News · 2026-11-14

Jensen Huang admitted Nvidia faced an avalanche of excess wafers and memory, reducing a $250 billion guarantee to $125 billion for 4.25 gigawatts.

Lawyer Nick Mermiges upgraded his eight-V100 server to near-NVFP4 precision, raising next-token match rates to 95.1% and reducing KL divergence to 0.079 nats.

Linux 7.5 patch by Ted Bullock fixes video corruption on ancient AMD Radeon HD 2000 and 3000 GPUs.

Former OpenAI engineer Will DePue proved Chinese labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group trained models on Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs despite US export controls.

The tranZPUter project creates vintage CPU replacements using the RP2350B MCU and PIO peripheral for ZPU Evo, Z80, 6502, and 6809 variants.

Analysts claim Jensen Huang's departure stems from illicit exports of up to 1.5 million Nvidia GPUs.

Microsoft's M365 outage stretched past 20 hours with failing fixes, disabling email and Teams globally.

A pervasive Microsoft 365 outage, dubbed the "Microsoft long weekend" in Australia, began Thursday at 18:00 UTC, disabling Exchange Online, Teams, cloud PCs, Copilot, and 15 other hosted services. Microsoft initially blamed server failures in automated health checks but admitted fixes failed to provide relief. By 04:11 UTC, the company stated there was no indication of malicious activity, yet servers remained stuck in bad states, preventing syncs. Updates at 12:00, 13:00, and 20:02 UTC confirmed users could not connect to multiple services, with no estimated time for full recovery despite partial improvements in North America and Europe. The incident matters as it renders critical business operations inaccessible for over 27 hours.

Virtual-Bet-4566 built an ESP32-based flight tracker displaying ADS-B data on an old green-phosphor Apple II monitor.

Sergey Zorin and Claude ported Woodland X11 to an ESP32-S3 running xclock and xcalc on an 800×480 panel.

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Christian Kettel Thomsen states Danish pensions shifted to individuals, with median wealth for 60–64 year olds reaching €240,000.

Cornell researchers argue data centers unfairly shifted $5.13 billion in 2025 grid costs to households, with rural and lower-income families bearing the heaviest burden.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted an affair while the Board retained Joon H. Kim to investigate a Chinese spy targeting him.

Michael Hudson argues the IMF's flawed demand to raise Ukraine's utility tariffs will deepen debt despite 113.4 billion hryvnia in arrears.

Zidar and Zwick argue Everywhere Millionaires hold 38% of wealth while Musk lost influence despite spending half a billion dollars.

Brad DeLong argues Ross Douthat fronts a CBS project paying to edit a 60 Minutes interview where Trump claimed he saved 30 to 50 million lives.

Parallel Prompting in SGLang achieves 3.7x speedup on an A100 for decoding multiple questions on one document.

EviCover raises support-turn recall from 0.526 to 0.575 on 108 REALTALK questions.

Researchers trained Qwen3-8B on the 5,000-utterance AVCORP corpus to detect deception using Theory of Mind and communication theory.

LoRazor trims idle GPU blocks via early adapter release, achieving up to 3.02x request throughput over vLLM multi-LoRA.

The SPAR method calibrates windows and strength online, opening on drift without divergence on a 27-configuration grid.

Authors establish an Eyring-Kramers formula for transitions between singular wells in low-temperature Langevin diffusion.

The authors argue adversarial machine learning research focusing on the epsilon-ball and $\ell_p$ norms creates a metrological trap that misaligns risk perception with real-world vulnerabilities.

KernelMosaic's fine-tuning raised KernelBench L1, L2, and L3 correctness from 4%, 0%, and 0% to 88%, 82%, and 16%.

US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will hold their first three-way summit next week in Shenzhen during the APEC summit.

Scott Bessent blamed Howard Lutnick for the US not imposing export restrictions on certain Nvidia chips to China.

In mid-July 2006, eight Israeli soldiers killed and two captured sparked a war causing over 1,000 Lebanese and 121 Israeli deaths.

An unprecedented trilateral summit between Trump, Xi, and Putin is potentially scheduled for next week at the APEC summit in Shenzhen.

On November 14, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky stated US negotiators proposed Ukraine withdraw remaining forces from eastern Donbas in exchange for Nato membership.

Russia struck the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics in central Kyiv, injuring three people after Zelenskyy blamed SpaceX speed restrictions.

A Gallup Korea poll showed President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating slipped to 39 percent.

Chinese FM Wang Yi detailed Kim Jong-un's Oct. 24 Dandong visit to South Korean FM Cho Hyun in Beijing.