Access to Search, Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Gemini in Classroom will default to off for K-12 student accounts until administrators enable them. Google says Search's AI features cannot be disabled separately. Guided Learning is also available worldwide in Classroom, with a Search pilot planned at select U.S. schools.
The Audio Intelligence tools can summarize conversations and turn recently heard speech into text. They are arriving in the watchOS 27.3 developer beta after Apple previewed them in September. Users must opt in, according to ZDNet, while Unite.AI reports that a public beta is planned before general availability.
The release begins another testing cycle following Apple's 27.2 updates, with new betas also arriving for its other operating systems. Bloomberg reports that the testing includes always-listening AI tools, Apple's AI platform for China and a redesigned Health app. According to iPhone in Canada, Health now supports French and global English.
- Registered developers can download the betas through Settings, according to MacRumors.
Reviews describe stronger performance in Apple's small tablet, alongside a higher price that several publications identify as a drawback. PCMag says it can handle demanding tasks despite its compact screen. Reviewers also highlight its portability and suitability for activities such as reading, gaming and watching videos.
- Tom's Guide reports that the new model has a thinner design.
The title was unveiled in a video marking Bethesda's 40th anniversary, more than eight years after the sixth Elder Scrolls game was first announced. Bethesda has not provided a release date. According to Neowin, the new teaser also confirms that the game is set in Hammerfell.
- According to Wccftech, Bethesda says more information is still some time away.
Players can begin preloading Grand Theft Auto VI on November 10, with the storage requirement varying by device. According to PCMag, customers who preorder digitally can download it ahead of its November 19 launch on Xbox or PlayStation consoles, giving them time to prepare before release.
The gaming phone retains the RGB-lit liquid cooling of the RedMagic 12 Pro+ introduced in China in mid-October, according to GSMArena. CNET reports that it pairs a new Qualcomm chip with the series’ largest battery yet, while Android Headlines says sales begin on November 18.
- GSMArena reports that the phone has a 185Hz display.
The experimental TV app feature lets viewers start with themes rather than individual titles. Examples include family movie nights and shorter viewing options, according to The Verge. An initial small group of members can refine suggestions through direct feedback, according to Unite.AI, adding another input to Netflix’s existing personalized recommendations.
The Financial Times reports that Nvidia wants cloud customers to sell at least 51% of their services to companies outside China. The Information separately reports instructions to reduce Chinese exposure. According to The Next Web's account of the FT report, the requirement covers new contracts but leaves existing agreements unchanged.
- RuntimeWire says measurement and enforcement remain unclear.
Revenue grew 32%, but both revenue and gross merchandise volume missed analysts' estimates. CNBC reports that shares fell 7% despite adjusted earnings beating expectations. Gross merchandise volume reached $119 billion for the quarter ended September 30, according to Quartz, while Bloomberg says the revenue miss was Shopify's first since 2022.
- Net income totaled $462 million, according to BetaKit.
- AI-driven traffic increased 2.6-fold year over year, management said, according to PYMNTS.
The challenge argues that restrictions on young people's accounts interfere with political debate and are unconstitutional. Proceedings have begun in Australia's High Court in the first legal challenge to the legislation. Reddit and a libertarian advocacy group invoke an implied constitutional freedom of political communication, according to The Next Web.
- The restrictions took effect on December 10, 2025, according to TechSpot.
- Reddit also disputes its classification as a social media site, according to TechSpot.
Reddit is testing ads on another area of its platform: search. With this update, ads will appear within your search results "based on a range of factors, including contextual relevance to a search query," according to Reddit.
The proposed acquisitions would bring AI-agent monitoring and automated security testing into the Falcon platform. Fiddler's software tracks and explains agent behavior, while Dreadnode helps companies automate AI security tests. CrowdStrike announced the deals at its Fal.Con Europe conference, with testing intended to identify problems before deployment, according to Unite.AI.
- SecurityWeek reports a combined purchase price of $495 million.
- Fiddler's technology will become Falcon Observe, according to Unite.AI.
Bessemer Venture Partners led the financing, with Nvidia among the investors. Bloomberg reports that the round raised $1.3 billion and closed in October. According to Unite.AI, the funding will support inference capacity and employees developing future products, while Fal also disclosed an earlier Series E led by Sequoia Capital.
- Fal hosts image, video and audio models for creators and developers, according to Bloomberg.
The company is broadening its charging accessory collection, including wireless charging products, according to The Verge. That report describes an emphasis on materials and functionality in the new devices. Engadget says the collection includes smartphone chargers, cables and batteries, extending the company’s offerings beyond bags and tripods.
Evertrue will back early-stage AI companies in Europe, with TechCrunch also identifying fintech as a focus. According to The Next Web, the fund attracted commitments above its fundraising target and will invest at pre-seed in AI and frontier technology businesses across the UK and Europe.
- The Next Web identifies Bajela as a former Phoenix Court partner.
The H3C uses a tool-changing design, with Tom’s Hardware highlighting its handling of TPU. The Verge places the nine-nozzle printer within a shift toward machines that switch materials during printing, combine colors across a broad range and use soft and hard materials together, rather than focusing only on printing speed.
Tech companies could risk breaching EU copyright when their AI chatbots reuse news articles to generate answers, a top advisor to the bloc’s highest court said.
Free Siri AI will have limits for work processed on Apple's servers rather than on an iPhone, according to iPhone in Canada. The publication reports that CEO John Ternus outlined the approach during Monday's earnings call, following a September quarter with record revenue of $114.5 billion.
- Android Headlines reports that expanded access could be tied to iCloud+.
Premiere mobile users will be able to add licensed songs from Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to their videos. The partnership brings music into Adobe's free mobile editing app. According to The Verge, Adobe has not named specific musicians, although it says the library will include popular songs.
- Thurrott reports that the music will be available for free.
Google has confirmed that some Pixel Watches are losing power unexpectedly and says a fix is available. The remedy can be found through the Play Store. According to Android Authority, one of the watch’s apps caused the drain, and owners should check their watch apps for updates.
The updated feature received FDA clearance in July and is now available in the United States, according to GSMArena and Engadget. Android Authority reports that newer Galaxy watches are receiving it first, although older models are also included in the rollout rather than being excluded entirely.
- GSMArena reports that the upgraded feature also received approval in Korea.
The Xbox Nano costs $50 and connects directly to cloud gaming over Wi-Fi, according to 9to5Google. The Verge reports that the compact controller fits in a pocket and is designed for younger players or people with smaller hands. The Shortcut says it launches tomorrow.
The proposed standards would cover AI throughout its life cycle, from development through deployment. China’s top economic planner also said the country would closely monitor AI’s effects on employment as Beijing works on safety standards and ethical guidelines, according to The Information’s account of its Tuesday announcement.
- Bloomberg says the standards aim to guard against losing control over increasingly powerful AI.
The Scaling Inference Lab will deploy Iris as its first optical-computing platform in a commercial data center. The servers use light to perform AI calculations, with researchers set to evaluate the architecture at rack scale. Lumai's claimed energy savings have not been independently tested, according to The Next Web.
- RuntimeWire reports that Lumai claims power savings of up to 90%.
- Lumai is an Oxford spinout led by Xianxin Guo, according to RuntimeWire.
Meta is selling at least $15B of dollar bonds in a deal expected to reach at least $20B with a first euro note, Bloomberg reports. It is offering much higher yields than in April, as investors balk at Big Tech’s flood of AI debt.
Reports suggest the attack combined human control with possible AI assistance rather than confirmed full automation. Dark Reading says evidence points to a model generating and revising commands. The attackers spread using Windows tools, stolen backup passwords and fake administrator accounts, according to Cyber Security News.
- BleepingComputer reports that nearly 50 machines were reached from an unmanaged host.
The companies signed a memorandum of understanding covering infrastructure from servers through software platforms. France's Bull is partnering with Schwarz Group's German IT division, according to The Next Web. The planned ecosystem is intended to be independent and secure and also includes an appliance environment, HPCwire reports.
Athena focuses on automating legal work for commercial real estate transactions. Its pre-seed round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Speedrun accelerator, according to SiliconANGLE. The Next Web reports that former Legora and Big Law lawyers are behind the business, which is targeting paperwork that can take weeks to complete.
- SiliconANGLE named no other investors in the round.
South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper reports that Samsung’s second Taylor plant will make base dies for high-bandwidth memory used by AMD and Nvidia. These form the logic layer beneath stacked memory chips, The Next Web explains. The Economic Times, citing Maeil, says construction is due to begin formally this month.
- The Economic Times reports that all output is booked, mostly for AMD.
According to SecurityWeek, the most severe vulnerability addressed is a critical Framework flaw that can allow remote code execution without user interaction. Separately, Android Headlines reports that Samsung's November 2026 security patch fixes almost 180 vulnerabilities, describing a security release for Samsung devices during the same month.
The partners plan to develop data center capacity at Drax Power Station. Data Center Dynamics reports that the first phase targets 100MW by 2028. According to Unite.AI, Brookfield estimates potential investment could exceed £20 billion including semiconductor chips, with an initial £2.5 billion forming part of the first phase.
- Unite.AI reports that the AI data center development would span three phases.
Point72 Ventures led the New England defense startup's seed round to develop large autonomous underwater vehicles. According to The Next Web, Corridian aims to transport military cargo through contested oceans without crews; Unite.AI reports that the funding will also support its research and development facility and hiring of undersea engineers.
- Balerion Space Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, DCVC and Marlinspike also participated in the round.
The first beta arrives a week after Apple released macOS Golden Gate 27.2, beginning another round of developer testing. Registered developers can access it through System Settings by choosing General, opening Software Update and opting into macOS Golden Gate betas, according to MacRumors, which details the download process.
The rollout brings 3D-Guided Neural Rendering and 6X Multi Frame Generation to the games. Hogwarts Legacy is due to receive the technology later this week, according to Neowin. Wccftech reports that War Thunder will follow with a patch in mid-November, bringing the month's announced DLSS 5 integrations to three.
StateBench tests whether language models can follow changes to variables across long documents. According to Unite.AI, Ai2 released a four-level benchmark alongside a dataset and code on November 3, 2026. The publication reports that all four frontier models Ai2 tested struggled with harder state-tracking tasks as inputs became longer.
The feature extends Fitness+ into gym-based strength training with workout plans tailored to users' schedules. According to 9to5Mac, Gym Strength is available in beta and includes exercise demonstrations and Apple Watch logging. AppleInsider says the service has generally focused on home workouts and occasional outdoor walks and runs.
Mati Staniszewski said he wants to take the voice AI startup public, describing an IPO as a step rather than an end goal in a Bloomberg interview in London. Preparations could begin in 2028, according to PYMNTS, which cited Bloomberg's reporting on the chief executive's comments.
Cogent Security reported that its model produced passing fixes on 57.9% of LiveCVEBench’s 190 tasks, compared with 45.3% each for Claude Code and Codex. The company-run evaluation tested repairs for software vulnerabilities. According to Unite.AI, the competing tools ran Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-5.6-Cyber, respectively.
- VR-1.1 extends the remediation capabilities of Cogent’s earlier VR-1 model, according to Unite.AI.
The ad signal infrastructure company's latest funding values it at four times its previous valuation. According to The Next Web, Al Mada Ventures led the round with returning investor Silicon Badia as co-lead, while Shorooq and Bunat Ventures increased their investments and Du Ventures and Oraseya Capital joined the round.
The startup is developing an architecture for fault-tolerant quantum computers and has separately received a €2.2 million European Innovation Council grant. According to RuntimeWire, Vsquared led the funding round, and Quint’s superconducting processor is designed to suppress most errors directly in hardware rather than leaving them unaddressed.
- RuntimeWire identifies Quint as an FAU spinout founded in October 2025.
The update adds motion blur, lens blur and color grading to Google's photo-editing app. Android Authority also reports support for custom LUTs among the new tools. Version 4.2 is rolling out, according to Android Headlines, while Android Police describes Snapseed as a free app.
The update makes it easier for players to find games that match their setup within YouTube’s Playables library. According to Neowin, the accessibility tags span different categories and are intended to help users assess whether a game meets their accessibility needs before choosing to play.
South of Midnight creative director David Sears said he probably would not have financed the game if he had been running Xbox. In an interview with MinnMax, he questioned the sustainability of its funding approach. According to Windows Central, Sears also praised the creative freedom Microsoft gave developers.
- Sears co-directed the game with Jasmin Roy at Compulsion Games, according to Wccftech.
Developer mSeven Software warned customers that suspicious activity linked to mSecure could require changing passwords, resetting two-factor authentication and removing existing passkeys. The warning concerns confidential information stored in the password manager and extends to former customers as well as current users, according to Cyber Security News.
- According to The Hacker News, the customer warning was emailed on November 3.
The feature will provide a home for family management controls within Android’s Settings menu, bringing those settings into a dedicated hub. According to 9to5Google, the rollout has not yet begun, but an early look at the interface is already available through images of the feature.
The stripped-down installation retains basic desktop functionality despite using a fraction of Microsoft’s minimum memory requirement. Wccftech identifies the developer as the creator of Tiny11 and puts memory use at 3.125% of the official minimum. Tom’s Hardware reports that the installation is too slow for everyday use.
The hub sits inside Cloudflare Radar and combines plain-language threat briefings with remediation steps. Cloudflare says it also provides global attack telemetry to help users assess critical vulnerabilities. According to RuntimeWire, the selected threats include evidence links and an agent prompt for checking infrastructure exposure.
The acquisition adds visual monitoring to Windward's maritime capabilities, including tracking ships that stop broadcasting, according to RuntimeWire. Azimut.ai had 12 employees in 2025 and was founded by former naval officers, the publisher reports. According to Unite.AI, Windward intends the purchase to begin building its own visual intelligence layer.
- Windward announced the acquisition on November 3, 2026, according to Unite.AI.
Google's Nest Learning Thermostat has reached its lowest price yet, according to Android Police, which reports a discount on the device. Separately, Android Authority reports that Nest Thermostats and Hubs are having problems with the daylight saving time shift, affecting two types of Google's smart-home devices.
A malicious script distributed through the security tool’s compromised update channel collected password hashes and other sensitive files from affected servers. Maker OPSSHIELD confirmed that the attacker retrieved some stolen data. The company urged administrators to install cPGuard version 5.88.25 or later immediately following the compromise.
- The update-system intrusion occurred on November 2, according to The Hacker News.
Cities generate enormous amounts of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but turning it into useful action — for planning, maintenance and public services — remains a challenge. Physical and agentic AI offer new ways to close that gap, from digital twins for infrastructure planning to vision and service agents, while keeping local governments
Xiaomi, Redmi and Poco phones are among the devices receiving the update, with availability beginning today, according to 9to5Google. Android Headlines reports that the rollout covers dozens of phones, while both publishers identify Android 17 and HyperOS 4 as the software included in the release.
Android Headlines reports that Gmail and Google Photos can now influence the ads users see. Android Police frames the issue around a change to Google's privacy policy, but the supplied reports do not explain what information is involved, how it affects advertising or which users are affected.