• In reversal, American Cancer Society urges routine prostate cancer screening
• FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
• 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
• Netflix releases new trailer for Ray Gunn
• Building a rocket is hard. AST SpaceMobile thinks it's "simple."
• Man's secret use of synthetic testosterone for cows nearly destroyed his heart
• The amazing disappearing exoplanet
• Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned
• Hundreds of streaming services and nothing to watch
• Review: Apple's M6 iMac is pricey, but it's still a good choice for a clean desk
• T-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says
• Anduril says its first satellite can see adversaries maneuver in orbital night
• NASA's secret weapon in the lunar space race may be ... procurement reform?
• Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI
• Trump admin loses fight to spy on random journalists’ LinkedIn DMs
| • A review of Chinese contracts, disclosures, and other documents identifies $3.2B+ in compute projects built or planned around Nvidia GPUs restricted by the US (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
• AI server maker xFusion gets approval from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange for a ChiNext IPO; filing: the company aims to raise ~$1.2B by issuing up to 220M shares (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
• OpenAI launches Daybreak Red Team in early access to test web apps for flaws and Daybreak Defense Factory to automate finding, validating, and fixing them (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
• Sources: Samsung is in talks to buy Modine Manufacturing, a US maker of data center cooling systems, as soon as the coming weeks; Modine's market value is $5.6B (Bloomberg)
• Filing: Nscale says it needs more funding for its 2027 commitments after ordering Nvidia chips for a $45B Anthropic deal, casting doubt on its planned $35B IPO (Financial Times)
• Nscale's updated IPO prospectus shows Q3 revenue up 1,344% YoY to $307.5M, up from $140.6M in Q2; net loss widened to $1.69B, up from $1.02B in Q2 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
• Meta launches an outbound calling feature for Muse, such as to businesses, available for paid US subscribers; Gemini and startup Instinct offer a similar option (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build tools for frontier AI R&D, raised a $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
• Sources: social media companies' payouts in teen addiction suits mostly ranged from $2M-$2.5M; Meta agreed to pay two teens a combined $7M in the past two weeks (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)
• Sources: US officials disagree on whether Alice Huang spied on Jensen Huang for China; some at ODNI and CIA say intelligence collected so far doesn't prove it (CNN)
• Letter: ByteDance plans to buy back up to $6B worth of shares from existing investors at a ~$400B valuation, a 20% increase in valuation from its 2025 buyback (The Information)
• Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott asks Jensen Huang and Howard Lutnick to testify at separate hearings in December over the Nvidia saga; Lutnick agrees to appear (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
• Sources: Nvidia faced pressure to boost its 25% residual value support backstop on a planned $500B AI financing vehicle with asset managers before Huang's exit (Bloomberg)
• Sources close to Jensen Huang say he has taken a penitent turn, castigated himself as a "piece of shit", and claims to not care what happens to himself (Bloomberg)
• Sources: President Trump's and Howard Lutnick's close relationship with Jensen Huang made officials wary of taking aggressive steps to rein in Nvidia chip sales (New York Times)
| • 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 Collette 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
• The first batch of Android XR smartglasses made me rethink my stance on specs without displays
• Apple HomeView review: A versatile smart display and Siri-powered home hub
• Apple TV 4K (4th gen) review: Still great, but drastically more expensive
• Nintendo is ending Google and Apple sign-ins early next year
• New York is forcing T-Mobile to stop putting data caps on low-income home internet plans
• United is restricting AI agents from booking flights
• Google brings the Gemini app to Apple CarPlay
• ByteDance is reportedly working on its own AI agent
• How many SpaceX Starship rocket tests have failed?
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