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Humanoid Robot Qestr Quits Antarctic Ultra After 3 km as Cold Drains Its Battery
A humanoid robot named Qestr lasted about 3 km in the Antarctic Ice Ultra before its battery ran out. The human runners kept going, and some of them covered 100 miles. The gap shows where humanoid robots still fall short: not on balance or terrain, but on power in deep cold. What happened at the…
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Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome 2 Predicts DNA Variant Effects Cell by Cell
On the TenK10K immune cell dataset, AlphaGenome 2 picked out 30% of causal variants. The original AlphaGenome found 16%. Google DeepMind announced the new DNA model on November 11. The gain comes from one design change: it now predicts DNA effects one cell type at a time. The model is open now for non-commercial research…
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How to Check if Microsoft Paint Has the CVE-2026-83844 Fix
Microsoft says only Paint version 11.2609.401.0 fixes CVE-2026-83844, a code execution flaw in the Windows image editor. Microsoft published the advisory on October 13. Yet independent checks found the fixed build in the Microsoft Store only on November 6. If your copy of Paint shows a lower number, it still has the bug. The fix…
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16GB RAM and DDR4 Gain Ground on PCs as RAM Prices Rise, CPU-Z Data Shows
Fewer newly checked PCs carry 32GB or 64GB of memory than a year ago. That is the picture in the latest CPU-Z Validator statistics from CPUID, the company behind the popular CPU-Z hardware utility. Systems with 16GB and 8GB gained share over the same period. The shift comes as RAM prices keep climbing on demand…
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PROLED MacBook Pro Teardown Shows Why Its Glowing Logo Is Hard to Fix
Reaching the glowing Apple logo on Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro means going through the OLED screen. Repair company iFixit found that out the hard way. Its team cracked the panel while trying to get to the four LEDs that light the logo, according to its teardown of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR.…
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Windows MSHTML Flaw CVE-2026-21513 Still Exploited Months After Patch
Attackers are using a Windows bug that Microsoft fixed in February 2026 to break into organizations in Russia. The flaw, CVE-2026-21513, sits in MSHTML, the old HTML engine that Windows still ships for apps such as Office. Any PC that missed the February update remains open to this trick. The cyber intelligence group at PT…
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Claude Fable 5.2 Arrives With Free Usage Resets for Paid Plans and Lower API Prices
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 on November 9, and paying subscribers get extra Fable usage to try it. Pro users and standard Team seats can use Fable for one week at no extra cost. Max, Ultra and premium seats get one to three limit resets, based on how long they have paid. The new model…
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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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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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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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