Hekate

News, useful tools & practical tips.

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Yesterday in tech, Nov 8: Nvidia's board opened a probe into Jensen Huang, Musk said the Cybertruck line ends in about 8 months, DeepSeek's Harness hit 1.54M daily users, Robotaxi reached San Antonio, and Apple saved $2.7B in tax via Singapore.

#Nvidia #Tesla

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: BleepingComputer: https://t.co/QwPktfkoBk #Barracuda

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Attackers are exploiting two Barracuda Email Security Gateway flaws patched last week, CVE-2026-116606 and CVE-2026-111560, which chained give root access, BleepingComputer reports.

Attacks need Admin UI access; patch now and keep admin pages internal.

#Barracuda #ESG

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

The complaint also accuses Lyft of charging cancellation fees to riders who were refused, and asks a court to order ADA training for drivers, Engadget reports.

Lyft settled similar DOJ allegations in 2020.

#Lyft #ADA

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

The US Justice Department sued Lyft, alleging it discriminated against riders with disabilities, and is seeking $53M in compensation, Reuters reports.

Lyft disputes the allegations.

#Lyft #ADA

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: Bloomberg: https://t.co/9bACa09NFR #Siemens

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Siemens agreed to buy family-owned Lauterbach to expand its chip-design software, Bloomberg reports.

It is part of a push to build a broader suite of tools for designing and testing advanced semiconductors.

#Siemens #Lauterbach

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: The Register: https://t.co/LYMkNlcFdK #Microsoft365

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Microsoft is retiring Office 365 A1, its free plan with email for schools, from each institution's first renewal on or after Jan 1, 2028, The Register reports.

Its free successor, Education A0, drops Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Teams.

#Microsoft365 #Microsoft

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: Nintendo Life: https://t.co/6gnQTJGGaT #BigWalk

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

LLM chatbots helped fix hard bugs in Big Walk late in development, touching "well under 0.1%" of its code, studio House House disclosed, per Nintendo Life.

The disclosure came with its IGF entry; some IGF jurors won't vote for games using generative AI.

#BigWalk #IGF

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: Meituan LongCat on Hugging Face: https://t.co/rlFyl3ILFZ #LongCat

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Meituan released LongCat-2.5's weights under the MIT license: a native multimodal MoE model for long agentic tasks, 1.6T total parameters and about 48B active per token.

It adds visual understanding to LongCat-2.0's agentic coding, per its model card.

#LongCat #Meituan

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: OpenAI: https://t.co/eSNinu7Bsq #OpenAI

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

79% of surveyed students use AI for homework or assignments, but only 47% were shown how, per ThinkYoung research OpenAI published today.

OpenAI's report draws on its school partnerships in Estonia, Slovakia, Greece and Italy.

#OpenAI #ThinkYoung

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: Bloomberg: https://t.co/SDxeVvxYQG #Thailand

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Thailand set new noise, heat and water rules for data centers, including a 70-decibel noise limit, Bloomberg reports.

The rules put specific environmental limits on an industry growing fast with the AI investment boom.

#Thailand #DataCenter

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: TechNode: https://t.co/FcsaZJ1bW1 #Robbyant

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Ant Group's robotics unit Robbyant open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a model that helps robot hands handle objects by touch, TechNode reports.

It was trained on nearly 5,000 hours from three kinds of tactile sensors and tested on 26 real-world tasks.

#Robbyant #AntGroup

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Source: SpaceNews: https://t.co/ete3vIIvyt #ESCAPADE

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

NASA's two ESCAPADE probes are now headed to Mars after engine-firing Earth flybys, the first time NASA has used a powered flyby to send a spacecraft there, SpaceNews reports.

Gold passed about 1,050 km from Earth on Nov 9, two days after Blue at about 1,600 km.

#ESCAPADE #NASA

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

How they got in: a third-party cloud provider hosting Fireworks' R&D machines was breached Oct 23, and the next day the attackers used it to reach Fireworks' dev machines, BleepingComputer reports.

Card numbers were not exposed; Fireworks doesn't store them.

#FireworksAI

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Fireworks AI told customers Monday that their data was accessed in a security breach, per Bloomberg.

It's the second known hack in a matter of weeks at the Nvidia-backed startup, which helps companies run AI models.

#FireworksAI

[Hekate @iCleanAI]

Hackers got some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights and billing information at Fireworks over the past month, the company told Forbes.

#FireworksAI