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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.

Belgium's imec launches NanoIC, a sub-2nm semiconductor pilot line backed by 2.5 billion euros in public and private funding, marking Europe's biggest bet yet on closing the gap with Asian and American chipmakers.

A CVSS 9.9 command-injection bug in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access lets unauthenticated attackers execute OS commands, echoing the zero-days that gave Chinese state hackers access to the U.S. Treasury in 2024.

Over six months, GPT-5 autonomously designed and ran 36,000 cell-free protein synthesis reactions in Ginkgo's cloud lab, reducing production costs from $698 to $422 per gram — but single-protein results and human interventions temper the headline claims.

Binding Operational Directive 26-02 gives agencies 18 months to inventory and replace end-of-life firewalls, routers, and switches that advanced threat actors are actively exploiting.

Microsoft Research's BitNet b1.58 framework uses ternary weights to run large language models on ordinary CPUs with up to 92% less energy, challenging the assumption that AI demands expensive GPU hardware.

Ex-Waymo engineers secure major Series B to deploy operator-less construction equipment amid an industry labor crisis.

Reno-based Positron AI has raised $230 million at a $1B+ valuation, claiming its Atlas chip matches Nvidia's H100 inference performance at one-third the power while its next-gen Asimov silicon promises six times the memory of Nvidia's Rubin.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission is confirmed for February 11 after FAA clears Falcon 9 following a second-stage anomaly, while a historic policy change will let astronauts carry personal smartphones into orbit for the first time.