Wednesday · November 11, 2026 Vol. I · No. 314
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Hamas needs to disarm for Trump’s Gaza plan to be implemented — Netanyahu’s office U.S. charges 3 men with plotting multiple terror attacks, including planned attack against U.K. air… A new tool makes biodiversity conservation planning more efficient and reproducible Judge allows Trump's $10bn defamation lawsuit against BBC to proceed LNbits rushes emergency patch after reported Bitcoin wallet thefts US House blocks bid to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, for now Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says Putin ‘lives in a different reality’ as Abu Dhabi talks get un… X launches its own clipping feature to spur influencer engagement Hamas needs to disarm for Trump’s Gaza plan to be implemented — Netanyahu’s office U.S. charges 3 men with plotting multiple terror attacks, including planned attack against U.K. air… A new tool makes biodiversity conservation planning more efficient and reproducible Judge allows Trump's $10bn defamation lawsuit against BBC to proceed LNbits rushes emergency patch after reported Bitcoin wallet thefts US House blocks bid to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, for now Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says Putin ‘lives in a different reality’ as Abu Dhabi talks get un… X launches its own clipping feature to spur influencer engagement

Technology

Technology · Cybersecurity

Apple Backports Fix for Exploited CoreGraphics Flaw to Older iPhones and iPads

Apple on Monday backported fixes for a high-severity security flaw that was exploited in real-world cyber attacks to older devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950 (C…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Apple rolls out iOS 27.2 with new Siri AI languages and security fixes

The latest Apple software update for iPhones and iPads includes new features and important security updates.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple is adding an AI chatbot to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers

Apple is bringing an AI assistant to its suite of productivity apps, including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The assistant, which is built on AI models from Apple and OpenAI, can u…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Book vs clamshell foldable phones: which is better for your everyday needs?

There are pros and cons to each style of foldable.

Technology · Startups

Anduril and Qualcomm to build laptops in the US for government use

Defence company Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm plan to make laptops in the US, the two companies announced today. The new product line, called BlueChip, is aimed at government, de…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data

Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.

Technology · Software & Apps

Sculpture recreates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup

University of Sheffield researchers figured out how to recreate the 1600-year-old glass recipe.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple's iMac with M6 arrives promising a 'huge leap' in AI performance

It offers more cores and more performance per core than the iMac M5. 

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple has updated the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M6 chip

Sadly, the 16-inch MBP is still stuck with older M5 silicon.

Technology · Software & Apps

US officials want Section 702 renewed before damaging court ruling goes public

Senators say officials hid a ruling on warrantless searches past its release deadline.

Technology · Startups

Bitdefender’s new tool maps how attackers could reach critical systems

Bitdefender has launched GravityZone Exposure Management, which combines vulnerability discovery, internet-facing asset scanning, attack-path mapping and per-user hardening. It is…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

A jailbroken PlayStation 5 can play PS2 discs, but Sony is giving users a tough choice

We mean that in the Faustian bargain sense.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple refreshes the iMac with M6 chips

Apple is updating the iMac with M6 chips. The new iMac generation was introduced today, ahead of Apple's "Pro and Tell" event that's scheduled to take place on Wednesday, giving A…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M6 chips

Apple is giving its entry-level MacBook Pro a spec bump. After upgrading the entry-level MacBook Pro with its M5 chip a year ago, Apple is refreshing the laptop today with the M6 …

Technology · Startups

Memory and storage stocks keep sliding despite blowout earnings

Sandisk, Micron, Seagate and Western Digital were among the top stocks of early 2026 but have dropped to the S&P 500’s bottom 10% since July, Bloomberg reported. Western Digital f…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax

"It's causing a lot of people to run who I don't want to be running," native Californian Palmer Luckey said. "But I'm planning on staying in California. I'm going to keep fighting…

Technology · Startups

Hyphenate raises $45M Series A following 86x revenue growth

The first wave of finance AI helped teams work faster. The next is taking responsibility for the work itself. Hyphenate is the autonomous finance platform for the office of the CF…

Technology · Startups

Black Ore launches its AI tax preparation platform for small firms

Black Ore, the AI platform for financial services, launched Black Ore for Small Firms. It is a version of its Tax Autopilot platform built for small and mid-sized accounting pract…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative

General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which a…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Palmer Luckey’s Anduril is getting into laptops — and claims they’ll be American-made

Anduril and Qualcomm are partnering on a new line of laptops called BlueChip, launching in early 2027. The first prototype is a ruggedized model using Arm-based Snapdragon X serie…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Ford’s sub-$30K electric truck puts the home backup inverter right inside the vehicle

We're still a few months away from the official reveal of the Ford Fathom, the automaker's first next-generation electric vehicle. While we wait, Ford has been whetting our appeti…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

AirFly’s wireless headphone dongle adds a screen to guide you through the pairing process

Twelve South has announced a new version of its Airfly dongle that simplifies the pairing process when connecting wireless headphones to devices that don't natively support Blueto…