Tech news, November 6, 2026

November 2 - November 6 BigQuery observability for data agents is now generally available: Data teams can now monitor the performance, adoption, latency, and cost of BigQuery data…

Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity of manufacturing modern semicon…

Starting with Element Web / Desktop 1.12.33, verifying your device is mandatory by default.

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

Posted by Jeffrey Walton on Nov 05 One general comment that does not fit well into most of the discussions around sshole...

Replacement: gemini-3.8-flash.

Hello Java customers!

Today, Kimi K3.1 Pro from Moonshot AI is available on Amazon Bedrock, expanding our open weight model portfolio with the security and governance that customers rely on.

Learn how Render built OIDC authentication using short-lived tokens, workspace-specific issuers, and a daemon that keeps credentials fresh.

The Agent adoption chart in the Copilot impact dashboard now includes Copilot Chat and the VS Code Agents window, so you can see engagement across nine Copilot experiences.

Writing code got faster.

Many data-sharing architectures begin with a familiar pattern: A provider exports...

If you ingest data from your customers over SFTP or APIs, you have probably asked...

Incident remediation agents are quickly emerging as one of the most compelling AI use cases for the enterprise.

This week, Copilot comes to JetBrains Air and Xcode’s coding assistant, with updates to help you manage pull requests, settings, and agent sessions.

You can now stream generative UI from your Chat SDK agent with json-render.

DeepSeek Search and DeepSeek Fetch are now available through AI Gateway.

Turn conversations into code with @GitHub in Slack and Teams!

On why design is the new code, shaping AI’s creative output, and the human vision and judgment behind what we make.

Updated on November 6th, 2026 We’ve been able to keep DDR5 pricing stable for the last few months by buffering inventory.

Storing large semi-structured data such as JSON and arrays in a data warehouse often means splitting or truncating your data.

AWS Agent Registry, available through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

Display Custom Policy in the Green Room before Google Meet Calls To help ensure end users at your organization are familiar with your organization’s policies for handling meeting…

Microsoft and fal partner to expand video generation in Microsoft Foundry, helping developers bring creative ideas into enterprise applications.

AI agents are becoming part of everyday engineering workflows, helping teams write code, troubleshoot issues, and automate tasks.

AWS re:Invent 2026 is almost here, and if you’re a developer, the Developer Tools (DVT) track is where you’ll want to spend your week.

A compact 1.7B-parameter text model with a 256K-token context, post-trained for agents, tool calling, and structured outputs.

New open weights from InternLM (Shanghai AI Lab) on the Hugging Face Hub.

CVE-2026-123158, known as *sshole, is an OpenSSH sshd authentication bypass on Linux systems that use musl libc without PAM, including Alpine Linux in its default configuration.

CVE-2026-123158 (*sshole) enables an OpenSSH authentication bypass on Alpine Linux.

At OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2026 in Prague, more than 200 attendees gathered onsite as practitioners, maintainers, policymakers, and security leaders came together across two…

Unit 42 examines recent cyberattacks targeting European refrigeration systems and outlines defense and mitigation strategies.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence caught attackers using an agentic AI framework, ARTEX, to hunt exposed secrets on public GitHub and move into Azure tenants in as little as five minu…

Protocols like Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), by default, use unencrypted channels for network communications and don’t support enterprise au…

Huntress Managed SIEM's Brute Force Sentry turns the brute force attacks our SOC sees in the field into detections that fire earlier, with the evidence and hardening guidance part…

Socket has released a free Certified Patch for a critical Rails Active Storage vulnerability, giving developers time to upgrade to a secure Rails version.

Anthropic customers can now apply spend toward Checkmarx Fusion SAST, Triage, Remediation Assist Buying security software is rarely slowed down by the technology, it’s slowed down…

When deploying diffusion models in design tools, image editors, and visual production workflows, developers must account for inference latency.

During reinforcement learning (RL) post-training, training trajectories are generated on the fly by running inference with the current policy model.

Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports GPU partitioning with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG), which divides one GPU into hardware-isolated partitions so you can run a different m…

One of the key security promises that PyPI makes is that when you're downloading something, that only the people associated with that project are going to be able to upload, delet…

This is part two in a three-part series.

This is part three in a three-part series.

As we built Amazon Quick, its agents grew from answering questions to taking actions, and the same primitives kept getting rebuilt under different names.

Learn how to build a serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate that gives AI agents secure, metadata-driven access to an enterprise data lake.

In Part 1 you built one governed agent.

An AI agent that acts for a user raises an identity question that per-app OAuth and service accounts leave open: which agent may act for which user, and how you stop it.

By Kristen DiCerbo, Khan Academy Chief Learning Officer One of the hopes we hear often about AI is...

Google is rightfully facing blowback for forcing K-12 schools to enable AI if they wanted to keep using Google search.

A machine-learning approach called CheMeleon provides a practical way to develop new drugs or other molecules with much less detailed, expensive experimentation.

Sophie Song, AI Now's Data Center Policy Fellow, joins Brian Merchant, Molly White, and Dave Karpf for a roundtable discussion about what the midterms mean for AI, data centers, a…

This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system for…

The Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) is issuing this final rule to remove the onerous and legally questionable affirmative action requirements that were previously impo…

News story: “ Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic ‘squid’ unlike anything ever seen.” Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shap…

The Summit is back in San Francisco, for the second year, and registrations are open for February 10, 2027

For a while, UK AISI, Redwood Research and others have been concerned specifically with the possibility that AIs would sabotage safety research, and have invested in looking for s…

The best Stratechery content from the week of November 2, 2026, including AI on the ballot, a Google state of the union, and China.

As systems biology efforts heat up to map biology at higher resolution, greater breadth and more modalities, Fabian Theis is pushing the frontier from mapping to predicting to con…

Suspending all the threads stops the threads that are there now, those are not the only possible sources of change.

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in video generation in terms of visual quality and temporal consistency.

Recent work on robot manipulation has focused on specialist policies trained on demonstrations.

Large language models reinvent the wheel all the time.

Deep learning training is difficult to verify within a scientific workflow: its architecture, hyperparameters, and procedure are rarely fixed until training has been attempted, an…

We prove that the set $\mathcal{N}_N$ of ReLU networks with one hidden layer and at most $N\in\mathbb N$ neurons is weakly closed in $W^{1,p}(Ω)$, for a bounded connected open set…

Predicting the future motion of multiple people is inherently stochastic: the same observed history admits many plausible continuations depending on intent, coordination, and soci…

Zeolites are an important class of porous crystalline materials with broad applications in gas storage, separations, and catalysis.

Timing measurements are a fundamental building block of microarchitectural attacks, enabling software to convert otherwise invisible latency differences into architectural observa…

The Gaussian jet of an image is a graded vector space: a dilation by $λ$ multiplies derivatives of order $k$ by $λ^{-k}$.

Test-time reinforcement learning (TTRL) adapts pretrained language models to unlabeled target-domain data using self-generated pseudo-labels, whose reliability remains poorly unde…