Friday, November 13, 202641 stories

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet, allowing its 'dots' AI agents to make purchases for users

AI · 15 sources

OpenAI's ChatGPT Wallet partners with American Express, Mastercard and Visa, and those cardholders keep their existing credit card rewards.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship: Why the Rocket Is Critical to Its Future

Devices · 6 sources

For the full experience visit: SpaceX’s Future Hinges on Starship. Can It Deliver?

Google Wallet can finally unlock doors with digital home keys

AI · 11 sources

Google has added digital home key support to Google Wallet, allowing Android users to open smart locks by tapping their phone against them or simply approaching. The feature is currently available in public preview for the Google Home app, and will roll out to everyone "over the coming weeks," according to Google's announcement.

Uber confirms hackers stole thousands of drivers’ license information in data breach

Software · 4 sources

The ridesharing giant said drivers' license information stored by AI cloud company Fireworks AI was stolen during a security incident.

DeepX Bets $100 Million on New AI Chip Using Samsung Technology

South Korean startup DeepX Co. plans to spend more than $100 million developing a next-generation artificial intelligence chip using Samsung Electronics Co.’s advanced 2 nanometer manufacturing process.

llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystem

AI · 2 sources

ggml-org announced llama.cpp v1.0.0 on November 13, 2026, giving the C/C++ local AI inference project a formal compatibility contract for downstream developers. The underlying ggml tensor library also reached v1.0.0, with the project reporting support for more than 150 model-architecture variants and all mainstream speculative-decoding methods.

Check Point warns of zero-day flaw exploited for root access

Security · 5 sources

Check Point Software has released emergency hotfixes to address a high-severity flaw that hackers have been exploiting to gain root privileges and establish persistence on vulnerable devices since late October.

The Motorola Signature 27 is a beast

Devices · 5 sources

Motorola's latest phone has a monstrous tandem OLED display, a huge 7,000mah battery, fancy cameras and a massive $1,600 price tag.

AWS's AI and tech chief says exceptional software engineers focus on one key thing

Matt Wood, chief AI and technology officer at AWS, said that developers who focus on this can move at a faster pace.

Sierra releases Poppy 1.0 as Shopify and Meta’s Muse sign on

Software · 3 sources

Sierra has released version 1.0 of Personal Agent Protocol, or Poppy, a standard for how personal AI agents deal with companies. Shopify has turned it on for every store, Meta’s Muse agent now looks for it on every site, and more than 100 companies have signed up.

Trezor confirms crypto-stealing implants in three wallets, releases fix

Software · 2 sources

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor has confirmed that three Safe 5 devices sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis contained malicious hardware implants designed to steal wallet recovery phrases and send them to attackers over cellular networks.

SilentAir Hijacks Asian Telecom Networks to Intercept SMS 2FA Codes and Spy on Taiwanese Users

Security · 2 sources

A newly identified spying group used hacked equipment inside Asian mobile operators to intercept the calls and texts of selected people, mostly in Taiwan. Enea, a telecom and cybersecurity software company based in Stockholm, found the group's attack sources in at least six Asian countries and named it SilentAir this week.

Huawei spin-off xFusion seeks US$1.2 billion IPO, capitalizing on China's AI server boom

AI · 2 sources

China's expanding AI computing infrastructure is prompting server manufacturers to accelerate their capital-raising plans. xFusion Digital Technologies, spun off from Huawei's x86 server business, entered the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's ChiNext listing review process on 12 November, seeking to raise CNY8 billion (approx. US$1.2 billion) in net proceeds.

Quick Spectral Super Resolution Comes Soon to Six PS5 Games: Spider-Man 2, CONTROL Resonant, The Finals, ARC Raiders, No Man’s Sky, and Hell Let Loose: Vietnam

Devices · 1 source

Sony announced today that six PlayStation 5 games have added or are about to add support for Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), the lightweight AI upscaler derived from PS5 Pro's PSSR and originally released in October.