• 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
| • 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)
• A profile of Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed with her business partner Kang Wei, who sources say was often introduced as her husband (New York Times)
• Records show China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, which has close PLA ties, has access to Nvidia H200 AI chips despite being on a US export blacklist (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
• Researchers find that Grok Build is leaking data of over 35,000 apps via shareable links, including proprietary information, some belonging to SpaceXSI (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
• Apple says its Apple Support Community forum will close permanently on November 20 and starting today the site is read-only and no longer accepts new posts (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
• Sources: Jensen Huang's affair has significantly raised the chances of Congress enacting chip export limits this year via the National Defense Authorization Act (Politico)
• Nvidia's stock fell 5.47% on Tuesday, following a 4%+ drop on Monday after the revelation of Jensen Huang's affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy (April Roach/CNBC)
• Source: CFTC warned Kalshi of possible imminent charges over failure to notify the regulator of certain products; Kalshi says it is addressing the issue (Declan Harty/Politico)
• Tech consultant Nima Momeni was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in 2023 (Heather Knight/New York Times)
• Anthropic opens its Australian retail IPO, giving individual investors access to Class A shares ahead of the company's planned Nasdaq listing (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
• How US-based game publishers are losing ground in the $121B mobile gaming market to Chinese rivals, which can make games quicker, cheaper, and more profitably (Bloomberg)
• An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)
| • 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
• Polestar is banned in the US, but we still want its latest concept car
• Google turns Gemini towards medical paperwork
• Anthropic takes on Google and Microsoft with Claude Sheets
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