• 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
• Microsoft reportedly projects $1,200 to $1,800 price for 2028 Project Helix
| • 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)
• Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source, 14B-parameter multimodal AI model to let users query DNA sequences via natural language, trained on 300B tokens (Emily Mullin/Wired)
• Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to €4.97B, below €4.98B est., subscribers up 9% to 306M, MAUs up 11% to 788M, meeting est., and €672M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
• Palantir says that neither the company nor the US government has a "kill switch" for its Maven platform that NATO uses, after Ukraine's Starlink disruptions (Andrew Gray/Reuters)
• A look at Huawei and DeepSeek's mutual reliance, where Huawei provides compute hardware while DeepSeek contributes model workloads and kernel optimization (SemiAnalysis)
• Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% coming from support and developers (William Shaw/Bloomberg)
| • 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
• 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
|