Tech news, November 10, 2026
Tuesday: 720 pieces the paper read from primary sources, by section, newest first. Each links to its source; the line under it is the source's own opening.
The morning briefing
As the paper printed it on /brief/ at 08:46 UTC, in the sources' own words.
- LeadGiving Back to the Open Source We Build On
LanceDB adds ASOF join support to Apache DataFusion, improving time-series joins while giving back to the open source projects we rely on.
- NewsClosing the AI guidance gap in education
Lessons from OpenAI’s EMEA education partnerships and new ThinkYoung research.
- NewsCustomer support is the gnarliest AI problem
Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous eva…
- OutageBandwidth Local Market Impairment - 532 - Wichita, KS
We are experiencing an impairment on the Bandwidth network which may affect a portion of calls.
- SecurityCVE-2026-0250 GlobalProtect App: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability during connection to Portal or Gateway (Severity: MEDIUM)
- Deadlinegemini-3.6-flash shuts down in 9 days
Replacement: gemini-3.8-flash.
News
225 pieces, the newest 20 here.
- AWS Billing and Cost Management now supports AWS Billing Conductor and AWS Billing Transfer views as source views for custom billing views
Custom billing views now support AWS Billing Conductor and AWS Billing Transfer views as source views.
- Google DeepMind Says AI Formally Verified Signal’s Protocol Code and Flagged Only 1% for a Human Look. Where Should Human Review Go?
Google DeepMind says AI formally verified Signal's protocol code and flagged 1% for a human look.
- Scala 3.10.1 is now available!
Scala 3.10.1, the first patch release in the Scala 3.10 series, is now available.
- How a designer learned to unsee Will Smith eating spaghetti
How Mux’s Creative Director designed and built a custom Video.js v10 skin himself, using Figma to design, Claude Code to build, and the browser to review.
- ExecuTorch WebGPU: PyTorch Models on the GPU, in the Browser
TL;DR PyTorch models now run in the web browser on the GPU through ExecuTorch, with no conversion to another framework’s format.
- Give Your AI Agents the Context They Need Without Giving up Control of Your Data
EDB Postgres AI solves three major challenges to agentic work with its Agent Factory capabilities, which bring everything agents need—context, enterprise search, and a model and a…
- Expanding Gemini in Gmail to more Google Workspace users
We’re expanding the availability of some Gemini in Gmail features to more Google Workspace users aged 18 and older.
- ReSharper 2026.3: Claude Agent and Codex in Visual Studio, .NET 11 and C# 15 Support, and More
ReSharper 2026.2 brought Junie to Visual Studio as ReSharper’s first coding agent.
- AI’s Biggest Ambitions Depend on Doing the Hard Things Well
Ambition is everywhere, but scale is not.
- Announcing PowerShell 7.7 GA Release
This post announces the General Availability (GA) of PowerShell 7.7, the next Standard Term Support (STS) release.
- Heavy MySQL Reports in Seconds: Open Source HTAP with DBTrail and Percona Server for MySQL
In Part 1 we ran analytical reports in DuckDB on a DBTrail copy instead of on MySQL.
- Hybrid Tables Now Up to 8x Faster, Automatically
Snowflake Hybrid Tables now deliver up to 8x higher throughput and 3x lower latency, on by default.
- AI for Sales Leaders: Snowflake Expedition 2026 Recap
Revenue leaders: learn about the Expedition 2026 sessions on scaling AI in sales, building one source of truth for GTM and selling to buyers with agents.
- Beyond Test Cards: A Fake Payment Provider for Testing at Scale
Image generated with Google Gemini, 2026 Written by Savelii Kolesnikov, Jay Patel, and Ivanna Sivak Background Lyft processes billions in payments annually, and that volume contin…
- Lazare, veni foras: Reprogramming Dormant Neurons to Backdoor AI Agents
Microsoft researchers have discovered “Lazarus,” a backdoor technique that can reprogram dormant neurons in an AI model, causing an otherwise normal AI agent to execute malicious…
- Context Engineering (Agent Memory) for AI Agents Starts with Retrieval
Agents waste time and context on clumsy searches, oversized results and stale data.
- Context Engineering with Deep Agents: How To Remember Without Keeping Everything In Context
Long-running agents degrade as context piles up.
- [In preview] Public Preview: Distributed accelerator for cloud storage on AKS
Distributed accelerator for cloud storage (DACS) is now in public preview for AI workloads running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for .NET 11
Azure Functions support for.NET 11 is now generally available.You can now build Azure Functions apps targeting.NET 11 using the isolated worker model, while continuing to use the…
- Nitro Sandboxes: Hardware isolation for every EKS pod, ECS task, and EC2 workload
AWS Nitro Sandboxes is a new Amazon EC2 building block that gives each container, EKS pod, or ECS task the boundary of a hardware-isolated virtual machine, bringing the Nitro Syst…
New Models
8 pieces.
- New model: MiniMax: MiniMax H3 Image
MiniMax H3 Image is MiniMax's image generation and editing model.
- New model: Baidu: ERNIE-Light-DT-1.0
ERNIE-Light-DT-1.0 is based on open-source GLM models and includes research findings from Baidu Search's Lightning large model.
- New model: SpaceXAI: Grok STT 2.0
Grok STT 2.0 is a speech-to-text model from SpaceXAI and the successor to Grok STT 1.0.
- New model: Google: Gemini 4 Carbon
Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier Gemini 4 model from Google for coding, agentic and complex reasoning work.
- Open model: inclusionAI/ZoomGain-9B
New open weights from inclusionAI (Ant Group) on the Hugging Face Hub.
- Open model: inclusionAI/ZoomGain-4B
New open weights from inclusionAI (Ant Group) on the Hugging Face Hub.
- New model: Nex AGI: Nex-N2.6
Nex-N2.6 is an agentic model from Nex AGI, built on [GLM-5.3-Flash](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash-BF16) with about 321B parameters.
- New model: Nace.AI: Drex Max Finance
Drex Max Finance is a finance-tuned version of Nace.AI's Drex Max, a 27B multimodal decision model.
Security Desk
88 pieces, the newest 10 here.
- Reduce alert fatigue by customizing threat detection features in Amazon GuardDuty
The teams responsible for security today don’t have a problem with the number of alerts they receive; they have a problem turning those alerts into something truly actionable.
- Detecting sleeper agents hiding in AI model neurons
Microsoft Research has released new threat research detailing how a capable agent model could be turned into a sleeper agent by editing fewer than ten neurons to inject a short pa…
- CVE-2026-92707 MessagePack-CSharp Denial of Service Vulnerability
Information published.
- Critical: React: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in React Server Components
Affects react-server-dom-parcel, react-server-dom-turbopack, react-server-dom-webpack.
- Cisco Identity Services Engine Authorization Bypass Vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) could allow an authentica…
- Patch Tuesday - November 2026
Microsoft is publishing 1,092 own-product vulnerabilities on November 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 745 vulnerabilities in Windows.
- Microsoft Fixes Nearly 1,100 Security Vulnerabilities
Microsoft did another four-digit patch drop today, releasing updates to fix almost 1,100 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software.
- AWS refreshes ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange assessment to enhance customer’s third-party due diligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce renewal of the AWS ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange assessment.
- An ARTEX build ships no secret scanner. In our lab, it found the secrets anyway
An ARTEX build ships no secret scanner.
- Railway’s Security Incident: Why CI/CD Needs Runtime Security
Lessons from Railway’s November 10 report: review build access, tighten OIDC trust, and use Harden-Runner to observe and restrict CI/CD runtime activity.
Technical Guides
19 pieces, the newest 10 here.
- Updated default retry behavior for AWS SDKs and tools
In May 2026, we announced an opt-in for updated retry behavior for the AWS SDKs, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS Tools for PowerShell.
- Build a daily dependency watcher with LangGraph and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore web search
The Web Search API in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gives agents current, cited web results signed with the AWS credentials they already use.
- The agent evaluation playbook: Built-in, DeepEval, and AutoEval on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
When you deploy an agent, whether it is working is really several questions: did it finish the task, stay on topic, leak data, or skip steps?
- NEW CERTIFICATION: Certified Kubernetes Network Engineer (CKNE) and Certification Pathway
Advance Your Kubernetes Networking Skills for the AI Era Linux Foundation Education, in partnership with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) just launched the Certified Kuber…
- Autonomous treasury agents: How Trovata built an AI-native solution on Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore
Learn how Trovata built autonomous treasury agents on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, using an RBAC-secured architecture for bank-branded AI deployment and agentic wo…
- Superhuman’s AI advantage: measuring the business value of AI adoption
This post shares quantified results of the company Superhuman, which made AI to be the default way of work for their platform team.
- How TCS built an agentic test orchestrator with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) built an agentic test orchestrator on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that turns requirements into executable, governed tests for its Banking, Financial S…
- Amazon Bedrock tokenomics data lake
Running Amazon Bedrock across many accounts shows you the bill but not what happened inside each call.
- Running AV Reasoning Models Within Onboard Compute and Latency Limits
Autonomous vehicle (AV) developers need reasoning models that can operate within the compute and latency constraints of an onboard system.
- AI connectors in Kibana: 90+ data sources your agent can call
Your index has the alert, but the Slack thread, GitHub PR, Confluence doc and PagerDuty timeline that explain it sit elsewhere.
AI in the Field
4 pieces.
- The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are
AI Now's Chief AI Scientist Heidy Khlaaf distinguishes between real concerns around AI safety and unsubstantiated extinction claims, while pointing to the existing field of risk a…
- MIT-led team receives funding to develop next-generation alternatives to modern weed killers
With up to $53 million from ARPA-H, the researchers will use AI to generate safer herbicides that reduce dependence on imports and improve the security of the U.S.
- Synthetic data to lower barriers towards equitable artificial intelligence in rapid diagnostic test interpretation
npj Digital Medicine, Published online: 10 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41746-026-03380-0 Synthetic data to lower barriers towards equitable artificial intelligence in rapid diagno…
- Introducing the Waymo Accessibility Network UK: Co-Designing the Future of Autonomous Mobility
Today, we’re launching the Waymo Accessibility Network UK to inform the future of autonomous mobility in the UK and enable a more independent future of transport.
Columns
12 pieces, the newest 6 here.
- 30 years of Internet transfers with curl
Thirty years ago, on November 11, 1996 the young Brazilian student Rafael Sagula posted the source code for his tiny HTTP download tool online.
- Designing for Agents — Zeno Rocha, Resend
Where does answer engine optimization (AEO) end and agent experience begin?
- NaiveAI Promises 2,100 Tokens per Second. How Well Does It Code?
NaiveAI could potentially top Artificial Analysis’s speed rankings.
- From Full to Hybrid Attention in LLMs
How open-weight LLMs are shifting from full attention to hybrid and sparse designs, and what that means for long-context compute and memory.
- Software correctness & supply chain security, with Sean Allen
A deep conversation on the biggest challenges of developing with AI – while trying not to mention the phrase “AI” once.
- Microsoft employee price list from 1987
The Microsoft product catalog.
Research
150 pieces, the newest 10 here.
- The phantom life of Alice Huang, alleged Chinese spy who had affair with Nvidia CEO
CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by The Washington Post.
- Medical Image Segmentation: Foundation Model Adaptation versus Task-Specific Training
Foundation models pretrained on large natural-image collections are increasingly adapted for medical image segmentation, in the expectation that they will replace models trained f…
- Toward Foundation Detection Models via Example-Based Grounding in EM-DETR
DeepLearning (DL)-based Computer-Aided Diagnostic (CAD) systems have shown great promise in supporting clinicians, but their performance heavily depends on the availability of lar…
- TorchCurves: Differentiable Parametric Curves
We present TorchCurves, a PyTorch library that treats vector-valued parametric curves as learnable primitives.
- AutoScaffold: AI-Guided Scaffolding for Reinforcement Learning of Language Models
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) produces rich training experience, yet outcome rewards reduce each attempt to a single number and leave most of this informat…
- Contrastive Discovery: Open-Ended Scientific Discovery over Competing Explanations
LLM agents are increasingly used for open-ended, data-driven scientific discovery, yet most of them evaluate hypotheses pointwise, testing an empirical claim $h$ only against its…
- Pyrite: Building and Benchmarking Protein-Ligand Pose Ranking Agents
Predicting how a ligand binds to its target is central to small-molecule drug discovery.
- When Does the Real Wiring Win? Testing connectome structure-function claims against unmeasured physiology
Connectome-constrained models are often used to argue that a measured wiring diagram outperforms shuffled or rewired wiring, and hence that structure shapes function.
- Continual-ARC: Measuring Skill Acquisition over a Working Lifetime
Agent harnesses have emerged as a promising mechanism for continual learning, alongside test-time parametric learning.
- Emergent Biological Capabilities in a Foundation Model for Molecular Interactions
Foundation models trained on large unlabeled corpora develop emergent capabilities, tasks that go beyond the training objective.
Releases
67 pieces, the newest 12 here.
- swc_core@v84.0.3
- electron v44.11.1
- Ollama 0.40.17: Improve ChatGPT CLI restore and graceful restart by @hoyyeva in #19583
- ComfyUI 0.45.0: Bump comfyui-frontend-package to 1.58.5 by @comfy-pr-bot in #17442
- 0.167.1
- Grafana 13.2.6: Download page
- Grafana 13.1.10: Download page
- Release v0.68.0
- electron v45.3.0
- electron v43.8.8
- @google/genai 3.1.0
- ai 7.0.169
New Repos & Packages
37 pieces, the newest 8 here.
Watch
26 pieces, the newest 6 here.
- Colin Fleming, OpenAI CMO, Business: When AI Is the Buyer
- Did Nvidia’s CEO Fall for a Honeytrap?
- Application awareness on Cloud Interconnect demo
- Build stronger customer experience outcomes with voice, text, and speech AI
- Why code is breaking production (Google Engineers Explain)
- New Way Now: PUMA fields 75% of in-store customer questions with AI built on Google Cloud and NVIDIA
Package releases
84 from the most used packages' own repositories, the newest 15 here.
- colord v2.12.0 · every release →
- pydantic-ai-slim v2.67.0 · every release →
- langchain-aws==1.9.3 · every release →
- minimatch v11.0.7 · every release →
- zip v9.5.1 · every release →
- prost v0.14.5 · every release →
- minipass-fetch v6.0.1 · every release →
- faker v40.54.0 · every release →
- tldts-core v7.4.21 · every release →
- @inquirer/rawlist@5.4.0 · every release →
- uncalled-for 0.6.1 · every release →
- strands-agents harness-cli/v0.3.0 · every release →
- google-cloud-aiplatform v2.8.0 · every release →
- webpki-roots v/1.0.12 · every release →
- fastmcp v4.1.8 · every release →