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$11.4 Million Nvidia Shipment Stolen After Oakland Pickup, and Police Still Have No Arrests
Six pallets of Nvidia hardware, worth about $11.4 million, left Oakland on Aug. 29 and never reached Texas. More than two months later, no one has been arrested. Police also have not said how the cargo was taken. The case shows how cargo thieves now work. They are making fewer hits, but each one is…
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iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e X-Rays Point to One Shared Design and a 4,430mAh Battery
Two leaked X-ray scans suggest the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e could share the same internal layout and the same 4,430mAh battery. The images are unverified. Even the forum post that shared them warns they may not be genuine. The scans are automated X-ray inspection (AXI) images of two unreleased iPhones, according to Notebookcheck’s report…
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Apple Humanoid Robot Research: HALO Learns Home Tasks From 1,000 Fake Houses
Apple researchers trained a humanoid robot only in 1,000 computer-generated homes. In six real buildings it had never seen or mapped, the robot finished single tasks 91% of the time across 360 trials. The system is called HALO. It is described in the paper “Perceptive Humanoid Motion from Simulation” on arXiv, submitted on November 4,…
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Google Agent Substrate Joins CNCF to Cut the Cost of Idle AI Agents
AI agents spend most of their time doing nothing. Google says an agent in a typical interactive session waits 90% to 95% of the time for a model, an external API or a human reviewer. Its open-source runtime, Agent Substrate, is built to stop teams from paying for that idle time while keeping agent-written code…
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Googlebook November update frees RAM, but the fixes you get depend on your model
The Googlebook November update brings its biggest memory gain to three laptops. They are the Acer Googlebook 14, ASUS Googlebook 14 and Lenovo Googlebook 15. Android Police reports the update can free up to about 6GB of RAM on those machines. Most other fixes target one group of laptops. What you gain depends on which…
Microsoft
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Microsoft Patent Application Describes AI That Rewrites Live Speech and Redraws Lips
A Microsoft patent application describes an AI system that could swap the words a person says on a live stream before viewers hear them. It would also redraw the speaker’s lips so the new words look natural. According to the patent tracker Patentlyze, which first flagged the Microsoft filing, the edited feed would run about…
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Microsoft Fixes Remote Desktop Connection Error
Microsoft Fixes Remote Desktop Connection Error Microsoft has officially rectified a frustrating anomaly. This software glitch hindered standard users from establishing remote sessions. Specifically, it caused a Remote Desktop connection error in secure environments. The disruption plagued systems where the robust Administrator protection protocol was active. Initiated during the autumn of 2025, this advanced security…
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DirectX 12 Ray Tracing Overhauled in Major Microsoft Update
Microsoft Overhauls DirectX 12 Ray Tracing Microsoft unveiled significant advancements on October 28. They launched the official DirectX 12 Agility SDK version 1.620 alongside the experimental version 1.722 preview. As detailed in the Microsoft developer blog, these releases deliver a comprehensive suite of updates explicitly targeting DirectX Raytracing (DXR). The experimental SDK introduces highly sophisticated…
Smartphones
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Galaxy S27 Pro Listed With Snapdragon in Europe, While S27 and S27+ Get Exynos 2700
European buyers who want a Snapdragon-powered Galaxy S27 may not have to buy the Ultra. Trade records list the Galaxy S27 Pro with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. The cheaper Galaxy S27 and S27+ show Samsung’s own Exynos 2700 instead. Notebookcheck reported the four European listings on November 4. They come from NBD, a…
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Samsung Acknowledges Bizarre Status Bar Bugs in One UI 9 Update
Samsung Addresses Peculiar One UI 9 Status Bar Issues Samsung’s highly anticipated stable One UI 9 rollout is currently accelerating. This massive update delivers numerous exciting features and crucial improvements to an ever-expanding array of Galaxy devices. However, as an increasing number of eager users install this major system upgrade, a few unexpected software bugs…
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Leaked Samsung Galaxy S27 Screen Protectors Reveal Display Sizes
Leaked Galaxy S27 Screen Protectors Reveal Display Sizes Technology publication SammyGuru recently published an intriguing article featuring leaked images. Specifically, these photos showcase third-party tempered glass screen protectors designed for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S27 series. Furthermore, SammyGuru’s exclusive Galaxy S27 series screen protector images leak displays both standard transparent and privacy-focused variations. This comprehensive…
Security
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$11.4 Million Nvidia Shipment Stolen After Oakland Pickup, and Police Still Have No Arrests
Six pallets of Nvidia hardware, worth about $11.4 million, left Oakland on Aug. 29 and never reached Texas. More than two months later, no one has been arrested. Police also have not said how the cargo was taken. The case shows how cargo thieves now work. They are making fewer hits, but each one is…
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US Memo Ties Jensen Huang to Suspected Chinese Spy as Congress Seeks Answers
Three US House committee chairs have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to answer questions behind closed doors on November 18. They want to know about his contacts with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive whom US intelligence reportedly believes worked for Beijing. Huang has until November 11 to accept or propose another date. The request came…
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Claude Dispatch Flaw Lets a Browser Extension Run Code Through Claude Desktop
A browser extension with access to claude.ai can push Claude Desktop into installing software and running code. The target can be the same computer or a different one signed in to the same account. Gal Weizman, a researcher at Forever Security, described the Claude Dispatch flaw in a Forever Security write-up on the ThisBash attack…
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Calif Beats iPhone Lockdown Mode With an AirDrop PDF, and the Hack Survives iOS 27.2
A malicious PDF sent over AirDrop was enough to jailbreak an iPhone 18 Pro with Apple’s Lockdown Mode switched on. Security firm Calif showed the attack in a video this week. The jailbreak also stayed on the phone after it updated to iOS 27.2, according to MacRumors’ report on the Calif demo. Lockdown Mode is…
Linux
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Kmorph Keeps a Spare Linux Kernel Running to Take Over After a Crash
A Linux server that hits a kernel panic normally needs a full reboot before it serves anyone again. A new open-source tool called kmorph tries to skip that step. It keeps a second kernel already running on the same machine, ready to take over when the first one dies. The code lives in the kmorph…
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OpenAI AI Pipeline Built 948 Linux Root Exploits: What Linux Users Should Do Now
OpenAI says one automated run produced 948 working root exploits for the Linux kernel and a candidate patch for each flaw behind them. The run took place in mid-October 2026. It cost $1,213,430 in API credits, or about $1,279 per exploit. The company described the work on November 4 in a research post titled “A…
Gadgets
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Sony Wi-Fi Fall Detection System Watches Over Seniors Without Cameras or Wearables
Sony’s new fall detection system needs no camera, no wristband and no pendant. It watches for falls by reading changes in ordinary Wi-Fi signals. The company says it captures no images at all, which makes it suited to bedrooms and bathrooms. Sony (China) showed the system as a global debut at the 9th China International…
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Bluetooth HDT Brings 7.5 Mbps to Bluetooth LE, but Only 4 Mbps Is Mandatory
Bluetooth Low Energy is getting its first top-speed increase since 2016. The Bluetooth SIG has adopted Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT), which lifts the maximum bit rate from 2 Mbps to 7.5 Mbps. There is a catch for buyers, though. Chipmakers only have to support rates up to 4 Mbps, and the fastest modes are…
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