A Brooklyn midterm event showed data centers and AI emerging as ballot-box issues, as residents raised local control, environmental risks and accountability, while a Data Center Watch report cited nearly $200 billion in projects delayed or blocked in the first half of 2026.
Amazon reported 12% revenue growth to $201.9bn for Q3, while AWS revenue rose 39% to $46bn and operating income increased. The company said AI spending drove a negative $42.4bn free cash flow and plans higher 2027 capital outlays, with AWS expected to grow over 40% in 2027 and 2028.
The Redox team has completed its grant-funded phase to add io_uring-like ring buffer support at the system-task level, including a liburing-inspired API, shared-memory queues, and an async executor for drivers. Benchmarks reported the redox_ring interface as 14-15x faster than synchronous system calls.
A database engineer explains why a CPU showing 100% utilization can still be stalled waiting on memory, since a single RAM access may cost hundreds of instructions. Rewriting a GROUP BY aggregation with radix partitioning shrank the working hash tables, cutting memory stalls and runtime.
Linux released fixes for CVE-2026-98432, a critical IPv4 TCP handshake use-after-free that can expose kernel memory, corrupt it, or crash a host; Anthropic reported a Claude-built root exploit requiring a multipath TCP listener. As of October 29, Ubuntu and some Red Hat and Amazon Linux kernels remained unfixed.
The Liberals have named financial planner Joy O'Donnell as their candidate in Brantford-Brant South, one of six federal byelections Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call soon, possibly for a vote in early December. Pastor Dave Carrol, bypassed in the Conservative nomination process, is running as an independent.
Cloudflare's closed beta of a post-quantum GeoKey Manager uses HPKE with a hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519 KEM to protect region-bound decryption keys. It replaces attribute-based encryption for existing Data Localization Suite customers, with general availability planned for early 2027.
Leo de Moura, creator of Lean and an AWS scientist, discusses how AI is making formal verification more practical for software and mathematics. He describes machine-checked proofs, Rust verification through Aeneas, and the need to ensure AI-built Lean models faithfully represent code.
GCC lowers switch statements using several strategies, including jump tables, comparison trees and bit-test bitsets, as shown through compiled examples. The article examines the compiler's heuristics, suggesting jump tables become worthwhile around eight entries per case label.
Researchers demonstrated that a crafted public ChatGPT conversation could execute attacker-supplied JavaScript inside a signed-in visitor's session, allowing enumeration of private chats and exfiltration of message content. OpenAI addressed the flaw on October 26 and rated the report P1.
A reporter spent a five-day vacation testing Apple's iPhone Duo alongside an iPhone 17 Pro Max, encountering app issues, Touch ID frustration, and camera limitations. Despite those drawbacks, the foldable device's durability and novelty ultimately won the writer over.
Researchers found that the gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis toxin BFT attaches to claudin-4 on colon cells before damaging E-cadherin, according to a Nature study from Johns Hopkins. A molecular decoy carrying claudin-4 sequences protected mice from toxin-induced damage, though human testing and cancer prevention remain unproven.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said most of AWS’s large committed cloud capacity is sold out through 2027, with some 2028 capacity allocated and headroom kept for On Demand, EC2 and Bedrock. Analysts and developers questioned whether this means ordinary EC2 instances are hard to obtain, while some reported constraints on on-demand and Kubernetes clusters.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the Q3 2026 earnings call that in two to three years, six to eight AI models may be good enough for most workloads, leaving customers to choose among them. He pointed to Amazon Bedrock's multi-model catalog and said it is the fastest-growing multibillion-dollar product in AWS history.
Researchers describe malware that encodes data into radio emissions generated by a computer's memory buses, letting an attacker with software-defined radio hardware and an ordinary antenna intercept information from an air-gapped machine. The paper reports a 1,000-bit-per-second leakage method and proposes countermeasures.
AWS released File Mover Express, an Apache 2.0 open-source application for shifting sizable files between local machines and Amazon S3. The Go and TypeScript tool provides parallel chunked transfers, pause/resume, checksums, a daemon-based engine, and packages for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
In three max-effort tests, GPT-6.1 Terra tied Claude Opus 5.5 on release triage, led on cell-lineage tracking, and finished a CI audit Opus did not complete. Terra's uncached token cost was estimated at $25.99, compared with $214.96 for Opus, though the single-run synthetic results do not establish repeatability or a general ranking.
Hacktron reported that a crafted email address gave any registered GNU Savannah user code execution, enabling the group to gain superuser status and impersonate Bash's maintainer. It said an unpatched kernel yielded root access, and that it could have added a push-capable SSH key to the upstream Bash repository; the FSF was notified on May 11, 2026.
The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance surveyed congressional candidates in three U.S. House races on arts and humanities issues, including federal arts funding, national parks and historic preservation. All responding candidates backed maintaining Section 106 protections, while they differed on specific arts programs.
Raymond Robinson, a 62-year-old Muni bus operator, has driven San Francisco routes for 26 years and was among 179 drivers honored by the SFMTA with a Safe Driver Award, an honor he has received 17 years running. In 2023 he became a line trainer, coaching new drivers on navigating the city’s hills.
A compiler-optimization study shows signed 32-bit division by constants can often use a 33-bit multiplier without compilers' extra correction step, shortening the dependency chain on 64-bit systems. Benchmarks on Intel and Apple processors report lower latency for affected divisors and a branchless fastmod update.
Brazilian labor judges sanctioned two lawyers and their firms after the lawyers hid a prompt-injection instruction in a filing, seeking to make the court’s AI review system treat the petition superficially. The court cited procedural good-faith duties and imposed a fine equal to 10% of the R$842,000 claim.
Katie Suarez, 28, was stabbed in the neck on a Brooklyn waterfront promenade Friday night in an apparent random attack near Bath Beach. The bank teller was declared brain dead Saturday, and neighbors remembered her as family-oriented and kind.
The New York Rangers plan to reshuffle their lines for Sunday’s game against Edmonton at Madison Square Garden, hoping to end a three-game losing streak and spark their offense. Pavel Dorofeyev moves to the top line with Mika Zibanejad and Alexis Lafrenière, while Gabe Perreault shifts to the third line.
UC San Diego researchers found a biological pathway involving Ral and CTSA that depletes liver LDL receptors, helping explain how high-cholesterol diets impair cholesterol clearance. A previously safety-tested CTSA inhibitor could advance to Phase 2 trials, though it has not yet been shown to lower cholesterol in people.
