Quantum computing company IonQ has agreed to acquire Elisity, an enterprise Zero Trust security firm, in an all-stock transaction valued at up to 1.3 billion dollars. The deal, announced Monday, includes up to 150 million dollars in earnout payments tied to the performance of the Elisity business after closing.

Microsoft is making its biggest push yet to run its own AI services on its own silicon. The company said Monday that its newest in-house accelerator, the Maia 300, will start rolling out next year, and that it expects to install its Maia chips at multiple-gigawatt scale across its data centers. The plan would make Maia the primary inference system behind Microsoft products — the hardware that answers every Copilot prompt, summarizes every Teams meeting, and generates every research response.

Solidigm, the NAND flash subsidiary of SK hynix, is adding a new original design manufacturer (ODM) site in Taiwan for data-center SSDs, according to industry reporting that surfaced October 5, 2026, from Seoul Economic Daily, Aju Press, and DIGITIMES. The company told customers via a product change notification last month; products built at the new site are expected to begin shipping in December under the same quality standards and terms as existing output.

Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed "Stonking Stingray," is scheduled for release on October 15, 2026, with nine months of support. Most enterprises will stay on the 26.04 LTS, but for users with the newest hardware — especially Intel's Panther Lake laptops — testing by Phoronix shows the interim release is worth a serious look.

On October 10, 2026, ransomware intelligence trackers reported that the group "Redact" had listed DexCom — the Nasdaq-listed continuous glucose monitoring maker with roughly 4.97 billion dollars in revenue and about 11,100 employees — on its dark-web leak site, alleging it exfiltrated 3.3 terabytes of company data. Treat that claim carefully: this is an attacker-side allegation only. DexCom has not publicly confirmed any incident, no regulatory filing has surfaced, and no independent forensic evidence has corroborated the listing.

At its Gemini at Work 2026 event on October 8, 2026, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian introduced the Gemini agent — which Google describes as "a single, universal agent for work" that answers questions, handles knowledge work, creates media, and writes and runs code. The agent runs on the web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and the command line; inside Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack; and headlessly inside third-party applications. The pitch: one interface, one API, and an objective instead of step-by-step instructions.

Morgan Stanley warned on October 5, 2026, that a worsening U.S. data-center power crunch is now hitting the chip supply chain — but Nvidia and Broadcom are relatively insulated. The brokerage estimated last month that U.S. data-center developers face a 34 percent net power shortfall through 2028, equivalent to roughly 32 gigawatts, even after accounting for behind-the-meter generation and fuel cells.

The union representing workers at Micron Technology's Taoyuan plant in Taiwan announced on October 7, 2026, that its members have authorized a strike over the company's bonus scheme. Of 2,258 eligible members, 2,012 cast ballots, with 1,994 voting in favor — roughly 99 percent of votes cast and about 88 percent of all eligible members. The vote gives the union the legal right to strike, though no walkout date has been set and the union said timing details were still under discussion.

Intel raised prices on its PC processors by roughly 10 percent effective October 5, 2026, according to supply-chain reporting from DIGITIMES — the company's third processor price increase since late 2025. The move follows a roughly 10 percent hike in the first quarter of 2026 and a July round that lifted select consumer and server chips by amounts ranging from tens of dollars on everyday laptops to more than 1,000 dollars on some server parts.