Google released TorchTPU, its native PyTorch stack for Google TPUs, as open source on GitHub on October 20, 2026, and shipped version 1.0 of llm-d, an open-source distributed inference stack that runs on Kubernetes. Both were announced at PyTorch Conference 2026, according to a Google Cloud blog post by Mark Lohmeyer, vice president and general

A team of three Google DeepMind researchers and University of Maryland plasma physicist Matt Landreman used Google’s Gemini 4 Argon to extend a set of exact solutions for the magnetic fields inside stellarator fusion reactors, solutions that had only recently overturned a conjecture Harold Grad posed in 1967. The work, posted to arXiv on Oct.

People 60 and over told the Federal Trade Commission they lost about $3 billion to fraud in 2025, five times the roughly $600 million they reported in 2020, according to the agency’s annual report to Congress, released Monday, Oct. 19. Investment scams were again the costliest type by far, with losses up 42% to more

The refrigeration dashboards that attackers abused at French supermarkets on the night of Oct. 11 had been sitting open on the internet for at least six months, according to an analysis of internet scans published by IPinfo on Monday. In its Oct. 6-7 sweep, five days before the attack, IPinfo found 2,528 addresses showing a

Cloudflare and VoidZero are taking on tsrs, an experimental port of the TypeScript compiler to Rust, and will develop it as part of the Oxc JavaScript compiler toolchain, Cloudflare said in a blog post on October 20, 2026. The companies are working with Max Schwenk of Owner.com, who started the port, and said the work

Google and McKinsey have agreed to buy 320,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits over 10 years from Working Trees, a company that plants trees on cattle pasture in Brazil. The Symbiosis Coalition announced the long-term purchase agreements on Monday, Oct. 19. Working Trees is converting degraded cattle pasture into mixed-species systems across Brazil’s southeastern

Hobbyist developers are using AI coding assistants to build custom firmware for synthesizers, samplers, grooveboxes and effects pedals, and the releases have piled up since September. The Verge reported on Monday, Oct. 19, that almost all of the new firmware was made possible by vibe-coding tools. Before large language models, such mods were rare. They

Subaru plans to launch software-defined vehicles in the second half of this decade, the Japanese automaker said at a development strategy briefing on Sunday, Oct. 18, at its research center in Sano, north of Tokyo, Reuters reported. The vehicles will get over-the-air updates for driver-assistance, automated-driving and vehicle performance functions. To support them, Subaru will

Microsoft on Monday, October 19, 2026, announced new security features that treat AI agents as potential insider threats. The tools continuously assess each agent’s risk and can restrict what it is allowed to do when that risk rises. The features are part of Microsoft 365 E7 and the company’s Project Perception security system. GeekWire reported

Salesforce has agreed to acquire customer engagement platform Braze for approximately $5.66 billion in enterprise value, the companies announced on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. Holders of Braze Class A common stock will receive $47.50 in cash per share, according to the Salesforce announcement. Braze, which trades on Nasdaq under BRZE, sells software that marketers use