Microsoft Patches Six Actively Exploited Zero-Days in February 2026, Matching Last Year's Record High
Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday fixes 58 flaws including six zero-days already under attack, with CISA ordering immediate federal remediation.
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Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday fixes 58 flaws including six zero-days already under attack, with CISA ordering immediate federal remediation.
Samsung begins commercial HBM4 shipments with 3 TB/s bandwidth per stack, gaining a timing edge over SK Hynix as memory becomes the critical bottleneck in AI infrastructure.
Meta begins construction on a 1-gigawatt data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, part of a broader AI infrastructure arms race that will see the four largest tech companies spend upwards of $650 billion in 2026.
Stellantis disclosed a $26 billion charge to reverse its EV strategy, bringing combined Ford, GM, and Stellantis EV writedowns past $53 billion as Detroit cedes ground to BYD and Tesla.
Discord will default all users to a teen-appropriate experience in early March, gating adult features behind facial age estimation or government ID verification.
An 863-person Nature study identifies the SCAN brain network as the core driver of Parkinson's, with all four major treatments working by reducing its abnormal hyperconnectivity.
Kubernetes 1.35 adds in-place pod-wide restarts and other scheduling and scaling updates as operators report broader production adoption for AI workloads.
D-Wave Quantum Inc. announces $550 million acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc. to combine annealing and gate-model quantum technologies, with first dual-rail system planned for 2026 delivery.
Rust 1.93.0 ships musl 1.2.5, allocator and asm! improvements, and new stabilized APIs.
Researchers say Git-sourced dependencies can re-enable code execution paths even when npm is run with --ignore-scripts, undermining a widely recommended mitigation after 2025’s Shai-Hulud worm.
OpenAI launches a tiered access framework for cybersecurity professionals alongside $10 million in API grants, as GPT-5.3-Codex becomes the company's first model rated 'high' for cyber risk.
Google's parent launches a historic multi-currency debt offering, including the first century bond from a tech company since the dot-com era, to fund up to $185 billion in AI infrastructure spending.