October 2026

Ukraine’s unprecedented drone rescue of a wounded soldier from the battlefield has shown once again how battlefield necessity can spur innovation. The operation was revealed just days after separate Ukrainian drones designed for casualty evacuation were deployed for frontline testing—taking a step beyond the US military’s decades of experimentation with similar concepts. The drone evacuation […]

It has been 13 years since the debut of a new medium-lift rocket in the United States, the Antares vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation. The initial 100-series variant of the Antares rocket was kind of a hot mess. The rocket used old Soviet engines built during the era when Apollo astronauts were landing on

TP-Link yesterday announced plans to assemble Wi-Fi routers in the US, as the company attempts to get the Trump administration’s approval to sell its newest routers to American consumers. The timing is uncertain, as TP-Link’s press release said it expects US-based assembly to begin “as early as” 2027. TP-Link’s application to sell new routers in

Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic’s Claude AI to help build ArtCraft, an open-source project featuring seven free alternatives to Adobe’s creative software. The post One Developer Used Claude AI to Build 7 Free Adobe Alternatives appeared first on TechRepublic.

Meta’s new Muse AI agent reportedly went beyond handling messages on Facebook Marketplace—it negotiated with a buyer, shared a pickup location, and told them the seller was home. The post Meta AI Agent Sent a Facebook Marketplace Buyer to a Seller’s Home appeared first on TechRepublic.

Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet. As of late morning Tuesday, browser makers and some major apps and programming languages had blocked

Anthropic just made its most powerful Claude model cheaper and faster. Claude Opus 5.5 costs 20% less than Opus 5, while Anthropic says some long-running AI workloads could cost around 40% less and output can be generated more than 30% faster. The post Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra- Anthropic’s New AI Model Explained appeared

OpenBSD 8.0 is here, marking the project’s 61st release and continuing its schedule of semiannual releases dating back to 1996. What started more than 30 years ago as a fork of NetBSD has grown into one of the most security-conscious operating systems in active development. In a post to the project’s announcements mailing list, OpenBSD

Google kicked off 2026 with the addition of Personal Intelligence to Gemini, allowing its AI to pull in more of your data to formulate answers. It started as a paid feature but eventually came to all Gemini users. However, this feature wasn’t available in the car until now. Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence to

Hoping to quell criticism, Meta has dropped the word “train” from its “streamlined” commercial terms of service that kick in on October 30. Last week, Meta faced backlash after legal experts warned that the tech giant’s sweeping new commercial terms of service seemed to give Meta permission to endlessly scrape websites linked on business pages.