October 16, 2026
Today's top tech stories, deduped across the newsletters I read and briefly summarized. Click a source to open the original article.
AI
Meta launches Muse Spark Open, a coding-focused MoE model
Meta released Muse Spark Open, a mixture-of-experts coding model with 816 billion parameters, 42 billion active parameters and a 1 million token context window. NVIDIA shows how to run it on GB300 NVL72.
Anthropic: quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8 billion
According to the Financial Times, Anthropic told investors its quarterly revenue rose nearly 50% to $16.8 billion. The figures come ahead of a planned IPO.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL gives agents multimodal reasoning
NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3.5 Super VL to power specialized agents in long, complex enterprise workflows. It reads documents and cross-checks information across sources.
Lovable lets the apps you build use the AI you already know
Lovable expanded its platform so apps built in Lovable can run on familiar AI models and tools.
AI is mass decompiling games
Indie developer Popcar describes the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games. He finds it both impressive and alarming.
Security
AdFection: targeted ads become a pipeline for zero-click spyware
Citizen Lab shows how targeted advertising has become a delivery channel for commercial spyware that infects victims without a single click.
Hackers exploit critical Collabora flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-110447, a command execution flaw in the Collabora Online app (richdocumentscode) for Nextcloud. They use it to plant backdoors on servers.
Fake Arch Linux packages install malware with root privileges
A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository that impersonated the helper tools yay and paru. The packages give the malware root privileges.
Proxyjacking campaign hijacks D-Link and Ubiquiti devices to resell bandwidth
The campaign has hit devices in 34 countries and monetizes victims' internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network.
Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams and fake calls
Google is rolling out new AI-powered protections against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse to eligible Android devices.
Dev
Lovable adds Azure deployment in your own subscription
With Deploy on Azure, Lovable apps run in the user's own Azure subscription instead of on Lovable's infrastructure.
IT
Windows Server 2022 reaches end of mainstream support
Microsoft says Windows Server 2022 has left mainstream support and stays in extended support until October 2031.