News · 2026-11-10

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M5 Ultra drones unlock cars while AI laughs.

Technology & AI (10)

Linux 7.5 gains up to 99% speed via Martin Willi's ChaCha AVX-512 optimization on AMD Zen 5.
The Dell PowerEdge R770AP supports two Intel Xeon 6980P processors for 256 cores with 32 drive bays.
Apple's $12,300 Mac Studio with M5 Ultra beat Nvidia DGX Spark in local AI benchmarks using Qwen 3.8 27B.
Researchers Shubham Shah and Sam Curry used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to hack two automakers' ForgeRock services, remotely unlocking doors and starting engines.
China built an 800MW AI campus named Galaxy in Ulanqab for two unnamed internet companies.
Researchers Shubham Shah and Sam Curry exploited flaws in two automakers' Android apps to remotely control vehicles across Australia and the US.
Google launched TPU 8tx with AMD EPYC Turin hosts and TPU 8i Max with 17.2 TB/s bandwidth.
Hrvoje Cavrak created an FPGA version of the 1985 AT&T UNIX PC for MiSTer.
Ukraine's 62-mile fiber-optic drones face strain as AI data center demand competes with battlefield needs for Chinese cables.
Apiiro researchers found thousands of secrets leaked on GitHub because Claude Code's "Yes, and don't ask again" option writes sensitive data to .claude/settings.local.json files.

Finance & Markets (8)

▸신현송 한은 총재, BIS CPMI 의장 선임…지급결제 기준 제정Shin Hyun-sung, Governor of the Bank of Korea, appointed Chair of the BIS CPMI, becoming the first non-US/European central bank governor to lead the committee.연합뉴스 (Yonhap, 경제) · 4d ago
Shin Hyun-sung, Governor of the Bank of Korea, becomes the first non-US/European central bank governor appointed Chair of the BIS CPMI.
Gov. Shin Hyun-song was appointed chairman of the BIS CPMI committee, marking the first non-American and non-European leadership since 1990.
Elina Selianska says Nvidia is a long-term buy as chip wear ensures a 3–6 year replacement cycle.
Brad DeLong notes `cloud/anthropic/claude-opus-5.5` flagged his message as an impostor under a harness at 89% memory usage, which he argues was a deterministic defense rather than genuine realization.
▸Quant Quake II? Thoughts on the SelloffThe Big Picture · 4d ago
A $2.5 trillion wipeout occurred as Citadel, Millennium, and Point72 closed ~108 pods, triggering a 12% plunge in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index.
SaneCite verified 147 flagged issues in Saez and Zucman's research, finding only one changed a headline number.
▸Another French RevolutionNaked Capitalism · 4d ago
Lyceen Movement protests spread to Parisian suburbs affecting 1,027 of 3,700 lycées by October 1 due to teacher shortages and police violence.
Noah Smith and Azeem Azhar discussed the AI boom and bust possibility after Smith's October 15 post "AI vs. the railroads" without reaching firm conclusions.

Science (8)

AutoEMatic improves accuracy by up to 21.7% over NVFP4 using AutoFP while retaining 90-98% throughput on GB300 GPUs.
ASCENT boosts frozen Qwen2.5 accuracy by up to 82.63 percentage points on 16K BABILong.
Adaptive Federated Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (AFHMC) achieves $O(\{d/\epsilon^2\}^{1/3})$ communication cost, improving on prior $O(\sqrt{d}/\epsilon)$ results.
PACE achieved 97% test pass on 100K-token coding sessions versus 42% for H2O and 3% for SnapKV.
This work realized calibrated concept profiles on OpenCoder-1.5B across two trillion tokens, yielding a unit for every neuron.
AECF improves masked-input mAP by +18 percentage points at a 50% drop rate while reducing ECE by up to 200% with only 1% run-time.
Researchers found thought injection attacks achieved up to 50% success on GLM-5.3, MiniMax-M2.5, and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next by imitating model reasoning styles.
CoMixKV achieves 68.35% accuracy on Gemma-4-31B-it at 3-bit quantization while reducing peak KV-cache memory by 32.08% on Qwen3-32B.

World (8)

US-led talks in Abu Dhabi began hours after Russia launched deadly attacks while France blamed Iran's Revolutionary Guards for cyber-attacks causing millions of euros in damage.
US officials seek a final end to the Russia-Ukraine war through trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi.
Democrats won Senate and House control on November 3, deepening President Trump's lame-duck status.
Trump reversed his stance, alleging fraud on Truth Social less than a week after congratulating Democrats.
The House will vote to impeach Pete Hegseth while SCOTUS allows border wall work in west Texas.
On November 10, Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal warned ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina she faces execution if she returns.
Voters flipped control of both houses of Congress to check President Donald Trump after rejecting his stewardship.
South Korea's Kosdaq lost nearly half its value since its April 27 peak, closing Monday at 638.97, down 47.9 percent.

Today's digest, illustrated

A chaotic editorial illustration depicting a fractured digital landscape where glowing server racks and fiber-optic cables twist into the shapes of armored vehicles and storm clouds, illuminated by the harsh, flickering light of a collapsing stock ticker and the cold blue glow of exposed AI code leaking from GitHub, set against a backdrop of geopolitical tension represented by distant, shadowy silhouettes of borders and drones, rendered in a high-contrast, impressionistic style with sharp geometric lines dissolving into abstract data streams.