Tesla has begun inviting select customers to buy the Cybercab for personal use at $29,990, with a required $299 monthly Autonomy Subscription, according to its Robotaxi account. Tesla estimates December 2026 delivery, says the cars will run only inside existing robotaxi geofenced areas, and faces an NHTSA audit query into how it self-certified the vehicles.

Italy’s Garante fined Meta €805m, saying Facebook’s Android app accessed Italian users’ photos, videos and metadata without specific consent or proper notice. The regulator ordered separate consent for gallery suggestions and said the feature must remain off by default.

The FBI is examining whether a software update triggered Friday's outage that halted US departures for more than four hours and affected all 22 air traffic control centres, Bloomberg reported. No official cause has been given, and officials said ageing systems failed while seeing no indication of a cyberattack.

The U.S. seized cloud infrastructure behind FaceStealer, a North Korean social-engineering operation that stole more than $400 million in cryptocurrency, according to an FBI alert. Researchers attributed the campaign to BlueNoroff and reported 677 targets across 58 countries, with fake video calls used to deliver malware that steals crypto and credentials.

CISA added CVE-2026-114713, a high-severity UnrealIRCd flaw rated 8.6, to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog after reports of active attacks. The labeled-response bug lets any user on a network of two or more linked servers inject server-to-server commands run with server authority; a hotfix was released November 7, 2026.

SpaceX launched Starship on its 15th test flight Friday, but the Super Heavy booster cancelled its tower catch after detecting a guidance and navigation problem and instead came down in the Gulf of Mexico. The upper stage reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink satellites, and SpaceX plans to attempt catching the ship at Starbase on Saturday.

Apple announced in November 2006 that six airlines would add iPod docks for in-flight entertainment starting in mid-2007, while Air France and KLM said talks were preliminary and no deal had been struck. Apple said it would proceed with other partners; Panasonic later licensed an iPod connectivity tool in 2009, and Apple replaced the 30-pin connector in 2012.

Bitdefender’s macOS threat report, drawing on over 1.5 billion security events from August 2025 to July 2026, says adware rose to 34.4% of blocked detections from 22.6%, while trojans remained the largest category at 45.2%. It also examines ClickFix fake CAPTCHAs that push users to paste Terminal commands, plus three notarized apps that Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 listed as carrying the FlutterShell backdoor.

The author reports benchmarks of fastsimdjson, a threaded parser for Python 3.14’s free-threaded build, on NDJSON event data with selected fields. On a 192-core AWS instance it counted stars at 138 GB/s and reached 277 GB/s on one Twitter file, ahead of a msgspec process pool.

An injured construction worker alleges that unsafe excavation and inadequate shoring were factors in the Brooklyn building collapse that killed eight people, including two children and three construction workers. His lawyer says a dirt pile was used instead of proper wall support, and city and district attorney investigations are ongoing.

Astronomers report a long-period radio transient whose pulses repeat every 7.9 minutes but appear only during a roughly six-hour window, followed by about 26 hours without detections. They believe the source is a white dwarf pulsar paired with a G-type star of similar mass and temperature to the Sun, the first such system found.

Oakland police arrested a man on Thursday over an October fatal dog attack near Lake Merritt, where a 12-year-old dog named Pepper was mauled by two large dogs near Lakeside Park and died the following morning. No charges have been announced, and the dogs' whereabouts were not immediately clear as animal control seeks more witnesses.

CISA added two high-severity flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and set a November 16, 2026 deadline for federal agencies to address them. The UnrealIRCd command-injection bug drew exploitation attempts, while a Check Point privilege-escalation flaw was used in attacks that deployed a wiper.

SpaceX's 15th Starship test flight lifted off from Starbase in Texas, but the Super Heavy booster aborted the planned catch over a guidance issue it detected and self-destructed above the Gulf of Mexico. The upper spacecraft reached orbit and was due to head back toward its Texas launch site for a recovery attempt the next day.

Forecasters warned that a storm series could bring breaking waves up to 30 feet off San Francisco, southern Monterey Bay and the Big Sur coast, with occasional sets of 40 to 50 feet possible Friday evening. The National Weather Service cautioned about coastal flooding, beach erosion and dangerous rip currents into the weekend, amid a strong El Niño whose effects climate change can worsen.

SpaceX caught its Starship upper stage with the launch tower's arms in South Texas for the first time during the vehicle's 15th test flight. The flight also deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, while the Super Heavy booster aborted its catch attempt and splashed into the Gulf, exploding before reaching the water.

A technical failure with the digital Specialized High Schools Admissions Test stopped about 2,500 New York City students from logging on or finishing the exam Saturday, a Department of Education letter said. Families will learn a new test date by Nov. 20, and students who finished but believe the problems hurt their performance can request a retest.

Microsoft will enable Anthropic’s Claude models by default for UK Microsoft 365 Copilot tenants on December 9, while EU organizations remain opted out because Claude is excluded from the EU Data Boundary. UK administrators who want Claude disabled or restricted must select No users or specific users and groups before that date.

Microsoft said a network glitch took Exchange Online offline on Thursday, disrupting businesses and government agencies in over 70 countries. The company stated the outage was not caused by a cyberattack or AI agents, and restoration work continued in some regions.

Leidy Álvarez, 31, described from her hospital bed how she and her two sons were trapped when their Brooklyn apartment building collapsed less than two weeks after they moved in. The collapse killed eight people and injured 18, and the Brooklyn district attorney has opened a criminal probe.

Using JWST, astronomers detected SN Ares, a Type IIb supernova, in a gravitationally lensed host galaxy behind the cluster MACS J0308.9+2645. The team predicts two additional images will arrive in roughly 73 and 76 years, delays that could later help constrain the universe's expansion rate.

Workday said it moved some systems into maintenance mode after a testing issue made information inconsistent and could cause account errors. The Nov. 13 disruption blocked employees from clocking in, checking pay, requesting time off or filing benefits; Workday reports 11,500 organizations use it, but whether every customer was affected remains unclear.

More than 115,000 people signed an open letter urging NVIDIA's board to reinstate Jensen Huang as CEO while an independent investigation proceeds, with the campaign site noting that listed affiliations are self-reported. Huang stepped down on November 12 and CFO Colette Kress took the interim role, as fresh reporting questioned his push for investments in AI startups and cloud providers that would buy NVIDIA chips.

Seattle's firefighters' pension fund has sued over a City Council budget proposal that would reduce city pension contributions by $11 million annually, or $22 million over two years. The lawsuit disrupted budget chair Dan Strauss's plan to finish the budget Friday, prompting executive sessions and leaving the council's schedule uncertain.