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A remote use-after-free in Linux's IPv4 TCP code (CVE-2026-98432) dates back to kernel 4.4. Debian, SUSE, Oracle and some Amazon Linux kernels are fixed; Ubuntu and RHEL fixes were still in progress on Oct 31, 2026. How to check your kernel and what to do now.
The Biological Computing Co. launched Mischief 1 on Oct 30, 2026: an image-to-video model built on Wan 2.2 that it says runs 5x faster from lessons learned from living neurons. The neurons stay in the lab. What it is, what it costs, and what isn't proven yet.
Attackers moved about $6.3 billion out of Binance wallets on 29 Oct 2026. Binance says user funds are safe and it will cover all losses; about $3 billion is frozen. Withdrawals are still paused; Binance is targeting a Sunday, Nov 1 restart.
DoorDash agreed on 29 Oct 2026 to buy Instacart for $65 a share, about $17 billion. Nothing changes yet: the deal needs shareholder and antitrust approval and is expected to close end of 2027 or first half of 2028.
Mistral released open weights for Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk" on 29 Oct 2026: about 1 trillion parameters, 52B active, 1M-token context. Artificial Analysis scores it 26 on Intelligence Index v5, the top open-weight model built outside China.
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on 28 Oct 2026. It goes first to a subset of cyber defenders, then trusted partners in the Fairwind Program, before developers and consumers. Google reports 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench; Artificial Analysis ranks it #1 on its Intelligence Index v5.0 at 59.
CISA added the Brotli decoder bug CVE-2026-111497 (Node2Shell / Broccoli2Shell / HTTP2Shell) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 27 Oct 2026, with a 10 Nov federal due date. Run node --version and upgrade to 22.23.4, 24.22.1 or 26.12.1 or later.
SpaceX catches Starship's Super Heavy booster with the launch tower's 'chopstick' arms. Flight 15, reported as no earlier than 8 Nov 2026, aims to catch both the booster and the Ship for the first time. Both stages finished static fires 25–27 Oct; no FAA Flight 15 license is posted yet.
Apple refreshed the 24-inch iMac and entry 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 and gave the iPad mini an 8.5-inch OLED screen, A20 Pro and IP67. Pre-orders open 28 Oct 2026; deliveries start 6 Nov. Prices start at $1,499, $1,999 and $699.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says an internal Claude model found and chained critical bugs into five attacks, including one-click Chrome code execution and zero-click Linux root. Google's Chrome 156 (27 Oct 2026) ships 52 security fixes, several credited to Anthropic and Claude.
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on 27 Oct 2026, a world model that generates photorealistic, interactive scenes with native audio and real-time natural-language steering. It is in research preview for trusted testers, with Google AI Ultra and Gemini API early access coming soon.
On 26 Oct 2026 CISA added CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (php2shell) to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a 29 Oct due date for FCEB agencies. Honeypot evidence from 24 Oct showed working shells on unpatched PHP 8.4.26 under Apache mod_php.
