Open Source

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.

Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies and GlobalFoundries announced on October 6, 2026, a multi-year strategic manufacturing partnership that moves the core components of Xanadu's photonic quantum computers onto a commercial semiconductor production line. The deal puts Xanadu's ultra-low-loss silicon nitride photonics and its superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) into fabrication on GlobalFoundries' 300 mm line in Malta, New York — a shift from lab-scale prototyping to industrial, repeatable manufacturing.

One of the more consequential shifts in developer infrastructure this week arrived on Friday: the entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare. The move, announced October 9 on both companies' blogs, folds the startup behind the Deno JavaScript and TypeScript runtime into Cloudflare's Workers and Durable Objects organization. Financial terms were not disclosed.