• Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions
• The US military seems to be getting nervous about the launch supply crunch
• Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot
• Democrats oppose plan to stack FCC with Republicans, plan probes of Chairman Carr
• Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI
• What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?
• Google Fi adds support for a second 5G network, won't say which one
• Pixel phones getting new icon styles, Create My Widget, and more in November Pixel Drop
• Free video-streaming service Tubi lets users share curated watchlists now
• Steam Deck performance gets a reality check with Valve's new FPS data
• High oil prices have led to a dip in global carbon emissions
• One space station company sues another for copying its work
• DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
• Nvidia has a Jensen Huang problem—and no obvious successor
• FDA warns GLP-1 drugs may pose risk of rare condition that causes vision loss
• Polestar has a new look with its Formula 2030 concept
• Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
• Review: Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is good, but it's missing all the exciting stuff
• DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger
• Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling
| • Sources: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming says the company plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and reach the AI frontier by 2029-2030 (Bloomberg)
• As Anthropic prepares to IPO, Amazon and Google collectively own 25%+; Amazon's $18B investment could reach $250B+ in value and Google's $33B could hit $140B (Karen Weise/New York Times)
• Sources: SoftBank reserved 13GW+ of turbines, equivalent to six Hoover Dams, to power AI; SoftBank took a $3.7B earnings hit mostly from canceled reservations (Wall Street Journal)
• After China's anti-corruption crackdown on hospital visits and pharma reps, drugmakers are turning to AI assistants from Alibaba and others to reach physicians (Andrew Silver/Reuters)
• Filing: Alphabet agrees to additional privacy protections to salvage its $10M acquisition of bankrupt Spirit Airlines' data, resolving union objections (Alexander Gladstone/Wall Street Journal)
• The European Commission introduces the Digital Fairness Act, which aims to curb addictive design features and manipulative "dark patterns" or face large fines (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
• Rather than being a spy, Alice Huang is likely a commercial fixer or "white glove" for businesses, leveraging a career in China's capital-market structures (Desmond Shum)
• Sources: the UK's proposed under-16 social media ban is expanding to target recommender systems and user content, including YouTube Kids, Lego Play, and Spotify (Jessica Elgot/The Guardian)
• Analysis: AI-driven e-commerce adoption surged during China's month-long Singles Day festival, with event sales rising 2.4% between October 7 and October 31 (Reuters)
• MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR teardown: a 5/10 score, a point above the M5 MacBook Pro, and Touch ID works with a new logic board; the backlit logo uses four LEDs (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)
• England's university regulator says AI makes grading coursework "close to impossible" and recommends a return to "AI-free assessment" methods like written exams (Richard Adams/The Guardian)
• VR pioneer Jaron Lanier says Silicon Valley is sabotaging itself by poorly pitching AI and treating areas designated for data centers as sacrifice zones (Jaron Lanier/New York Times)
• Nintendo sold 5.2M copies of its The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake in just four days, giving the Switch 2 the blockbuster hit it had been waiting for (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
• The Nvidia spy scandal exposes networks operating in Singapore that help Chinese tech companies access advanced US AI chips and circumvent export controls (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
• Sources: Rapidus has yet to produce functioning SRAM, a key step that needed to be completed by summer 2026 to meet its March 2028 deadline for making 2nm chips (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
| • 2027 Chevrolet Bolt Review: RIP to the GOAT of low-cost electric motoring
• Apple is shutting down its online Support Community on November 20
• Lucid CEO says the company didn't know where its own cars were
• Samsung Gallery now syncs with Google to back up your photos
• What is the average lifespan of recordable Blu-ray discs?
• Why your Roku might be plugged into the wrong HDMI port
• iFixit teardown shows how Apple's glowing PROLED MacBook logo works
• How to get this Siri camera upgrade for your iPad before its public release
• NVIDIA shareholders are suing the company and CEO Jensen Huang
• How SCSKiller is trying to fix shader stuttering in PC games
• These Xiaomi phones are no longer getting support with the latest HyperOS 4 update
• Meta warns some of its AI glasses may get 'too warm' if they get wet
• The Disney+ app on Meta Quest now includes 3D movies
• What is the 'Dead Internet Theory' and should humanity be worried?
• The best-selling game console of all time is over 25 years old
• New York will independently test AI models
• How much did the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 cost in 2020 vs 2026?
• Google's impressive Rambler dictation tech is now available on Pixel 10 devices too
• Here's what to look for so you don't get scammed by a fake GPU
• NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 has presets you should know about
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