Tech news, October 29, 2026

From the practicalities of everyday life to creative endeavours, Raspberry Pi power is behind hundreds of products.

Dave Baker and Florian Duros (Element) at The Matrix Conference 2026.

Isopcap can now save Kubernetes packet captures to S3, providing better collaboration.

We have been notified by our suppliers about registered SMS degradation to the Orange network.

PHP2Shell showed how fast AI turns a bug into an exploit.

Replacement: Z.ai GLM 5.3.

Postman and Baseten partner so enterprises can build AI agents and run them on fast, cost-efficient inference.

How we migrated production MLflow models from Python 3.10 to 3.12 without retraining, using a "Load and Repack" strategy to recover cloudpickle-serialized artifacts and future-pro…

We introduced Real-Time Mode (RTM) last year which enabled customers to build low-latency, operational use cases...

I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise.

Learn a repeatable, evidence-based method to cut petabyte-scale Amazon S3 storage costs.

Large OS Disk Encryption (LOSDE) is now generally available for Azure Confidential VM migration scenarios.

Build a financial research assistant with Cohere Embed, Rerank, and Parse on AWS.

We’ve increasingly seen that specialized post-training can compete with frontier models.

Waiting for perfect data before starting AI creates its own risk.

Today, AWS announces that AWS partners who operate multiple legal entities can publish a product listing once in their primary account and enable their local subsidiaries to sell…

Learn how BMW Group migrated its connected vehicle platform from x86 to AWS Graviton.

AI can help us create almost anything now.

Managing critical vulnerabilities often consumes significant engineering time.

Host Sowbhagya Suresh shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from across Microsoft—from understanding the challenges facing coding agents to uncovering how peopl…

We are going through some structural changes inside the Rust Foundation.

Strix, the open-source AI penetration testing tool, can now run on any of the 400+ models on Vercel AI Gateway.

We’re introducing new ways to create and refine files and code in the Gemini app.

The Apache Software Foundation is proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 4.4.0.

A repeatable process for keeping Apache HBase on Amazon EMR highly available.

Joey 1 is a 2B decision model from Base Labs, Baseten's research team, built on Qwen3.5-2B.

Riverflow 2.6 Pro is the flagship model of Sourceful's Riverflow 2.6 lineup, a unified text-to-image and image-to-image family that treats generation as a production workflow: an…

Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.

Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight speech recognition model from NVIDIA, a 30B mixture-of-experts with about 4B active parameters.

WordPress 7.1.4 was released on October 28, 2026.

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The Stable and Extended Stable channel has been updated to 156.0.8078.79/.80 for Windows and Mac and 156.0.8078.79 to Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Finesse could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks throug…

Bulletin ID: HCSEC-2026-54 Affected Products / Versions: Boundary and Boundary Enterprise 0.21.3 up to 1.0.1; fixed in Boundary Enterprise 1.0.2 and 0.21.6.

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog mvining Oct 29, 2026 Release Date October 29, 2026 Description CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploit…

In July 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1077 vulnerability submissions from our growing community of security researchers working to improve the overall security p…

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) helps connect LLMs to external tools, databases, and APIs.

The UK Amazon Quick User Group's 2026 roundup: three quarterly meetups, 150+ attendees, and customer stories from Arriva, Carsa, and Propulse Lab on using agentic AI and Amazon Qu…

Epsilon's Agentic Platform team delivers UI testing as a managed, multi-tenant service built on Amazon Nova Act and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool.

Turn a PHP-to-Java migration from a one-time leap of faith into a measurable, repeatable process with Kiro.

AWS Batch quota management is a new scheduling capability you can use to divide GPU capacity into quota shares per team or project, automatically lend idle capacity across shares,…

MoEngage turned roughly 400 private REST APIs across 7 AWS Regions into permission-scoped agent tools with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that pairs reasoning and tool use with multimodal understanding.

Atomistic simulations help researchers understand how molecules and materials behave, from chemical reactions and phase transitions to mechanical failure.

Experience a new way of learning on Real Python by working through async Python in conversation with Mentor AI, one well-placed question at a time.

Practice learning async Python with Mentor AI.

BMW Group is building toward Industry AI on Amazon SageMaker AI by fine-tuning task-specific LoRA adapters on engineering process data and serving multiple domain capabilities fro…

An analysis of the UK’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector, developing estimates of the scale and scope of firms developing AI products and services in the UK.

At the People's AI Assembly, the crowd, spilling onto the balconies, laughed at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s jokes, cheered former antitrust chief Lina Khan, and hung on the every word…

Today, Google is launching its first health program on Coursera, the Google AI for Healthcare Professionals Certificate.

Built by clinicians at Google, the new Google AI for Healthcare Professionals Certificate helps healthcare professionals prioritize patients.

What I learned reading all 421 pages of the Anthropic S-1

Preparing to interview Robert Caro.

A new decoy counting benchmark exposes a gap between seeing and reasoning.

Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM.

Then again, that is what they asked for.

Anthropic filed its S-1 this week to prepare for its IPO.

Data attribution methods for Language Models (LMs) are typically evaluated using downstream tasks like fact retrieval.

An estimator can be accurate and stable on typical data, yet sensitive to a few possible records.

In film editing, every frame matters.

The Neural Thickets hypothesis posits that pretrained language models lie in dense neighborhoods of task-specific experts in weight space, which random Gaussian perturbations can…

Pixel-space generative Transformers typically use one token per image patch, so capturing finer detail requires more tokens and makes global attention increasingly expensive.

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) hedges data-driven two-stage stochastic programs against error in the distribution estimated from a finite record, and standard ambiguit…

Luggage re-identification (ReID) is a critical task in video surveillance for forensics, security or border management (suspicious or abandoned luggage recognition), as well as lu…

Extreme weather is forecast days ahead, yet its consequences for agriculture remain hard to predict: a forecast says where a storm will strike, not which crops will suffer or how…

Recent progress in visual scene generation has extended beyond static 3D scenes toward the more challenging problem of generating dynamic 4D scenes from minimal input.

World models can achieve strong control performance without faithfully capturing the dynamics of their environment, limiting their potential for mechanistic interpretability and s…