1 October 2026

Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a model for coding, cybersecurity and research, available only to selected partners through its Fairwind security program.

TechCrunch · techcrunch.com

The Department of Defense notified military personnel that hackers took unencrypted records, including Social Security numbers, of about 2.8 million living and 300,000 deceased people from a Defense Manpower Data Center system between October 2025 and mid-July 2026.

TechCrunch · techcrunch.com

ElevenLabs doubled its valuation to $22 billion in a $300 million employee share sale co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

TechCrunch · techcrunch.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich.

TechCrunch · techcrunch.com

Eli Lilly's Zepbound combined with an investigational amylin drug produced significant weight loss in a mid-stage trial, with high discontinuation rates.

STAT · statnews.com

HHS and ARPA-H announced efforts to speed up and expand clinical trials using AI.

STAT · statnews.com

The final Medicare rule on prices for drugs given in doctors' offices applies to four companies and saves 96% less than the original proposal.

STAT · statnews.com

Rust 1.99.0 was released, adding support for extern "C" variadic functions and functions for the size and alignment of raw pointers.

LWN.net · lwn.net

OpenStack 2026.2 Hibiscus was released on 30 September.

OpenStack · releases.openstack.org

Reddit will end RSS feeds on 13 November and shut its public API by March 2027, citing large-scale scraping.

TechCrunch · techcrunch.com

DHS appealed a court ruling that blocks it from limiting how long international students and postdoctoral researchers can stay in the US.

STAT · statnews.com

A Cornell case shows campus sexual assault victims often have to go through both university and police processes.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

California banned child marriage; the practice remains legal in 32 US states.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survived an execution attempt after two lethal injections of pentobarbital and is in hospital.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Japan raised its permanent residency fee twentyfold as part of immigration policy changes.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, including refugees, risked losing Medicaid coverage from 1 October.

STAT · statnews.com

The last UK and US troops left Iraq as the anti-Islamic State coalition mission ended under a deal agreed two years ago.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Russia carried out its largest attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure since spring, hitting 11 regions overnight.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region killed 52 civilians, a medic said, and explosions were heard in Addis Ababa after drone flights were banned.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk

Swiss glaciers had what scientists called a disastrous year of ice loss.

BBC News · bbc.co.uk