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- Anthropic reportedly plans to move forward with IPO plans
The AI company is expected to set its valuation range this week, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Daily Security Brief — today's top actively-exploited and high-severity vulnerabilities.
⚡ 4 item(s) name a component we run (patch-watch). • [CRITICAL] CVE-2026-114432 CVE-2026-114432: The Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 6.2.4 does not validate the type or extension o… ⚡ • [HIGH] CVE-2026-18893…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Jensen Huang reportedly engaged a PR firm with a history of handling high-profile sex scandals a year ago
The PR firm was enlisted shortly after an Oct. 2025 New York Times report described Alice Huang's business dealings with Jensen Huang, Wired reported.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Hotel giant Wyndham exposed customer data after app security lapse
Exclusive: Wyndham left a hardcoded credential in its customer app, allowing anyone to access customer data. The hotel giant wouldn't say if it has the ability to check for any past unauthorized access.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - A short seller flagged Nvidia CEO’s ties to a suspected Chinese spy six months before the scandal
Six months before Nvidia's spy scandal erupted, Culper Research was already questioning Jensen Huang's unusually close relationship with a Chinese executive.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - The race is on to sue Nvidia
Nvidia’s stock slid more than 4% after its board opened an investigation into Jensen Huang’s relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and one securities law expert says the company’s earlier insistence that it was all…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger
Producer and former Kevin Feige protege Jeremy Latcham will replace Gunn and Safran.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling
Lawsuit demands Kalshi return losses because online betting is illegal in Washington.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management
We verified the RAM numbers are real without sending any emails to OpenAI.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Fervo now has $12B in orders for its geothermal power tech
Geothermal company Fervo is targeting natural gas as it brings down geothermal drilling costs at its 8.4 GW resource in Utah.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy
The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation
"*sshole" poses a serious threat to Internet security.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - YouTube streaming data returns to Billboard charts, ending major disagreement
YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 after changes to the chart formula give more weight to free, ad-supported music streams.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns
Anthropic says the new models "show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision," as well as in communicating more clearly with users.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months
Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banks
France's foreign minister blamed Iran for launching at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated and freezer units across France and wider Europe.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
"Please jump on my cislunar bandwagon because I need some more friends here."
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny
Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s lucrative AI market.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub
"Do not ask again" prompt leads to passwords, API keys, and more being shared.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis
Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines
Anthropic bought billions of dollars worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer's remorse.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Medium’s new TK app brings AI assistance directly into the writing process
Medium's new writing app embraces AI-assisted writing, despite growing controversy over the technology's role in publishing.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
"Grok analyzing the same video is 99.9 percent perfect."
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Meta expands Instagram’s AI age-guessing tech globally
Meta says it will use its AI technology to look for clues about people it suspects to be teenagers — even if they use an adult birthday.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem
Nvidia is probing whether Chinese intelligence targeted its CEO through an affair.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Waymo robotaxis kept illegally passing school buses after software fix, feds say
The update to Waymo's self-driving system was rolled out nearly a year ago.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires alive
A topsy-turvy grid and intermittent rain resulted in a very entertaining race.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Meet Drops, the new music app bringing back the fun of sharing songs with friends
The new music discovery app lets users scroll through 10-to-30-second snippets of songs, comment, and share with friends.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe coding apps amid a changing internet
Automattic aims to compete with likes of Lovable with Spacefast
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Musk says Tesla will refund some Cybertruck deposits, defends decision to end production
Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around 8 months.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Nepal Airlines’ Rs 34 billion loan for four aircraft rises to Rs 55.92 billion
Kathmandu, November 9 The outstanding loan taken by Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) to purchase four aircraft has increased from Rs 34 billion to Rs 55.92 billion. The corporation had borrowed the money from the…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - More than half of budget spending goes to public services, social protection
Kathmandu, November 9 More than half of Nepal’s total budget expenditure goes towards general public services and social protection, according to official data. According to the Financial Comptroller General Office,…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome
"There’s no doubt that whatever it’s going to be called, it won’t be called Golden Dome."
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Tesla expands robotaxi service to San Antonio
This will be the fourth Texas city in which Tesla will launch robotaxis.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Anti-scam centre freezes fraudulent transfers across nine banking layers in 15 minutes
Kathmandu, November 9 Integrated Anti-Scam Centre, established to prevent electronic fraud, has started operations, bringing commercial banks, payment system operators and service providers, and police together to…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Is Jensen Huang’s job on the line? Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates it’s “about a 50-50”
Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays on as CEO.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Can Nepal cook dal bhat on its own electricity?
Nepal spends tens of billions of rupees a year on cooking gas. A 10-year electric-cooking mission could cut the bill, starting with households, hotels and the grid.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Three in four transport jobs in Nepal are informal
ILO study calls for stronger labour protections, affordable social security contributions, and a legal framework to protect ride-hailing and delivery workers.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Nepal’s game developers seek tax relief, Google access to scale globally
Industry leaders say high taxes and restrictions on Google Play merchant accounts are stifling local developers, as the prime minister pledges to create conditions for a home-grown technology unicorn.
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