Apple details a distributed virtual GPU cloud built from idle Apple Silicon devices.
ASML says AI demand has exhausted tool capacity through 2028, with interest already extending to 2030.
Reuters : ASML says it cannot fully meet AI-driven demand for its chipmaking tools in 2027 and 2028, and is seeing “strong interest” in orders for 2029 and 2030 — ASML (ASML.AS) said on Wednesday AI-driven demand for its chip-printing tools is so strong that it will not be able …
Hinton, Bengio, and 400+ scientists call for an international AI containment and incident-reporting body.
Leo Marchandon / Reuters : Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting — Around 400 scientists, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, on Tuesday called for an international body …
Nvidia pledges $250M in accelerated computing resources for UK AI-security and agent-safety research.
Reuters : Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research — US chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research …
DeepMind and Google Cloud will give up to 200 European researchers frontier-model access and $3M in compute.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : Google DeepMind and Google Cloud plan to provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with access to their frontier AI models and $3M in compute credits — Google DeepMind and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) cloud service Google Cloud will provide up to 200 European scientific researchers …
CoreWeave is courting insurers to finance the tens of billions it is spending on AI chips.
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times : CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' “unlimited” capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips — Co-founder eyes insurers' vast capital for loans as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider seeks to fund the data centre build-out
Ukraine says SpaceX restricted high-speed military Starlink service, disrupting drone missions without warning.
Yuliia Dysa / Reuters : Ukraine says SpaceX has restricted Starlink by cutting military-grade service at speeds exceeding 100mph, disrupting drone missions, and it received no warning — SpaceX (SPCX.O) has introduced a limit on some Starlink services in Ukraine, disrupting combat drone missions for which the technology …
Kim Zetter investigates a ~$100M crypto theft tied to hardware backdoors in Ledger wallets sold by a reseller.
Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY : A look at a coordinated theft of ~$100M in crypto using hardware backdoors planted in Ledger wallets sold by Malaysia-based authorized reseller CryptoBilis — The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated …
Microsoft's latest patches fix more than 1,400 vulnerabilities, far beyond its already-record September load.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Microsoft releases updates fixing 1,400+ security vulnerabilities, surpassing September's record of 972, which was already ~10x the normal monthly patch load — Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software.
Ukraine's drone attacks damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, exposing Russia's concentrated tech stack.
Financial Times : Ukraine's drone attacks severely damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, disrupting Russia's tech ecosystem, centered on one vast, state-aligned company — Kyiv's attacks exposed vulnerabilities of Kremlin effort to centralise internet services under one company
US defense firms and startups have made at least 13 Taiwanese hardware deals for a secure drone supply chain.
Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal : US defense companies and startups have signed at least 13 deals with Taiwanese hardware companies since September 2025 to build a secure drone tech supply chain — American tech meets Taiwanese hardware in push to assemble uncrewed boats and aircraft using a ‘non-red’ supply chain
Android developers report AOSP source delays so severe they disassemble libraries to file bugs.
Physical Intelligence opens a beta API for its frontier robot models.
Niko Matsakis examines what AI agents mean for Rust and how Rust could shape agent systems.
Parsimony is an open benchmark measuring how much code AI models add.
A practical account of engineering an AI harness specifically for game-development workflows.
Dutch tax authorities cancelled a Microsoft 365 rollout and are moving toward open-source alternatives.
Topgolf reports saving more than $11.3M after migrating away from VMware.
Gentoo explains its technical objections to Python's uv-build backend.
A systems-level comparison of how InnoDB and Iceberg execute the same job.
A focused technical guide to arena allocators in C.
A proposal for tracking Git release history more effectively than conventional tags and logs.
Kcgi offers a minimal C/C++ CGI and FastCGI library.
Strafe launches as an open-source, end-to-end encrypted, federated Discord alternative.
Spotatui is an open-source Spotify TUI/GUI designed to avoid Web API rate limits.
An essay making the case for recreational programming as a worthwhile technical practice.
Quanta examines whether attention is the essential mechanism underlying intelligence.
An explainer and implementation around the claim that BB(10) exceeds Graham's number.
A historical account of the Four Colour Theorem and mathematics' early reliance on machine proof.
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge : Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not Russian political bot operations, as Zelenskyy celebrated “less division” — Zelenskyy celebrated ‘less division’ on social media after the strikes but the data isn't backing that up yet.
Works in Progress Magazine : China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley — China is not the world's largest command economy. It is a continent-sized Silicon Valley. — Imagine if Y Combinator owned and ran San Francisco.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC : ASML reports Q3 net sales of €11.66B, vs. €11.72B est., a €4.96B net profit, vs. €4.1B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €43B-€45B to €44B-€45B — ASML said Wednesday that some of its customers are expressing interest in placing orders …
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune : Delaware-based Causa Prima, which develops an agent-to-agent AI platform for managing B2B payments, resolving billing disputes, and more, raised a $20M seed — Artificial intelligence is becoming a fixture in the workplace. Soon, many firms will have agents that don't just operate within a business …
Bloomberg : Chinese manufacturers dominate humanoid robot production, capturing 97% of global shipments in H1 2026, thanks to government support and vast supply chains — Advanced humanoid hardware is one of the strategic high-tech fields where China has an early lead over the US.