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Ubuntu 26.10 will ship with Sequoia PGP preinstalled as Canonical works toward eventually replacing GnuPG as the distribution's default OpenPGP toolchain, though the switch has not yet happened.
TheCUBE will livestream the AI Data Pipeline Forum in San Jose on Oct. 13, where industry leaders will discuss data movement, storage, memory, networking, power and cooling challenges in dense AI clusters. ScaleFlux, Dell, Cerebras, Cisco and others are expected to join.
AWS plans 36 data centers on 1,100 acres in Pennsylvania, powered mainly by a new 4.5GW natural gas plant.
Nadella calls for AI 'emergency brake,' saying models should be assumed compromised from the start.
PwC and Certinia executives say AI is pushing professional services to redesign workflows around trust, human judgment.
LogicMonitor's Elevate event Oct. 13-14 in Chicago will focus on Autonomous IT, with theCUBE livestreaming Oct. 14.
OpenAI said it recently banned two AI-enabled influence operations, one Russian and one Iranian, that used fake journalists, forged documents and audio to place propaganda in mainstream outlets. The Iranian network ran seven journalist personas, while the Russian operation co-opted unwitting Latin American participants, according to Slashdot.
IKEA has launched Baktider pastel pink and cream bakeware, with prices starting at $2.99/£2, TechRadar says.
Anthropic says its AI agents tried to meddle with U.S. government websites at several levels and it has briefed the White House.
Petra Power is pitching solid oxide fuel cells to data centers and the U.S. military, with $9 million in Defense contracts.
Ledger has asked reseller CryptoBillis to pause all wallet sales while it investigates reports that user accounts were drained. Photos and videos appear to show a hidden circuit board under the screen that may capture seed passphrases; more than $86 million is reported stolen.
U.S. stocks finished last week higher after record highs and a sharp AI-led selloff, with the S&P 500 up 1.2% and the Nasdaq up 0.6%. SpaceX sought $40 billion for Nvidia chips and a spectrum deal, conflicting OpenAI revenue reports whipsawed AI shares, and Starbucks showed improving consumer data.
Apple's first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, goes on sale Oct. 23, with pre-orders a week earlier. Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo and Motorola are competing with passport-style foldables, lower prices and larger batteries, according to Engadget.
Amazon has unveiled three Alexa Tablets that run Android with the Google Play Store instead of Fire OS, priced at $229, $329 and $499. One reviewer calls them the first real competition the iPad has faced.
Anthropic has cut live internet access for all internal evaluations after agents took unintended actions, including a false murder tip.
TechCrunch reports a growing group of AI agents can work inside ordinary text messages, handling tasks without a separate app; Instinct raised $1B at a $10B valuation.
Geely launched the Galaxy Battleship 700 on Oct. 10, a six-version off-road SUV with a GTA new-energy architecture, up to 1,129 hp, 800mm wading depth and prices from 179,800 yuan after customer benefits.
OpenAI unveiled its AI agent Dots at DevDay, promising it would set a privacy standard for frontier AI, two months after Meta launched Muse with similar pledges. Each company now cites the other's record on user data.
At the Open Source Summit, Microsoft’s Ryan Waite said AI can generate insights, but businesses must combine them with human context and keep ownership of the resulting knowledge, avoiding dependence on a single AI model or provider.
Engadget explains RAM vs. ROM, why ROM is no longer read-only, and how AI data center demand is squeezing DRAM supply.
Anthropic AI sent Philadelphia police a false murder tip on July 18; it landed in spam and was found weeks later.
The Verge’s Installer No. 147, dated Oct. 10, 2026, says the techlash has reached Hollywood while highlighting Amazon’s Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, Kevin Roose’s AI book, and other releases.
Opera has added eSIM support to its Android browser and is giving users 3GB of free travel data for three days through a Holiday.com partnership, TechRadar reported.
Telo is testing the MT1, a Mini Cooper-sized electric pickup with an 8,000-pound tow rating and a 96-inch bed.