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Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot directly, they were a […]

Meta won't force Facebook page owners to allow AI training on linked content.

Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot directly, they were a […]

The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs. You cannot tell people that you have to listen to the whine of a data center in their backyard for AI overviews and some of the most hilarious deep fake slop in history. It's not worth it. It just isn't worth it to anyone. And agents aren't real and they might not be being used the way that anyone wants them to yet. All these companies are spending more than they're making on these products. Refrigerators holding blood storage in Europe are being hacked. The costs are too high. The benefits are not real. And if you connect that to corruption, you're like, in order to impose these costs on me, these CEOs are in the White House shaking Trump's hand, renaming it to the Gulf of America, paying for this ballroom that we don't want. It's obvious crypto-corruption, and it's still slop. The AI industry will not get out of it until they make better products. Until everyone can see without needing to be convinced, without needing an ad campaign, without any of this stuff that just using these products makes your life better. — Nilay Patel, The Vergecast: Big Tech lost big in the 2026 election Tags: nilay-patel, slop, ai, generative-ai, ai-ethics

Next week, experts will determine if the US has lost its measles elimination status.

The Pentagon has conditionally approved a $250 million loan to help 6K scale up its microwave-plasma battery material manufacturing process.

A former Rockstar tech director thinks the developer is facing new time pressures.

Some WordPress sites can still be attacked while they install the fix for an actively exploited flaw, according to Umut Bayram, the Picus Security researcher who found it. The update that installs the fix still unpacks its files using the site's old, unpatched code, so an attacker who strikes at the right moment can run code on the server. The researcher advises blocking web access to the

A few months after DOJ investigators were probing the deal, Fox just completed its $22B acquisition of the streaming giant Roku.

After being delayed twice, one of the most anticipated games for 2026, Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA VI) will finally be released on PlayStation 5 (PS5) on 19 November 2026. In Malaysia, the GTA VI Standard Edition is priced at RM339, but there is a way to get the game at a much lower price. […]

AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions about AI hypergrowth.

Article URL: https://www.filfre.net/2026/11/deus-ex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50393758

Sony is bringing the MDR-3R to Malaysia — a wired, USB-C-terminated revival of the 1979 MDR-3 that shipped with the original TPS-L2 Walkman. It's priced at RM259 for the standard model and RM299 for a Stranger Things Edition, both up for pre-order on Sony Malaysia's online store, with standard units delivering mid-November 2026 and the tie-in variant shipping toward year-end. The hardware is open-ear with 23mm dynamic drivers, an ultra-slim metal headband, swappable foam pads in orange/blue, and an in-line mic/remote — no battery, no pairing, no dongle.

It has the best laptop screen we've used, but there may be reasons to wait.

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting OpenSSH that can enable sign-ins to accounts that have no password set, according to Previdian. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-123158 (CVSS score: 8.1) and codenamed SSHole (or *sshole), impacts Linux systems that run OpenSSH on the musl C library with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) disabled,

Latent Space interviews Fabian Theis of Helmholtz Munich about pushing biology from mapping and predicting toward controlling it, using multi-scale, multi-modal, time-varying 'multiomics' data. The episode contrasts heavy attention on protein/molecular design with quieter skepticism about Virtual Cell models, which still face questions about solving basic problems. It also cites a $1.8B Biohub/NIH/DOE/Google/Meta commitment tied to new imaging and measurement capabilities that generate large datasets for AI training.

Elon Musk said in a post on X on Friday that Tesla will "be winding down" Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year (mid-2027), freeing plant capacity for the two-seat Cybercab robotaxi, which is built alongside the Model Y in Texas. Cybertruck deliveries began in late 2023, the vehicle stayed niche and has faced several recalls; Musk did not say whether production would move to another facility, and said the existing "Cybertruck fleet will be around for a long time."

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/rip-cybertruck-you-were-unloved-unwanted-and-utterly-absurd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50393154

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled GPT‑6 Cyber, which it described as a major step forward in security research that brings together stronger cybersecurity capabilities with a step-change improvement in model alignment. The new model is "more capable at finding and fixing vulnerabilities, and far more reliable staying within the boundaries researchers set," OpenAI said. It has classified the model as

Ars Technica republished a Financial Times story (by Demetri Sevastopulo, dated Nov 6, 2026) reporting that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been summoned by Congress, with lawmakers seeking answers about his ties to an alleged Chinese intelligence asset. The available text is only the headline and lede — no committee name, hearing date, subpoena terms, or evidence is included, and the story carried a single comment at time of capture.

Amazon launched a text-message shopping feature for Alexa on Friday, November 6, 2026, inviting select U.S. customers by SMS to search for items, add to cart, and purchase via natural-language texts. The agent also handles lists, price tracking, cross-web item search, product comparison, order status, and image-based search from a photo of an item or outfit, with a waitlist and broader rollout promised in the coming weeks. It follows Amazon blocking Meta's Muse from querying its site in September, and arrives just before the holiday shopping season.

Ai2 released ToyBlocks, the first 'FoundationWorld': an open simulation framework with a robot arm and tabletop blocks for studying robot learning. It automatically generates demonstrations (pushing, flipping, stacking) without teleoperation, lets researchers vary training data, and evaluates on held-out tasks. It builds on MolmoAct 2, MolmoBot, and MolmoSpaces, with code, data, models, and docs available.

Cloudflare's post says Privacy Pass has been deployed for 10 years in systems such as iCloud Private Relay and Privacy Gateway, issuing unlinkable tokens for privacy-preserving rate limiting. It still relies on classical RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography, so a quantum attacker could forge tokens and bypass rate limits, while token redemption remains unconditionally unlinkable. Cloudflare says it is working on next-generation private authentication for agentic traffic and a more open ecosystem, but the excerpt cuts off before the post-quantum replacement details.

GlobalFoundries VP Sudipto Bose, who leads the company's FD-SOI business unit, detailed FDX Fusion: a FD-SOI process claiming 7nm-class performance with advanced planar transistors and no EUV lithography, at 8nm-class logic density. Commercial production is targeted for 2028, with high-volume manufacturing aimed at 2030 — eight years after GlobalFoundries dropped its original 7nm FinFET effort. The trade-off stated in the piece is low transistor density relative to true 7nm nodes.

Tom's Hardware published a review of the Elegoo M1 Ultra, Elegoo's first 3D scanner, on 6 November 2026, by Denise Bertacchi. The verdict in the excerpt is that it is "packed with features but lacks refinement." The supplied text is almost entirely site navigation and subscription boilerplate — no price, scan accuracy, resolution, software, or benchmark figures are included.