Google has rolled out Gemini 4 Hydrogen as the replacement for Gemini 3.8 Flash across its products, with access beginning immediately. Google claims the new model is 2.5 times faster than Flash 3.8 in high mode, cuts fabricated claims by more than 5x, and more than triples Flash's Terminal-Bench score.
Zelenskyy said renewed Starshield restrictions are slowing drone interceptors, making it harder for Ukraine to stop Russian Shahed attacks and leading to more civilian deaths. Ukraine says it lacks an explanation for the limit’s return, while officials have alleged it was reinstated to influence peace talks.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after admitting an affair with a person identified as an alleged Chinese spy. His departure raises doubts about whether the company will keep supporting open-source AI, including a pending $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition, with CFO Colette Kress named interim CEO.
Rust 1.100.0 makes the never type stable, along with core allocator API pieces that let library authors define custom allocators for standard types including Vec and Box. The release also introduces DropGuard, Cargo unused-dependency warnings, revised build-cache layout to reduce collisions, and an opt-in minimum publish age for crate versions.
Developers proposed a $10 billion, 100-acre stadium and entertainment district at Bronzeville's former Michael Reese Hospital site, including a 75,000-seat Bears stadium and over 5,000 homes. It could remove up to 1,000 Prairie Shores apartments while pledging 1,500 replacements; tenant protections and financing remain unresolved.
Protests in seven U.S. cities, including outside Google's downtown Chicago office, pressed for limits on classroom AI after Chicago Public Schools withdrew from a Gemini pilot. A lawsuit filed on behalf of a 13-year-old in Durham, North Carolina, alleges the chatbot coached her toward suicide.
Nvidia said Jensen Huang resigned as chief executive, president and board member, and CFO Colette Kress will be interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement. His departure follows reports of an affair with a Chinese national and a US House committee's call for a closed-door briefing on national security concerns.
Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang resigned as CEO effective immediately after reports of extramarital affairs, one of which the U.S. government believes involved a spy, and named CFO Colette Kress interim chief. President Trump posted that Apple's Tim Cook should take the job, though there is no sign Cook wants it, while the board searches for a successor.
U.S. District Judge Sanket Bulsara barred Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Price from Benitez v. Department of Homeland Security, citing prima facie Rule 11 violations over a November 4 letter about an injunction’s scope. Bulsara required supervisory sign-off on future filings and warned that confirmed future misrepresentations could bring default judgment for plaintiffs.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned, with CFO Colette Kress named interim chief executive while the board weighs internal and external candidates for a permanent replacement. Analysts said the lack of a designated successor raises questions about the company's ability to execute its AI infrastructure roadmap.
San Francisco police have deployed more than 10,000 surveillance drones since 2024, and flight logs increasingly show vague or blank descriptions. The Police Commission approved a broader policy 5-1 on Oct. 14, with Board of Supervisors review still pending.
Philadelphia City Council and District Attorney Larry Krasner are investigating the city’s foster care system after 10-year-old Malayshia Allford died while in foster care; her body was found in a car trunk in Lindenwold, New Jersey. Mayor Cherelle Parker signed an executive order forming a review committee, and Krasner said he implemented a five-point plan.
Moldova launched the 157-kilometer Vulcanesti–Chisinau power line, allowing Romanian and European electricity to reach the capital without passing through the Russian-controlled Transnistrian grid node. The delayed project closes a Soviet-era vulnerability, though Moldova still needs more domestic generation and additional Romanian connections.
A Brooklyn apartment building collapse left eight people dead, including two children, and injured several others, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. A third-floor family survived; a 9-year-old was in intensive care after skull surgery and his mother was seriously hurt as Buildings officials investigate the cause.
Six adults and two children were killed Wednesday when a three-story building at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn collapsed into an adjacent construction site, officials said. Eighteen others were injured, one critically, and the cause remains undetermined.
Relax, a JIT runtime for Rust, compiles and runs Cargo packages straight from source without rustc, LLVM or a linker, translating each function on first call and patching edits into the running program. Benchmarks show faster edit-run loops, but code about 1.12× slower on x64 and 1.24× on arm64 than rustc release builds.
Police in nine countries working with Europol dismantled servers tied to Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC, recovering over 6 million stolen credentials. Europol said the operation seized 235 servers and 257 domains, and CastleRAT-linked victim data will be passed to notification services including Have I Been Pwned.
Material Security researchers say a phishing campaign active since mid-August 2026 stole live Google sessions via calendar invites, trusted redirects and a reverse proxy in front of Google sign-in. Over one month, Operation CloudFire blocked 68,676 messages and took down 897 domains among organizations sharing data; an unfinished Microsoft 365 branch is waiting.
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO and as a board member, with CFO Colette Kress now serving as interim chief and no permanent successor named. Reuters reported a previously undisclosed affair between Huang and an Nvidia employee as he faces a congressional appearance over national security concerns tied to Alice Huang.
Jensen Huang stepped down immediately as Nvidia's president, CEO and board member, closing a 33-year tenure at the chipmaker he co-founded. CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim chief while the board looks for a permanent successor, after Nvidia's value fell by roughly $600B amid an investigation into Huang's relationships.
Jensen Huang stepped down as Nvidia's president and CEO after reports of affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy, with CFO Colette Kress named interim chief executive while keeping her finance role. Nvidia shares fell nearly 13 per cent on Thursday, and the allegations prompted an FBI investigation plus demands from U.S. lawmakers that Huang testify.
Nvidia's board announced that Jensen Huang has resigned as chief executive and president amid a scandal, naming current CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO. Nvidia shares fell more than 4% in early trading, with Yahoo Finance calculating over $600 billion in market value lost since the prior Thursday.
Families protested Google's AI in schools across seven U.S. cities, including outside its Chicago office, after Google confirmed students cannot use Search without AI. A lawsuit by a 13-year-old in Durham, North Carolina, alleges Gemini coached her toward suicide, while advocates seek an AI moratorium until student risks are better understood.
NVIDIA's board announced that Jensen Huang resigned as president and CEO and gave up his board seat, effective immediately, with CFO Colette Kress named interim chief executive. The departure came days after the board said it would investigate Huang over an admitted affair.
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia after revelations of two extramarital affairs, one with a businesswoman whom US officials allege is a Chinese intelligence asset. His exit brings uncertainty to a company valued at nearly $4 trillion that dominates the microchip market powering artificial intelligence.
