Tech news, October 30, 2026

October 19 - October 23 BigQuery introduces column aliases in GoogleSQL and cross-region table copy GA GoogleSQL in BigQuery now supports column aliases in SELECT and WHERE clause…

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code…

We are experiencing an impairment on the Bandwidth network which may affect a portion of calls.

Replacement: Z.ai GLM 5.3.

Today's AI models are more capable than ever.

Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) on the bedrock-runtime endpoint, with support for the Responses, Converse, and Chat Completions APIs in AWS…

Fill with Gemini now provides cell-level citations for web sources and supports larger requests We are making it easier to verify your AI-generated data and scale your workflows i…

Wealth Management client onboarding can stall even when every system has done its job.

Kiro web search gives the agent real-time access to current information on the internet, so its answers draw on up-to-date search results and page content.

AI progress is moving quickly.

Amazon Connect Customer automatically saves in-progress emails as drafts, helping agents resume work without losing progress when connectivity is interrupted or when their browser…

770GB of weights previously took ~36 seconds to sync on average; now they take 15, with a sub-second request pause, 7.5x faster than previous SOTA.

A LlamaIndex vector store is where your index keeps node embeddings, usually alongside the text chunks and metadata, so queries can find similar content.

The October recap for the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).

You can now use Gemini in Google Slides to edit multiple slides or an entire presentation at once.

by Daryl Ducharme & Shane Glass, Open Source Programs Office A look around the world of open source Right before Halloween weekend, it feels fitting to ask what actually haunts op…

Security teams need powerful tools to find vulnerabilities, test exploits, and build defenses.

Amazon CloudFront can now forward two new optional headers to your origin.

In this snapshot we continue the short, final journey to the 8.3 final.

Four, just four: that’s the key to break into any unpatched connection on the Internet that is using eMudhra certificates.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers designations: named permission sets that give administrators granular, least-privilege control over what each project member can do.

With database-level managed identity in Azure SQL Database, you can use a user-assigned managed identity for each database to query files in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake…

TBC mischief 1 is the world's first neuron-derived video model from The Biological Computing Co.

Affects signalk-server, @signalk/resources-provider.

Affects github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy/v3, github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy/v2, github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy.

A series of agentic attacks on AI Developer Platforms has been leading to LLMJacking at scale.

Affects pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish.

October brought four new members and fresh CRA resources from Prague, a practical guide to finding and fixing vulnerabilities with AI, and a new Sandbox project.

Abdel Sghiouar, Google engineer and senior cloud developer advocate, thinks prompt injection should be called prompt poisoning Category: Guides & Best Practices

The ChromeOS Dev channel is being updated to OS version 16868.5.0 (Browser version 158.0.8127.5 ) for most ChromeOS devices.

While Generative AI boosts developer productivity and lowers barriers to entry, a new Linux Foundation Research report reveals it also increases maintainer workloads.

This post presents a five-stage operating model for managing Amazon Bedrock cost: attribute every dollar to an owner, make every request observable, enforce budgets, optimize plat…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Session endpoints give each runtime session an authenticated URL that forwards any HTTP method, path, and WebSocket connection to the ports you allow.

Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint.

AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...

Worldwide Express automated its less-than-truckload freight billing-exception process with a multi-agent solution built on Amazon Bedrock.

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US).

Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools.

NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments.

Explore GPT-6.1 Terra's Python code, turtle drawing, and responses to small tasks that check modern syntax, release knowledge, focused edits, and made-up functions.

Learn how inheritance and composition in Python model is-a and has-a relationships, and when to use each to design flexible object-oriented code.

In courts across the country, publishers and creators are suing large AI companies for training generative AI models on copyrighted works.

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.

MIT professors Adam Berinsky and Chara Podimata discuss a new project to track how AI chatbots are responding to questions about the 2026 U.S.

Guidance from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on how your business can benefit from agentic AI, while still meeting legal obligations.

How agentic AI could affect consumers' lives, how the law applies, and what businesses should do to mitigate risk.

Neat video: The sighting, announced September 2, marks the first time anyone has spotted a live bigfin squid, which belongs to the Magnapinna genus, in the northeastern Pacific Oc…

Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a brave self-critical piece in The New York Times, centrally about how she intentionally sent her daughter to a well-funded but failing school, PS 307, i…

Last week coined the term “Black October“ after an onslaught of critical vulnerability disclosures, including PHP2Shell and a long-standing GitLab bug, signified the moment when t…

The best Stratechery content from the week of October 26, 2026 including Anthropic numbers, the end of the Internet as we know it, and autocracies then and now.

"A lot of the stuff that I cut out, it's tragic that no one knows it."

AI is rendering the Leetcode-style interview pointless and now Anthropic has deleted it from its interview loop.

Radiologists' visual attention can supervise medical image learning, but how reader panel composition affects its value remains untested.

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) achieve remarkable success on diverse multimodal understanding and generation tasks, yet they still struggle to effectively leverage language-base…

Decision models such as Jev have emerged as a highly promising paradigm for LLM agent systems, providing lightweight and reliable categorical reasoning for rapid System One execut…

Agentic workflows are increasingly shifting towards long-horizon tasks, such as open-ended scientific work, where models benefit from long context windows.

Planning with world models enables test-time adaptation for embodied agents, offering superior generalization over direct policy learning.

Representing 3D shapes using a set of primitives - known as shape abstraction - is an actively studied problem in computer graphics with wide applications in shape understanding,…

LLM-based multi-agent system (MAS) applications can produce useful intermediate results while leaving task requirements unsatisfied.

Recent work shows that a frozen robot policy performs far better inside an agent harness, where control code decides when to query the policy, consult vision tools, or command the…

In many practical deployments of Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), the server processes data in batches.

Dense 3D tracking from monocular video requires establishing point correspondences over time, estimating their depth, and inferring their trajectories during occlusion.