Alongside the main edition, Ubuntu 26.10 brought new releases of community flavours, including Kubuntu, Xubuntu and a welcome return of Ubuntu MATE. All of Ubuntu’s official flavours share the same foundations as the main release, with the Linux 7.3 kernel, Mesa 26.2 graphics drivers, updated tooling and support for installingContinue Reading
Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday is the year’s largest release, with 1,408 CVEs requiring customer action, 72 of them rated critical. September, the previous high, carried 963. One CVE is already exploited: CVE-2026-96951, a Windows Shell flaw that bypasses Mark of the Web. Two were publicly disclosed before release, inContinue Reading
Long before Taco Tuesday became part of the pop-culture vernacular, Tuesdays were synonymous with security — and for anyone in the tech world, they still are. Patch Tuesday, as you most likely know, refers to the day each month when Microsoft releases security updates and patches for its software productsContinue Reading
EV charging infrastructure installation is a big part of Osborne’s commercial construction business. Over the years, Charged has interviewed execs and engineers from companies covering almost every layer of the charging stack: hardware manufacturers, software developers, security specialists, utilities, standards bodies, and of course, charge point operators (CPOs) and charging-as-a-serviceContinue Reading
Wireless charging is not just about convenience. For electric buses, it can enable operators to prolong battery life, to achieve the same range with a smaller battery pack, and to charge the same number of vehicles with fewer charging stations, as a Momentum Dynamics exec (among others) explained to ChargedContinue Reading
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics…Continue Reading
On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It lifted off aboard a Titan 4B rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It took almost seven years for the Cassini spacecraft to reach Saturn , with the spacecraft entering orbit around the ringedContinue Reading
Can SpaceX’s Terafab reach the scale of TSMC? The answer starts with understanding the sequence: develop the process, prove the production line, then replicate it. The useful question about Terafab is how it gets from a working production line to an enormous chip-manufacturing operation. That requires a sequence. Acquire the expertise. Develop and qualify theContinue Reading
A routine Boeing 777 service between London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) was recently disrupted due to a cabin pressure abnormality. The long diversion for British Airways BA295 occurred when the aircraft’s pressurization system failed at an altitude of 36,000 feet. An immediate controlled descent, aContinue Reading
There are some airports that are seemingly connected to all parts of their region and the world. Within the US, the world’s largest aviation market, there are multiple hubs that are connected to dozens upon dozens of destinations with hundreds of daily flights. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) has longContinue Reading
A new version of free, open-source productivity suite ONLYOFFICE is out, bringing more than a thousand bug fixes and an expanded set of AI features. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors v10.0 is billed as a “fully rebuilt app”, and the developers warn those upgrading from earlier versions that not all of theirContinue Reading
NVIDIA officially entered the Windows PC race this week, and its arrival brings a formidable new competitor to the premium AI PC market. With its RTX Spark platform, NVIDIA is bringing its Grace Arm CPU architecture, Blackwell GPU technology and extensive software ecosystem together in a new generation of WindowsContinue Reading
The AI boom is seeing one of its first major busts, as Character.ai has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while it searches for a buyer. Founded in 2021, Character.ai enables users to create customizable chatbots and interact with them, and by February 2025 claimed to have over 20 millionContinue Reading