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28th October 2026 - Link Blog GitHub Octoverse 2026. I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark r

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Long-term customer contracts and rising chip prices point to a change in how memory manufacturers manage multi-year production capacity and capex. The post SK Hynix Reports Record Q3 Results Driven by AI Memory Surge appeared first on EE Times.

Your pay, energy bills and savings: How the Budget affects you - Published Families facing cost-of-living pressures are being offered some help, or "breathing space" as Chancellor John Healey is calling it. The help comes as prices are rising faster than expected with annual ener

Your pay, energy bills and savings: How the Budget affects you - Published Families facing cost-of-living pressures are being offered some help, or "breathing space" as Chancellor John Healey is calling it. The help comes as prices are rising faster than expected with annual ener

Artificial Analysis Ranks Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 in Video AI Benchmark Artificial Analysis just rolled out AA-Video-I2V v2.1, a 1080p image-to-video benchmark with 58,000+ blind human votes across 10 use cases and 10 capabilities. - Artificial Analysis launched AA-Video-I2V

Data Igloo wants to develop a data center in Ruapehu

Foreign holdings of India's index-linked bonds tumble to over 4-month low - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 22:07 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 22:07 IST Surging global crude prices, rising US Treasury yields, and domestic rate uncertainty are accelerating overseas capital outfl

If there’s one rule for surviving the AI tech shift, it’s that your learning curve can never plateau. As artificial intelligence reshapes industries and job requirements, IT professionals must keep upgrading their skills and adapting to changing business needs, said Karnataka IT

Off the Wire Press Releases ULM, Germany, Oct. 28, 2026 — NVision today announced the publication of landmark peer-reviewed research in Nature and a strategic partnership with HyperLight Corporation, an industry leader in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics. The companies

Vedanta is targeting $11 billion in profits this year, Chairman Anil Agarwal said.

The boards of SpaceX and Tesla have each formed special committees to review a possible merger. The special committees, which consist of independent directors, were created at the request of shareholders, according to Elon Musk, CEO and the largest individual shareholder of both

Could the Tesla-SpaceX merger that Elon Musk floated this week pose antitrust problems? One former Justice Department official told Semafor that the risks are real. Antitrust regulators view such “vertical” mergers as pro-competition, the official said — because they can make sup

Elon Musk told Tesla shareholders on Wednesday that, when it comes to a potential merger with SpaceX, he'd already "said everything that should be said." Tesla's head of investor relations told analysts before opening the call to their questions that execs "will not be addressing

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Data-center companies are ponying up to find out which communities will resist them the least. Startup Hamlet has parsed tens of thousands of city council meetings by scraping local governments’ video recordings, tagging comments as friendly or hostile to a potential project. CEO

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Now ex-vice chair completes uncoupling a year after leaving CEO position

Ola Electric Mobility Limited share price trend ended 4.95% higher on Wednesday, extending its winning streak over the past two trading sessions. The EV stock has delivered 11% return in one week amid the ongoing Ola Electric Mobility’s rights issue. The stock is likely to remain

Company has partnered with Scannit for the venture, with the latter to host the hardware in an undisclosed data center

India risks a middle-income, low-productivity trap as weak job creation, stagnant wages and sluggish investment reinforce one another; escaping it requires better vocational education, wider diffusion of technology and useful knowledge, and greater social value for skilled work

The “I Do My Best” Trend: 7.8M Views This sound is being used for situations where someone is asked what they do but they are just trying to survive. The audio follows: “What do you do?”, “I do my best.” Creators use it with hooks about college, work, relationships, grades, routi

Fortis Healthcare acquires Bengaluru’s Suguna Hospital for ₹277 crore - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 21:49 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 21:49 IST Fortis Healthcare is expanding its regional footprint in Bengaluru through a cash buyout of a mid-sized multi-specialty facility,

Edtech firm wants some of that sweet GPU cloud revenue

Meta says it may push the implementation of its new business terms past November 20th as it faces backlash from publishers over concerns about AI training. In a post on X, Meta communications head Andy Stone said the company does "not plan to make policy changes without a full co

GitHub's Copilot Fusion Matches Opus Quality at Half the Cost GitHub's new runtime orchestration layer routes between Claude and GPT models, scoring near Opus 5.5 at half the cost per task. - GitHub Copilot Fusion is generally available, routing tasks across Claude and GPT-6 mode

Dive Brief: - Vans dragged its feet yet again in Q2, but growth at The North Face, Timberland and smaller brand Altra helped lift VF Corp. revenue up 1% year on year to $2.7 billion. That doesn’t include the Dickies workwear brand, which the company sold about a year ago. - The N

Dive Brief: - Hasbro named Dan Ayoub as president of Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Digital Games effective Monday, according to a company press release. - Ayoub joined Wizards of the Coast in 2022 and was most recently the senior vice president of Dungeons & Dragons. He was sel

With a market capitalisation of around ₹12.5 lakh crore, JPL overtook Bharti Airtel to become India’s second-most-valued listed company after parent Reliance Industries.

According to the National Accounts Statistics, the manufacturing sector’s GVA is ₹38.6 lakh crore in 2023-24 at current prices.; however, an ‘Alternative Estimate’ using data from the Annual Survey of Industries and Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises gives a lower

David’s view The day Jeffrey Epstein died, I was at the Iowa State Fair hearing from presidential candidates, and he was not exactly on their minds. When left-wing podcasters asked 2020 hopefuls if they’d probe the circumstances of the convicted sex offender’s death, a few looked

After remaining under pressure, shares of Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals regained strength in Wednesday’s trade, gaining 4% to ₹204 apiece. The rebound also caught the attention of Choice Equity Broking, with the brokerage expecting the recovery to sustain amid a favourabl

Its pre-operating consolidated profit grew 53% year-on-year at Rs 324 crore against Rs 212 crore. The lower microfinance provisions at Rs 83 crore against Rs 133 crore earlier helped the company report a higher net profit. The Gurugram-headquartered lender grew consolidated busin

Featured Story HPE claims to have beaten Cisco to a proper self-driving network Marvis, described as an AI brain, now unifies all the various parts of the Aruba and Mist portfolios to create a truly autonomous system, says HPE. Regional carrier C Spire developed in-house, AI-boos

The board on Wednesday approved a proposal to raise up to Rs 5,000 crore through a qualified institutional placement. The capital would be raised over the next six to nine months, the management said on an analyst call. Assets under management rose 25% year on year to Rs 2.68 lak

A community port by the handy-computer team converts NVIDIA's multilingual Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3 into GGUF files for transcribe.cpp, enabling local CPU and GPU inference.

After provisioning more than 3 million CPU cores and 120 petabytes of high-speed storage in August following a series of reliability incidents, GitHub is now doubling down on expanding its infrastructure by adding more than 4 million CPU cores and 160 PB of storage. This comes as

The Scoop Even with the political wind at their backs for this midterm, Democrats still aren’t sparking enthusiasm among low-propensity voters. So when doorknockers for the country’s largest hospitality union fan out in swing states, they don’t start by mentioning the party. UNIT

The company had posted a net profit of Rs 1,320.98 crore in the corresponding period of the previous financial year. Revenue and financial performance Revenue from operations grew 23% to Rs 14,970.50 crore from Rs 12,218.39 crore in Q2 FY26. Total expenses during the quarter rose

a16z General Partner Martin Casado has a new essay out today on the four philosophies that shape how investors evaluate deals. You should read it! You can find it here. For years, the industry prepared for quantum computing to rewrite the rules of cybersecurity. Then AI got there

- This post describes the next generation of Meta Andromeda, Meta’s personalized ads retrieval engine, and how co-designing the model, system, and GPU hardware unlocks a new efficiency frontier for ads retrieval. - In production, the system scores every eligible ad with near rank

Near-zero downtime upgrades: Announcing Cloud SQL for MySQL blue-green deployments Vinod Kumar Subramanian Senior Product Manager, Cloud SQL Itay Maoz Senior Engineering Director, Cloud SQL Keeping production databases on supported versions shouldn’t require giving up your weeken

Introducing the AlloyDB Omni web UI for easier cluster observability Omkar Deshmukh Product Manager Josh Choinsky Software Engineer Managing PostgreSQL databases across on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud environments often forces administrators to rely on command-line tools, maki

Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the “For You” feed popularized by TikTok. The company announced on Wednesday that users will now see two options when opening the platform: “For You” and “Following.” The “For You” feed combines posts from communities users have joine

Behind the scenes, two months later: How we ship Google Agent Skills like products Remigiusz Samborski Lead Developer Relations Engineer In my previous post, I took you behind the scenes of Google Agent Skills, covering how the project started, how we maintain quality at scale, a

How to troubleshoot GKE workloads faster with VPC Flow Logs Nishant Kumar Product Manager Whitney Jenkins Product Manager Having visibility into your network traffic is essential to operating Kubernetes environments effectively. When a service slows down or loses connectivity, kn

How GKE networking scales to support high densities of concurrent AI agents Srini Jasti Group Product Manager Venkat Krishnan Software Engineer What do you need to orchestrate high-density concurrent AI agents? As we transition from static requests toward autonomous agentic workf

A week ago, Vijay Rayapati, CEO of enterprise software startup Atomicwork, gathered his team of roughly 30 software engineers and told them to drop everything and prioritize cybersecurity. A series of cybersecurity incidents over the prior 48 hours demanded the company’s immediat

Dive Brief: - Jos. A. Bank earlier this month unveiled a new store concept in Peachtree City, Georgia, the menswear retailer said in a press release. - The 4,960-square-foot storefront features a dedicated experience center, where shoppers can receive consultations, fittings and

Speaking at the press curtain raiser of the the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit & Expo (2026), Mr. Sarangi mentioned that India had secured private investment of $64 billion in the sector.