Tech news, November 2, 2026

Registration for the APRICOT 2027 Summit, being held from 24 February to 4 March 2027 in Hong Kong SAR, China, is now open.

We’ve released updates for multiple MPS versions that fix a critical security issue.

GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 14th year!

Twilio customers may be experiencing device verification timeouts during API transactions for Silent Network Authentication (SNA) in Indonesia.

A list of topics we covered in the week of October 26 to November 1 of 2026

Run deep agents in production with durable execution, sandboxes, tool access, and LangSmith observability, without building the runtime yourself.

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Run your first performance test in Postman by reusing an existing collection.

AWS Lambda event source mappings now support queue consumption mode for Apache Kafka.

Fixes for the CVE-2026-98432 Linux kernel vulnerability are available for Ubuntu.

Vercel now supports vercel.toml, which allows you to to configure your project using the TOML configuration format.

Learn about CVE-2026-98432, a critical remote use-after-free flaw in the Linux kernel TCP stack, its root exploit risks, affected versions, and mitigation steps.

The next frontier of AI is coming into focus as agents take on longer, more strategic work.

Today’s Snapshot is the second release candidate for Vivaldi Mobile 8.3 release on Android.

A new Anthropic model is now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

LangChain CEO Harrison Chase shares insights into the biggest harness engineering challenges with the emergence of proactive agents.

A simple framework for tying AI initiatives to the business metrics they’re supposed to move.

Any MCP client can now ask to connect to Vercel MCP.

Azure Migrate now supports discovery and assessment for network-attached storage, allowing customers and partners to plan migrations of Dell PowerScale (OneFS) and NetApp ONTAP st…

Build Daily Wellbeing, a Next.js app that connects Fitbit through Auth0 Token Vault, compares your daily activity and sleep with your averages, and uses Fireworks to suggest what…

This is the formal notice that Microsoft plans to deprecate the operational technology (OT) security component of Microsoft Defender for IoT.

You now have greater flexibility in network design for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server workloads.

On February 2, 2027, we will retire Azure Fluid Relay.

Starting today, Amazon RDS supports per snapshot billing for Amazon RDS snapshots.

For organizations that use Amazon Quick, the desktop application now signs users in with the same sign-in method the organization already uses for Quick on the web.

GLM-5.3-FlashX-Legal (GLM-Legal) is Z.ai's legal-domain variant of GLM-5.3-FlashX, a native multimodal model that accepts text, image, and video input and produces text.

Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.

Unit 42 details recent threat intelligence, highlighting cyberespionage, financial extortion, and the rapid adoption of AI across offensive workflows.

Posted by Simon Josefsson on Nov 02 FYI - also via https://oath-toolkit.codeberg.page/CVE-2026-109117.html /Simon Simon Josefsson via OATH Toolkit general discussions <oath-toolki…

Bulletin ID: 2026-164-AWS Publication Date: 11/02/2026 13:30 PM PST Description: We identified CVE-2026-116635.

Read this article Please refer to the article below for the most up-to-date and complete information related to this AWS Security Bulletin.

On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced the availability of fixes for multiple vulnerabilities across the following supported release lines: 22.x, 24.x, and 26.x.&nbsp; These vulne…

Real-world exploitation concentrates in a small, high-impact subset of CVEs.

Subnet Solutions PowerSYSTEM Center mstradling Nov 02, 2026 Release Date November 03, 2026 Description View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could all…

Bulletin ID: 2026-163-AWS Publication Date: 11/02/2026 11:00 AM PST Description: aidlc-traceability is an open source command-line tool, formerly published in the awslabs/aidlc-wo…

Posted by Francesco Chicchiriccò on Nov 02 Severity: important Affected versions: - Apache Syncope 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16 - Apache Syncope 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.8 - Apache Syncope…

Posted by Francesco Chicchiriccò on Nov 02 Severity: important Affected versions: - Apache Syncope 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16 - Apache Syncope 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.8 - Apache Syncope…

In distributed AI workloads, a single error can produce a cascade of symptoms.

As distributed AI training scales, failures across hardware and software dependencies increasingly disrupt training progress, making fast, reliable recovery...

AWS DevOps Agent investigates incidents, traces problems from code to cloud, and analyzes Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and third-party observability tools out of the box.

Configuring and optimizing Kubernetes for new GPU hardware such as NVIDIA Vera Rubin is complex and error-prone.

Building cloud solutions with autonomous AI agents should feel fast, safe, and reliable.

p50, p95 and p99 TTFT and tokens per second for GLM-5.3, DeepSeek V3.2, Gemma 4 and Llama 4 Maverick on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference, over 48 hours.

This post shows how to use Crawl4AI, an open source web crawler, as a content preparation layer for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, handling JavaScript rendering, selective extrac…

Agentic assistants built on frontier models run a multi-step tool loop, and paying frontier prices on every step is hard to sustain at production scale.

Learn how to build a multi-agent engineering assistant that compresses aerospace component substitution evaluation from days to minutes, using Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, A…

Circle K's DevOps team cut incident triage from 45-60 minutes to under 15 by building an agentic triage system on Amazon Bedrock.

From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

BeeAPro is an Italian training platform for companies in compliance-heavy industries.

VideoGen is an AI-native video creation platform.

The MIT professors collaborated to identify the first AI-discovered antibiotic, a scientific breakthrough that is widely recognized as a milestone in AI-driven drug discovery.

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 02 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01323-8 Artificial intelligence (AI) providers frequently update their models and system in…

Keynote speech by Philip R Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Research Symposium on “AI and th…

Evals without traces, million-cell tabular reviews, and cracks in the billable hour as a business model

Legora can’t read a single trace of what its agent does for a lawyer.

If you are helping build something that might kill everyone, maybe stop doing that.

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I really liked Ray Nayler’s The Mountain In The Sea.

Sensorized human demonstrations offer scalable data for mobile manipulation, but embodiment differences complicate policy learning.

General-purpose mobile manipulation requires a combination of capable robot hardware, scalable demonstration collection, expressive whole-body control, and effective policy learni…

Learning from human data offers a scalable path toward embodied intelligence, yet it requires models to accurately understand fine-grained human actions from egocentric observatio…

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) generation has substantially improved the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, including code generation, data analysis,…

GUI web agents require realistic and interactive environments that remain stable during both evaluation and training.

Muon has recently emerged as a promising optimizer for pretraining large language models, offering a speedup over AdamW in minimizing pretraining loss.

Regulatory compliance has become an essential software requirement Legal demands for compliance by design CbD call for requirements engineering RE approaches that derive requireme…

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can enable generalizable improvement for large language model (LLM) reasoning.

We present Isekai3D Synthetic Data Generation (SDG), a platform for simulating and capturing synthetic 3D gameplay for research in vision and world models, neural graphics, gamepl…

Group-based reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) learns only from prompts whose sampled completions disagree: all-pass and all-fail groups produce zero relative a…