Micron is skipping the memory layout its Chinese rival is bragging about. Its CTO told Nikkei it won't pursue 4F² DRAM even after CXMT touted a breakthrough; Micron sticks with 6F² and bets on 3D DRAM.
Two roads to denser memory.
#Micron #CXMT
Micron won't pursue 4F-squared memory chips despite CXMT's advance: CTO
US manufacturer sticks with 6F-squared and 3D DRAM even as Chinese rival touts breakthrough
s.nikkei.com/4i0r6Fv
After the Starlink slowdowns in Ukraine, Europeans started asking about the US tech they rely on. Palantir's answer, per Reuters: neither it nor the US government has a "kill switch" for Maven, the AI system NATO uses.
A promise, not a proof.
#Palantir #NATO
Palantir says that neither the company nor the US government has a "kill switch" for its Maven platform that NATO uses, after Ukraine's Starlink disruptions (@andrew_r_gray / Reuters)
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Source: Reuters, Andrew Gray in Brussels: reuters.com/business/media-t…
The Duo isn't out yet and the fix for its most-complained-about flaw is already in testing. Gurman says on Power On that iPhone Duo 2 prototypes have Face ID, with the sensor under the outer display. Reviewers' top gripe this week: going back to Touch ID.
#iPhoneDuo #Apple
Gurman: iPhone Duo 2 prototypes with Face ID are already being tested inside Apple 9to5mac.com/2026/10/22/gurma… by @bzamayo
Barclays is planning 5,000 job cuts as it steps up its use of AI, the FT reports.
That's the headline; the piece is paywalled, so no detail yet on which roles or over what period. Worth watching for the bank's own statement.
#Barclays #AI
Barclays plans 5,000 job cuts as bank steps up AI adoption ft.trib.al/VXYIHDH
8 intermediate CA keys are now distrusted in Go 1.27.3 and 1.26.10: crypto/x509 Verify drops chains containing them (CVE-2026-111943).
Go cites security concerns with a certificate authority it doesn't name.
"We highly recommend immediately upgrading."
#Golang #Security #TLS
👩🏽🔬 Go 1.27.3 and 1.26.10 are released!
🔐 Security: Includes 1 security fixes to the standard library.
🗣 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-a…
📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.27.3
#golang
Update: the CA is India's eMudhra. Its eight intermediate certs had private keys of 3 to 8 bits, vs ~384 for a normal P-384 key, per Ars Technica.
Mozilla blocked them within 3 hours of the Oct 17 report; Ars says Edge hadn't yet. No misuse reported.
Cloudflare's CEO put numbers on how fast PHP2Shell got weaponized: thousands of exploit attempts in the 10 hours before disclosure, tens of thousands within 45 minutes after, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, millions now. Patch if you haven't.
#Cloudflare #PHP2Shell
Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
The FT has picked this up: companies and governments racing to patch, with warnings mounting about hackers exploiting flaws that were found with AI in the first place. Paywalled, but the framing matters: AI-found bugs are now a mainstream security story. ft.com/content/d438af1e-a48c…
OpenAI's GPT-Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are coming to Google Cloud's model garden, billed via its Marketplace.
Google says it's now the only hyperscaler with all three leading closed LLMs. Per CNBC, OpenAI is now on all top 3 clouds.
Who gains more?
#OpenAI #GoogleCloud
OpenAI to bring AI models to Google's cloud, in further expansion beyond Microsoft cnbc.com/2026/10/21/openai-b…
iPhone Duo reviews are in, and they split it in two. Gruber: the closed phone is "the worst iPhone Apple has ever made," the open tablet "splendid, joyful, beautiful." The Verge gives it a 7: "a messy, expensive, good time." Engadget: "a first-class foldable."
#iPhoneDuo #Apple
iPhone Duo review: the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made, while the inner device is a splendid tablet with a UI that bests the iPad's (@gruber / Daring Fireball)
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The two reviews worth your time, if you read only two: Gruber's at Daring Fireball daringfireball.net/2026/10/t… and Nilay Patel's at The Verge theverge.com/tech/1015028/ip…
Microsoft says Storm-0940, a China-state aligned group, used ARTEX, an open-source agentic AI pentest tool, to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations since September.
It also ties the group to the recent ConnectWise supply chain compromise.
#Microsoft #Cybersecurity
SoftBank's stock has given back about half its value since June's peak, per Bloomberg. Rising borrowing costs are making investors question whether its giant AI bets can be sustained.
A sentiment number, not a results number. Son's AI wave gets a stress test.
#SoftBank #AI
SoftBank Group Corp.’s market value is poised to halve from its peak in June, as higher borrowing costs fuel investor concerns over the sustainability of its massive investments in artificial intelligence. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Also from the call: Tesla will start selling Cybercab to customers by year-end, per TechCrunch. VP Lars Moravy said it will "start small"; today's Cybercabs all go to Tesla's own fleet.
US regulators are still probing whether it meets safety standards.
techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/te…
A Malaysian name in Japan's AI-memory push: Nikkei reports chip designer SkyeChip joined a SoftBank-backed project to build next-generation memory for AI, which also involves Intel.
Small company, big table, as the memory race spreads past Korea and the US.
#SkyeChip #SoftBank
Malaysia's SkyeChip joins SoftBank-backed AI memory project in Japan s.nikkei.com/3UAPUuO
Ask an LLM a neutral culture question and it often picks Japan. A Basque Country and Cardiff study tested 8 frontier models on 31,680 questions in 24 languages: Japan was the top foreign pick for 6 of 8.
Signs appear after fine-tuning, not pretraining.
#LLM #EMNLP2026
Source: arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2604.21751
Microsoft's Xinzhi Zhang and Zhao Song proved the KLS conjecture, open since 1995 in high-dimensional geometry.
AI agents explored 100+ approaches; the researchers chose directions and verified the proof. Unguided AI runs on a similar budget fell short.
#Microsoft #Math
Source: Microsoft Research: microsoft.com/en-us/research…
