October 2026
24 engineering and technology stories from October 2026, newest first, dated by their source.
- Python 3.15 ships with lazy imports, frozendict and a faster JIT
- IBM and three others enter DARPA's toughest quantum test stage
- Mistral previews Large 4, a trillion-parameter open-weight model
- Nepal's QR payments more than double in three years, central bank data show
- Sodium-ion batteries scale up, but deliveries are still unconfirmed
- Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a small open model for search
- Nepal's Investment Board approves Rs 21 billion for two semi-reservoir plants
- Nepal Telecom to lay 2,216 km of fibre in Gandaki and Lumbini
- M7.7 earthquake damages buildings and roads across central Panama
- First 2nm phone chips from Qualcomm, Apple and MediaTek focus on AI
- Arun-3 in Nepal gets a February 2028 target for commercial power
- India's green hydrogen plants run far behind announced capacity
- Jeddah Tower passes 470 m on its way to over 1,000 m
- New Spectre variant BTR targets JIT compilers on Intel, AMD and Arm
- Nepal's Tanahu storage hydropower project reaches 78 percent progress
- India targets 1 billion 5G users by 2030 and claims 7,700 6G patents
- TBM Caroline finishes 2.2 km power tunnel under the Thames early
- GitHub Copilot agents can now fix review comments and merge PRs
- Nepal's Election Commission says it will move toward internet voting
- General Fusion heats plasma past 1 keV by squeezing it with metal
- HS2 finishes central section of 1.4 km Wendover green tunnel
- Nepal's telecom regulator readies more 5G spectrum, starting with 800 MHz
- Golden Gate Bridge begins final phase of its seismic retrofit
- Adani and Druk Green sign deal for 770 MW Chamkharchhu-I in Bhutan