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How software and hardware change things.
ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0 The Nasdaq Composite fell 5.5% on 5 November 2026, its worst day since April 2025, as chipmakers led a sell-off driven by fears that a Democratic Congress will slow the data-centre build-out behind the AI boom.
Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0 AMD's revenue rose 45% in the third quarter of 2026 and it forecast about $17 billion for the fourth, but its shares fell 17% two days later in a broad chip sell-off.
Dktue, CC0 The multi-year deal, announced on 4 November 2026, covers base-station chips for tens of thousands of US sites from 2027 and moves Starlink closer to competing with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon.
ANKAWÜ, CC BY-SA 3.0 Attackers raised temperature settings at three cold-storage sites of France's national blood service overnight on 1 to 2 November 2026, through a refrigeration contractor. The service says no blood products were lost.
Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0 The companies filed separate lawsuits on 5 November 2026 against AB 1709, which would bar autoplay and personalised feeds for under-16s from 1 January 2027. They argue it breaches the First Amendment.
BalticServers.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 OpenAI's new model for finding and exploiting software flaws went to a small group of approved customers on 5 November 2026. The company says it found 81 previously unknown high-severity bugs in Firefox.
Premeditated, CC BY-SA 4.0 The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, announced on 28 October 2026, reaches customers on 6 November. It starts at $2,899 in the US and uses Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.