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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Apple Developer: |
Apple opens Siri AI to all developers with iOS 27.3 and other 27.3 OS betas, letting any app 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 … | Bloomberg: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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: The Verge, Gizmodo, and The Deep View
| 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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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Rockstar plans to let users pre-load GTA VI on November 10, ahead of its November 19 launch, and says the game 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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| Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; a source says it hit $800M in annualized revenue this year — 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.| 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.
More: Tom's Hardware and Techstrong IT
| 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.| 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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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Sources: UK-based Google DeepMind staff urge leaders to drop non-disparagement clauses barring public warnings about AI risks even after they leave the company — Employment contracts deter staff from warning the public about AI risks, current workers said. — SummaryLoading...| Apple: |
Apple reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $114.48B, above $113.39B est., China revenue up 21% to $17.5B, below $18.9B est., in John Ternus' first earnings report — September quarter records for total company revenue, iPhone revenue, and EPS Services revenue reaches new all-time high CUPERTINO …
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| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
CrowdStrike launches an AI kill switch in Falcon Guardian to stop rogue internal agents, 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
| Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: |
A look at efforts by OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to prevent anyone from using their AI tools to disrupt 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.| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
S-1: Anthropic says it may “imminently meet” its RSI threshold and may not identify “a significant acceleration” in its development until after it has occurred — While much attention has focused on the updated financials Anthropic revealed in its revised S-1A on Monday …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Independent, The Hindu, and Wccftech
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Forums: r/technews, r/BlackboxAI_, r/AIDangers, and r/technology
| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
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