• 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
• A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management
• Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation
• Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
• Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub
• SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
• Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem
• F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires alive
• New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome
• Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery
• The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
• British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed
• Doctors pull knife from man's eye that went through his brain—and he's fine now
• Ships loiter near subsea cables amid Iran's warnings to Trump
• Re-releases of Wing Commander, Ultima titles hit Steam and GOG
• Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers
• Earth's churning mantle may have created the Great Unconformity
• Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas
• Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it
| • Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI framework AlphaProof Code to verify the Signal protocol's cryptographic guarantees, in a four-week proof-of-concept (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
• Sources: Jensen Huang and Alice Huang's relationship dates back to at least 2023, facilitating $7.5B+ in Nvidia chip shipments via Chinese companies since then (The Information)
• Anthropic launches its IPO roadshow, saying the company and shareholders plan to sell 825M Class A shares at $70 to $78 each, listing on the Nasdaq under ANT. (Anthropic)
• BT CEO Allison Kirkby says a Starlink deal is "ready to launch" but the company is "cautious on how Starlink might be viewed" after the Ukraine service cutoff (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
• IPO prospectus: Anthropic's IPO is set to raise up to $64.4B, and the company will also raise $26B via cornerstone investors like Google, AMD, and Nvidia (Echo Wang/Reuters)
• Anthropic's Fable 5.2 represents "Jagged AGI" that matches human expert levels on select tasks like game design, but lacks self-directed judgment and taste (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
• Sources: Jensen Huang resisted internal Nvidia talks about succession planning, which took place over the years; many of the 10 board members are close to him (New York Times)
• Sources: Nvidia board member and ex-Cooley CEO Stephen C Neal will probably lead the probe; Nvidia's corporate docs make no reference to "succession planning" (Financial Times)
• China's trade surplus hit $1.04T in the first 10 months of 2026, topping $1T for a second year in a row, as AI-driven tech exports offset weak domestic demand (Reuters)
• Meituan releases weights for LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model for long-horizon agentic tasks, under the MIT license, after unveiling it on November 1 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• SoftBank reports a Q2 net loss of $7B, down from a ~$15.8B profit in Q2 2025, and ~$14B revenue, above ~$12.8B est., as the tech selloff weighs on its results (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
• GeniosAI, which develops AI software for financial analysis and modeling, raised $19.1M across seed and Series A; FactSet led the Series A (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
• Filings: Moonshot signed a deal in August to rent 32 China-based Super Micro servers with Nvidia B300, the most powerful AI chip, possibly in breach of US rules (Andy Lin/Bloomberg)
• The White House picks Palantir CISO Michael LoSapio to lead the DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, replacing Acting Director Nick Andersen (Reuters)
• Australia is drafting legislation for an AI safety regulator empowered to impose "significant penalties" after an OpenAI model hacked a government site in Sept. (James Mayger/Bloomberg)
| • GTA 6 is now available for preload if you have a spare 212GB
• DOJ lawsuit says Lyft routinely refuses service to passengers with disabilities
• HoverAir Versa review: Convenience and creativity with compromises
• Every senior with an Apple Watch should set up these 5 health alerts
• How to turn on personal results on your Google Home
• The safety reason TSA might ask you to turn on your phone
• Why you probably shouldn't buy gadgets with micro USB ports
• The pros and cons of using mesh Wi-Fi
• YouTube will once again be part of Billboard chart calculations in 2027
• 5 Nintendo Switch 2 features everyone should know about
• Apple starts offering $50 extended usage packs for AI features in Creator Studio
• Windows 11 is finally adding an easier way to disable the Sticky Keys pop-up
• How to use your iPhone to take the best picture of the Moon
• Gmail users should know about this little-noticed feature
• How does Google Wallet's notification feed work and can you disable it?
• The reason your laptop can get hot after extended use
• What the tiny blue dot on your Android phone is telling you
• Venmo finally launches an in-app bill splitting feature
• Uber is launching its own parking reservation service
• Why EV fast charging slows down after 80 percent
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