On Thursday, October 15, 2026, Microsoft announced that months of under-the-hood work on Windows 11 are now rolling out broadly, delivering what the company calls a Windows experience that is up to 20% more responsive across Start, File Explorer, Search, Settings, Snipping Tool, Microsoft 365 and Edge. The update leans heavily on smarter memory management, […]
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If your organization runs Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS), this is the week to drop everything: on Tuesday, October 13, Ivanti disclosed CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass by spoofing with a CVSS score of 8.6 that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker execute arbitrary commands on the VPN appliance, and it had already been exploited as a […]
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Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday landed on Tuesday, October 13, and it is a monster: according to Microsoft, as reported by SecurityWeek and Dark Reading, the release resolves a record 1,413 CVEs, which means Microsoft patched more vulnerabilities this month alone than it did in all of 2025 and pushed its 2026 running total past […]
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Korean researchers have developed an electrolyte that roughly triples the cycle life of high-voltage lithium metal batteries using nothing more exotic than two inexpensive, commercially available solvents. Announced on October 12, 2026 by a team led by Professor Song Hyun-kon of UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) and Professor Seo Dong-hwa of KAIST, […]
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A Cornell University-led team has reported a semiconductor with a bandgap exceeding 7.0 electronvolts (eV), wider than cubic boron nitride, the next-widest-bandgap semiconductor known. Published in Nature on October 7, 2026, the work shows that silicon-doped α-(AlxGa1−x)2O3, an alloy of aluminum and gallium oxides, can be grown as a conductive film on inexpensive sapphire and […]
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In a study published in Nature Physics in October 2026, researchers from Rutgers University, IBM and several collaborating institutions showed that a quantum computer can watch what is happening inside itself and react while it is still running. Using a chain of up to 100 qubits on a 156-qubit IBM Quantum Heron processor, the team […]
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Attackers forced refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French supermarkets into continuous defrost, pushing temperatures to 50°C. Here’s how exposed Danfoss and XWEB controllers made it possible and what admins should do now.
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CFET + GaN (Complementary FET with Gallium Nitride channels) is a forward-looking combination of vertical transistor stacking and ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductors designed to merge logic density with extreme switching speed and efficiency. While it’s still largely in the research and prototyping phase, there are several published and demonstrated examples from major semiconductor R&D groups and labs […]
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Microfluidic cooling is one of the most fascinating upcoming technologies for breaking through CPU thermal limits — it literally routes liquid coolant through microscopic channels inside the silicon package (or even within the silicon die itself). Here are some real-world examples and prototypes to illustrate how it works and what’s coming: 1. IBM & ETH […]
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As of July 2025, internet speeds in the United States have seen steady improvement, driven by the expanding deployment of fiber-optic infrastructure. The national average download speed has reached 214 Mbps, reflecting a 9% year-over-year increase from 196 Mbps in 2023, according to recent analyses of speed test data. This growth highlights a shift toward […]
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