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The Jiuzhang 4.0 prototype from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) was among 20 projects honored with the World Internet Conference science and technology awards in Wuzhen. The machine recorded up to 3,050 photons in a single run.
Israel Weapons Industry (IWI) has delivered its ARBEL counter-drone system, fitted to existing rifles, to Thailand's Ministry of Defense. The company says four Southeast Asian countries are at various stages of procurement.
A China-aligned group dubbed SlippyNunchucks hijacked DNS requests from the Windows version of Sogou Input Method to install the DarkVigil malware on Chinese speakers across Asia. Tencent fixed the flaw in version 16.10.
SonicWall warned of two flaws in its GMS management system, version 9.5.2 and earlier, and said it will not release fixes because the product has reached end of life. It recommends moving to Network Security Manager.
According to early results, 33 local ballot measures restricting data center construction in the US have already passed and six more are leading. Only one has failed.
A South Korean consumer group is asking the regulator to order Tesla to stop marketing Full Self-Driving for China-built cars that are not approved to run it. By Tesla's own figures, FSD works on only about 20% of its cars registered in the country.
Google has promoted Chrome 157 to the stable channel with fixes for 213 vulnerabilities, including seven critical memory safety bugs and 77 high-severity ones. Google reports no exploitation but recommends updating.
Data security company Sentra, headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv, has raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Capital One Ventures. Its total funding now exceeds $260 million.
According to Bloomberg, Chinese companies such as ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered about $70 billion of RTX Pro 5500 cards, but only tens of thousands of units, about 1% of demand, will ship in the coming months. The card is not subject to export controls.
Ruby on Rails has fixed a 9.8-rated flaw in Active Storage that lets an attacker with no account write files to the server through an upload, in apps that process uploads with ImageMagick. The fix is in versions 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2.
AMD reported record third-quarter revenue of $13.4 billion, led by server processors and AI accelerators, and expects about $17 billion in the fourth quarter. Intel forecasts $15 billion to $16 billion for the same quarter.
The Xen Project has released fixes for two flaws in its grant copy mechanism that let a malicious virtual machine access the memory of other machines on the same host, including the managing dom0. Every version from 4.6 on is vulnerable. Anthropic found the flaws using Claude.
Researchers proved what a quantum system driven by shared laser fields needs to perform any quantum operation: breaking the chain's mirror symmetry. In a Rydberg-atom experiment they created an interaction among three atoms at once.
China's Wingtech rejected a proposal under which it would lose control of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia's assets outside China, calling it "expropriation." Its dispute with Dutch authorities has run for about a year.
ISAC technology analyzes radio reflections from 5G antennas to locate drones, including ones that transmit nothing. According to Israel Defense, NATO tested it in an October exercise, and Ericsson plans commercial trials in 2027.
Meta developed Max, a 1.5-meter humanoid robot, with Shanghai-based Fourier in about three months, and work on Max 2 began in September. According to TechNode, the robot is for research, not for sale.
Explorium, which built a data-enrichment platform for model training and later pivoted to data services for AI agents, is ceasing operations. According to Geektime, more than 70 employees are expected to lose their jobs.
According to STAR Market Daily, cited by TechNode, DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend chips to train its next generation, V5. Until now the chips have mainly run its models, not trained them.
Sekoia attributes to Russia's APT29 a broad attack through compromised and fake websites that profiled visitors' devices and pushed exploit chains for known flaws, with no action from the user. Apple and Google have already patched every flaw.
According to TechNode, since the start of the month ByteDance has barred staff from using personal accounts for outside AI tools such as Claude and Codex to access internal code and documents. A company technology vice president said the reason is data security.
Meta published the top findings from the bug bounty program for Muse, the personal agent that acts for users across email, calendar and messaging. The largest award, $300,000, went to a flaw that exposed conversations and tokens on internal test machines before launch.
Tencent launched Hy4, its new flagship model, on Wednesday. For the first time it understands images and operates command-line tools and graphical interfaces. The model is already on OpenRouter, and the company plans to release the weights soon.
The US cyber agency CISA has added CVE-2026-119977 in WordPress core to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities. The flaw lets an attacker with no account run code on the server during the short window of a full upgrade. The fix was released in late October.
Netflix's TV app is getting a "Discover" tab for AI-powered experiments. The first suggests content by themes such as "Something Light" or "Family Movie Night" and learns from what viewers tell it. The rollout is starting gradually in the US.
The University of Chicago and Toyota signed a multi-year research agreement on quantum sensing, secure communications and materials discovery for transportation. Toyota will fund up to $1 million a year, starting with five projects.
Argo Space, founded by three brothers who worked at SpaceX, is developing a small spacecraft called Chiron that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen with solar power and burns them for propulsion. Two demonstration missions for an undisclosed national security customer will fly in 2027.
Leonardo DRS was picked as a subcontractor to AeroVironment on the E-HEL program, a contract of about $500 million to produce high-energy laser systems against drones. It will contribute vehicle integration, power and thermal management.
According to The New York Times, data centers stuck in years-long queues for grid connections and new turbines are making their own power with jet engines from retired aircraft, converted to natural gas. xAI and Crusoe already use them.
mSeven, the developer of mSecure, emailed current and former customers about "suspicious activity" linked to the app and advised them to consider changing passwords, resetting two-factor authentication and removing passkeys. It did not say what happened.
Google released Android security updates fixing more than 200 vulnerabilities, about two dozen of them critical. The most severe, in the Framework component, allows remote code execution with no user interaction.
Fal, which runs video, image and audio models in the cloud, raised $1.3 billion led by Bessemer, with Nvidia participating. According to Bloomberg the valuation is $16 billion, double April's.
Dutch regulator RDW approved an update that cuts the speed margin of Tesla's driving system from 50% to 10% over the limit and renames it Tesla Assisted Driving. That is exactly what Germany demanded, weeks before a possible EU vote.
WorkOS, which provides identity services to OpenAI, Anthropic and thousands of other companies, and blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack reported breaches linked to the autonomous attack framework ARTEX AI. At Chainstack, password hashes were exposed.
Google will switch off Gemini, NotebookLM and Gemini in Classroom by default for K-12 students next year unless administrators turn them on. But schools that block AI entirely will also lose Google Search, because "Search and AI are deeply integrated," the company says.
Baidu trains its Apollo robotaxis in an AI simulator; Alibaba's Joe Tsai says open source is the only way; the profit gap between Anthropic and Z.ai and MiniMax; Amicro goes public in Hong Kong; and BYD sold 4,000 Great Han sedans in 19 days.
Anthropic researchers published work on FlashProve, an open-source system for "provable inference": a cryptographic proof that a given output was produced by a specific model. The specification and code are on GitHub; there are no plans to deploy it for now.
In iOS 27.3, rolling out as a Developer Preview, Apple lets all developers integrate Siri AI's new features, including personal context, natural-language understanding and on-screen awareness, and adds "app skills" that combine several tasks into one action.
In an incident report published on Tuesday, Binance describes a multi-stage campaign: a trojanized Homebrew installer, fake job interviews with engineers, abuse of an internal AI tool and, finally, access to the wallet signing service on October 29.
