LibreOffice Draw gives users a free way to open and edit Publisher (.pub) files as Microsoft withdraws Publisher from Microsoft 365 and ends support with Office LTSC 2021. The change adds an option beyond the Publisher phaseout and.pub conversion options: import the files directly into LibreOffice.
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OpenAI could release one or two models before year-end, but its next flagship may miss that window as the company works on alignment and testing. The model’s looped-transformer design can boost math and coding performance while making its reasoning harder to monitor. Even after internal safety reviews, U.S. government evaluation could delay access for outside partners by up to 30 days.
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Cisco has patched CVE-2026-76519, a zero-day in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that attackers are exploiting to gain root-level command execution. The flaw can be triggered remotely without authentication by sending a specially crafted email attachment through a vulnerable appliance.
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Ultra Ethernet Consortium’s 1.1 specification adds support for connecting accelerators inside a server, along with congestion controls that can be updated in software. It also lets switches perform collective operations for AI and high-performance computing workloads, potentially halving the bandwidth required for large reductions.
Ultra Ethernet 1.1 targets AI scale-up networks with programmable congestion control More...
Researchers exchanged messages with a Chinese AI-agent fleet after it made more than 2,600 attempts to scrape Alibaba’s Amap between September 28 and October 8. The contact follows the fleet’s earlier activity, which included roughly 1,810 reports about entrances at 213 public places, as covered in the discovery of the Chinese AI-agent fleet.
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Cisco and Nvidia are developing an ultra-dense optical module that could carry up to 12.8 Tbps over a single pluggable connection inside an AI datacenter, linking GPUs, network interface cards, and switches. The open USFP design could simplify cabling, but its 100-watt power target and larger failure impact pose tradeoffs.
Cisco and Nvidia’s USFP targets 12.8 Tbps for AI datacenter links More...
Microsoft’s October 13, 2026, updates fix the Always On VPN failures that September’s Windows updates introduced. KB5127648 covers Windows 11 versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H2; KB5127646 addresses version 26H1.
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Tiny11 Builder’s WinUI 3 redesign, which fixed Windows 11 26H2 image compatibility, now includes a desktop-app preview powered by a new C# image builder. The app offers three ways to create smaller Windows installation ISOs, including Tiny11 Core, which removes key security and recovery features. Microsoft does not support the resulting images.
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New exploit demos published October 12 show how Vghost (CVE-2026-74580) can turn access to Linux’s vhost devices into root—and, in a specific virtualized setup, let a guest tamper with its host’s QEMU process. The flaw affects kernels from 4.11 through 7.2-rc4; there is no public evidence of exploitation.
Vghost Linux flaw: public demos show root escalation and VM escape More...
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