Tech news, November 5, 2026

Vivaldi 8.3 is bad news for bad ads.

Vivaldi 8.3 for Mobile brings the redesigned Ad and Tracker Blocker to Android and iOS, smarter media controls for Android, and a massive performance upgrade on iOS.

Teel is an open-source Python runtime that overlaps independent LLM and tool calls in plain sequential code.

We have implemented a fix for the issue affecting Cloud SIEM APIs.

Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent,…

Replacement: gemini-3.8-flash.

Real-time fraud detection depends on three kinds of features: what a customer did...

Azure Front Door now supports configurable TLS key exchange policies, including hybrid post-quantum key exchange, to help you prepare for evolving cryptographic threats while meet…

Data Cloud connectors in Gemini for business, now in preview, give business users and analysts a direct way to query live enterprise data in natural language.

We wanted to provide an update on the status of the Character’s Chapter 11 case.

The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back!

The goal is simple: reduce repeated reads without replacing the durable storage for all AI workloads.

AI adoption moves fast.

Today, AWS announced a new AWS Interconnect - last mile metro in Northern Virginia, USA.

Trace a multi-agent Google ADK app with Opik, fix handoffs that split into two traces, and evaluate it on 23 hard support cases to compare two Gemini models on cost, speed and ref…

The PHP team is pleased to announce the fourth release candidate of PHP 8.6.0, RC5.

Snowflake CoCo brings governed AI to Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, with live Snowflake data, agentic workbook building and role-based security.

See how Eric built ScubaTube with Claude Code, using Video.js v10 for a dive data overlay and TV mode, Mux Robots for chapters, and Mux Data for engagement.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

Set up, test, evaluate, and deploy hosted agents with the generally available Microsoft Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI, keeping agent and deployment configuration along…

Users now have access to Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash directly within Google Vids.

GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once.

RustConf 2026 Shortly after joining the Foundation full time, I attended two conferences: RustConf and Kangrejos.

AI assistants are rapidly evolving beyond text and image chat boxes into real-time, vision enabled copilots for the physical world.

AI agents do more than generate answers.

Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.

Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.

Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the successor to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash.

Mi:dm K 3.0 Pro is a Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model from KT, with 120B total and 12B active parameters.

Auto is OpenRouter’s flagship model router, built for general-purpose usage.

Auto Code is OpenRouter’s router built specifically for coding agents and harnesses.

New open weights from NVIDIA on the Hugging Face Hub.

New open weights from Ai2 on the Hugging Face Hub.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed threat actors using the agentic offensive security framework ARTEX to search GitHub for OAuth application secrets, which can be used to…

Phone return scams are part of a very convincing social engineering method where the criminals get a phone and you get billed.

Players of Goddess of Victory: NIKKE are being urged to check their PCs after attackers tampered with files used by the game’s Windows launcher.

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Scammers are using AI images to enhance their "I've found your missing pet and want money to return it to you" schemes.

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Ruby gems can run code on install and on every gem command, even gem list.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is introducing account access manager, a flexible new way to manage workforce access to your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts.

Kubescape completed all six project-level badges in the Fall 2026 Security Slam, bringing maintainers and community contributors together to strengthen security across its open so…

Thorsten may have had to camp out in Nuremberg to attend it-sa, but the real story is the initiative to add a formal IT Security apprenticeship program in Germany for the thousand…

Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore returns a synthesized, source-cited answer to a natural-language question in a single tool call, with no search, retrieve, synthesize, and c…

Learn how Amazon Marketplace evaluates A+ Content quality at scale on Amazon SageMaker AI by rendering each product page as a single snapshot, scoring it with a vision-language mo…

One underperforming GPU can slow an entire distributed training job.

Every day, more and more people are using coding agents like Google Antigravity and OpenCode to complete software engineering tasks.

In an AI factory, high bandwidth memory (HBM)is the fastest, most expensive, and most contested memory tier.

Until now, the AWS SDK for Java 2.x could generate presigned URLs through S3Presigner but could not consume one to download an object.

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Verisk partnered with AWS to build AI-SDLC: specialized AI agents spanning requirements, grooming, development, code review, and QA on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore,…

Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended.

A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.

The Secretary proposes to amend the Notice of Final Priorities and Definitions--Secretary's Supplemental Priorities and Definitions on Evidence-Based Literacy, Education Choice, a…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is classifying the digital cervical cytology slide imaging system with artificial intelligence algorithm into class II (special controls).

npj Digital Medicine, Published online: 05 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41746-026-03447-y Collaborative generalist-specialist AI for safe worklist deprioritization of non-contrast…

AIs are now good enough to run a conspiracy

Viable Alternative of CUDA Moat, NVIDIA scared and working nights & weekends, Jensen’s Counter Submission, Kimi K3, Muse Spark Open, Qwen, GLM5.3, TorchTPU, vLLM, SGLang, llm-d, R…

Anthropic is warning us.

Maude Lemaire shares lessons from scaling Slack and GitHub, improving performance at Cursor, and using AI while keeping engineering judgment in human hands.

Sim-to-real gaps are everywhere.

It doesn't really handle that case.

User embeddings are central components of modern recommendation, personalization, and behavioral modeling systems.

Scientific figures give research ideas a visual form through choices of abstraction, composition, and emphasis.

Grounded reasoning, where a model outputs text coordinates of relevant locations in chain-of-thought reasoning, is a common strategy for solving complex visual reasoning problems.

LLM-guided evolutionary search uses AI agents to improve programs for mathematical and computational problems by iteratively refining solutions and combining high-scoring methods.

AI-Scientists arrived, but a world for them to grow in did not.

Modern video models possess strong visual priors, yet do not natively represent human action in metric 3D space.

Interpretations have been widely used in the study of provenance of queries on semiring-annotated databases.

ML code should run where researchers choose, not where it was first written.

Interpretability, AI auditing and assessments of machine consciousness increasingly rest on mechanism-level quantities: functionals of a system's causal transition law that descri…

To interpret a direction in a language model's residual stream, we can look for text that strongly activates it.