Electric truck maker Harbinger raises $240 million after a FedEx order
Harbinger, which makes medium-duty electric delivery trucks, closed a $240 million Series D round, following a $300 million order from FedEx and a contract with the US military.
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Hack of Sega's ALL.Net servers knocked arcade games offline across Japan for a week
ALL.Net, the network connecting Sega and Bandai Namco arcade games in Japan, went down on November 1 after unauthorized access to its servers. Bandai Namco games are gradually returning, while Sega titles remain offline.
Diamond Foundry unveils the first 200 mm single-crystal diamond wafer for chip cooling
Lab-grown diamond company Diamond Foundry announced the world's first 200 mm single-crystal diamond wafer. The goal is to use diamond to spread heat in chips, especially AI processors that draw ever more power.
JFrog shares jump 35% to a record after third-quarter results
Shares of Israeli software company JFrog rose 35.3% on Wall Street on Friday to a record $101, a market cap of $12.5 billion, after third-quarter revenue grew 31% to $179 million.
Rafael's German subsidiary to supply Finland with anti-tank missiles for €84.5 million
Dynamit Nobel Defence, Rafael's German subsidiary, won an €84.5 million deal to supply RGW110 anti-tank missiles to Finland. They will replace anti-tank missiles dating from the 1980s.
Iris Ohyama cloud breach: data of up to 7.7 million customers exposed
Japanese household goods maker Iris Ohyama, which runs the Iris Plaza online store, said an unauthorized third party accessed an external cloud service it used, and that personal data of up to 7.7 million people may have been exposed.
US indictment: two Israelis and a British partner allegedly stole $129 million with CEO deepfakes
According to an indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan, the ring impersonated CEOs and lawyers using AI voice and video imitation, and persuaded finance staff at companies and banks to wire money to accounts it controlled. Authorities say at least $129 million was stolen.
Study maps 24 problems where quantum computers could gain an edge
Researchers from CERN, Google Quantum AI, Microsoft, Nvidia, JPMorganChase, MIT, Harvard and other institutions published a guide to 24 computational problems with credible prospects for quantum advantage, and to the conditions without which the advantage disappears.
Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch Gen 2, a truck-unloading robot built for reliability
Boston Dynamics this week unveiled the second generation of Stretch, its mobile robot that unloads boxes from trucks and containers. It handles up to 1,000 cases an hour, its battery lasts two shifts, and the new design aims to cut downtime.
Tesla reveals a chip roadmap: SI6 with 80 times today's compute, and Dojo 3 returns
Tesla showed an updated roadmap for its AI accelerators, now rebranded from AI to SI. According to Tom's Hardware, the sixth-generation inference chip, SI6, is expected to deliver 80 times the compute of the fourth generation, and the Dojo 3 training chip moves to a chiplet design with HBM memory.
Japan launches an emergency cybersecurity package after a wave of breaches at companies and agencies
Japan's government announced on Friday a 10 billion yen ($63 million) emergency cybersecurity package, including cyber rescue teams and the use of AI, after dozens of companies and government bodies were hit by unauthorized access and data leaks.
QNAP: hackers are breaching NAS devices through the Plex2Shell flaws
QNAP warns that attackers are exploiting the Plex2Shell vulnerability chain in Plex Media Server to break into its home and business storage devices. Anyone running a vulnerable version exposed to the internet should assume the device is compromised.
SpaceX: on Flight 15, Starship will try to return to the launch site and be caught by the tower
SpaceX said that on Flight 15 it will attempt for the first time to bring the Starship upper stage back from orbit to Starbase in Texas and catch it with the tower's arms. No flight date has been announced.
METR: AI is speeding up development at Anthropic, with models improving twice as fast as a year ago
Safety research group METR published a report after an 11-week investigation inside Anthropic. It found the company's models are improving roughly twice as fast as a year ago, and that most of the acceleration comes from AI itself rather than added compute.
Congress summons Nvidia's CEO to a closed-door briefing over Chinese espionage concerns
The chairs of three House committees asked Jensen Huang to appear at a closed-door briefing on November 18, after reports that US intelligence officials believe he was the target of a Chinese spying operation.
AAAI-27, the AAAI artificial intelligence conference, in Montréal February 16–23
The 41st annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) takes place in Montréal, Canada, February 16–23, 2027.
Chainalysis: breach exposed password hashes and live tokens for all customers
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said a breach of its systems exposed usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all of its users. Its login portal and key products have been taken offline.
Research: Claude Code saves passwords and keys in a settings file, and thousands are exposed on GitHub
Security company Apiiro found 1,122 public copies of Claude Code's local settings file that hold at least one secret. When a user picks "Yes, and don't ask again", the tool can save the full command, including any password or token typed into it.