Zero-Days Lurk in Microsoft's Overgrown October Patch Tuesday
The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.
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Secure Discord Bot Tokens: 13 Steps After 28M Leak [2026]
On October 4, 2026, an attacker took control of the Discord bot token belonging to Double Counter, an anti-raid and verification bot built by Tellter SAS and installed in more than 600,000 Discord communities. Using that single stolen credential, the attacker spammed invite links across roughly 50 large servers and pulled approximately 12 GB of…
HBM4 Shortage: Price Jumps 117% as AMD Chases Supply [2026]
A memory shortage that started with laptops and smartphones has now reached the chips that power the AI boom itself. HBM4, the sixth generation of high-bandwidth memory and the component NVIDIA, AMD, and every major AI accelerator maker need to ship next-generation hardware, is running short just as mass production ramps up. Contract pricing for…
Tesla Roadster Delay Hits 9 Years as EV Rivals Surge [2026]
Tesla’s second-generation Roadster was supposed to be on the road by 2020. Six years later, the car still does not have a confirmed production date, a confirmed price, or even a confirmed name beyond “Tesla Roadster.” Elon Musk reignited interest this month with a teaser reading “New Tesla Roadster Unveil 10.01,” paired with the caption…
Build a Mini-ITX Gaming PC: 13 Steps, 310mm GPU Fit [2026]
A mini-ITX gaming PC used to mean giving up performance for size. That tradeoff has mostly disappeared. Cases released in 2026, from the SSUPD Meshroom S V2 to the Fractal Design Terra, now fit triple-slot flagship GPUs, 240mm AIO coolers, and full-size SFX power supplies inside boxes smaller than a shoebox. What hasn’t disappeared is…
ASML: AI Demand Tops Chip-Tool Supply Through 2028 [2026]
ASML, the Dutch company that builds nearly every machine capable of printing the world’s most advanced chips, says it cannot make enough of them. On October 14, 2026, ASML Chief Executive Officer Christophe Fouquet told investors that planned supply for 2027 and 2028 will not fully meet customer demand for chipmaking tools, a gap driven…
Factory AI Hits $5B Valuation, Triples in 5 Months [2026]
Factory, the AI coding-agent startup built around what its founders call “software factories,” has tripled its valuation to $5 billion in just five months. The company closed a $200 million funding round on September 15, 2026, confirmed independently by Factory’s own announcement and corroborated by Dow Jones. The jump from a $1.5 billion valuation in…
GPT-5.5 Retires From ChatGPT, Codex as Sol Steps In [2026]
GPT-5.5 is gone from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex as of October 14, 2026. OpenAI confirmed the retirement applies across every consumer and business plan tied to those three products, pulling the plug on a model that developers had leaned on for agentic coding tasks since its release. The model does not disappear entirely: OpenAI…
Defend AI Agents From Prompt Injection in 13 Steps [2026]
Every AI agent that reads a web page, opens an email, or pulls a file from a shared drive is one crafted sentence away from doing something its owner never asked for. That sentence is a prompt injection, and it is the attack researchers and vendors cannot fully close off. OWASP lists it as the…
The Future of Work Social Mixer and Open Demos Draws 300+ Founders, Investors and HR Leaders in San Francisco
San Francisco, United States, 14th October 2026, TechnologyWire The post The Future of Work Social Mixer and Open Demos Draws 300+ Founders, Investors and HR Leaders in San Francisco first appeared on Tech Startups.