a meeting room for AI agents.

This blog post covers different techniques to improve the performance of point queries in DataFusion.

Determinate Secure Packages 25.05 (Emergency Legacy Extension) brings critical security support to NixOS 25.05.

As has been widely reported, the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised.

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Posted by Roman Kuligin on Oct 24 Hello, I have developed a backported.patch for EOL versions of PHP (specifically PHP 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6) to mitigate the critical PHP2Shell Out-of…

Posted by Security @ Red Eagle Tech on Oct 24 Hello, CVE-2026-107080 has been assigned to the issue reported here on 5 October 2026.

Posted by Valtteri Vuorikoski on Oct 24 Announcement below was posted to the Apache Traffic Server mailing lists a few days ago.

Aikido Security's AI pentesting fits into the stack you already run.

Posted by Alan Coopersmith on Oct 24 Yes, https://patchtheplanet.org/brotli reports this as well.

An attacker swapped the binaries on five OVHcloud CLI releases, stayed live for 94 minutes, and deleted the evidence.

Python has added a denylist for known compromised certificates to the "ssl" module to ensure user safety even without certificate revocation configured.

Executive Summary A critical certificate authority incident disclosed on October 17, 2026, impacts eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates.

Multiple security issues were discovered in libheif, a library for reading and writing HEIF and AVIF images.

Learn how to use Python threading to run tasks concurrently, synchronize threads with locks and queues, and avoid race conditions and deadlocks.

Compare three ways of storing images in Python, as PNG files on disk, in LMDB, and in HDF5, with timings for reading and writing lots of images.

Learn how dictionaries in Python work: create and modify key-value pairs using dict literals, the dict() constructor, built-in methods, and operators.

Learn how Python string formatting works with f-strings, the.format() method, and the modulo operator, plus the strengths of each tool.

I listened to a recent episode of Cal Newport's "Deep Questions" podcast, where he interviews Emile P.

I first went to China in 2011, racing for the Lotus/Jetalliance team at Zhuhai in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.

Over 11 hours of coding videos on evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation, with Python and PyTorch.

We should all strive to be our brother’s keeper: to look after each other, inspire each other, and simply enjoy each other’s company.

We have Fable at home...

Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying [W]e should be more ambitious 1 with the software we build There is,…