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Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped fifteen CVEs affecting Active Directory Federation Services. Two arrived as direct spoofing vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-108131 (CVSS 7.5, Important, …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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The 24-Hour Shift On October 15, 2026, three major open-weight models shipped within hours of each other. StepFun’s Step-5 BF16 landed after a same-day slip. Meta’s Muse Spark Open arrived with a …
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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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The portal at agent.livingsocial.com is functional, transparent, and deliberately limited. As of October 16, 2026, the system provides access to 56,256 live US offers through a REST API, an MCP …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.
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Via BBC News - Technology
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10/16/26
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It's easy to see why people assumed as much.
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Matt Novak (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/16/26
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On October 15, 2026, Perplexity released its execution sandbox to the public. The SPACE repository — Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution, written in Rust — carries an Apache 2.0 …
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Blair Hayes (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Stripe’s President Says Agentic Commerce Went ‘Vertical’ in September. He Has Not Shown the Numbers.
“It only as of September basically started going vertical.” That is how Stripe president John Collison described the company’s agentic commerce activity during an October 12 episode of the …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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A $6.3 billion all-cash price tag, representing a 52% premium over pre-rumor stock levels, tells a specific story about how the market values agent governance. When Proofpoint announced its …
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Dana Ellison (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Save as much as $1,200 with these Verizon offers.
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Karandeep Singh Oberoi (via Android Authority)
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10/16/26
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For years, the idea of expanding the Supreme Court has been dismissed as a fantasy among “serious” thinkers. However, with it becoming ever more clear that the Supreme Court has gone completely …
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Mike Masnick (via Techdirt)
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10/16/26
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Brad Smith criticizes JD Vance for being "completely off base" and slates the irony that five out of six Trump award holders were immigrants.
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Craig Hale (via TechnoBuffalo)
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10/16/26
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More and more city governments are using advanced technologies to improve livability for their residents. Municipalities use data from smartphones and sensors for traffic enforcement, traffic …
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Georges Zissis (via IEEE Spectrum)
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10/16/26
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Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose …
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MIT Technology Review (via MIT Technology Review)
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10/16/26
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YouTube's next big fee might not even come from Google.
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Karandeep Singh Oberoi (via Android Authority)
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10/16/26
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The Ultimate Web Coding for Everyone Bundle has 8 introductory courses covering core programming languages and web development frameworks. You’ll learn about Python, Ruby, JavaScript, MySQL, and …
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Daily Deal (via Techdirt)
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10/16/26
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Apple's 'Welcome Home' announcements revealed the Apple HomeView, updated Apple TV 4K, and HomePod mini 2. Your hosts discuss the new products and what they'll mean for Apple's smart home …
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Via AppleInsider
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10/16/26
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The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
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Aditya Mehta (via TechCrunch)
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10/16/26
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Dylan Sloan / Bloomberg:
Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak …
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Via Techmeme
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10/16/26
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Vinci4D Inc. is bringing a new approach to semiconductor design grounded in fundamental physics equations. The company provides simulation software for chip designers, offering an alternative to …
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Devony Hof (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/16/26
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A new investigation by Citizen Lab has uncovered a large-scale covert operation designed to install spyware through online advertising. Dubbed "AdFection" by the University of Toronto research …
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Via TechSpot
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10/16/26
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