Anduril said it successfully tested a long-wave infrared sensor on its Anduril-216 satellite. The sensor detects heat from spacecraft, including during periods when they pass through Earth’s shadow, and could help track maneuvers that visible-light sensors may miss.
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Anduril-216 launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission in July with several technology demonstration payloads.
The satellite orbits about 590 kilometers above Earth and spends about one-third of each orbit in darkness.
Anduril said the infrared sensor can detect spacecraft heat signatures during orbital eclipses.
Ground and space-based tracking systems use radar and optical sensors to monitor satellite traffic.
The U.S. Space Force tracks satellites to assess potential threats and to warn operators about possible collisions.
Anduril released an infrared image of the Moon above Earth’s horizon from the sensor.
Apex Space built the satellite platform for Anduril-216.
Anduril said it plans to use third-party satellite platforms rather than start its own satellite production line.
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Ring is releasing airborne security technology that lets families use drones inside their homes. CNET editor-in-chief David Katzmaier explains how the system works and what it is designed to do.
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Ring announced new in-home security drones.
The drones are intended for use inside homes.
Families will soon have the option to use the technology.
The product is described as airborne security technology.
CNET editor-in-chief David Katzmaier discussed how the system works and its purpose.
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Fox Business host Larry Kudlow urged Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to resign, saying an alleged affair involving a woman suspected of spying for China could make Huang a liability to the AI industry. The article does not provide further details about the allegation or report a response from Huang or Nvidia.
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Larry Kudlow is a Fox Business host.
Kudlow called on Jensen Huang to step down as Nvidia CEO.
Kudlow's call followed reports of an alleged affair involving Huang.
The woman involved was described in the article as suspected of spying for China.
Kudlow argued the situation could make Huang a liability to the AI industry.
The article excerpt does not include a response from Huang or Nvidia.
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A University of California, Riverside study in mice found that eosinophils, a type of immune cell in fat tissue, formed different groups with different functions in males and females. The findings suggest that the cells’ activity, not just their total number, may help explain sex-related differences in obesity and could inform future research into targeted treatments.
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The study was published in PNAS Nexus in November.
Researchers identified six distinct clusters of eosinophils in the mice’s fat tissue.
Female mice had more eosinophils overall than male mice.
One eosinophil cluster in female mice worked with macrophages to support healthy metabolism.
A cluster that became more common in male mice on a high-fat diet showed pro-inflammatory activity.
The researchers linked the male mice’s immune-cell changes to inflammation in fat tissue during obesity.
The results come from mice and do not establish that the same effects occur in humans.
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The article describes a televised debate about reports linking Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Singapore-based technology executive Alice Huang and possible concerns over Nvidia chips reaching China. It also discusses reported warnings to President Donald Trump about security risks and the wider implications for U.S.-China relations and oversight of the AI industry.
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The program was issued on November 11, 2026.
The article says Jensen Huang admitted to an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a Singapore-based Chinese technology CEO; it says they are not related.
Alice Huang is under scrutiny over purchases of advanced Nvidia chips that may have been smuggled to mainland China.
The New York Times reportedly said Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned President Donald Trump about security concerns involving Jensen Huang.
The article says Trump invited Huang aboard Air Force One to attend a Beijing summit in May.
The program examines Nvidia's ties to the White House and possible effects on U.S.-China relations and the AI race.
The listed guests include researchers and analysts specializing in East Asian studies, consulting, international political economy, and chips and AI.
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The program examines scrutiny of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Singapore-based tech executive Alice Huang, who is not related to him. It says Jensen Huang acknowledged an extramarital affair and that Alice Huang is under scrutiny over purchases of advanced Nvidia chips that may have been illegally sent to mainland China.
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The report focuses on Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang.
The article identifies Alice Huang as a Singapore-based Chinese technology executive and says she is not related to Jensen Huang.
The program says Jensen Huang acknowledged an extramarital affair with Alice Huang.
Alice Huang is under scrutiny over purchases of advanced Nvidia chips.
The article says the chips may have been smuggled illegally to mainland China.
The report frames the case as a possible Chinese exploitation of a vulnerability involving Nvidia.
Reuters caption information says footage showed Jensen and Alice Huang at a dinner in Taipei on May 22, 2025.
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NASA announced a series of lunar contracts and opportunities as it works toward a Moon Base program over the next decade. The agency is using flexible procurement methods, including short initial proposals, to invite ideas from a broad range of space companies and reduce the work required before NASA selects concepts for full proposals.
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NASA officials announced contracts, opportunities, and mission decisions involving lunar landers, rovers, drones, power systems, and communications satellites.
Moon Base Program manager Carlos García-Galán said the pace of solicitations is intended to support the program’s planned timeline.
Former NASA associate administrator Mike Gold said NASA issued five lunar contract proposals in seven days.
NASA has used Broad Agency Announcements to describe capabilities it needs while giving companies room to propose solutions.
Under NASA’s two-step process, companies first submit short white papers; selected concepts then move to full proposals.
Redwire submitted initial proposals for several lunar opportunities and prepared a full proposal for a solar-power concept NASA chose to pursue.
The article describes NASA’s procurement approach as similar to one used by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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A mouse study found that disrupting the Alzheimer’s risk gene CASS4 made brain immune cells less effective at containing amyloid-beta plaques. The researchers say the findings point to CASS4 as a possible treatment target, but it is not known whether boosting the gene would help people with Alzheimer’s.
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CASS4 has previously been identified as a gene linked to Alzheimer’s risk.
Researchers found that CASS4 helps microglia, the brain’s immune cells, contain and compact amyloid-beta plaques.
In mice with disrupted CASS4, plaques spread more, neurons were damaged, and the animals experienced faster cognitive decline.
The loss of CASS4 also caused wider changes in gene activity that researchers say may be relevant to other neurodegenerative diseases.
The team says therapies that promote CASS4 activity in microglia could potentially limit Alzheimer’s progression.
The findings are from laboratory mice, and it remains unclear whether the results apply to people.
Researchers plan to investigate CASS4’s role in other conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, ALS, and multiple sclerosis.
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House House disclosed that it used a large language model (LLM) sparingly to help fix technical problems in its game Big Walk, including a Unity shadow bug. The disclosure has fueled debate among Independent Games Festival jurors, 19 of whom said they would not vote for games that use generative AI in any capacity.
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House House said LLM use accounted for well under 0.1% of Big Walk’s code.
The developer said an LLM suggested a possible fix for a Unity bug involving unusually long shadows.
House House said it extensively modified the suggestion before using about 10 lines of code in the game.
The developer said it did not disclose the chatbot use for the game’s Steam release because Valve does not require disclosure of code or chatbot use.
House House disclosed the AI use when submitting Big Walk for Independent Games Festival Awards consideration.
Nineteen members of the IGF jury signed a statement saying they would not vote for games that use generative AI in any capacity.
The jurors cited concerns about generative AI’s ecological, economic, psychological, and labor harms.
The jurors urged the IGF to adopt a policy barring games with AI-generated work.
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A cyberattack on refrigeration systems at about 700 French supermarkets spoiled food in October, in what France’s foreign minister called an unprecedented act of sabotage. The attack followed years of data breaches affecting French government agencies, companies and public services; analysts say France attracts attackers because of its political and economic importance and weaknesses in its digital defenses.
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The October attack raised temperatures in refrigeration systems at roughly 700 stores operated by several French supermarket chains.
Some refrigeration systems reached 80°C, and stores discarded spoiled food.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot described the supermarket hack as the first large-scale cyberattack aimed at sabotage on French territory.
France attributed the supermarket attack to an Iranian cyber unit affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards.
In August, the finance ministry said personal and tax information belonging to nearly 680,000 taxpayers had been stolen and offered for sale online.
Past attacks have stolen data from French agencies responsible for unemployment, immigration, education and identity documents, as well as public hospitals.
Cybersecurity firm UpGuard calls France the most heavily breached large jurisdiction in Europe.
Analysts cited France’s status as a major economy, nuclear power and permanent UN Security Council member as factors that make it an attractive target.
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Microsoft’s data center operations have brought tax revenue and jobs to Quincy, Washington, and helped fund a high school, a hospital and other services, according to the town’s mayor. The article also reports rising local electricity rates and residents displaced to make room for data centers, amid growing opposition to new construction.
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Microsoft has operated its Columbia Data Center in Quincy for 20 years.
Quincy Mayor Paul Worley said data center tax revenue helped fund a new high school and hospital and improve other services.
The Columbia River provides hydropower that has helped attract seven other data center companies to the area.
About two dozen data centers have entered the Quincy area over the past two decades, and some residents have been asked to leave their homes to accommodate them.
Grant County’s public utility reports that local electricity rates rose about 55% over 20 years; rates rose 107% in Washington and 66% nationally over the same period.
Microsoft says it employs about 700 people, nearly 9% of Quincy’s population of roughly 8,000; many data center construction jobs are temporary.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company pledges to pay for its own electricity use and replenish more water than it uses.
Yale professor Kenneth Gillingham said communities should ask developers about cooling technology, facility size and how the data center will generate electricity.
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Apple will permanently close its Apple Support Community forum on November 20, 2026. The forum is read-only and no longer accepts new posts; Apple directs users to its official Support site for help.
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Apple announced the forum’s closure on Tuesday night.
The site stopped accepting new posts when Apple announced the closure.
The forum began in 1998 as Apple Tech Exchange.
Apple renamed the forum Apple Discussions in 2000.
In 2011, Apple redesigned it and renamed it Apple Support Communities.
Apple reportedly told MacRumors that it made the decision after reviewing its support strategy and customer needs.
Users will still be able to find support through Apple’s official Support site.
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Former FBI special agent Tracy Walder said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang should have acted more carefully after, according to the article, he admitted to an affair with someone described as an alleged Chinese spy. The article says the matter has raised national security concerns but provides no further details in the supplied text.
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Tracy Walder is identified as a former FBI special agent.
Walder commented on the matter on Tuesday.
The article says Jensen Huang is Nvidia’s CEO.
The article reports that Huang admitted to an affair.
The person involved is described in the article as an alleged Chinese spy.
The article says the matter has raised national security concerns.
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IBM revised its quantum-computing roadmap as it aims to build error-corrected quantum computers before 2030. In 2027, it plans to offer access to a Nighthawk system that links two processors and includes a version with more than 500 programmable qubits.
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IBM plans to pursue error-corrected quantum computers while continuing to offer general-purpose processors for users testing algorithms.
IBM reduced its plan for linked Nighthawk processors from nine systems to two.
The company says the total number of qubits planned for 2027 will remain unchanged despite the roadmap revision.
IBM had previously planned to link three Nighthawk processors in 2026 to make a 360-qubit machine; its September Nighthawk r2 release is a single chip.
Nighthawk r2 has 458 physical qubits, of which 120 are programmable.
IBM says hardware-based qubit resets can speed up some operations by as much as 19 times.
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The article examines unanswered questions about what U.S. officials knew regarding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s reported relationship with Alice Huang, a former executive at a company that bought Nvidia chips. Media reports say U.S. intelligence suspected Alice Huang of ties to Chinese intelligence, while federal investigators and Nvidia are examining the matter; the claims have not been established in the article.
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Jensen Huang acknowledged having an extramarital affair in a message to Nvidia employees, according to the article.
Alice Huang is described as a Chinese national and former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed International; she is not related to Jensen Huang.
The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials suspected Alice Huang had been recruited by China's Ministry of State Security for espionage.
Axios reported that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick received a classified memo about the relationship and an investigation into Megaspeed before President Donald Trump's May trip to China.
Axios and The New York Times reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the memo and told Trump that intelligence had identified a close relationship between Jensen and Alice Huang.
Trump said he learned of the allegations not long before his public remarks, but reports cited in the article say he was briefed about the relationship around a year earlier.
Federal investigators are examining the matter, and Nvidia has opened its own investigation with help from a law firm.
Shareholder litigation alleges that Nvidia and Huang concealed the affair and thereby artificially inflated the company's stock price.
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Megaspeed International, a Singapore-based Nvidia customer, is under scrutiny over allegations that it used shell companies to obtain restricted AI chips and smuggle them into China. Reports of nearly empty offices and questionable business addresses in Singapore, Australia and Malaysia have added to questions about the company, which is being investigated in the U.S. and Singapore.
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Megaspeed and its Malaysian affiliate, Speedmatrix, bought about $4.8 billion in Nvidia AI equipment and processors over three years, according to the article.
U.S. investigators allege that Alice Huang used industry contacts and shell companies to obtain 240,000 chips restricted from export to China.
Authorities in the U.S. and Singapore are investigating alleged chip smuggling; Singapore police began a probe in 2025, but details have not been released.
Reports described Megaspeed's Singapore headquarters as practically empty, its Australian subsidiary as listing a newspaper vendor as director, and two Malaysian offices as questionable locations.
Megaspeed grew from a gaming company and reported a rise from two to 10 employees three years ago to 201 to 500 on its LinkedIn profile.
President Trump said the FBI is investigating romantic and business ties between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang; they are not related.
Jensen Huang apologized to Nvidia employees for the affair, and Nvidia said it had launched an independent investigation.
An Nvidia shareholder filed a class action lawsuit alleging Jensen Huang concealed the relationship and misled shareholders about national security concerns; Nvidia's board said it had no reason to believe company secrets or national security were compromised.
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Axios reports that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent challenged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at a White House meeting about why chip company Megaspeed had not been added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List, which restricts exports to listed organizations. Sources quoted by Axios say officials have accused Megaspeed of diverting U.S. chips to China and say Lutnick resisted action; these are reported allegations, not established findings in the article.
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The reported confrontation took place at a White House Situation Room meeting on Thursday after the midterm elections.
Axios says Bessent asked Lutnick why Megaspeed was not on the Entity List.
According to sources briefed on the meeting, Lutnick said he would look into the matter.
Sources told Axios that officials had pressed Lutnick and his advisers to act against Megaspeed since fall 2025.
The article says Megaspeed has been accused of illegally diverting U.S. chips to China.
The New York Times reported that Commerce Undersecretary Jeff Kessler stopped an investigation into Megaspeed after Nvidia intervened.
The Financial Times reported that the Commerce Department delayed efforts to blacklist Megaspeed despite pressure from several U.S. agencies.
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Rockstar developers began visiting Miami in 2015 to research the setting for Grand Theft Auto VI. The game’s nearly 5,000-person team built Leonida, a fictional version of Florida, with detailed locations, characters, animation, and everyday objects.
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Rockstar North developers made their first research trips to Miami in 2015.
The game is set in Leonida, a fictional version of Florida that includes Vice City, a fictional version of Miami.
The story follows a criminal couple named Jason and Lucia.
Rockstar says the team studies real places and their history before shaping a game’s story and activities.
Nearly 5,000 people worked on Grand Theft Auto VI.
Lead developer Rob Nelson oversees design, narrative, and animation, among other areas.
The game includes detailed character actions and objects, such as food, clothing, street art, and items inside fridges.
The article attributes the game’s scale and detail partly to Rockstar’s resources and support from parent company Take-Two Interactive.
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Conservative radio host Mark Levin said he was locked out of his AOL email account for much of Tuesday and spent eight hours trying to regain access. He criticized AOL’s support on X, said he might leave the service after restoring access, and planned to discuss the problem on his radio show.
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Levin said he had been unable to access his AOL inbox for much of the day.
He said he spent eight hours trying to regain access.
Levin said AOL support told him several times that his case had been escalated, but no one had contacted him with a solution.
He joked on X that he was one of the last people still using AOL.
Levin said he might stop using AOL once he regained access.
He said he planned to discuss the issue on his nationally syndicated radio show at 6 p.m.
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Reports have brought Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang into public attention over allegations that she was a spy and had an intimate relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The article says The New York Times reported that U.S. authorities found she had illegally smuggled advanced AI chips into China; the supplied text does not provide further details or independent confirmation.
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Alice Huang is described as a Chinese businesswoman.
The article discusses allegations that Alice Huang was a spy.
The article says reports alleged an intimate relationship between Alice Huang and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
The New York Times reportedly said U.S. authorities found Alice Huang had illegally smuggled advanced AI chips into China.
The article’s supplied text ends before providing more details about the allegations.
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