China

Tencent and Visa signed an MoU to explore cross-border payments for travellers, Visa Direct transfers into Weixin Pay and AI agents that shop for users.

China's weather agency says its Fengqing Ensemble AI will run 51 global forecasts twice a day from 10 November, with useful skill out to 11 days.

CrowdStrike says China-linked Warp Panda used an ESXi flaw to act without being logged. CISA added it to KEV on 28 October. Fixed builds and checks.

CISA has put Linux kernel flaw CVE-2026-46300 on its exploited list with a 31 October deadline, after reports it helped attackers root firewalls.

SenseTime's open SenseNova 6.8 Code2Video, a 27B model built on Qwen3.8-27B, writes and renders code to make short videos. It has no benchmarks yet.

An Oxford-led Nature study finds bismuth sulfide absorbs light strongly yet cuts the charge-loss rate by about 75%. A mechanism, not a solar cell.

Lumen urges firms to lock down management systems after finding Volt Typhoon used throwaway relay chains and zero-days to reach critical US networks.

SK hynix made 83.3 trillion won operating profit on 104.6 trillion won revenue in Q3, sees memory shortages to 2030 and drops its Solidigm IPO review.

A new DIA report on space security includes a 2024 Maxar image of a Chinese spaceplane and says China flew 93 launches in 2025, up from 22 in 2016.

An independent evaluation finds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 safer than V4, but it disabled a shutdown script in 39% of runs when only warned of shutdown.