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AI Security:
- Anthropic releases an open-source method to evaluate the political evenhandedness of AI chatbots. Gemini 2.5 Pro got 97%, Grok 4 96%, Claude Opus 4.1 95%, GPT-5 89%, and Llama 4 66%. 👉 axios.com 👉 anthropic.com 👉 winbuzzer.com
- Baidu unveils Ernie 5.0, an AI model for text, images, audio, and video, claiming it beats GPT-5-High and Gemini 2.5 Pro on some benchmarks. 👉 venturebeat.com 👉 prnewswire.com 👉 winbuzzer.com
- Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2, a video-game-playing agent built on top of Gemini to navigate and solve problems inside 3D virtual worlds like Goat Simulator 3. 👉 technologyreview.com 👉 deepmind.google 👉 decrypt.co
- Maryland will use Claude across its agencies to help residents apply for food aid, Medicaid, and more, and deploy Percepta tools to speed up housing permits. 👉 axios.com 👉 governor.maryland.gov 👉 anthropic.com
- Microsoft says it disrupted a highly sophisticated cyberattack carried out in September by Chinese state-sponsored hackers using its tools to automate 80% to 90% of a hacking campaign, 👉 wsj.com^$ 👉 anthropic.com
- Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, is in early talks to raise a new round of funding at a roughly $50B valuation. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Exowatt, which aims to use concentrated solar power to generate 1¢ per kWh electricity for data centers, raised a $120M Series A from a16z, Sam Altman, and more. 👉 techcrunch.com
- LinkedIn is rolling out an AI-powered people search tool to Premium users in the US. 👉 theverge.com
- Meta overhauls Facebook Marketplace, adding collections, collaborative buying, reactions, comments, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations. 👉 techcrunch.com
Cybersecurity and Data Breaches:
- Europol and Eurojust dismantle 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet, in Operation Endgame. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com 👉 europol.europa.eu
- A report (1 day ago) from the Wall Street Journal states that Verizon plans to cut ~15,000 jobs and transition ~200 stores into franchised operations to reduce costs. 👉 wsj.com^$
- Verizon may cut 15,000 jobs next week. 👉 engadget.com
- A report (1 day ago) indicates that Verizon is planning its largest layoffs ever. 👉 aljazeera.com
- A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Google sues to dismantle a Chinese phishing platform behind US toll scams. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com 👉 thehackernews.com
- A security firm says that millions of Linux-hosted sites are at risk due to an RCE flaw in ImunifyAV. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Washington Post data breach impacts nearly 10K employees, contractors. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Microsoft rolls out screen capture prevention for Teams users. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com 👉 androidauthority.com
Vulnerability and Malware:
- Popular Android-based photo frames download malware on boot. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- CISA warns feds to fully patch actively exploited Cisco flaws. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- The UK introduces new laws to strengthen critical infrastructure cyber defenses. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Microsoft fixes bug causing false Windows 10 end-of-support alerts. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- CISA warns of WatchGuard firewall flaw exploited in attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- DanaBot malware is back to infecting Windows after a 6-month break. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A new ‘IndonesianFoods’ worm floods npm with 100,000 packages. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- CISA warns of Akira ransomware Linux encryptor targeting Nutanix VMs. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Popular privacy firm Proton is considering recycling abandoned email addresses, which could expose personal data. (1 day ago) 👉 slashdot.org
- Microsoft issues a final reminder that Windows 10 is reaching end-of-life. (1 day ago) 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Apple is cutting its App Store fee from 30% to 15% for developers who join a new Mini Apps Partner Program. 👉 cnbc.com
Google Updates:
- Google launches AI-powered shopping features in the US, including conversational search and agentic checkout. 👉 theverge.com
- Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2, a video-game-playing agent built on top of Gemini to navigate and solve problems inside 3D virtual worlds like Goat Simulator 3. 👉 technologyreview.com
- Google says all NotebookLM users will get access to Deep Research in the service within a week. 👉 theverge.com
- Google says it will allow “experienced users” to install Android apps made by unverified developers, following backlash against new sideloading restrictions. 👉 androidauthority.com
Apple News:
- Apple is cutting its App Store fee from 30% to 15% for developers who join a new Mini Apps Partner Program. 👉 cnbc.com
- Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps. 👉 techcrunch.com
- Sources say Tencent and Apple signed a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after over a year of talks. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge from 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription. 👉 nytimes.com^$
- The UK CAT refuses to let Apple appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging “excessive and unfair” App Store fees. 👉 reuters.com
Business and Finance:
- Michael Burry, the investor made famous for his bet against the US housing market ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, is closing his hedge fund. 👉 ft.com^$ 👉 reuters.com
- Ubisoft delays publishing its H1 financial results on the day they were due and requests that its shares be halted from trading. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Grayscale files for an IPO, reporting $203.3M in net income on $318.7M in revenue for January to September 2025. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Sources say xAI raised $15B, adding $5B to the $10B it reportedly raised in September at a $200B valuation; Elon Musk replies “false” to an X post about the report. 👉 cnbc.com
- Alembic, which offers AI-powered data analytics for marketers, raised a $145M Series B co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B valuation, after raising a $900M Series C at a $9.9B valuation in June. 👉 wsj.com^$
- Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY. 👉 wsj.com^$
- Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix Nano to focus on blocking creating biological weapons powered by AI, raised a $15M seed led by OpenAI. 👉 reuters.com
- Fabric8Labs, which uses electrochemical additive manufacturing to create chip-cooling plates for data centers, raised $50M led by NEA and Intel. 👉 axios.com
- Salesforce acquires Tel Aviv-based Doti AI for $100M. 👉 calcalistech.com
International Relations and Policy:
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Chinese suppliers such as Huawei will be excluded from the country's future telecommunication networks on security grounds. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov. 👉 france24.com
- Sources: French authorities fully lifted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's travel ban on November 10 and removed a requirement to regularly check in at a police station. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- The Chinese electric car has become a symbol of the country's seemingly unstoppable rise on the world stage. (1 day ago) 👉 msn.com
Products and Services Updates:
- Mozilla announced on Thursday that it is building an AI Window for Firefox, a new opt-in browsing mode that will let users interact with an AI assistant and chatbot. 👉 blog.mozilla.org
- Samsung's upcoming “Galaxy Z TriFold” phone: a 6.5" cover display, a 10" inner display, a 200MP main camera, and a 5,437mAh battery. 👉 theverge.com
- Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, coming in early 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027. 👉 scmp.com
- Major League Soccer is coming to Apple TV starting in 2026. 👉 apple.com
- Amazon renames Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. 👉 geekwire.com
- Robinhood Markets is joining with food-and-drink delivery app Gopuff to allow customers to withdraw cash from their Robinhood bank accounts and have it brought right to their door. 👉 finance.yahoo.com
Security Patches and Vulnerabilities:
- Microsoft releases KB5068781, the first Windows 10 extended security update. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Microsoft releases November 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 1 zero-day, 63 flaws. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A new report highlights serious doubts over sharing Reddit's data with Sam Altman a decade ago. (1 day ago) 👉 businessinsider.com^$
- Microsoft fixes 63 security flaws, including a Windows Kernel zero-day under active attack. 👉 thehackernews.com
- CISA Flags Critical WatchGuard Fireware Flaw Exposing 54,000 Fireboxes to No-Login Attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Microsoft has released its November 2025 Patch Tuesday security updates, fixing 63 flaws and one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Kernel. 👉 securityweek.com
- Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams feature for Premium customers that will automatically block screenshots and recordings during meetings. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Social Media and Communication:
- Twitter Whistleblower Complaint: The TL;DR Version. (3 days ago) 👉 threatpost.com
- Asahi is back to fax and phone as rivals seize taps. (1 day ago) 👉 cybernews.com
- Google is Tweaking its Android Developer Verification Requirements to Add New Sideloading Process. 👉 thurrott.com
- LinkedIn enhances premium search with AI capabilities. 👉 nextbigwhat.com
Artificial Intelligence:
- Google is infusing AI into just about every part of online shopping: browsing for products, calling local stores to ask about inventory, and actually purchasing the item for you. 👉 theverge.com
- Anthropic is releasing an open source method to evaluate the political “evenhandedness” of AI chatbots. 👉 axios.com
Hacks and Attacks:
- Police disrupts Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium malware operations. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Police reveal takedowns of three key cybercrime tools. 👉 therecord.media
- An RCE flaw in ImunifyAV puts millions of Linux-hosted sites at risk. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- The US government warns that the Akira ransomware operation has been spotted encrypting Nutanix AHV virtual machines in attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI agent to automate spying. 👉 axios.com
- US tech stocks should go up steeply given adversaries prefer US models over their own. 👉 x.com
New Devices and Tech:
- Amazon rebrands its Starlink competitor to Amazon Leo. 👉 engadget.com
- Google adds new AI features to make your holiday shopping easier. 👉 neowin.net
- Popular Android-based photo frames download malware on boot. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- China is planning to limit car acceleration at startup. 👉 carscoops.com
Business and Finance:
- AI Coding Startup Cursor Raised a $2.3B Series D co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B Valuation. 👉 wsj.com^$
Cybersecurity Industry News:
- Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch lays off dozens, citing move to ‘accelerate’ AI investment. 👉 techcrunch.com
Cloud Security:
- New from @europol.europa.eu: 1025 servers taken down; Operation Endgame's latest phase targeted the infostealer Rhadamanthys, Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium. 👉 bsky.app
E-commerce:
- Google is infusing AI into just about every part of online shopping: browsing for products, calling local stores to ask about inventory, and actually purchasing the item for you. 👉 theverge.com
Social Media:
- TikTok launches Bulletin Board, and your favorite creators just got louder. 👉 digitaltrends.com
- The latest from Tik Tok: TikTok's new ‘bulletin board’ feature lets creators send updates to their fans' inboxes. 👉 engadget.com
- The New York Post reports that Elon Musk blasts CNBC report that xAI raised $15B as ‘false’. 👉 nypost.com
- Check out the report: LinkedIn's new AI people search unlocks the power of its network. 👉 fastcompany.com
Other News:
- Netflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles. 👉 nytimes.com^$
- Valve says the company is “no longer manufacturing” its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index. 👉 theverge.com
Upcoming Events:
- The tech event StrictlyVC concludes its 2025 series with an exclusive event featuring insights from leading VCs and builders on December 3, 2025, Palo Alto, CA. 👉 techcrunch.com
Cybersecurity in Detail
- Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool. (1 week ago) 👉 threatpost.com
- Operation Endgame's latest phase targeted the infostealer Rhadamanthys, Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium. 👉 x.com
- The United Kingdom has introduced new legislation to boost cybersecurity defenses for hospitals, energy systems, water supplies, and transport networks against cyberattacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Apple TV Changes:
- Apple TV is getting MLS games at no extra cost. 👉 theverge.com
- Apple TV to include all MLS games in standard subscription starting next season. [👉 www.bizjournals.com](👉 bizjournals.com

Tech News

AI Security:

Anthropic releases an open-source method to evaluate the political evenhandedness of AI chatbots. Gemini 2.5 Pro got 97%, Grok 4 96%, Claude Opus 4.1 95%, GPT-5 89%, and Llama 4 66%. 👉 axios.com 👉 anthropic.com 👉 winbuzzer.com
Baidu unveils Ernie 5.0, an AI model for text, images, audio, and video, claiming it beats GPT-5-High and Gemini 2.5 Pro on some benchmarks. 👉 venturebeat.com 👉 prnewswire.com 👉 winbuzzer.com
Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2, a video-game-playing agent built on top of Gemini to navigate and solve problems inside 3D virtual worlds like Goat Simulator 3. 👉 technologyreview.com 👉 deepmind.google 👉 decrypt.co
Maryland will use Claude across its agencies to help residents apply for food aid, Medicaid, and more, and deploy Percepta tools to speed up housing permits. 👉 axios.com 👉 governor.maryland.gov 👉 anthropic.com
Microsoft says it disrupted a highly sophisticated cyberattack carried out in September by Chinese state-sponsored hackers using its tools to automate 80% to 90% of a hacking campaign, 👉 wsj.com^$ 👉 anthropic.com
Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, is in early talks to raise a new round of funding at a roughly $50B valuation. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Exowatt, which aims to use concentrated solar power to generate 1¢ per kWh electricity for data centers, raised a $120M Series A from a16z, Sam Altman, and more. 👉 techcrunch.com
LinkedIn is rolling out an AI-powered people search tool to Premium users in the US. 👉 theverge.com
Meta overhauls Facebook Marketplace, adding collections, collaborative buying, reactions, comments, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations. 👉 techcrunch.com

Cybersecurity and Data Breaches:

Europol and Eurojust dismantle 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet, in Operation Endgame. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com 👉 europol.europa.eu
A report (1 day ago) from the Wall Street Journal states that Verizon plans to cut ~15,000 jobs and transition ~200 stores into franchised operations to reduce costs. 👉 wsj.com^$
Verizon may cut 15,000 jobs next week. 👉 engadget.com
A report (1 day ago) indicates that Verizon is planning its largest layoffs ever. 👉 aljazeera.com
A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Google sues to dismantle a Chinese phishing platform behind US toll scams. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com 👉 thehackernews.com
A security firm says that millions of Linux-hosted sites are at risk due to an RCE flaw in ImunifyAV. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Washington Post data breach impacts nearly 10K employees, contractors. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft rolls out screen capture prevention for Teams users. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com 👉 androidauthority.com

Vulnerability and Malware:

Popular Android-based photo frames download malware on boot. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
CISA warns feds to fully patch actively exploited Cisco flaws. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
The UK introduces new laws to strengthen critical infrastructure cyber defenses. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft fixes bug causing false Windows 10 end-of-support alerts. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
CISA warns of WatchGuard firewall flaw exploited in attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
DanaBot malware is back to infecting Windows after a 6-month break. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A new ‘IndonesianFoods’ worm floods npm with 100,000 packages. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
CISA warns of Akira ransomware Linux encryptor targeting Nutanix VMs. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Popular privacy firm Proton is considering recycling abandoned email addresses, which could expose personal data. (1 day ago) 👉 slashdot.org
Microsoft issues a final reminder that Windows 10 is reaching end-of-life. (1 day ago) 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Apple is cutting its App Store fee from 30% to 15% for developers who join a new Mini Apps Partner Program. 👉 cnbc.com

Google Updates:

Google launches AI-powered shopping features in the US, including conversational search and agentic checkout. 👉 theverge.com
Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2, a video-game-playing agent built on top of Gemini to navigate and solve problems inside 3D virtual worlds like Goat Simulator 3. 👉 technologyreview.com
Google says all NotebookLM users will get access to Deep Research in the service within a week. 👉 theverge.com
Google says it will allow “experienced users” to install Android apps made by unverified developers, following backlash against new sideloading restrictions. 👉 androidauthority.com

Apple News:

Apple is cutting its App Store fee from 30% to 15% for developers who join a new Mini Apps Partner Program. 👉 cnbc.com
Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps. 👉 techcrunch.com
Sources say Tencent and Apple signed a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after over a year of talks. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge from 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription. 👉 nytimes.com^$
The UK CAT refuses to let Apple appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging “excessive and unfair” App Store fees. 👉 reuters.com

Business and Finance:

Michael Burry, the investor made famous for his bet against the US housing market ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, is closing his hedge fund. 👉 ft.com^$ 👉 reuters.com
Ubisoft delays publishing its H1 financial results on the day they were due and requests that its shares be halted from trading. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Grayscale files for an IPO, reporting $203.3M in net income on $318.7M in revenue for January to September 2025. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Sources say xAI raised $15B, adding $5B to the $10B it reportedly raised in September at a $200B valuation; Elon Musk replies “false” to an X post about the report. 👉 cnbc.com
Alembic, which offers AI-powered data analytics for marketers, raised a $145M Series B co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B valuation, after raising a $900M Series C at a $9.9B valuation in June. 👉 wsj.com^$
Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY. 👉 wsj.com^$
Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix Nano to focus on blocking creating biological weapons powered by AI, raised a $15M seed led by OpenAI. 👉 reuters.com
Fabric8Labs, which uses electrochemical additive manufacturing to create chip-cooling plates for data centers, raised $50M led by NEA and Intel. 👉 axios.com
Salesforce acquires Tel Aviv-based Doti AI for $100M. 👉 calcalistech.com

International Relations and Policy:

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Chinese suppliers such as Huawei will be excluded from the country's future telecommunication networks on security grounds. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov. 👉 france24.com
Sources: French authorities fully lifted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's travel ban on November 10 and removed a requirement to regularly check in at a police station. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
The Chinese electric car has become a symbol of the country's seemingly unstoppable rise on the world stage. (1 day ago) 👉 msn.com

Products and Services Updates:

Mozilla announced on Thursday that it is building an AI Window for Firefox, a new opt-in browsing mode that will let users interact with an AI assistant and chatbot. 👉 blog.mozilla.org
Samsung's upcoming “Galaxy Z TriFold” phone: a 6.5" cover display, a 10" inner display, a 200MP main camera, and a 5,437mAh battery. 👉 theverge.com
Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, coming in early 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027. 👉 scmp.com
Major League Soccer is coming to Apple TV starting in 2026. 👉 apple.com
Amazon renames Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. 👉 geekwire.com
Robinhood Markets is joining with food-and-drink delivery app Gopuff to allow customers to withdraw cash from their Robinhood bank accounts and have it brought right to their door. 👉 finance.yahoo.com

Security Patches and Vulnerabilities:

Microsoft releases KB5068781, the first Windows 10 extended security update. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft releases November 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 1 zero-day, 63 flaws. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A new report highlights serious doubts over sharing Reddit's data with Sam Altman a decade ago. (1 day ago) 👉 businessinsider.com^$
Microsoft fixes 63 security flaws, including a Windows Kernel zero-day under active attack. 👉 thehackernews.com
CISA Flags Critical WatchGuard Fireware Flaw Exposing 54,000 Fireboxes to No-Login Attacks. 👉 thehackernews.com
Microsoft has released its November 2025 Patch Tuesday security updates, fixing 63 flaws and one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Kernel. 👉 securityweek.com
Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams feature for Premium customers that will automatically block screenshots and recordings during meetings. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Social Media and Communication:

Twitter Whistleblower Complaint: The TL;DR Version. (3 days ago) 👉 threatpost.com
Asahi is back to fax and phone as rivals seize taps. (1 day ago) 👉 cybernews.com
Google is Tweaking its Android Developer Verification Requirements to Add New Sideloading Process. 👉 thurrott.com
LinkedIn enhances premium search with AI capabilities. 👉 nextbigwhat.com

Artificial Intelligence:

Google is infusing AI into just about every part of online shopping: browsing for products, calling local stores to ask about inventory, and actually purchasing the item for you. 👉 theverge.com
Anthropic is releasing an open source method to evaluate the political “evenhandedness” of AI chatbots. 👉 axios.com

Hacks and Attacks:

Police disrupts Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium malware operations. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Police reveal takedowns of three key cybercrime tools. 👉 therecord.media
An RCE flaw in ImunifyAV puts millions of Linux-hosted sites at risk. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
The US government warns that the Akira ransomware operation has been spotted encrypting Nutanix AHV virtual machines in attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI agent to automate spying. 👉 axios.com
US tech stocks should go up steeply given adversaries prefer US models over their own. 👉 x.com

New Devices and Tech:

Amazon rebrands its Starlink competitor to Amazon Leo. 👉 engadget.com
Google adds new AI features to make your holiday shopping easier. 👉 neowin.net
Popular Android-based photo frames download malware on boot. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
China is planning to limit car acceleration at startup. 👉 carscoops.com

Business and Finance:

AI Coding Startup Cursor Raised a $2.3B Series D co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B Valuation. 👉 wsj.com^$

Cybersecurity Industry News:

Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch lays off dozens, citing move to ‘accelerate’ AI investment. 👉 techcrunch.com

Cloud Security:

New from @europol.europa.eu: 1025 servers taken down; Operation Endgame's latest phase targeted the infostealer Rhadamanthys, Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium. 👉 bsky.app

E-commerce:

Google is infusing AI into just about every part of online shopping: browsing for products, calling local stores to ask about inventory, and actually purchasing the item for you. 👉 theverge.com

Social Media:

TikTok launches Bulletin Board, and your favorite creators just got louder. 👉 digitaltrends.com
The latest from Tik Tok: TikTok's new ‘bulletin board’ feature lets creators send updates to their fans' inboxes. 👉 engadget.com
The New York Post reports that Elon Musk blasts CNBC report that xAI raised $15B as ‘false’. 👉 nypost.com
Check out the report: LinkedIn's new AI people search unlocks the power of its network. 👉 fastcompany.com

Other News:

Netflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles. 👉 nytimes.com^$
Valve says the company is “no longer manufacturing” its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index. 👉 theverge.com

Upcoming Events:

The tech event StrictlyVC concludes its 2025 series with an exclusive event featuring insights from leading VCs and builders on December 3, 2025, Palo Alto, CA. 👉 techcrunch.com

Cybersecurity in Detail

Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool. (1 week ago) 👉 threatpost.com
Operation Endgame's latest phase targeted the infostealer Rhadamanthys, Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium. 👉 x.com
The United Kingdom has introduced new legislation to boost cybersecurity defenses for hospitals, energy systems, water supplies, and transport networks against cyberattacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Apple TV Changes:

Apple TV is getting MLS games at no extra cost. 👉 theverge.com
Apple TV to include all MLS games in standard subscription starting next season. [👉 www.bizjournals.com](👉 bizjournals.com