What happened in tech, summarised and sourced.
Google's 27 October Chrome 156 update patches 52 vulnerabilities, including four Critical ones in FileSystem, FileAPI, Skia and Layout; here is how to check your version.
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SK hynix posted record third-quarter results on 28 October, with revenue above 100 trillion won for the first time as HBM4 shipments ramped.
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Apple says the CoreGraphics bug may have been used in a targeted attack; iOS 18.7.11 and iPadOS 18.7.11 bring the fix to older iPhones and iPads.
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Google's optional program gives third-party app stores one-tap installs and background updates, in exchange for a fee, full catalogue scanning and a long list of rules.
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A buffer overflow in the open-source UEFI code behind most server firmware can run attacker code during network boot; the fix is in the source tree, but vendor firmware updates are still awaited.
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DeepMind's Genie 4 generates steerable interactive worlds with built-in sound; it is a trusted-tester preview with no price or date for wider access.
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Cyberdione Labs published 11 findings against Tailscale 1.104.2 and headscale 0.29.5; Tailscale calls them serious, has no fixed version yet, and offers a forwarding workaround.
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Apple's M6 brings 12 CPU and GPU cores to the iMac and 14-inch MacBook Pro, with pre-orders on 28 October and availability on 6 November.
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Microsoft's 26 October out-of-band update strips six eMudhra roots and one cross-sign from Windows' trust list; it is for PCs that can't get certificate updates automatically.
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OpenAI published a paper and Lean proof claiming a subexponential algorithm that refutes ETH, a 1999 hardness assumption behind hundreds of papers; nobody outside has verified it yet.
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Microsoft and Meta announced the Type Server Protocol on 21 October 2026, letting VS Code's Pylance use Pyrefly instead of Pyright; here is how it works and how to enable it.
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Release 1.107.0 of the AI gateway LiteLLM carried a credential stealer for about 1 hour 44 minutes on 21 October; LiteLLM's analysis traces it to a master key leaked in May.
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A buffer overflow in Google's Brotli decoder, nicknamed Node2Shell, is being fixed in Node.js, .NET, Python and other software that bundles it; here is what to update and how to check.
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