New York – October 15, 2026 -- Oracle Red Bull Racing and ecommerce company Rokt have retained five of six drivers for the second season of their all-female Rokt Red Bull Racing Esports team, with half of the 2026 roster drawn from the Rokt the Rig talent program.

Rokt the Rig attracted more than 7,000 entries at launch. Three of the six drivers are now graduates: Annemarie DePasquale (US), Rebecca Morrell (UK) and new signing Cythia Lok (Hong Kong). Two graduates raced in the team's inaugural 2025 season.

Team keeps five returning drivers and adds one newcomer from Hong Kong

The 2026 line-up is Paige Daughenbaugh (US), DePasquale, Bel Wells (US), Lok, Mia Rose (Australia) and Morrell. Lok is the only new driver. The five returnees start the season with a full year of competition behind them.

Chicago – October 15, 2026 -- Egis has appointed Jon Moretta, a 35-year industry executive from Parsons Corporation, as Chief Executive Officer of its U.S. business, tasking him with leading the platform's growth across infrastructure, engineering and industrial markets.

Moretta will focus on strengthening client relationships and expanding capabilities. He is also charged with combining Egis' local expertise with its global resources to deliver what the company describes as innovative, sustainable solutions.

Moretta arrives from Parsons with full P&L experience across federal and industrial markets

Moretta joins from Parsons Corporation, where he held increasingly senior leadership roles. His responsibilities there covered strategy, growth, operations and full P&L performance across federal, critical infrastructure and industrial markets.

Parsippany – October 15, 2026 -- OLI has launched TrueCORR, a corrosion intelligence solution that feeds live plant data into first-principles chemistry models to identify changing corrosion risk before it becomes an asset integrity concern. Initial applications target refining and upstream oil and gas production.

TrueCORR continuously interprets process conditions using OLI's thermodynamic and corrosion models. Engineers can see how the corrosive environment changes while an asset is operating. The software adds context beyond alarms and individual monitoring points, helping teams determine whether a process change is affecting corrosion and what is causing it.

Irvine, Calif. – October 15, 2026 -- Getac Technology Corporation will present an end-to-end public safety lineup at booth 1501 at the IACP Annual Conference & Exposition in Orlando, Florida, Oct. 24–27, led by a new release of its Getac Video Suite evidence management platform and Copilot+ PC rugged devices.

Video Suite adds modules for officer review, mobile evidence capture and plate recognition

The latest Video Suite release extends the platform beyond video collection and management. Officer Review is a configurable quality-improvement tool that uses randomized data tailored to an agency's policies and objectives. The Evidence OnSite Mobile App lets officers capture and classify video and photos on department-issued phones and give community members a QR code to submit evidence.

Boston – October 15, 2026 -- QuEra Computing will work as neutral-atom hardware partner on three of the nine teams selected for ARPA-E's Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3) program, which directs $37 million across its performers over three years. QuEra scientists serve as co-principal investigators on projects targeting superconductors, high-performance magnets and hydrogen production.

ARPA-E sets a hundredfold target validated at about 100 logical qubits

The Department of Energy announced QC3 in March 2026. The program aims to close the gap between vendor roadmaps, which are moving toward expanded logical-qubit capability by the end of the decade, and the resources that published energy-chemistry algorithms require.

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Forty percent of U.S. hiring managers have interviewed a candidate later found to be using a fake identity, up from 31% in 2025, according to a new survey from verification platform Checkr.

The report, The Hiring Hoax 2026: Fraud Doesn't End at the Offer, is based on responses from 3,000 U.S. managers involved in hiring within the previous 12 months. The online survey ran Sept. 11-16, 2026, through a third-party platform.

Fraud training jumps to 71% of HR teams, but confidence stays at 23%

Formal fraud training among HR teams has risen from 17% to 71%. Only 23% of managers are extremely confident their hiring process would catch a fraudulent candidate.

Toronto – October 15, 2026 -- PointClickCare has appointed Armughan Ahmad, former chief executive of AI data company Appen (ASX: APX), to its board of directors as the health tech company pushes an AI-first strategy, while Rob Eberle steps down after more than 11 years on the board.

Ahmad brings 25 years of enterprise technology leadership to the board

Ahmad has led multi-billion-dollar businesses through shifts from enterprise data centers to cloud computing to artificial intelligence. At Appen, he led a company serving leading AI labs, hyperscalers and large enterprises.

Before Appen, he was President and Managing Partner of Digital at KPMG, where he ran a digital business delivering services with software products. Earlier, as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Dell Technologies, he oversaw the Hybrid Cloud and High-Performance Computing solutions portfolio, including bringing AI systems to market with NVIDIA.

Singapore – October 15, 2026 -- Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) mined 44 bitcoin in September 2026, lifting its treasury to 1,875 BTC at month-end, while its 8 MW Nordic district heating project became fully operational.

The company's non-JV installed hashrate held steady at 10 EH/s despite rising network difficulty. Its joint venture operations reported installed hashrate of 4.87 EH/s and operating hashrate of 4.18 EH/s at month-end. The JV represents Canaan's 49% stake in the Alborz, Bear and Chief Mountain facilities in West Texas, and its metrics are excluded from bitcoin production and average all-in power cost calculations. Canaan has paused mining in Ethiopia, though that hashrate remains part of installed hashrate.

Charlotte -- Chartwells Higher Education will mobilize more than 320 campuses on October 21, 2026, with a collective goal of donating 50,000 meals nationwide through its United Through Food initiative.

Dining teams, students and campus partners will run awareness events and giveback activations on the same day. The initiative is a yearlong platform built around three campaign moments, aimed at food security, food waste reduction and simple ways for students to get involved.

Survey data shows 56% of students struggle to access food

Chartwells cites the 2026 Campus Dining Index, which found that 56% of students experience challenges accessing food. CEO Eva Wojtalewski said the program makes it easy for students, dining teams and campus partners to act together.

Scottsdale – October 15, 2026 -- Federal agencies added more than 22,000 Axon body-worn cameras and digital evidence management licenses this year, the Nasdaq-listed public safety technology company said in announcing a set of recent federal contract awards.

DHS selects Dedrone platform for counter-drone work under IDIQ contract

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chose Axon's Dedrone platform under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The platform will deliver real-time airspace monitoring, drone identification and threat mitigation for critical infrastructure protection. Axon did not disclose the contract value or ceiling.

VA adds more than 1,600 TASER 10 devices for police at medical centers

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) added more than 1,600 TASER 10 devices to begin equipping VA police officers. The officers protect medical centers, veterans and healthcare staff.