News · 2026-11-06

Linux developers propose dropping the RT_GROUP_SCHED feature, which Linutronix engineer Sebastian Andrzej Siewior says is broken beyond repair.

Intel leaker Jaykihn claims Nova Lake desktop CPUs will universally limit frequency to 5.1 GHz above 90°C.

Micron paused construction on its Fab 11E site in Taoyuan due to failed negotiations over profit-sharing terms with the local union, halting activity except for minor safety work. While Micron maintains normal operations elsewhere and recently secured a deal with the Taichung union, the Taoyuan union holds out for better terms, having staged a strike last month. This dispute occurs as memory chip workers from Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix demand larger bonuses from the AI boom; SK hynix recently agreed to pay $50,000 per staff member, and Samsung workers fought for a $340,000 average bonus. The parties are scheduled to meet again on November 6.

Analysts say SpaceX can build 10 GW of data center capacity in 1.5 years, matching Google's lifetime output.

OpenAI detailed a pipeline using an upcoming cyber AI model that generated 948 Linux root escalation exploits in 30 hours for $1.21 million in API costs. The system analyzed 2,308 candidates, reproduced 1,724 vulnerabilities, and created exploits allowing unprivileged users root access, utilizing techniques like elastic object spraying and page grooming. This development highlights how frontier AI accelerates both vulnerability discovery and patching, reducing the window for attackers while making outdated systems functionally equivalent to root access for well-resourced threat actors.

The March 2026 LiteLLM compromise affected over 2,500 organizations after an employee approved an AI assistant to send mass emails from a personal mailbox.

Google's TPUv7 Ironwood delivers up to 2.7x tokens per dollar versus NVIDIA's GB200 for GLM-5.2 inference.

DRAM revenue surged 369% to nearly $200 billion in Q3 2026, with Samsung leading at 38% share and SK hynix posting $62.8 billion profit.

Özgün Kültekin found a vulnerability where passwords of 257 to 1,024 characters grant root access on musl Linux systems.

A decade-old Alpine Linux flaw lets hackers SSH into devices with passwordless accounts using SHA256 or SHA512 hashes.

Headline only - no text was retrievable.

Richard Baldwin argues globalization shifted from manufacturing to services GVCs, with each hour of time zone separation reducing exports by roughly 4%.

ING seeks buyers for a $500 million portfolio of 12 data center loans tied to AI infrastructure.

Citibank's Kim Jin-wook forecasts a 0.25 percentage point rate hike in November despite falling KOSPI.

Carla Salvo and Jacob Weisdorf argue Italy's economic divergence began around 1000, three centuries earlier than the commonly assumed rise of Venice in the 1300s.

Brad DeLong argues Fox viewers missed a D+15% electorate swing versus D+9% polls, noting 392–146 Democratic governorship electoral votes.

A.J.P. Taylor cites 1913-14 taxes of nearly £1 million to argue the pre-August 1914 English state was minimal.

Thomas Klitgaard argues U.S. oversupply offset a 12 mb/d global collapse in March 2026.

FlashOffloading improved prefill throughput by 1.38× and decode throughput by 1.91× on Ascend910C with GLM-5.2 and MTP3.

Researchers introduced ViBench 2.0, a benchmark of 17 products with 241 features and 544 tests, where pass@1 rose from 3% to 53%.

VideoRouteAudit found no frame selector improves over uniform sampling but injected text and model swapping drive gains.

LowRAM achieves 26.9× compression at 94.5% baseline performance via low-rank keys and amortised values.

LinearRaccess analyzes the full 29,903-nt SARS-CoV-2 genome in 419 seconds with a median opening-energy error below 0.001 kcal/mol.

VAR-Q cuts KV memory by up to 78.5% for visual autoregressive image and video generation.

Ermakov-Pinney embeddings improve accuracy by 40.8x for traps and 5.7x for quantum oscillators in physics-informed neural networks.

EditVeto uses a 0.6B-parameter gate to improve five rewriters and lower cMER by 0.0026-0.0044.

The Seoul High Court announced the appellate ruling for former President Yoon Suk Yeol's insurrection charge will be issued at 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 26.

President Trump admits Iran war 'largely' caused Republicans' US election wipeout, but says he 'had to do it'.

Democrats won the House with 242 seats and the Senate with 54, aiming to end the Iran war despite Trump's claims and progressive opposition to Gaza.

Paraguay's president Santiago Peña resigned after the Ueno Bank crisis froze millions of savings, having grown the bank to serve 60% of the adult population.

Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 years in prison for pleading guilty to foreign collusion in a national security case.

South Korea's Kang Yu-jung stated the 70-year alliance won't be affected by US midterm results.

With 78% of ballots counted, the ANC holds 31.85% of the vote, a drop of over 13% from its 2021 showing of 45.59%.

The FATF removed the DRC from its grey list after 23 actions, lifting a tax that cut capital inflows by 7.6% of GDP.