• Starship flight 15 powers to orbit—setting up a possible catch on Saturday
• FAA has lifted its third-ever nationwide ground stop
• Millions of Americans are not taking their GLP-1 drugs as prescribed
• FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
• In elephants, the resilience of communities has its limits
• Kalshi ditches Trump Jr. as advisor; CEO admitted "optics" weren't good
• OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
• Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights
• Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon's or CrowdStrike's, expert says
• It's the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist's 1960 prediction
• Screenless GPS: Slate Auto says, "Remember the road atlas"
• Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029
• Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron
• Specialized’s Tarmac SL9 S-Level is built to wreck your Zone 2 ride
• In reversal, American Cancer Society urges routine prostate cancer screening
• Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud
• The Elder Scrolls' most obscure adventure gets a 4K PC makeover
• Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash
• Ukraine says it can’t stop Russian strikes because Starshield is limited again
• Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlash
| • Cambridge, UK-based Tendrils, which is designing a CPU architecture with thousands of cores operating in parallel, raised $30M led by Benchmark (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
• JD.com completes its takeover of German electronics retailer Ceconomy, after acquiring a ~60% stake for ~$1.5B, following the EU's approval of the deal (Tomoko Wakasugi/Nikkei Asia)
• Analysis: Sam Bankman-Fried's $500M Anthropic investment in 2021 would be worth ~$37B if Anthropic lists at ~$1.5T; he relinquished his stake in 2024 for ~$1.3B (George Hammond/Financial Times)
• Free speech group FIRE says DOJ and DHS will end efforts to curb "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and Eyes Up iOS app, which report on ICE activity (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
• US officials say Trump is not expected to raise allegations of a Chinese intelligence operation involving Jensen Huang during his upcoming meeting with Xi (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
• Tesla says "select customers" can now place orders for its Cybercab "for personal use", for $30K plus a required $299/month Autonomy Subscription to operate (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)
• AI's impact on math is a preview of what AI will do to AI research, with AI matching top human researchers potentially just a couple of years away (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
• Doc: Amazon, wary of AI agents favoring sites with better data, plans to gather data on nearly every product sold anywhere, including by crawling rivals' sites (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
• Sources and messages: Jensen Huang misled several Nvidia leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter, about the nature of his relationship with Alice Huang (Reuters)
• Sources: the FAA outage occurred after an update to the private communications network that connects the ATC system caused the system to reboot and crash (Kierra Frazier/CBS News)
• ASI, developer of AI tool SMART, says the FAA outage "is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI, or our integration with FAA and ATC" (Asi/@airspaceintel)
• Source: the FBI is probing whether the FAA outage was caused by a software update, and doesn't believe it was due to a cyberattack or criminality (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
• The FAA announced on November 10 that it has expanded the use of SMART, an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to manage congestion, across the US (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)
• Sources: Moonshot AI is deactivating its Cayman holding company and moving investors' stakes to its primary operating entity in China to pave the way for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)
• The FAA lifts its over four-hour nationwide ground stop for US airports caused by "communication issues affecting multiple Air Route Traffic Control Centers" (Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios)
| • Some international physical copies of GTA VI can allegedly be redeemed without opening the box
• Google now lets people connect Gemini to their bank accounts
• Disney's 3D movies shine on Meta's Quest 3, it's just a shame it took so long
• You can now tempt fate and give your banking information to ChatGPT
• Microsoft services are returning after an outage took down Outlook, Teams and more
• The Motorola Signature 27 is a beast
• Why Apple's HomeView relies so heavily on your iPhone
• Surface Laptop Ultra review: The most powerful Surface yet, but it still lags behind Apple
• Bloomberg details web of Chinese AI companies with smuggled NVIDIA chips linked to Alice Huang
• Whoop Humans is a social network designed for fitness enthusiasts
• BYD admits wheel assembly error on its flagship electric SUV
• Meta's Muse can now make calls on your behalf (if you have a paid subscription)
• Who is Colette Kress, NVIDIA's interim CEO?
• Multiple Microsoft 365 services are experiencing an outage
• Ex-NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is set to testify before Congress this month
• Zelenskyy says Starshield has been slowed again, endangering Ukraine's defense
• Apple Sports adds live UFC updates
• Pre-orders for some Apple Home Collection devices will open November 13
• Jensen Huang is out as NVIDIA CEO
• Google really needs you to know it cares about smart glasses privacy
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