Front Page Archive November 2026
Cybersecurity1,081 words5 min read
PHP Flaws Force Governments and BBC Offline as AI Finds Decade-Old Bugs
Governments, councils and major websites pulled pages offline last week after two critical vulnerabilities surfaced in PHP, the programming language that powers roughly 70% of the web. The bugs were found by AI tools, had gone undetected…
No Image
Cybersecurity
November 2026
EV1,035 words5 min read
BYD Edges Tesla in Q2 2026 BEV Deliveries, but the Gap Is Narrower Than It Looks
BYD delivered 557,090 battery-electric passenger vehicles worldwide in the second quarter of 2026, against 480,126 Tesla deliveries over the same three months. The 76,964-unit gap works out…
Battery Tech1,136 words6 min read
CATL's Sodium-Ion Bet: 60 GWh Deal Puts a New Chemistry on the Storage Map
CATL, the world's largest battery maker, signed a three-year, 60 GWh sodium-ion supply agreement with Chinese energy storage integrator HyperStrong on April 27, 2026, in Ningde. The deal is…
IoT1,276 words6 min read
A 20-Year-Old Bug Still Ships Inside 2026 Home Cameras
A software flaw first disclosed in 2002 was still shipping inside a home security camera sold in 2026, and nobody along the supply chain noticed. Finite State, a firmware security firm…
AI1,446 words7 min read
Mistral Large 4 'Le Chonk' Hits Open Weights: A Trillion Parameters, $0.68 per Million Input Tokens
Mistral AI released the weights of its largest model, Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, on October 29, 2026. The model is a mixture-of-experts system with roughly 1 trillion total…
Cloud & Edge Computing1,042 words5 min read
Edge Data Centers Grow From 0B to 05.8B by 2033 as AI Inference Moves Out of Hyperscale Halls
The global edge data center market is estimated at $40.0 billion in 2026 and projected to reach $105.8 billion by 2033, a 14.9% compound annual growth rate, according to Grand View…
Cybersecurity1,038 words5 min read
PHP's Worst Bug in Years: Two CVEs Let Attackers Run Code Without Logging In
Two critical flaws in the PHP runtime, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, allow unauthenticated remote code execution on any server running affected versions. The PHP project…
Robotics & Drones1,018 words5 min read
Cage-Free Robots, Humanoid IPOs, and a $100M Campus: Automation's Big Week
Mantis Robotics showed up at Automate 2026 with the MR-X, a dual-arm robot built to work at full industrial speeds without a surrounding safety cage. The machine handles payloads up to 70…
Semiconductors1,126 words6 min read
U.S. Chip Export Controls on China: Revenue Sharing, SAMR Probes, and a Fracturing Supply Chain
The U.S. Commerce Department's decision to let Nvidia resume sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chip to China came with a price tag attached: a 15 percent cut of revenue from those…
EV1,155 words6 min read
Rivian Posts Record Q3 2026 Revenue on R2 Surge, Raises Delivery Guidance
Rivian Automotive reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $2.155 billion, up 38 percent year over year, on record vehicle deliveries of 19,248 units. The company said the R2 compact SUV was…