China completes 1,000-km hollow-core fiber transmission verification
Nov 11, 2026
Is universe 26.7 billion years old? New model challenges accepted ageAt the stage of cosmic history when standard cosmology says the Universe was about 300 million years old, a new model puts its age at roughly 4.6 billion years. That gap is the heart of a University of Ottawa proposal that the...
Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for a total of 1,259 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, the second consecutive month where the patch volume has exceeded 1,000 flaws. These cover 726 flaws in Windows, 174 in Office, 61 in Developer Tools, 59 in SQL Server, 53 in Developer Tools, and 27 in SharePoint Server. The patches also include 165 non-Microsoft-issued CVE identifiers.
AI provider keys that customers stored on Railway were stolen in an October breach and used to commit an estimated $740,000 in unauthorized spending, the platform-as-a-service provider said yesterday. It has promised to pay those charges itself when an AI provider will not refund them. The company builds and runs apps for its customers and stores their secrets, such as API keys and database
Seeing is believing: AI glasses provide real-time translation
A Chinese university with close ties to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has purchased Nvidia's advanced H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips despite being on a US trade blacklist, highlighting gaps in Washington's restrictions on China's access to high-end computing technology, according to a Reuters report.
An AI model can be given a hidden backdoor by editing fewer than 10 of its rarely used neurons, without retraining the model, Microsoft researchers have shown. When a chosen trigger appears, the model outputs an attacker's command, which an agent using that model would run with the agent's own permissions. The attacker must be able to change the model's weights. The team tested the method on
Flipkart is offering the iPhone 16 (128GB) at a potential effective price of ₹19,655 with eligible bank discounts and exchange benefits. The deal, first reported by Cashify on November 10, includes an Axis Bank discount of ₹3,495 and an exchange benefit of up to ₹46,750.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei teases its first AI-native device: a screenless, metallic gadget with two LEDs and a physical button. The launch is set for December 2026.
CHINA-SHOPPING/AI (PIX):China's Singles Day shopping festival puts AI selling power to the test
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Tuesday added two security flaws impacting Cisco BroadWorks and Openwave Messaging Webtop Media Transcoder to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Details of the vulnerabilities are below - CVE-2026-20320 (CVSS score: 7.5) - An improper restriction of XML external entity
X has launched a video clipping feature that allows users to turn longer videos into short clips, add commentary and share them directly on the platform. Both original creators and eligible users who make clips can earn rewards based on video views through X's Original Content Rewards programme.
UN chief issues warning about raging climate crisis at COP31 summitUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres just took centre stage at the COP31 summit in Turkey, alongside world leaders this Wednesday and his warning comes as a ticking timebomb.In his exact words the world is heading on ‘a path to...