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Type “switch 2 emulator” into Google right now and you will find forum threads, YouTube videos, and GitHub stars climbing by the day. What you will not find, as of October 10, 2026, is a single emulator that boots a commercial Nintendo Switch 2 game. Three public projects are chasing that goal anyway: Pound, oboromi,…
OpenAI’s biggest math announcement of the year lasted less than a day before it needed a correction. On October 6, 2026, the company published 722 preprints to a public GitHub repository, each one claiming progress on one of 372 unsolved or hard mathematical problems, generated with help from an internal mathematical-reasoning system. By October 7,…
Anthropic and Microsoft are fighting over the same desk. One company wants to be the model you reason with. The other wants to be the assistant already living inside Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. As of October 10, 2026, that fight has a name: Claude vs Copilot, a search term that now pulls roughly 1,900…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. “Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC,” StepSecurity
The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning. The post Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
A new security audit has found that roughly one in eight credential slots inside publicly posted Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration files on GitHub contain a hardcoded secret, and nearly a quarter of those secrets never expire and carry broad access rights. The research, published by Hush Security on October 8, 2026, scanned approximately 82,000…
Advisory at a Glance Title Chinese Government-linked Cyber Threat Actors Combine Automated and Hands-on Hacking Tools to Steal Sensitive Data Original Publication October 8, 2026 Executive Summary Chinese government-linked cyber threat actors, enabled by the Integrity Technology Group, are combining automated scanning tools, large-scale botnets, and hands-on exploitation techniques to target and steal sensitive data…
As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Desktop app teams in 2026 are running the same calculation that web teams ran a decade ago with native versus hybrid mobile: ship fast with a familiar stack, or trade a learning curve for a leaner product. Electron 44 went stable on August 25, 2026, running on Chromium M152, with Electron 45 slated for October…
More than 3,400 servers have been compromised by malware that hides its infrastructure coordinates in a poem. The post PoeLLM malware has assembled a sweeping botnet, taking technical cues from a poem appeared first on CyberScoop.
