Technology News: 11 November 2026

New York said T-Mobile violated the state's Affordable Broadband Act by adding a 50GB monthly cap to low-income home internet plans and slowing service after the cap was reached. The state said the speed fell to 600 Kbps, while the speed was reported as low as 650 Kbps, and that a typical user could hit the cap in about four days. T-Mobile agreed to remove the limits, expand plan availability within 120 days, and make plan info searchable.

Santosh Janardhan, Meta's longtime head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, will step down, with Dave Brown, who joined as vice president of infrastructure earlier this year, replacing him. Janardhan, who joined Meta in 2009, will stay for a transition and move into an advisory role on Meta Compute, with departure expected next year. Meta did not give a reason, though a memo cited the need to pass the baton.

House lawmakers said they are preparing to subpoena Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang if he does not answer a request for a closed-door briefing about his affair with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive suspected of spying for China. Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer called for his resignation, and Nvidia's board is reportedly preparing to dismiss him after a report of a second alleged affair with an executive.

Roku said it will wind down sales of smart home hardware, including cameras, doorbells, plugs and its home monitoring system, while continuing support for existing products. The move comes days after Fox completed its $22 billion takeover and as Roku refocuses on streaming and its own players and TVs. Roku said third-quarter device revenue grew 33 percent year over year, but hardware losses more than doubled to $48.6 million.

Firefox's free built-in VPN stopped working for some users in Iran, and Mozilla said it temporarily disrupted access to investigate suspected abuse by unauthorized third-party apps. The service had been used by Iranian users for months, even though Iran was not part of the official rollout. Mozilla confirmed service has since been restored.

Google is bringing the Gemini app directly to Apple CarPlay, letting iOS users have hands-free conversations with Gemini Live from the car display. The feature rolls out globally today to all Gemini users on iOS across supported Gemini Live languages. Conversations sync with the Gemini app on iPhone, so summaries, notes and brainstorming remain in chat history after the drive.

Amazon says it will roll out 5,000 display-equipped smart glasses to contracted delivery drivers before year end, aiming for 20,000 by the end of 2027. The glasses help drivers navigate, find packages, scan barcodes and receive alerts. Amazon says use is optional and a privacy switch can turn off the camera. Some drivers worry about surveillance, and Amazon says the devices capture still images, not video, and blur faces and license plates.

Residents of Effingham County, Georgia, filed a RICO lawsuit against county leaders, OpenAI and affiliates, alleging a conspiracy to approve Project Camellia. The suit claims fraud, concealment, improper land transactions, zoning violations and civil racketeering, and says property offers have dropped or been withdrawn. Project Camellia is planned to cost $20 billion to $30 billion and provide 3.2 gigawatts of compute capacity.

Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources, that OpenAI's quarterly revenue crossed $10 billion for the first time, up from $6.7 billion in the second quarter. The company's adjusted operating margin narrowed from -150% to -109% in the third quarter, and its annual revenue run rate reached $50 billion. Anthropic, which recently reported $17 billion in third-quarter revenue, said its run rate hit $81 billion by the end of October.

SemiAnalysis reports SpaceX/xAI is developing Kessel, a custom version of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system for terrestrial and orbital data centers. It keeps 36 Vera CPUs, 72 Rubin GPUs and nine NVLink switch trays, but replaces NVLink cable assemblies with an 84-layer PCB midplane. The design uses ultra-low-loss M10 copper-clad laminates and may simplify assembly while raising material costs.

SoftBank has taken a $3.7 billion hit to earnings after canceling reservations for more than 13 gigawatts of gas turbines intended for AI data centers. It said the orders were placed to secure equipment in anticipation of shortages and denied defaulting after Elon Musk claimed it had defaulted. SoftBank is planning a $33 billion, 9.2-gigawatt Ohio power plant for early 2027 to serve an eight-gigawatt data center that will be leased to OpenAI.

ASRock has quietly released VBIOS version 1.0.6 for its Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards, following a previous 1.0.5 update that reportedly bricked some RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX cards. The company has not published a changelog or confirmed whether the new firmware fixes the problem. A European owner was reportedly directed to seek warranty service, while a user in Japan was told the failed update would be covered.

Adobe announced experimental AI tools at its Max conference, including Project Screen Test, which lets users talk to and direct AI-generated characters in an audition-like environment before generating animated screen tests. Project Sight Span turns photographs into explorable 3D scenes, adding objects and backgrounds outside the original frame. Adobe says the 3D visuals are pixelated until a chosen angle is selected, when resolution is restored.

Nintendo of America sent a DMCA request to GitHub that took down 144 repositories, including a parent repository, hosting open-source firmware for Switch modchips. The notice targeted firmware for SX Core, SX Lite, Picofly and HWFLY, which Nintendo says lets chips bypass the console's boot sequence to run games. The company cited US Justice Department criminal proceedings against Team-Xecuter, a maker of SX Pro, SX Core and SX Lite chips.

House Foreign Affairs chair Brian Mast says he will subpoena Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang if he does not answer by Wednesday to a request for a joint, closed-door briefing on November 18. The session would focus on Nvidia's security protocols against foreign adversary espionage, days after Huang admitted an affair with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang. A former CIA agent warned that overfocus on Huang could miss other Chinese targets.

Logitech is giving its 7,000 employees a day off to play GTA 6 or any other game, from now until this time next year. The company called the initiative Logi Game Day and said it wants to challenge the idea that gaming is a waste of time. The company's CEO is joining in. GTA 6 is set for release on November 19, with a claimed early 2027 PC version after a console launch.

Lorenzo Stoakes, a lead Linux kernel reviewer for memory management, said he will step down from the core, reclaim, Rust, THP and miscellaneous sections of that area, while staying on for duties including KVM. He cited mounting inbox pressure, saying AI slop is now about half of what he sees, if not more. The partial departure is amicable, and he will finish current patch series and occasionally contribute.

Serve Robotics is launching an AV Delivery Developer Portal that lets third-party engineers, independent businesses and autonomous AI agents access its fleet of 2,000 sidewalk robots. The portal lets people in the company's 150 operating neighborhoods dispatch robots directly, without relying on major food delivery apps. Serve says the marketplace will treat API requests like enterprise orders and offer pay-per-delivery or hourly reservations.

BloombergNEF says planned AI datacentres in the US, UK and mainland Europe have proposals for 181GW of on-site gas-fired capacity due to grid connection delays. The report says the rollout could emit about 345 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year in the US, where 90 percent of the on-site gas plants are planned. AI datacentre electricity demand is predicted to almost quadruple to 2,354 terawatt-hours by 2035.

Google has open sourced XSE, the XLA Serving Engine, which it says handles more than six million queries per second across Search, Ads and YouTube Shorts. The C++ runtime compiles model computations into native code, removing a Python interpreter from the serving path. In Google tests, XSE delivered two to five times the throughput of its best optimized Python server while using a quarter of the memory.

A public hearing notice has been posted for a $24 billion gas-fired power plant and supercomputing facility in Starbase, Texas, with the project apparently owned by SpaceX. The company town may face less local opposition than SpaceX's Colossus data centers, but incoming governor Gina Hinojosa has campaigned against new data centers until stronger protections are enacted. The project is part of a push to build 10 gigawatts of compute in 2027.

Apple says its official Support Community will stop accepting new posts on November 20, leaving the site online for reading only. The company, which launched the forum in 1998, says users can continue to find guidance on the official Apple Support site. Apple said it made the decision after a careful evaluation of strategy and customer needs.

Harman has introduced Drops, an app for iOS and Android that is available by invitation and lets users listen to short clips of up to 30 seconds from songs. Each drop is paired with lyrics, album art, licensed artist images and a caption, and users can follow other people and add songs to a collection without playing them in full. The company says Drops will connect with streaming platforms including Apple Music, Qobuz and Tidal.

Stingray Marine Solutions says it has deployed more than 3,500 AI-powered laser submarines around Norwegian salmon pens, protecting more than 112 million fish. The company, which added about 1,000 units over the past year, says the systems now protect 20 to 25 percent of the country's farmed salmon. The drones use AI to target sea lice without chemical treatments, though Stingray notes upfront costs and limited patrol range remain drawbacks.

AMD is pitching Mext, an AI-based memory-management system for Epyc servers, that it says can deliver up to 99 percent of performance with half the DRAM. The software moves infrequently used memory pages to cheaper NVMe flash and uses AI to bring them back before applications need them. AMD says the technology could cut enterprise server costs by up to 83 percent and has already saved $5 million in avoided DRAM costs across 145 deployed systems.

Samsung is rolling out stable One UI 9 and is expected to release One UI 9.5 before One UI 10, with no date announced. The update may let Galaxy users record voice calls made through third-party VoIP apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram from the Phone app, avoiding risky workarounds. A settings list would show compatible apps, with a screenshot showing WhatsApp, Meet and Telegram, while availability could depend on local laws.

OpenAI will retire ChatGPT's Standard and Advanced Voice modes in December, leaving only the newer Live Voice mode across all subscriptions. The change moves users to a full-duplex GPT-Live model that can listen and speak at the same time. Some users object because their preferred voices are not reproduced exactly and Live mode's interruptions and filler sounds feel less natural.

A tipster says a wide-screen smartphone with a 6.39-inch display is in development, with an emoji suggesting it could be from Honor. The early engineering sample is said to use a Snapdragon chipset, a triple rear camera with a 200MP main sensor and periscope telephoto, and a battery of at least 8,000mAh. The report could add Honor to a group of Chinese makers developing wider phones.

Samsung's Gallery app can now sync photos and videos to a Google account on select Galaxy devices running One UI 9, replacing the OneDrive integration removed in September. Users can view synced media on another Samsung device and use a Free up space option to delete originals while keeping thumbnails. The feature uses Google storage, with 5GB free by default, 15GB after phone verification, or paid Google One plans.

A tipster says Samsung is developing a smartphone with a vertically rollable display that can extend from a 16:9 to a 21:9 aspect ratio. The device would use a sliding mechanism to extend the screen upwards, but the mechanism may consume internal space and challenge battery capacity. It would let users switch between wider and taller screens, while Samsung has also trademarked the Galaxy Z Roll name.

OpenAI announced Control Room, a central system to track model workloads across its research infrastructure and stop them when safety or security concerns arise. The company says it can stop model output 35 seconds after a decision, a lag caused by a caching layer for inference authorization, and is working to reduce it to zero. Control Room is already deployed across OpenAI's research infrastructure.

Trump Media reported a $410 million third-quarter profit driven almost entirely by crypto gains, while its core business lost money. It said revenue growth came mainly from $1.8 million in growth tied to Truth API and Truth+, with more than 10 customers paying $60,000 to $100,000 monthly for faster access to posts. The service matters because Trump's posts can move markets.

X has introduced a clipping tool that allows users to trim longer videos into shorter clips and post them directly on the platform. Each clip includes a label linking back to the original video, and both creators and clippers can earn revenue through the Original Content Rewards program. The feature is part of X's ongoing efforts to attract influencers and compete with other social media sites by expanding its supported content types.

The Poco X8s is now available in Europe, starting with Germany, marking the first phone in the X series to feature a telephoto camera. The device includes a 6.35-inch LTPO AMOLED screen, a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chipset, and a 50MP telephoto lens with 2.5x optical zoom. It is priced at €529.90 for the 8GB/256GB model and €629.90 for the 12GB/512GB model, with introductory discounts available through November 23.

Microsoft is rolling out Automatic Super Resolution, an upscaling technology that competes with Nvidia's DLSS, for the Xbox Ally X, Xbox Ally X20, and select Windows Copilot Plus PCs. The release works in handheld mode on battery, supports 1080p, and adds a Performance mode that can reach up to 120 frames per second. Microsoft says handheld 1080p may not be as optimal as other configurations, but Auto SR should improve visuals in older games.

Russia has submitted ITU documentation for a proposed Rassvet-4 network of 374 satellites at about 800 kilometers, in 17 orbital planes of 22 spacecraft each. The filing follows deployment problems with Rassvet-3 after March and July 2026 launches. Two of the 32 satellites reentered, and 26 had stabilized near 508 kilometers by November 3. It suggests Bureau 1440 is preparing an improved satellite to challenge Starlink.

Nvidia's general counsel Tim Teter reportedly called a Commerce Department official to seek information on a probe into Megaspeed, a Singaporean data center firm. The report claims this intervention restricted the Bureau of Industry and Security's ability to investigate, and the Justice Department later asked BIS to pause the case.

The allegations follow reports that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang had an affair with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, facilitating chip shipments to China despite export controls.

iFixit's teardown of Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro shows how a light strip with four LEDs behind the display recreates the glowing logo. The light is reflected through a diffuser, and the logo is coated like a two-way mirror so it looks metallic when off. Apple dropped the feature in 2016, but the new design returns it while the laptop remains hard to repair.

Anker has released the Eufy TrackLight Cam S1, a $299.99 outdoor security camera featuring an auto-tracking light designed to actively deter intruders. The device senses targets within 12 meters and uses a beam that follows movement across 355 degrees of horizontal rotation, with options for red and blue flashing modes and a siren.

It records in 4K resolution, includes a 15,000mAh battery with solar panels, and can recognize family members via Bluetooth to activate a softer light instead of the spotlight.