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• Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers
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• Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas
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• The folks behind John Wick are back with Karōshi trailer
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• It's a weird time to buy a laptop, but the new MacBook Pro doesn't skimp on quality
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned by Congress over Chinese espionage concerns
• No more Cybertrucks; Musk moves on from the angular metallic flop
• Rocket Report: Artemis II literally tore through the atmosphere; New Glenn delay
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| • Public records appear to show SpaceX building a "Starbase supercomputer" in TX, but Gina Hinojosa's election as governor may delay some of the data center plans (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
• Binance says CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving to "pursue a new venture" days after a $6.3B hack, citing a six-month transition plan, and names Justin Yek as CFO (Bloomberg)
• Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof "shocking news"; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption (Cade Metz/New York Times)
• Democratic wins could slow AI investment and safeguard the US economy against a downturn by pacing it over time, as Deutsche Bank sees "shaky" projects killed (Cecile Daurat/Bloomberg)
• Chicago-based data analytics company Ocient raised a $100M Series C co-led by Boka Capital and OCA Ventures to grow its agentic AI analytics business (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)
• Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions (New York Times)
• Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia)
• How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies (Gillian Tett/Financial Times)
• Global tablet shipments fell 23% YoY to 32M units in Q3 2026, their lowest level in nearly three years; Apple's iPad shipments fell 27.5% YoY to ~11.58M (Omdia)
• Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
• Shenzhen, home to tech giants and an illicit trade of smuggled chips and stolen iPhones, is clearing out its illegitimate markets ahead of the APEC summit (William Langley/Financial Times)
• Huawei unveils HarmonyOS-powered Qinyun HM650 series desktop PCs for enterprise and government users, saying they use "100% domestically made" components (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
• Axon invests $1.2B in Skydio, whose autonomous drones are used by public safety agencies, the US military, and 32 allied nations, at a $5.2B pre-money valuation (Carly Page/Resilience Media)
• Beijing-based Sand.ai, an AI startup specializing in video generation, raised a $200M Series A+, bringing its total funding over the past 10 months to $300M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
• Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
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• 5 Google Messages settings you might want to disable
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• Apple also made its classical music app's logo black and white
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