• Forget "Malaise 2.0," GM says it's still all-in on EVs and autonomy
• 333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
• UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer
• FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about
• Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought
• Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse
• Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3
• The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world
• RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades
• OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
• Report: Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, then blamed it on Trump
• Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits
• Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic.
• SpaceX to attempt Starship catch on next flight, with eye on rapid cadence increase
• The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using
• Review: Carrie is a triumphant remix with one major flaw
• The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026
• PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently
• Merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a "good idea," Musk says
• Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies
| • President Trump says he called Sundar Pichai to ask Google Maps to rename the Atlantic Ocean, though he would "probably pass" following Pichai's pushback (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)
• Minneapolis-based Slingshot, which uses AI to help businesses offer embedded insurance, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed co-led by Rally and Skyward Group (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
• Apple is rolling out a new "Made for iPhone Duo" badge in the App Store, and touts Netflix, Prime Video, Zoom, Word, and Outlook as Duo-optimized apps at launch (Emma Roth/The Verge)
• Sources: the Pentagon quietly establishes the Technology Support Office (TSO), an agency to execute covert sabotage, cyberattacks, and supply chain disruptions (Politico)
• 1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and announces 1Password for Agents (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
• Ukraine says the abrupt throttling of US-funded Starshield grounded dozens of drones mid-flight, costing one unit $1M+, and halted some strikes for three days (New York Times)
• Enact, which develops full-stack tech for general-purpose robots, emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed from Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and more (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
• Sources: Visa is in late-stage talks to buy stablecoin custody and infrastructure provider Fireblocks for ~$2.5B, its first acquisition in the stablecoin sector (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
• Israeli security company Lava finds 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips connected to systems linked to state-owned operator China Telecom, despite US controls (Qianer Liu/The Information)
• Xona, which plans to deploy a 258-satellite low-Earth orbit constellation as a commercial alternative to GPS, raised a $250M Series D at a $2.45B valuation (Monica Hunter-Hart/Forbes)
• Filing: Meta reports ~$825B in total future commitments for leases and contracts, up from nearly $700B in July; off-balance-sheet leases total $355.7B to 2036 (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)
• Source: a16z plans to drop "crypto" from its flagship blockchain fund, rebranding it to "a16z frontier" and broadening its investment strategy beyond crypto (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
• Meta reports 18% YoY ad revenue growth in Europe for Q3, down from ~40% in Q1 and 24% in Q2, lagging the US and Canada, after rolling out Less Personalized Ads (Isabella Ward/Wired)
• At GTC Berlin, Jensen Huang says he urged UK-based neocloud Nscale to "work around the clock" to resolve data center delays amid investor doubts about its IPO (Bloomberg)
• How the AI boom is boosting paint maker PPG's sales: its specialized gray coatings serve critical functional needs and total $3M to $8M per data center, per JLL (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
| • iPhone Duo's next-gen prototypes are trying to cram in Face ID
• Insta360 Mic review: A midrange mic kit that's anything but boring
• Roku's Pro Series LX OLED TVs are now available on Amazon
• 1Password will let you hand your data security over to your preferred AI agent
• Insta360 adds expandable storage to its new e-ink wireless mics
• Tesla plans to start selling Cybercabs by the end of the year
• Fortnite is coming back to Apple's Australian App Store following court ruling
• Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is 'entering a new phase' with Muse
• Bose buys audio rival Skullcandy
• Airbnb bans hosts from making you do the dishes
• Claude Duet is Anthropic's answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots
• Government websites in the EU and Canada taken offline over PHP vulnerability
• Meta ordered to cough up $25 billion in New Mexico privacy case
• Xbox is previewing paid cloud gaming for players without Game Pass
• EA is shutting down BioWare and cutting around 400 jobs
• There's a new Apple Music logo and it looks like ripples in water
• Sony's PlayStation Pulse headset arrives on November 19 for $100
• Supernatural's VR exercise app has relaunched on Meta VR headsets
• Oppo Find X10 Pro Max hands-on: Triple 200-megapixel cameras but few surprises
• Now you can chat with Gemini while using Google Maps through CarPlay
|