Google has successfully powered up its first experimental orbital data center satellite and received an AI response from space. The prototype, part of Project Suncatcher, is now online and communicating with ground stations after launching earlier in October 2026. The satellite, built in partnership with Planet Labs, carries four of Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).…

Anthropic has updated its Claude AI tools to stop users from recreating specific existing video games. The change, which rolled out quietly around October 27, 2026, is aimed at preventing intellectual property infringement through AI-assisted coding. The new rule was first noticed by users examining Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding-focused tool that runs on the Opus…

Microsoft is giving roughly 60,000 employees the option to leave the company voluntarily. That works out to about a quarter of its global workforce of around 223,000 people. The program, officially called the Voluntary Exit Offer, was announced in late October 2026 by Chief People Officer Amy Coleman in an internal memo that was later…

In one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts ever recorded, hackers drained roughly $6.3–$6.4 billion from Binance in a rapid attack that unfolded mostly within about 20–30 minutes. The FBI has attributed the breach to North Korean operatives, specifically a group known as TraderTraitor (also linked to the Lazarus Group), which has a long history of…

OpenAI is juggling two major stories right now: a serious security overhaul that temporarily paused training on its most advanced models, and talks for a new fundraising round that could value the company at $1.25 trillion. Both moves say a lot about where the company stands heading into the final stretch of 2026. The Security…

SpaceX isn’t just beaming internet from space anymore. It’s making a serious push to become a full-blown mobile carrier in the United States. According to a Bloomberg report, SpaceX is in talks to secure access to at least 80,000 cell sites across the country. That number is big enough to put it in the same…

Amazon Web Services just confirmed what a lot of people in the industry have been feeling: the AI boom has completely outrun the cloud’s ability to keep up. On a podcast with Andreessen Horowitz, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said AWS capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with significant commitments already stretching into 2028. He…

If you run anything that touches PHP, this is one of those “drop everything and check” moments. On October 21, 2026, the PHP project pushed emergency updates for two serious vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. People are calling them “php2shell.” Both score a 9.2 on the CVSS scale, and both can let an attacker run code…