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Archives for October 2026

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
FBI blames unpatched third-party platform for massive ShinyHunters security breach.

Reuters reports the FBI removed a contractor for failing to implement a security patch, with sources reporting it was an Accenture worker managing Oracle’s PeopleSoft platform. Last month, hacking group ShinyHunters claimed they used the HR platform to access data on “all FBI employees and applicants.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Figma’s AI agent for product design is now generally available.

The design agent initially launched in beta in May, and among other new features, you can now can add guidelines for the Figma agent to reference and follow what your colleagues’ agents are doing.

A Figma promotional image of AI agents working at the same time.
Image: Figma
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Spotify’s new music quizzes test your knowledge about your favorite artists.

The feature is rolling out to Spotify Premium subscribers, presenting you with questions about music trivia, album cover art, and audio track previews. You can find a music quiz by scrolling down on the “Now Playing” view of a participating artist’s song.

Spotify is launching the feature in 11 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, and Australia, with more than 2,000 supported artists.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Doom looks stark but very playable on the 44 year old Vectrex console.

Using an external mini PC called the Ultimate Vectrex Multicart 2 to actually run and render a custom version of Doom, modder Jason Kopp managed to get the shooter playable through the Vectrex’s unique vector-based display. It’s a much simpler take on Doom, but one that’s no less creepy.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
AMD intends to ‘substantially’ increase its chip supply next year.

“We’ve been able to increase our supply as we’ve gone through 2026,” CEO Lisa Su said today, “and ​we’re going to substantially increase our supply in 2027.”

Like Nvidia, AMD has seen a boom in GPU demand driven by AI, signing big deals with Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, and suffering the same shortages as the rest of the industry.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Asos hackers hijack shopping app’s notifications.

Users of the Asos app received an unexpected notification from alleged hackers claiming to have “fully compromised” the company’s Snowflake cloud platform, linking to a Telegram channel. The alert may have only gone out to iOS users, since my partner’s Android phone never received it. Asos’ website and app still seem to be working.

Screenshot: Asos app
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to stream on Luna if you’re a Prime subscriber.

The game has an excellent single-player campaign, though if you hit any hitches due to Luna’s cloud streaming, they could be frustrating because Galactic Racer basically requires split-second reflexes. Check out my review of the game, which I played on PS5, if you want to learn more about it.