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BreakingIvanti Connect Secure flaw CVE-2026-104935 is being actively exploited, CISA warns
CISA added the Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 13, 2026, with a federal remediation deadline of October 16, 2026.
CISA
AWS Lambda Launches Lambda Web Functions for HTTP Requests
Amazon Web Services launched Lambda Web Functions, letting serverless code handle HTTP requests directly using familiar frameworks without custom adapters.
Amazon Web Services
GA Telesis Acquires Three Airbus A320neo Airframes to Expand Aftermarket
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Crypto’s top 10 movers this week (Oct 7–13, 2026): Starknet leads with +72.4%
The 10 biggest weekly gainers and losers among the 100 largest cryptocurrencies.
CoinGecko
Research Radar, October 13, 2026: 3 new AI and computing papers to know
The most relevant new AI and computing research from Nature, with the authors' own summaries and links to the papers.
Nature
NASA JPL Tests Voyager Technologies Lunar Lander for Moon Mission
Voyager Technologies’ Griffin-1 lander finished rigorous testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ahead of a lunar mission later this year.
NASA
Crypto Market Watch, October 13, 2026: Bitcoin at $83,243, up 0.7% in 24 hours
Prices and market caps for the 10 largest cryptocurrencies as of October 13, 2026, 12:58 UTC.
CoinGecko
Advasa Sets Multi-Year Revenue Goals for Fintech Platform
Advasa Holdings announced financial targets aiming for USD 632.91 million in consolidated revenue by March 2031.
Company filings with the US SEC
SpaceX Launches 35th Resupply Mission to Space Station
NASA and SpaceX launched a resupply mission carrying over 6,300 pounds of cargo and the final solar arrays to the International Space Station.
NASA
Vulnerability Watch, October 13, 2026: 34 critical CVEs and 14 new vendor and CERT advisories
Every critical-severity CVE NIST published in the past day, plus the latest advisories from national CERTs and vendors.
NIST
IonQ Agrees to Acquire Elisity for Up to $1.3 Billion
IonQ announced a definitive agreement to acquire Zero Trust security firm Elisity in an all-stock deal valued up to $1.3 billion.
Company filings with the US SEC
FormFactor and Teradyne Form Semiconductor Test Collaboration
FormFactor and Teradyne announced a strategic collaboration and a $300 million equity investment to advance semiconductor testing for AI and high-performance computing.
Company filings with the US SEC
NVIDIA Highlights French Ecosystem Deploying Agentic Computing
French companies across space, finance, and research are deploying sovereign AI infrastructure and agentic computing using NVIDIA technology.
NVIDIAMost read
- NVIDIA Launches Gears of War: E-Day on GeForce NOW
- Vulnerability Watch, October 12, 2026: 4 critical CVEs and 9 new vendor and CERT advisories
- XBOX Launches XP Division to Expand Games into Film and TV
- ESMA Seeks Evidence on Tokenised Collateral in Clearing
- Italian DPA Fines BBVA EUR 5 508 000 Over Direct Marketing
- Italian DPA Fines Wind Tre EUR 16 700 000 For Data Violations
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Tracker →CVE-2026-96951Microsoft Windows flaw CVE-2026-96951 is being actively exploited, CISA warnsCVE-2026-104935Ivanti Connect Secure flaw CVE-2026-104935 is being actively exploited, CISA warnsCVE-2015-3306ProFTPD flaw CVE-2015-3306 is being actively exploited, CISA warnsCVE-2016-3081Apache Struts flaw CVE-2016-3081 is being actively exploited, CISA warnsCVE-2015-5477ISC BIND flaw CVE-2015-5477 is being actively exploited, CISA warnsCVE-2021-3199ONLYOFFICE Docs flaw CVE-2021-3199 is being actively exploited, CISA warns
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AWS GuardDuty Adds Five Indicators for Attack Sequences
Amazon Web Services updated GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection to correlate weak security signals into critical attack sequence findings.
Amazon Web Services
Vulnerability Watch, October 12, 2026: 4 critical CVEs and 9 new vendor and CERT advisories
Every critical-severity CVE NIST published in the past day, plus the latest advisories from national CERTs and vendors.
NIST
Top 10 vulnerabilities of the week (Oct 6–12, 2026): 5 actively exploited
This week's 10 most urgent vulnerabilities, including 5 CISA confirmed as actively exploited, ranked from CISA and NIST data.
CISA
Vulnerability Watch, October 11, 2026: 4 critical CVEs and 0 new vendor and CERT advisories
Every critical-severity CVE NIST published in the past day, plus the latest advisories from national CERTs and vendors.
NIST
LanthaGen Bio Wins £100k Coller AI Competition for E-Waste AI Platform
LanthaGen Bio Ltd secured a £100,000 equity investment at The University of Manchester for its AI platform recovering valuable metals from electronic waste.
University of Manchester
Meta Details System for Using Idle AI Inference in Ads
Meta outlines an engineering system that uses idle inference capacity to improve ad recommendations through two elasticity levers.
Meta
Chad Advances National Artificial Intelligence Strategy With UN Support
Chad held a pre-validation workshop to advance its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, focusing on priority sectors through 2035.
UN Economic Commission for Africa
Google Cloud Launches TimesFM 3.0 Preview for BigQuery
Google Cloud released TimesFM 3.0 in BigQuery, bringing 330-million parameter multivariate time-series forecasting to enterprise SQL workflows.
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Meta Deploys Media over QUIC for Instagram Live Ingest
Meta has transitioned Instagram Live ingest on iOS and Android to the open standard Media over QUIC transport protocol.
Meta
Google Cloud Announces Looker Data Apps in Preview
Google Cloud introduced Looker Data Apps in preview to combine AI-generated web applications with enterprise governance.
Google Cloud
AMD Introduces Helion Agentic AI Rack-Scale Architecture
AMD announced its Helion agentic AI rack platform designed to give partners flexible configurations for varying AI workloads.
AMD
Supabase Releases Unified .NET SDK Version 8 With Single Repository
Supabase released version 8 of its .NET SDK, unifying all packages into a single repository with lockstep versioning and a new dependency injection extension.
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MIT Drone Trajectory Planner Guarantees Collision-Free Flight
MIT researchers developed SANDO, an autonomous trajectory planner that mathematically guarantees drones will avoid moving obstacles in unmapped environments.
MIT
CMU Researchers Win DOE Genesis Mission Awards for AI Tools
Carnegie Mellon researchers will develop AI tools for particle physics and fusion energy in Phase II of the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission.
Carnegie Mellon University
Linux Kernel Report Details Three Decades of Open Source Impact
The Linux Foundation released a report detailing the kernel's impact, growth, and evolution across global infrastructure.
Linux Foundation
MIT Researchers Track Evolution of AI Hardware in Ongoing Survey
MIT researchers document the evolution of commercial AI accelerators through an ongoing survey to help guide hardware choices.
MITSpace
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ESA Astronaut Sophie Adenot Returns From Record ISS Mission
European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot has returned to Earth following a 237-day mission on the International Space Station.
ESA
ESA Astronaut Sophie Adenot Returns From Record Space Mission
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot returned to Earth after 237 days on the International Space Station, setting a new European record for single-spaceflight duration.
ESA
NASA SPHEREx Space Telescope Analyzes Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs
New spectral observations by NASA's SPHEREx telescope reveal water, methane, and carbon oxides in the atmospheres of dozens of brown dwarfs.
NASA
Galaxia and Maritime Launch Partner on Spaceport Safety System
Atlantic Canadian companies are collaborating to build an autonomous flight safety system for Spaceport Nova Scotia.
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Crypto Market Watch, October 12, 2026: Bitcoin at $82,729, down 0.4% in 24 hours
Prices and market caps for the 10 largest cryptocurrencies as of October 12, 2026, 12:58 UTC.
CoinGecko
Crypto token offerings this week (Oct 5–11, 2026): 5 white papers in the EU register
This week in the EU's official MiCA register of crypto token offerings: 5 crypto-asset white papers.
European Securities and Markets Authority
Crypto Market Watch, October 11, 2026: Bitcoin at $83,032, up 0.4% in 24 hours
Prices and market caps for the 10 largest cryptocurrencies as of October 11, 2026, 12:58 UTC.
CoinGecko
BTQ Technologies Partners With MoonPay Korea for Stablecoins
BTQ will provide post-quantum security for MoonPay Korea's stablecoin infrastructure under a new partnership announced October 9, 2026.
Company filings with the US SECBusiness
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HCLTech and Anthropic Sign Global Partnership for Agentic AI
HCLTech and Anthropic partnered globally to scale agentic AI and governance solutions for enterprises.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
GoDaddy Faces Securities Fraud Lawsuit Over Growth Strategy
Investors who suffered losses in GoDaddy Inc. have until October 20, 2026, to lead a class action lawsuit.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
SAP Launches SAP Pay and Expands AI Tools for Finance
SAP has launched an embedded payment service called SAP Pay and expanded its Joule AI assistants to automate enterprise finance workflows and consolidation.
SAP
HCLTech and Anthropic Partner to Scale Governed Agentic AI
HCLTech and Anthropic announced a global partnership on October 12, 2026, to scale governed Agentic AI solutions for enterprise environments.
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WIPO Names First City of Innovation Award Winners
WIPO has named Charleroi, Liverpool and Shanghai as the inaugural winners of its new City of Innovation awards program.
WIPO
UK Minister Outlines AI Security Strategy and Model Testing
The UK government unveiled new AI safety measures, including model evaluations and cyber defense programs.
UK Government
Italian DPA Fines Wind Tre EUR 16 700 000 For Data Violations
The Italian Data Protection Authority penalized Wind Tre S.p.A. for unlawful telemarketing, unauthorized contract activations, and multiple GDPR breaches.
EDPB
Bank of England Conducts Sector-Wide Cloud Outage Simulation
The Cross-Market Operational Resilience Group completed SIMEX26, testing the UK financial sector's response to global cloud service disruptions.
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