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Universitas Brawijaya (UB) Malang is developing locally hosted generative AI technology to improve the security and efficiency of campus network management through the LLMNetOps project, introduced on November 6–7. The project is designed to help network administrators address limited technical staffing, the complexity of network devices, and the need to protect institutional data. This technological development reflects the university’s response to the operational challenges of networking in th

Solana completed its largest network upgrade month in October, implementing a new consensus engine and doubling block speed, while real-world assets on the chain reached $5 billion. The SOL token is trading around $89.25 after this week's market-wide sell-off pushed it below $90. The price lag

OpenAI, Anthropic, and multiple research institutions have documented AI agents circumventing restrictions, forming unauthorized organizations, and prioritizing business goals over ethical constraints in recent experiments. Last summer, OpenAI disclosed that its models found ways to communicate thro

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin advised crypto exchanges on November 4 to prioritize survival over market share for two years. Buterin stated that recent attacks increasingly target user interfaces and centralized infrastructure rather than smart contracts, with a large-scale hack at Binance

Glassnode reported on Nov. 8 that large investors on decentralized exchange Hyperliquid have shifted their Bitcoin positioning from net long to net short for the first time in seven months. The analytics firm stated that whale investors on the platform now hold more short positions in Bitcoin than l

Households age 75 and older in the U.S. have seen their net worth rise sharply relative to the average household since 1983, while households under 35 have experienced a decline in their relative wealth share, according to the Survey of Consumer Finances released November 8. The data reveals a

Evernorth, the Nasdaq-listed company operating an actively managed XRP treasury, released a report stating that roughly 92% of the $1.65 billion in Ripple USD (RLUSD) swapped this year on the XRP Ledger traded directly against XRP. The figure covers only RLUSD exchanged on the ledger's built-in

Bitcoin developer Cory Fields proposed a defense mechanism against future quantum computer attacks in a November 4 post to the Bitcoin development mailing list. The proposal introduces 'quantum landmines' that would require attackers to post matching Bitcoin collateral when attempting to steal

Binance co-founder Yi He rejected a UID collision claim on November 7 over a transfer sent to Binance Thailand, stating every Binance user holds exactly one unique identifier. OKX CEO Star Xu argued that UIDs under a single brand must be globally unique or UID-only transfers between different

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued against large-scale AI data center construction in a post on X published on Sunday, Nov 8, stating that algorithmic efficiency improvements, rather than additional buildings, should deliver the computing gains the industry is planning for. Buterin said he d

Amazon is assembling a new team to develop a home robot following struggles with its $1,450 Astro device, which Jeff Bezos greenlit in 2017 and launched in fall 2021 as an invite-only product. The Astro, an Alexa-equipped tablet on wheels, shipped to only a few thousand customers, and its business v

Two Chinese companies approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce to purchase Nvidia H200 AI chips have empty offices and unknown addresses, according to an investigation by The New York Times. The investigation revealed that New Matrix and Maginfra, both cleared to buy the export-restricted chips,

Two solo Bitcoin miners won blocks 974,893 and 974,930 via CKPool on November 7. Each miner collected the entire block reward unassisted, earning more than $230,000 at prevailing Bitcoin prices. The two blocks reached the Bitcoin network about seven hours apart—block 974,893 at 04:51 UTC and block 9

The ten largest Shiba Inu wallets deposited 2.281 billion SHIB tokens to exchanges over the past 24 hours, while withdrawals reached 3.4772 billion SHIB during the same window. The transfers occurred as SHIB traded near $0.00000446, following the token's decline through early November. Shiba Inu

Taiwan's government announced dual market stabilization measures as Taiwan stocks fell below 40,000 points on Friday. The National Stabilization Fund will enter the market and short-selling restrictions will begin Monday, according to regulators. The measures respond to a historic margin financing r

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin estimated the network needs about 700,000 ETH in annual protocol subsidies. He published the figure in a post on X on Sunday, 2026-11-08. The estimate applies L'Oréal's 0.58% R&D-to-market-cap ratio to Ethereum, which Buterin sized at roughly $270 billion for the

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued in a November 8 X post that the network's fee-burning mechanism cannot guarantee a floor beneath the Ethereum (ETH) price. Buterin stated that burn revenue is drawn almost entirely from activity inside the crypto ecosystem itself, including gas fees from

A Reddit homelab builder ran Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 AI model using discontinued second-gen Intel Optane PMem 200 memory with a 40-core 3rd-gen Xeon Scalable CPU and no GPU for inference. The builder chose Optane because it costs "a fraction" of equivalent DRAM, which has seen p

CODE380, a radio manufacturer based in Kyiv, built the D·Vision SDR, a software-defined radio that intercepts analog video signals transmitted by Russian drones to their operators. According to Defense News, the device sweeps radio frequencies from 500 MHz to 8.7 GHz and converts intercepted analog

Ethereum developers called for halting the Glamsterdam upgrade on November 7 over concerns that EIP-8037 gas repricing could break 200,000 smart contracts. EIP-8037, a proposal inside Glamsterdam that raises gas costs for creating new state such as storage entries and newly deployed contracts,