Spotify is making Family plan members scan a rotating QR code to prove they live with the account owner. Users get seven days to verify or risk being blocked from joining another Family or Duo plan for 12 months, though some people say a live screen share can bypass the check.

AI has officially made the top 10 fears in America. A Chapman University survey found 51.9% of respondents fear AI harming the political process, while 49.7% worry it could negatively impact the economy. This was the first year AI was included in the survey.

Cloudflare says exploit attempts against the newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities surged from thousands to millions within hours. Organizations temporarily took government websites and banking services offline as they rushed to patch flaws that could let attackers take control of vulnerable servers.

YouTube is moving the dislike button behind the three-dot menu, but only when creators view their own uploaded videos. The company says viewers are not losing the dislike button, and creators can still see full dislike counts inside YouTube Studio.

A new bill would require large data centers to pay the full added electricity costs created by their power demand instead of passing those costs on to other ratepayers. The proposal would apply to data centers and high-density computing facilities using at least 20 megawatts of electricity.

Xbox is testing a new cloud streaming model that charges by the hour for games you already own. Prices range from about 24 to 40 cents per hour, on top of the original game purchase, with free ad-supported streaming offering longer waits and lower quality.

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Airbnb is banning hosts from forcing guests to do chores like washing dishes, stripping beds, starting laundry, or taking trash off-site. The new rules take effect on November 20, while hosts can still ask guests to leave rentals in reasonable condition and handle basic cleanup.

Google has been ordered to stop work at two planned data center sites in Finland after clearing forests without completing required environmental assessments. At one site alone, an estimated 250,000 trees were cut across 815 acres, with Google later apologizing for the clearings.

Two critical PHP flaws triggered a global security scramble, with agencies warning that unpatched websites should go offline rather than risk a takeover. Emergency fixes are now available, but the vulnerabilities affect multiple PHP versions, and reports of active exploitation have already emerged.

A majority of Americans now say AI is bad for society. A new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found 57% view AI negatively, while 66% oppose building more data centers in the U.S. Opposition rises to 72% when the data center would be built in their own community.

Citadel founder Ken Griffin says investors are “almost certainly” in an AI bubble. He says businesses are spending heavily on AI without consistently getting enough value back, even as companies prepare to pour hundreds of billions more into chips, data centers, and infrastructure.

Eight compromised TLS certificates have put internet security teams on high alert. Their private keys were so weak that attackers could potentially mint trusted certificates for virtually any website. Major browsers have blocked them, but outdated Linux systems, apps, and IoT devices could remain exposed for much longer.

Google Cloud plans to scale NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure to as many as 960,000 GPUs across multiple sites. Its new A5X instances combine Rubin NVL72 systems with high-speed networking and liquid cooling for large-scale AI inference and reinforcement learning workloads.

The MikroTik RB260GSP combines five Gigabit Ethernet ports, passive PoE-out on ports 2 through 5, and an SFP cage in one compact switch. It runs SwOS and uses passive cooling, making it a simple option for connecting and powering compatible network devices.

Chicago is seeing lawsuits against delivery robots over claims that they scanned customers’ faces and hands without consent. The lawsuits allege that Coco and Serve robots captured biometric data and retained it for AI training. Both companies deny collecting biometric information.

A federal judge ruled that the Office of Personnel Management broke federal law by giving DOGE workers access to sensitive government personnel data. The court found OPM violated the Privacy Act, though what further relief is needed remains unclear because DOGE has since been dissolved and its access ended.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has raised about $9 million from donors tied to the data center industry since July 2025. That includes $4.9 million from people and companies that directly develop, own, or operate data centers, even as Abbott pushes new rules on grid access, water use, and industry tax breaks.

Anthropic reported an $80.7 billion net loss in the first half of 2026 as it prepares for an IPO. The number is misleading at first glance, though. About $72 billion came from noncash accounting charges tied to convertible notes, while the company still spent nearly $9 billion on computing and infrastructure.

MIT researchers developed a surgical adhesive that works more like tape than stitches. SanaHeal’s bioadhesive can stick to wet tissue in seconds and create air- and fluid-tight seals, with human trials planned next year for surgical bleeding control and tissue repair.