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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash Cuts AI Video Prices and Replaces 1.1 on December 3
Google’s new video model costs about $0.07 per second of 720p output, and it will take over all requests sent to its predecessor on December 3, 2026. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash also stretches a single clip to 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds in Omni 1.1. Google DeepMind product manager Anish Nangia announced the model…
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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…
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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…
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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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Fedora Linux 45 Blocks Unsigned Packages and Changes Five Things Upgraders Will Notice
Fedora Linux 45 is out, and the most visible change for many users is a refusal. RPM, the low-level package tool, now rejects packages that lack a verified digital signature. Fedora published the release on November 3, 2026, in its official Fedora Linux 45 announcement on Fedora Magazine. Most release coverage lists the new version…
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OpenAI Built Pando to Keep Git Working Under AI Agent Load, and Some Fixes Reach Regular Git
OpenAI now runs its internal monorepo on Pando, a Git-compatible backend it built in 10 weeks. The company says median push latency fell by nearly 80% after the switch. Pando also serves close to a petabyte of Git data per day. Developers still type ordinary Git commands, and some of the client fixes behind the…
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Linux 7.4-rc1 Ends a Record Merge Window as AI Fixes Arrive Earlier
Linux 7.4 pulled in 19,671 commits during its two-week merge window. That is the largest merge window on record, according to Phoronix’s analysis of kernel merge windows. Linus Torvalds closed the window on Sunday, November 1, 2026, with the release of Linux 7.4-rc1. The size alone is not the main story. Torvalds says a large…
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Google Bans TV Box Maker Videostrong Over XCPE Botnet on 1.3 Million Devices
A TV box maker built the botnet, Google says More than 1.3 million Android devices, mostly TV set-top boxes, shipped with a backdoor run by their own maker. That is the finding of the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) report on the XCPE botnet. GTIG says it dismantled the XCPE botnet last week with industry…
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Photos Show a Four-GPU Radeon RX 470 Board With 32GB of Memory, Likely Built for Mining
An oversized circuit board with four AMD Radeon RX 470 graphics chips and 32GB of GDDR5 memory has appeared in photos on X. It plugs into a single PCIe slot. It is most likely a custom mining card, not a lost AMD gaming product. The images came from X user GOK, who posted them as…
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Apple Spyware Alerts Reach 99 Countries: How to Check Yours and What to Do Next
Apple has sent a new round of spyware threat notifications to targeted iPhone users in 99 countries. Recipients include journalists and several members of Germany’s parliament. This is the second wave in less than three months, after an August round reached users in 110 countries. The alerts began arriving on October 29, 2026. Apple has…
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