Morning Tech Digest | October 12, 2026 | TSMC expected to post sixth straight record profit

Morning Tech Digest | October 12, 2026 Coverage: October 11, 6:00 PM – October 12, 6:00 AM Pacific 1. TSMC expected to post a sixth straight record profit on AI demand. Reuters preview: LSEG SmartEstimate of 16 analysts expects Q3 net profit up 65% YoY to T$746.3B (~$23.4B) when TSMC reports Thursday. Caveat: analyst preview, not reported results. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/t... 2. Korean chip stocks sell off as China's CXMT reports DRAM progress. KOSPI -3.65%; Samsung -4.39%, SK hynix -4.52%. The CXMT 4F² detail is single-sourced; market moves corroborated. https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/... 3. Linus Torvalds discloses a Claude Code-assisted Linux page-cache patch series. Experimental 8-patch branch, ~3x small reads/sec on one laptop workload; not merged. Linux 7.3-rc7 also released. https://hwbusters.com/news/linus-torv... 4. LineageOS 24.0 released, based on Android 17 — WebUSB browser flashing, Material 3 Expressive redesigns, security patches Aug 2025–Oct 2026; first Pixel 10 builds live. https://9to5google.com/2026/10/12/lin... 5. SonicWall SMA 1000 critical flaw (CVE-2026-102255, CVSS 10.0) now under active exploitation. Patched Oct 6; 135 exploitation attempts counted from two U.S. IPs. http://thehackernews.com/2026/10/crit... 6. Bricksforge WordPress plugin critical flaw (CVE-2026-85097) exploited — unauthenticated upload to RCE; ≤3.1.8.9 affected, fixed in 3.1.8.10; activity from 63 IPs. https://patchstack.com/articles/criti... 7. Ledger confirms a hardware implant in at least one device sold by reseller CryptoBilis; OneKey revokes the reseller and will replace its devices bought since March 1. Loss estimates are researcher figures. https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10... 8. CyberXero: AI-agent initial-access broker vs Ukrainian infrastructure, per SOCRadar. 51 Claude Code agent definitions; 628,000+ records from four Ukrainian organizations. https://socradar.io/blog/cyberxero-ai... 9. Ondas and Palantir form Regna AI for sovereign and edge AI. Standalone company funded by Ondas; Palantir provides training infrastructure and forward-deployed engineering. No financial terms. https://ir.ondas.com/press-releases/d... 10. Microchip expands data-center portfolio — Switchtec PCIe 6.0 switch (64 Gen 6 lanes), Flashtec NVMe 5016 with post-quantum preparation, SmartRAID 4300 updates. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-re... 11. Unitree founder: embodied-AI inflection could arrive within one to two years (Yonhap Infomax). Shanghai 8,000-robot-by-2028 initiative is single-sourced. https://en.infomaxai.com/news/article... 12. QGIS moves to ban AI-assisted code contributions in its main repository, with reversion and sanctions. https://github.com/qgis/qgis-enhancem... 13. Charging Robotics launches wireless EV charging for robotaxis and fleets. Up to 10 kW / 95% efficiency are company design targets, not independently tested. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-re... 14. Attributed: Tibo Sottiaux posted that GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produced a frontier-math proof in four minutes. His own claim, not independently verified or peer-reviewed.