• 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
• Microsoft reportedly projects $1,200 to $1,800 price for 2028 Project Helix
• JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service
• Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
• Gemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars
| • IBM reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $17.1B, above $16.82B est., net income up 26% to $2.19B, software revenue up 8% to $7.8B, and infrastructure revenue up 4% (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
• GitLab patches a critical flaw that lets unauthenticated attackers run code on self-managed servers, affecting every release since 7.0 in 2014 (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)
• Texas Instruments reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $6.06B, above $5.93B est., net income up 78% YoY to $2.43B, and forecasts $5.8B-$6.3B in Q4, vs. $5.73B est. (Ian King/Bloomberg)
• Mark Zuckerberg says Muse has drawn 10M+ users since its launch and 25%+ of users are making purchases through the app, with an average purchase size of $200+ (Business Insider)
• Meta expects its 2026 capex to be $135B-$145B, vs. $130B-$145B previously, and forecasts Q4 revenue of $73B-$76B, vs. $73.6B est.; META jumps 3%+ after hours (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
• Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, a proactive agent app on iOS, Android, and the web that works in the background, in research preview for US Pro and Max users (Claude)
• Filing: Meta says Mark Zuckerberg is considering leaving California if it passes a one-time 5% tax on billionaires; voters will decide on the measure next month (Bloomberg)
• Meta says it will create a new class of nonvoting stock to raise the capital it needs for developing AI models, with an effective date in January 2027 (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
• Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $64.6B, operating income down 37% to $12.99B on a $9.89B AG settlement charge, and family DAP up 3% to 3.64B for September (Meta)
• OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps say thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents analyzed data on millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, a job that takes humans months (OpenAI)
• Microsoft reveals pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming without Game Pass, for Xbox Insiders now and others next month: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 for $7.99, 50 for $11.99 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Flapping Airplanes, which is working on methods to train AI models using less data and compute and make the chips more efficient, raised $1B at a $6B valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
• A New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $25B in penalties after a jury found Meta misled residents about its data practices in the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
• Source and leaked memo: EA plans to cut ~400 jobs, or ~3% of its total staff, and shut down BioWare; EA went private in August following a $55B leveraged buyout (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
• The PHP Foundation says its patches for the RCE vulnerabilities are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors (Wired)
| • 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
• A permanent Pokémon store will open in London, with more locations outside Asia to follow
• Stranger Than Heaven builds its identity as Like A Dragon's more relentless spin-off
• How to spot a white label gadget, and why that's important
• Here's how SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage for the first time
• Apple iPhone Duo review: A first-class foldable
• Two dangerous internet security issues are putting site admins on edge
• OpenAI's agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems
• Subaru is dropping gas cars for EVs in Europe by the end of 2027
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