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Google plans to make it easier to restrict its AI tools for students in early 2027, but says schools that block AI entirely will lose student access to Search — Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google's search engine.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Binance says North Korean hackers stole $6.3B through a months-long scheme with fake LinkedIn job interviews and an ad campaign to deliver malicious software — Binance on Tuesday disclosed that North Korean hackers used a mix of social engineering and malicious software to pull off …
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| Financial Times: |
Chainalysis and Elliptic expect North Korean hackers to take months to launder the stolen Binance funds, using crypto swapping services and DeFi lending markets — North Korean hackers are expected to take months to launder the billions of dollars of tokens they stole last week from crypto exchange Binance …
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Apple expects Q1 revenue to rise 7%-10% YoY, above 6% est., and gross margins of 45%-46%, below 47% est., as John Ternus says memory pricing “is unprecedented” — Hardware giant predicts robust sales in the holiday season but services outlook disappoints
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| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Apple Developer: |
Apple opens Siri AI to all developers, letting any app on iOS 27.3 beta and other 27.3 OS betas bring its content and actions into Siri AI by using App Intents — Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer …
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| Lance Whitney / ZDNET: |
Microsoft updates Windows 11 to make PCs with 8GB of RAM up to 20% more responsive and multitasking up to 40% faster in lab tests, utilizing memory compression — The latest updates to Windows 11 offer improvements in speed, performance, and memory management. — ZDNET's key takeaways
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| Tom Wilson / Financial Times: |
The UK NCSC says AI is “transforming cyber operations” and expects China and Russia to “routinely use AI cyber to achieve their geopolitical goals” by 2028 — Head of National Cyber Security Centre set to warn security defences, particularly for critical infrastructure, are inadequate
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| Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI hires ex-US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to oversee national security modernization, as it pushes to secure government contracts and shape military policy — Driscoll will advise on ways AI could bolster U.S. security capabilities and cyber defenses — OpenAI has appointed former …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; source: Fal hit $800M in annualized revenue earlier in 2026 — Fal, an AI inference startup that hosts image, video and audio models for creators and developers, has doubled its valuation to $16 billion in a new round of funding.| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
ChatGPT Consumer Product Lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is now ~20% of Google's — ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry on ChatGPT's growth, the cost of personal agents, and plans to bring Chat and Work together.
More: Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Search Engine Journal, and The Deep View
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia verbally told cloud compute clients they must sell 51%+ of their services to non-Chinese companies, as the US further limits China's chip access — Nvidia is ordering its data centre partners to reduce exposure to Chinese customers in a move that further restrains China's ability …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Rockstar plans to let users preload GTA VI on November 10, ahead of its November 19 launch, and says the preload requires up to 212GB “depending on your device” — Rockstar says to make sure you have ‘ample space’ on your device. … You're going to need a lot of extra storage space …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ubisoft and at least two other gaming companies offered to acquire Arkane Studios from Microsoft, which is exploring options before a December deadline — Microsoft's gaming unit is looking to divest the French company behind ‘Dishonored’ and 'Marvel's Blade'
More: IGN, Video Games Chronicle, Seeking Alpha, Kotaku, DayOne, and KitGuru
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by ~90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code — Turns out cheap tokens get engineers doing things that save time, like debugging and tackling Jira tickets| Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: |
How OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are trying to prevent anyone from using their AI tools to disrupt the US midterms, including Anthropic's first-ever “war room” — OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday's elections from efforts to undermine democracy.
More: Axios
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Sources: UK-based Google DeepMind employees urge leaders to drop non-disparagement clauses barring public warnings about AI risks even after they leave Google — Employment contracts deter staff from warning the public about AI risks, current workers said. — SummaryLoading...| David Pierce / The Verge: |
iPad mini (2026) review: great OLED display, it's waterproof and dustproof, and the A20 Pro is fast, but it's expensive, has no 120Hz display, and lacks Face ID — The iPad Mini sometimes feels like a trap. It is, in some ways and for some people, the perfect iPad: meaningfully larger …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
CrowdStrike debuts an AI kill switch in Falcon Guardian to stop internal AI agents that go rogue, and announces a Falcon Guardian integration with Claude Cowork — CrowdStrike is betting that it has a solution to rogue artificial intelligence. — The cybersecurity vendor on Tuesday launched …
More: CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike, and Quartz
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash — The deals come as companies deploy AI agents faster than some security teams can establish controls
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X: @dreadnode. LinkedIn: Dave Schroeder, PhD, Krishna Gade, Jesse Purewal, Karan Gupta, and Brad Palm
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $13.38B, vs. $13.09B est., Data Center revenue up 97% to $8.5B, forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat Wall Street's expectations, with revenue jump 45% …
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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
OpenAI hires Jill Hazelbaker, Uber's president and chief corporate affairs officer, as its new chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to Greg Brockman — Jill Hazelbaker, Uber's president and chief corporate affairs officer, is moving to OpenAI in the new role of chief corporate affairs officer … | Colin Demarest / Axios: |
New England-based autonomous submarine startup Corridian emerges from stealth with a $38M seed led by Point72 Ventures and plans to unveil its first AUV in 2027 — Corridian, a New England-based robo-submarine maker, exited stealth Tuesday morning alongside word of its $38 million seed.| New York Times: |
US data center operators and power developers are repurposing jet engines to secure power in as little as two years, bypassing multi-year grid-connection delays — Across wide stretches of the sun-bleached Sonoran desert in Arizona, thousands of retired aircraft sit nose-to-tail in graveyards of metal known as boneyards.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI partners with Cathedral to test its security defenses and revamps its Security Bug Bounty program, including quadrupling rewards for critical findings — We're planning our next internal security sprint at OpenAI, bringing new researchers and security partners together with our own teams …
More: Gizmodo, OpenAI, Unite.AI, and Help Net Security
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