Atom Computing Finalises a CHIPS Award of Up to $100m

Commerce has finalised a CHIPS R&D award of up to $100 million with Atom Computing, to develop hardware that can control tens of thousands of qubits.

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Cloudflare Spend Management Beta Can Pause Workers at a Cap

Cloudflare Spend Management is in beta for pay-as-you-go Workers and Durable Objects. App- and agent-level budgets have not been released.

OpenAI Daybreak Adds a Red Team and a Defense Factory

OpenAI’s Daybreak pages describe Red Team and Defense Factory. SecurityWeek and The Register date the launch to 12 November 2026; the pages are undated.

World Labs Opens Atlas Access to Everyone, With Apps and APIs

World Labs has opened access to its Atlas world model to everyone, with the Viewfinder and Chisel apps and developer APIs, it said on 12 November.

Self-Hosted Claude Managed Agents Put the Service On-Site

Anthropic has launched self-hosted Claude Managed Agents. Customers run the service themselves; model calls go to Anthropic or a provider they choose.

Samsung Breaks Ground on an Onyang HBM Packaging Fab

Samsung has broken ground on a planned HBM-only packaging fab at its Onyang campus, as South Korea starts Chungcheong megaprojects. The figures are plans.

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Operation TorNado Leads to 354 Arrests Across 14 Countries

The US Justice Department and Europol say Operation TorNado led to 354 arrests across 14 countries, after earlier takedowns of dark-web markets.

Forescout Says Off-the-Shelf AI Found 66 New TCP/IP Flaws

Forescout says AI found 66 new TCP/IP flaws in 10 stacks. The nine-month comparison is not a controlled benchmark, and the cost excludes the harness.

FBI and DOJ Disrupt North Korea’s FaceStealer Video-Call Scheme

The FBI and DOJ have disrupted North Korea’s FaceStealer scheme, which they say stole more than $400m over 18 months. Verify invites out of band.

Microsoft 365 Users May Be Unable to Connect, Company Says

Microsoft 365 is in service degradation, the company says, and users may be unable to connect. The incident was still open at 19:50 GMT.

N-able Says Disable N-central Legacy API and Check Servers

N-able says on-premises N-central users should disable the Legacy API if it is on and exposed. Hosted environments are not affected, the company says.

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Breast Cancer Blood Test Flags Early Tumours in Weizmann Study

A Weizmann and Hebrew University study reports a breast cancer blood test on small cohorts. It is research-stage, not a clinical test.

NYDFS Issues Crypto Advertising Guidance, Not a New Rule

NYDFS has issued guidance on crypto advertising for licensed virtual currency entities. It is not a new regulation, and no enforcement action is attached.

Sanger and CRG Map Hidden Drug Sites on Two Protein Families

Researchers at Sanger and CRG have published protein maps of GPCRs and transcription factors. The results are from lab and cell tests; no drug exists yet.

UNC13A Fix Restores Neuron Signalling in Lab MND Models

A Nature study says correcting one UNC13A splicing error restored signalling between human neurons in the lab. It is lab-only, with no patient data.

MIT Method Trains Climate Emulators on Far Less Data

MIT designed optimised training scenarios so climate emulators can be trained on far less data. MIT says the paper appears this week in PNAS.

UNEP Says Methane Satellites Helped Close 46 Major Leaks

UNEP says methane satellites have helped address 46 major sources in 13 countries, a climate impact it equates to 26 million cars for a year.

Microsoft’s MDASH Effort Yields 33 Linux Kernel CVEs

Microsoft says MDASH produced 59 Linux kernel reports, 33 CVEs and 38 merged fixes. The bugs were patched upstream; human review was the bottleneck.

TSMC Approves Up to US$500m Stakes in Anthropic and OpenAI

TSMC’s board approved ceilings of up to US$500m each in Anthropic, at its IPO price, and in OpenAI preferred stock. These are not completed purchases.

ScreenConnect Partners Told to Avoid Sessions After SCKit

ConnectWise and Huntress advise ScreenConnect partners to avoid interactive sessions to suspected hosts, use separate tools, and disable RMM+ extensions.

Salesforce Says AutoR&D Agents Improved Its Embeddings

Salesforce says SFR-AutoR&D agents raised nDCG@10 by 6.13 points in research and 4.69 in a production-supported run. The model is not yet customer-facing.