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For the first time, SAP’s quarterly revenue topped €10 billion: third-quarter total revenue came to €10.27 billion, up 13% and up 12% at constant currencies. Cloud revenue rose 26% to €6.67 billion, or 25% at constant currencies, and current cloud backlog reached €24.1 billion, up 28% and 26% at constant currencies, according to the company’s

IBM reported third-quarter revenue of $17.1 billion, up 5% from a year earlier and up 6% at constant currency, with growth led by software and infrastructure. The company kept its forecast for full-year constant-currency revenue growth of 4% to 5% and raised its free cash flow outlook, saying it now expects free cash flow to

Claude Duet, now in a research preview, is Anthropic’s new app in which Claude works as a proactive agent for professionals and small business owners. Access is by waitlist, starting with Pro and Max subscribers in the U.S., and the app runs on iOS, Android and claude.ai. Anthropic said Duet is powered by Claude Opus

AI providers and proponents received a harsh dose of reality, with the latest information showing the industry is facing a whopping $4.9 trillion shortfall. AI proponents have long touted the demand for AI services as the necessary key to profitability, as well as the overall survival of the industry. Unfortunately, it seems the demand may

SentinelOne on Oct. 21, 2026, at its OneCon customer conference in Las Vegas unveiled Singularity ASOC (Autonomous Security Operations Center), an integrated suite the company says ties real-time data ingestion, agentic investigation and automated response into one governed loop. The stack runs on Purple Security Superintelligence and the Singularity Platform, with analysts setting the limits

System76, the makers of Linux-compatible computers and the COSMIC desktop environment, has released the latest version of COSMIC, COSMIC Epoch 1.11. The latest version of COSMIC brings a number of improvements, including xdg-dialog-v1 for improved modal dialogs under Wayland, the replacement for the aging X11 window system. The company’s GitHub release notes says the change

GNOME’s Mutter compositor has merged a fix that stops needless GPU rendering while a monitor is asleep in power-saving mode. The 17-patch set was merged on October 19, 2026, Phoronix reported, and should ship in GNOME 51.2. The work traces to a bug report filed about a month earlier against GNOME 51, which described high

Canonical released Multipass 1.17 on October 19, 2026, adding built-in support for Debian and Fedora images alongside Ubuntu, plus new virtualization drivers for Windows and macOS. Multipass launches Linux virtual machines with a single command on Windows, macOS and Linux. Until now it centered on Ubuntu instances. Debian and Fedora join Ubuntu The new distribution

Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau on Monday, October 19, posted a reworked version of Linus Torvalds’ AI-assisted patches that let Linux read from the page cache without taking folio references. The 18-patch request for comments, “mm: read the page cache without folio references,” combines seven patches by Torvalds with 11 of Shutsemau’s own and shows large