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Amazon is selling the Moto Buds 2 Plus for $99, a $50 cut from their $149.99 list price. The earbuds are Motorola's premium 2026 true-wireless model, tuned with Sound by Bose and featuring a hybrid 11mm driver paired with a smaller secondary driver. They also include dynamic ANC, dual-device multipoint, customizable touch controls, Audio Share mode, and up to roughly 9 hours of battery life.
Rivian's third-quarter 2026 earnings show the R2 electric vehicle now outselling all of the company's other models for the first time. Total revenue reached $2.155 billion, up 38 percent year over year, with automotive revenue at $1.55 billion and software/subscription revenue at $605 million. Automotive gross losses narrowed to $80 million from $130 million a year earlier, while software and services profit rose to $256 million, boosted largely by licensing deals with Volkswagen.
Cisco Talos researchers identified a new threat group, UAT-11473, exploiting a maximum-severity authentication-bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controllers and Managers, patched in February 2026, to install a custom malware framework called KeyDrift. The attacks targeted space and satellite services, defense and aerospace firms, and policy research organizations, aiming to steal encryption keys and control-plane traffic. KeyDrift comprises two components, PolyFlame and LittleFilch, which Talos says are under active development with new evasion techniques.
The Social Security Administration announced it is reviewing and updating records in its Social Security Number database, describing the effort as the most extensive cleanup in the agency's 91-year history. The agency said the initiative affects data tied to millions of Americans, though specifics on the changes and timeline were not detailed.
Cisco has issued security updates for CVE-2026-76418, a high-severity flaw in ASA and FTD software that lets unauthenticated attackers remotely crash firewalls configured with webvpn and SSL VPN enabled. Cisco's PSIRT confirmed active exploitation in October 2026 but has not disclosed indicators of compromise or details on targeted organizations or attackers. Admins unable to patch immediately can mitigate by disabling secondary authentication on affected tunnel groups.
Alpine Linux said an attacker tried to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability (CVE-2026-97229, CVSS 10.0) against its gitlab.alpinelinux.org instance on October 20-21, a week after a fix was released but before the instance was patched. The attempts crashed worker processes eight times and came close to succeeding, though the team found no confirmed evidence of a successful breach. As a precaution, the instance was rebuilt from scratch, all user passwords were reset, and the service is being tested before reopening to the public.
The IEEE Computer Society, a co-sponsor of the CVPR conference, released a report examining whether GPU access and development time influenced which papers were accepted to CVPR 2026. The study was produced by the CVPR 2026 organizing team to look at resource disparities among authors submitting research.
A memory-corruption vulnerability, CVE-2026-97631, rated 9.5 out of 10 in severity, has been found in the TianoCore EDK II codebase that underpins UEFI firmware used by nearly all major hardware vendors including AMI, Insyde, and Phoenix, as well as Microsoft's Project Mu fork. The flaw lies in an ICMP component and lets attackers run malicious code before Secure Boot and other defenses load, though the payload itself does not persist across reboots. A planned coordinated disclosure for January was disrupted when AMI published a pull request detailing the bug and its fix last month, prompting TianoCore to issue a public advisory last week.
Daylight saving time will end on November 1, 2026, when clocks move back one hour, giving people an extra hour of sleep but shifting sunset times earlier. The change marks the start of standard time, which will run until clocks spring forward again in March 2027.
Fox has introduced a new interactive feature within its Fox One streaming app to help subscribers follow the 2026 midterm elections on Nov. 3. The update includes a home-screen command center with live polling and results widgets, a curated election news hub, and an 'Elections Mode' version of its AI chatbot, Ask Fox, which answers election-related questions in real time.
Astronomers at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile announced detection of an object, provisionally named 2026 ED138, orbiting about 4.3 billion miles from the Sun, roughly 46 times Earth's distance. Early estimates put its diameter between 370 and 930 miles, and its orbit is tilted 25 degrees from the plane most planets follow. If confirmed, it would be the first new dwarf planet classified since the International Astronomical Union set the category's rules in 2006.
Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have identified a trans-Neptunian object called 2026 ED138, located about 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth and estimated at 600 to 1,500 kilometers wide. Researchers Matthew Holman and Kevin Napier found it using a new search code, then traced additional sightings back to 2016 to map its orbit, which is tilted roughly 25 degrees from the solar system's plane.