Tech news, November 11, 2026
Wednesday: 434 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.
- LeadAnnouncing Reverie Summit: What AI’s Next Breakthroughs Are Made On
One day with the researchers and engineers building generative video, world models, physical AI, and the data systems beneath them.
- NewsChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers
More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus.
- NewsWhat if your Virtual Data Room (VDR) was Android™ based?
When working through merger and acquisitions, one needs to follow a proper due diligence process, in which lawyers, financial advisors, and potential buyers will need access to hi…
- OutageSSL Certificate Provisioning Issue
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- SecurityUSN-9040-1: Linux kernel (Low Latency NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that some AMD processors did not properly perform Reverse Map Table (RMP) checks when the IOMMU accessed certain host buffers.
- Deadlinegemini-3.6-flash shuts down in 8 days
Replacement: gemini-3.8-flash.
News
139 pieces, the newest 20 here.
- Air gapped, not data dark: how Bright Machines gives customers live factory dashboards without opening the plant
Bright Machines gives customers live, governed dashboards of their factory data without...
- Ornith-1.0-9B and Ornith-1.0-35B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
DeepReinforce AI's Ornith-1.0-9B and Ornith-1.0-35B models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers.
- How Zillow runs 100 million daily notifications on AWS Step Functions
Zillow sends more than 100 million personalized notifications a day, each as a short-lived AWS Step Functions Express workflow.
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
DeepSeek's DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models availab…
- [Podcast] Submarine cable resilience and economics
How resilient is the global submarine cable network?
- Detecting credential-driven attacks on Databricks
At Databricks, we know your data is your most valuable asset.
- Brickster Voices: Meet Alasdair Anderson
Q: What does a typical week look like for a Lead Solutions Architect, and how would...
- Resources for the SQL AI Developer
I see three agentic stories shaping SQL’s future.
- Refresh a single tenant across accounts with Aurora MySQL and Amazon S3
Move a single tenant's data between Amazon Aurora MySQL clusters in two separate AWS accounts with no network route between them, using Aurora cloning, SELECT INTO OUTFILE S3, and…
- Optimizing Apache HBase availability on Amazon EMR, Part 2: Diagnose and tune compaction
Compaction keeps HBase read performance healthy, but when it runs during peak hours it drives latency spikes, write stalls, and RegionTooBusyException errors.
- Resilient IAM database authentication with Amazon Aurora Global Database writer endpoint
Learn how to combine the Amazon Aurora Global Database writer endpoint with IAM database authentication so that passwordless access survives a cross-Region switchover or failover…
- Publish a Sheets canvas as a standalone link
Earlier this year we introduced Sheets canvas, which uses Gemini to turn spreadsheet data into interactive mini-apps like dashboards, kanban boards, and calendars.
- Navigating messaging requirements in betting and gaming technology applications (Part 2: Executing the registration and maintaining compliance)
Part 2 of the betting and gaming messaging series: how to write use-case descriptions and opt-in documentation that win carrier approval, how to keep MFA messaging compliant and d…
- Navigating messaging requirements in betting and gaming technology applications (Part 1: Understanding the landscape and preparing your application)
Betting and gaming operators are classified as high-risk by carriers, so registering numbers for SMS MFA and account-verification messages faces heightened scrutiny.
- Organize and communicate complex information with numbered and nested lists in Google Chat
You can now use numbered lists and nested lists in your Google Chat messages.
- Building a multi-tenant CRM with Amazon Aurora DSQL
Learn how to design and implement a multi-tenant CRM on Amazon Aurora DSQL using the pooled tenancy model.
- Build a data foundation for agentic AI on AWS: From lakehouse to MCP
Building a data foundation ready for agentic AI relies on a unified lakehouse and interoperability protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- AWS Network Security Manager now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud and Additional New Regions
AWS Network Security Manager is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region and Thirty-One new Regions Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Network Securi…
- AI in Finance: Snowflake Expedition 2026 Recap for CFOs
Learn about Expedition 2026 sessions built for CFOs, from AI-driven close and forecasting to audit, tax and AI cost governance.
- Ten ways a glibc change can break your PostgreSQL cluster
Between any two glibc versions, locales can change, and those changes alter the order of character string comparison (text/varchar/char/citext).
New Models
4 pieces.
- New model: Speechify: Simba 3.5
Speechify's recommended streaming text-to-speech model, covering 48 languages including English under one model, with the language chosen per request.
- New model: Google: Gemini Decision 1
Gemini Decision 1 is Google's model for the Decisions API.
- Open model: inclusionAI/SingVL_S1_4B
New open weights from inclusionAI (Ant Group) on the Hugging Face Hub.
- New model: MiniMax: MiniMax H3 Image Highspeed
MiniMax H3 Image Highspeed is the faster version of MiniMax's H3 Image model.
Security Desk
71 pieces, the newest 10 here.
- Chrome for Android Update
Hi, everyone!
- Long Term Support Channel Update for ChromeOS
A new LTS-150 version 150.0.7871.289 (Platform Version: 16700.70.0), is being rolled out for most ChromeOS devices.
- ARTEX and AI-Powered Red Teaming Tools: What Defenders Need to Know
Learn what Unit 42 discovered about attacker use of AI-powered red team tools, and how to mitigate these attacks.
- Introducing ProtoSpector: A Burp Suite Extension for Analyzing, Tampering With, and Testing Protobuf and gRPC Traffic
Testing protocol buffers over HTTP can be a notoriously tedious process.
- CVE-2026-124308: VVdeC/vvdecapp: Heap Use-After-Free in DecLibRecon::createSubPicRefBufs during Subpicture Reconstruction
Posted by Alexander A.
- CVE-2026-124309: VVdeC/vvdecapp: Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in HRD::setBufferingPeriodSEI via Scalable-Nesting SEI
Posted by Alexander A.
- CVE-2026-108472 - xfs_admin allows for OS command injection
Posted by Marco Benatto on Nov 11 Hello all, on behalf of Red Hat Product Security team I'm disclosing a flaw in the xfs_admin utility present in the xfsprogs suite, where xfs_adm…
- CVE-2026-125926 - Server-side request forgery in the server registration and update API in mcp-gateway-registry
Bulletin ID: 2026-180-AWS Publication Date: 11/11/2026 13:00 PM PST Description: MServer-side request forgery (SSRF) in the server registration and update API in Amazon mcp-gatewa…
- CVE-2026-100307 - Missing authorization on the external management API in mcp-gateway-registry enables privilege escalation to registry administrator
Bulletin ID: 2026-179-AWS Publication Date: 11/11/2026 12:30 PM PST Description: Missing authorization in the external management API in Amazon mcp-gateway-registry 1.0.9 through…
- Extended Stable Update for Desktop
The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 156.0.8078.100 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.
Technical Guides
21 pieces, the newest 10 here.
- OpenAI Codex on Amazon Bedrock
A practical guide for enterprises rolling out OpenAI Codex to developers on AWS, with Amazon Bedrock as the model backend, covering the access, governance, and cost decisions that…
- Semantic diffing of formal policies with anti-unification
A textual diff of two formal policies flags every cosmetic change and hides the one that alters behavior.
- Detecting and recovering from silent data corruption on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Silent data corruption is a GPU fault that returns wrong but plausible numbers with no error, quietly poisoning distributed training.
- Introducing the Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Today we're announcing the Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: your own code can search the web with a single signed API call, with no gateway and no resources to create.
- ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in October 2026
A recap of the major Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from October 2026: new models to match each task, updates that keep agents available and grounde…
- The attendee’s guide to the AWS re:Invent 2026 AI/ML track
AWS re:Invent 2026 includes more than 140 AI/ML track sessions.
- Automating AWS Agent Registry updates with push-based architecture
This post shows how to keep the AWS Agent Registry current automatically.
- How DXC Technology built a multi-model AI substrate on Amazon Bedrock
DXC Technology runs mission-critical managed IT services for regulated organizations across 70 countries.
- Accelerating generative AI delivery with reusable assets
Every generative AI team keeps rebuilding the same components: RAG pipelines, document processors, and agent scaffolding.
- Validating GPU Platforms with Runtime AI Inventory via the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory
As teams deploy and scale AI workloads using NVIDIA Dynamo, Kubeflow, or Slurm, tracking what actually runs requires visibility beyond the platform...
AI in the Field
3 pieces.
- Medicare's AI Experiment | EFFector 38.20
When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company's algorithm.
- Smart paint shop: How agentic AI turns quality anomalies into scheduling decisions
SPARK is an agentic AI system that detects quality anomalies in an automotive paint shop and responds automatically.
- Tensegrity continuum robots enable task-adaptive morphologies for cooperative behaviours
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 11 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01335-4 Saikot et al.
Columns
12 pieces, the newest 6 here.
- The fall of “what you can do” and the rise of “who you know”
Traditionally, many of us believe in a world where how hard you work is more important than who you know.
- Fable and Mythos 5.2: The System Card
It’s that time again: Introducing the world’s most powerful model, Claude Mythos 5.2.
- Tests as data: ensuring AI-generated code does what we want
Automated testing in the age of AI coding assistants is problematic: when AI agents write both production and test code, developers risk losing the assurance that automated tests…
- I didn’t write a program with emoji, but I did use a control character
My program was a fairly simple one.
- AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code
AWS Emulator, launched today and written and tested entirely by agents, gives you a local copy of more than 200 AWS services to test against.
- Three People Arrested for AI-Enhanced Impersonation Fraud
It’s hard to believe how lucrative this crime can be: According to a press release from the United States attorney’s office for the southern district of New York, three men Jaco…
Research
7 pieces.
- CMU Researchers Develop Tools To Target Brain Disorders
- Espionage, AI, and the Risks of Strategic Overreaction
Allegations involving Nvidia’s chief executive have renewed scrutiny of Chinese intelligence collection and U.S.
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Agentic AI in Software
- Spy scandal highlights contradictions at heart of Trump’s China policy
CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by The Washington Post.
- Making van der Waals heterostructures through substitution
Nature Electronics, Published online: 11 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01746-6 Making van der Waals heterostructures through substitution
- Designing additives for perovskite transistors using molecular polarity as a guide
Nature Electronics, Published online: 11 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01733-x Molecular polarity can be used as a predictive descriptor to screen potential additives for…
- A high-polarity molecular-anchor design for stable high-mobility perovskite transistors
Nature Electronics, Published online: 11 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01732-y Molecular polarity can be used to guide the rational and targeted design of additives that s…
Releases
59 pieces, the newest 12 here.
- OpenAI Codex 0.167.2: New Features
- FastAPI 0.162.5: FastAPI includes an official skill that helps coding agents use new features and recommended patterns for…
- CrewAI 1.15.40: Remove chromadb from the embedding function layer
- langchain 1.6.5
- Biome CLI v2.6.7
- process-daemon v0.5.2
- Zed 1.28.1: This week's release includes optional automatic Git fetching, a resizable Refs column in the Git Graph…
- @ai-sdk/workflow-harness@1.0.181
- @ai-sdk/workflow@2.0.102
- @ai-sdk/vue@4.0.170
- ai 7.0.170
- Turborepo v2.11.11
New Repos & Packages
20 pieces, the newest 8 here.
Watch
41 pieces, the newest 6 here.
Package releases
57 from the most used packages' own repositories, the newest 15 here.
- playwright v1.65.1 · every release →
- google-ads 35.1.0 · every release →
- @hookform/resolvers v7.0.6 · every release →
- checkov 3.4.4 · every release →
- pbs-installer 2026.11.10 · every release →
- fancy-regex 0.20.2 · every release →
- logfire v5.6.0 · every release →
- @aws-sdk/types v3.1167.0 · every release →
- @babel/types v8.1.2 · every release →
- pyee v16.0.2 · every release →
- stripe v17.0.0 · every release →
- granian v2.8.8 · every release →
- stripe/stripe-php v23.0.0 · every release →
- langchain-google-vertexai libs/genai/v4.5.0 · every release →
- aws/aws-sdk-php 3.403.4 · every release →