Allegations that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a relationship with an executive US intelligence links to China led the company to investigate, while China dismissed the claims as a smear. The article examines the case within the history of sexual compromise in espionage and vulnerabilities tied to Chinese intelligence law.
Elvis Presley's rights holders and Eminem's publisher filed separate lawsuits against AI music generator Suno in Northern California federal court on 6 November. The Presley suit alleges voice copying under Tennessee's ELVIS Act, while the Eminem case focuses on copyright; Suno denies the claims and says it blocks artist names and songs.
ProPublica reports it identified more than 500 U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents since President Donald Trump returned to office, despite DHS denying that it arrests or deports Americans. The account profiles detainees including a 17-year-old, a veteran and a teaching assistant, describing force and custody lasting hours or days.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia's board is preparing to remove CEO Jensen Huang, days after an internal investigation into his relationship with Alice Huang, reportedly a former Megaspeed executive. A New York Times report alleged a second extramarital relationship, and Nvidia shares reportedly lost more than $450bn since Huang admitted the first relationship.
Aikido reports that stolen GitHub credentials were used to inject a credential-stealing payload into tens of thousands of repositories beginning November 10. In over 1,800 of them, the code ran and sent cloud credentials and GitHub Actions secrets to the attacker, and Aikido named the campaign wfx-loot.
Nvidia's board met to consider removing CEO Jensen Huang after reports of two extramarital affairs, a source familiar with the matter said. The chipmaker's shares dropped more than 8% after hours, and Huang faces a possible congressional subpoena over his relationship with Alice Huang.
Gina Hinojosa's election as Texas governor comes as Austin ISD faces required state intervention after five unacceptable ratings, with a Texas Education Agency decision expected in December. Hinojosa opposes state takeovers, has criticized A-F accountability, and vowed to fire Commissioner Mike Morath.
Aikido Security reports that stolen credentials for 4,837 GitHub accounts were used to install a CI secret stealer in at least 1,806 repositories. SafeDep separately counted malicious commits in 8,093 public repositories, and the report says exposed secrets and cloud roles should be treated as compromised.
Datadog researchers reproduced CVE-2026-118383, a critical MongoDB flaw where two unauthenticated requests can plant waiters that crash a lagging replica-set member after it wins an election and catches up. MongoDB released fixed versions and says Atlas clusters update automatically; researchers reported no code execution in their lab, though MongoDB warns it may occur under some conditions.
The US Justice Department sued Lyft, alleging its drivers routinely turn away riders with disabilities, including people with guide dogs or stowable wheelchairs, and seeks $53 million for complainants. Lyft denies the claims and says it requires drivers to accommodate service animals and foldable mobility devices.
Google introduced the Gemini Decisions API and the Gemini Decision 1 model on Nov. 11, 2026, available through Google AI Studio. It evaluates up to 1,000 yes/no, choice and rubric questions over multimodal input in one pass, priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no output-token charges.
Darktrace researchers showed in a lab test that stolen Claude credentials could let an attacker drive Claude Code through Anthropic's memory stores and exfiltrate a 1 GB file via the Files API on a simulated Active Directory network. The technique does not exploit a Claude platform vulnerability, and Darktrace has not seen it used in the wild.
Poland temporarily took the ePUAP platform used for public services offline after detecting and halting a cyberattack, according to Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski. A ministry spokesperson said the system was not compromised, while restoration work continued and details about the attack remained unclear.
Poste Italiane has launched a co-investment fund aiming to raise €600M for digital infrastructure, beginning with data centres of 20 megawatts combined capacity. It follows the group's €11.35B takeover of Telecom Italia, whose 18 data centres hold about 125 megawatts, as the combined business pushes into cloud and AI.
Microsoft Entra has added a preview feature called Hard Deletion Protection that gives administrators seven days to restore supported directory objects before permanent erasure. It does not prevent the original deletion, requires the Backup Administrator role to configure, and covers cloud-only users, groups, applications and service principals.
At electronica in Munich, Nordic Semiconductor, Nanopower, STMicroelectronics, MIPS and Renesas Electronics detailed low-power embedded controllers for industrial and robotic systems, emphasizing on-chip edge AI, multiprotocol wireless and integrated motor control. STMicroelectronics' STM32H7P is sampling at OEMs, with production planned in January 2027.
Griffin, a London-based bank whose infrastructure lets other companies embed accounts and payments, has raised a $20M Series B led by Octagon Partners at a valuation above $100M. The funding will support card issuing and stablecoin services, with recurring revenue reported up 3.2 times year-on-year on unaudited accounts.
A roundup of five new book reviews covers M. John Harrison’s The End of Everything, Tom Overton’s biography of John Berger, and Cleo Birdwell’s Amazons. The excerpts discuss Harrison’s rolling apocalypse, Overton’s unconventional Berger portrait, and the reissue of Amazons as central to DeLillo’s work.
South Africa’s ICASA has issued a preliminary view that direct applications for new I-ECNS licences could boost competition, as it opens the second phase of its licensing inquiry. Communications minister Solly Malatsi directed the inquiry in August 2025, and phase-one submissions argued that acquiring licences through transfers created entry barriers and inflated costs.
A critical flaw in Apache HTTP Server's mod_http2, CVE-2026-119618, can let unauthenticated remote attackers run code on HTTP/2-enabled servers; versions 2.4.55 through 2.4.70 are affected, and 2.4.71 fixes it. Red Hat rates it 9.8 on CVSS and cites public research showing a reliable exploit, while Wiz said no exploit was available and no in-the-wild exploitation was reported.
Austin's weekly news roundup covers the transit partnership's plan for a three-mile rail extension to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, a mayoral request to revise police cooperation with ICE, and Austin ISD's refusal to comply with a state comptroller audit.
GAO found the US Department of Defense still cannot account for over a million lost F-35 parts amid weak supply-chain tracking and limited contractor integration. China reportedly seized Australian F-35 canopy and weapons-bay door parts diverted to Hong Kong, followed by congressional inquiries and Indo-Pacific security warnings.
Boris Krukoff, born in Russia in 1898, served with White forces during the revolution and later became a plant hunter for Merck in the Amazon. After arriving in New York in 1925 and studying forestry, he conducted economic botany expeditions in Brazil and other regions for American companies.
IP integration in semiconductor design remains difficult because semantic mismatches and incomplete specifications cause many bugs, especially as designs grow more configurable and software-heavy. Experts also cite power, thermal, analog and chiplet integration as pressures that complicate verification and require more information to travel with each block.
The Governor's Competitiveness Council made about 50 recommendations after Colorado business owners described permitting delays, tax complexity and rising costs. Proposals include site-ready locations, simpler sales taxes and concurrent permit reviews, though an economist questioned how the state would fund them.
