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Japan’s cybersecurity agencies have a number that tells the story on its own: 600. That is how many unauthorized-access incidents Japanese companies and local governments had disclosed publicly between January and the end of September 2026, according to security firm Trend Micro. It already beats the 593 cases logged across the entirety of 2025, with…
Two of the most widely deployed names in enterprise networking spent the first two weeks of October 2026 issuing emergency patches for the same class of bug. Cisco pushed a fix for a critical authentication-bypass flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that the company confirmed was already under active attack. Days later, SonicWall shipped hotfixes for…
Gardens Interactive, the Los Angeles studio founded by veterans of Journey and Sky: Children of the Light, has closed more than $35 million in Series B funding, the company confirmed in an October 7 announcement. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and pulls in a investor list that mixes traditional venture capital with…
Traders Just Bet on SpaceXAI Becoming SpaceXSI, and a Manifold Market Jumped to 58%. A Manifold prediction market asking whether Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI unit will rename itself to SpaceXSI, or another “SI” name, by the end of 2026 sits at a 58% implied probability of yes as of October 09, 2026. The contract saw roughly…
Will we “lose public key cryptography” by EoY 2028? A small Manifold market is suddenly one of the busiest offbeat contracts on the platform. The market sits at a 10% implied chance of YES as of October 09, 2026, yet roughly 29% of its all-time volume changed hands in a single day. The spark was…
C has run the world’s infrastructure since 1972. Rust showed up determined to take its job, one memory-safety bug at a time. In October 2026, that fight has stopped being theoretical. Google now ships roughly 5 million lines of Rust inside Android, the Linux kernel accepts Rust drivers in its mainline tree, and Rust just…
Under the Island officially landed on store shelves today, October 9, 2026, as developer Slime King Games and publisher SelectaPlay shipped boxed copies of the retro pixel-art adventure for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. The launch, confirmed by COGconnected, caps an eight-month run that started with a digital-only debut in February and ends with a…
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.
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
The seizures of the tools, allegedly operated by the Chinese firm Integrity Tech, accompanied a warning from the FBI, CISA and NSA. The post DOJ, FBI seize Flax Typhoon-linked hacking tools Microscan, FishHub appeared first on CyberScoop.
