First things first
Tech had one of those days where the big names looked surprisingly wobbly: Microsoft’s services kept falling over, and Nvidia’s leadership drama got messier by the hour. Meanwhile, AI kept creeping into everything, from local models and app reviews to fresh tools and hardware questions.
Rust shipped upgrades, while hobbyists revived games and built subscription-free creative software. Even the power bill behind all this tech is becoming harder to ignore.
The top 6
Jensen Huang resigned as NVIDIA’s CEO, president, and board member, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor, and Harvey C. Jones was named the board’s first chair.
Microsoft Outlook is experiencing an outage affecting thousands of users. Microsoft's status page is also down.
More than 1,600 comments have flooded an internal Nvidia suggestion-box post, with many employees urging the board to reinstate former CEO Jensen Huang. Huang resigned after acknowledging infidelity and facing reports of affairs with employees and a suspected Chinese intelligence asset.
Rust 1.100.0 stabilizes the never type (`!`), allowing it to be named anywhere and making `Infallible` an alias for it. The release also includes allocator and DropGuard APIs, plus Cargo improvements for dependency reporting and cache management.
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is a model in Google’s Gemini AI lineup. Google’s page introduces the model.
ZigZag is a free, open-source embroidery app for Mac and Windows, created after a $300 machine required a subscription. It converts SVG artwork into embroidery designs, lets users edit stitches, and supports design creation with AI agents.
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Quote of the day
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
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Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s former CEO, had a relationship with a second employee, according to sources cited in the report. The report describes an additional relationship beyond one previously disclosed.
Microsoft 365 is still experiencing widespread Outlook and Exchange connectivity problems after 12 hours. Microsoft says infrastructure changes have not worked as expected and it is pursuing other ways to increase capacity.
Google Antigravity is adding the Gemini 4 Hydrogen model. Its new Orchestrator option combines Hydrogen with Gemini 4 Carbon to balance quality, efficiency, and speed.
Nintendo sent GitHub four DMCA notices targeting Switch emulators Yuzu and Citron Neo, as well as mod-chip firmware. GitHub removed 144 firmware repositories, renewing Nintendo’s effort to curb tools that enable Switch modification and emulation.
Smolmaxxing explores ways to run different LLMs on small, older devices. Its repository includes experiments, benchmarks, and device-specific tools.
Astronomers confirmed 2026 ED138, a distant object orbiting 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth and completing an orbit every 281 years. Its size remains unknown, so researchers must determine whether it qualifies as a dwarf planet.
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Claude is investigating authentication problems causing elevated errors across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Console, and Claude Cowork. The incident was reported on November 13, 2026, and updates are pending.
Jane Street is trialing new software engineering interview rounds for campus candidates, with less code-writing and more focus on design, code quality, and using LLMs. Most interviews will remain traditional coding sessions without LLMs, and candidates will be told in advance if they have a new-format round.
Analysis of six models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group found weight patterns matching NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, while earlier models matched Hopper chips. The findings support access to Blackwell hardware but do not establish where it was used or whether export controls were violated.
Data centers drove $8.25 billion in power infrastructure costs in 2025 but paid only 38%, leaving residents to cover most of the bill. Lower-income households, especially in rural areas, face the heaviest burden, with added energy costs reaching 28% of income for the poorest households.
Microsoft Cloud connections reportedly went down, and the status page would not load. The outage was reported to have lasted five minutes, with others asked if they were affected.
Nvidia’s board is meeting to discuss CEO Jensen Huang’s future after reports about an alleged affair. Reuters published footage of Huang at a 2025 dinner with a woman it identified as Alice Huang.
Song of the day
Deep cuts
Modders completed an abandoned expansion for Quake 4 and made it playable. The project is available as a Windows 64-bit download.
AI-assisted app creation has flooded Apple’s review queue, delaying music apps and plugins for weeks instead of the usual one or two days. Developers including Pittsburgh Modular and Igor Vasiliev say the backlog has disrupted planned releases and cross-platform launches.
Edge0 has open-sourced its 145B and 120B AI models, plus tools for running them locally. The company reports that Edge0-145B uses 29GB of peak memory and can handle coding, reasoning, and agent tasks on compatible laptops, including offline.
IceWM is a fast, configurable window manager for the X Window System, with keyboard controls, multiple workspaces, themes, and support for multiple monitors. It is available for many Linux distributions and BSD systems; its latest listed release is version 4.1.0.
Rust 1.100.0 stabilizes the never type and `extern "custom"`. It also adds a lint for repeated `repr` attributes and extends several drop-related lints to `drop_in_place`.
Microsoft experienced a global outage, according to the headline. The page was inaccessible, so details about affected services and the cause are unavailable.
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