Tech & AI News Roundup — October 11, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC

Quick links to what's actually happening in AI, tech, and IT right now — curated from real reporting, not rewritten, so you can go read the full story wherever it's genuinely worth your time.

Dawn Myers is making it easier to style, detangle, and care for curly hair

Richualist is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies! — TechCrunch

NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online

A crew annotated image showing where the Artemis II team observed impact flashes on the dark side of the Moon. | Image: NASA If you thought you'd seen all there is to see from the Artemis II mission, you're wrong. This week NASA posted over 800GB worth of science data, images, and videos on the Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science site. The archive includes over 11,000 photos and videos, over 8. — The Verge

George A. Romero’s Season of the Witch is a slow-burn feminist occult drama

George A. Romero is obviously best known as the father of the modern zombie movie. But between inventing the genre with Night of the Living Dead and his outbreak horror, The Crazies, Romero made two much lesser-known films: There's Always Vanilla, which I'll admit I've never seen, and Season of the Witch, or, as it was originally titled, Hungry Wives. Hungry Wives was supposed to be an exploitatio — The Verge

Efferon wants to eradicate the devastating toll of pediatric sepsis

This Battlefield 200 startup has developed blood-purification tech to save children — TechCrunch

Inside the Muslim Manosphere Policing Women Online

From Red Pill coaches to “Dawah Bros,” influencers are dressing up hypermasculinity and misogyny in religious language—and finding audiences across social platforms. — Wired

California’s Tallest and Most Iconic Trees Are Getting Heatstroke

Redwoods adapted to a cool, foggy climate. Now a new study shows they slow down photosynthesis when their environment warms. — Wired

Citrix Patches Critical NetScaler Flaw That Could Enable RCE in SAML Deployments

Citrix has released patches for yet another critical security flaw impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that could result in remote code execution or denial-of-service (DoS) under certain conditions. "CVE-2026-107406 is a memory overflow vulnerability that may lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service under specific configuration conditions," Citrix said. The vulnerability — The Hacker News

Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With API Prices Starting at $0.10

Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with lower API pricing, stronger benchmark results and new options for developers building cost-efficient AI agents. The post Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With API Prices Starting at $0.10 appeared first on TechRepublic. — TechRepublic