Citrix issued an advisory telling administrators to immediately patch a critical memory-overflow vulnerability in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances, tracked as CVE-2026-107406. The bug can allow remote code execution or crash devices via denial-of-service, but only affects appliances configured as SAML Identity Provider or Service Provider. Citrix said it has not detected any active exploitation so far and listed specific firmware versions customers should upgrade to.
Elon Musk publicly questioned whether Mukesh Ambani is the 'real boss of India,' a day after blaming unnamed 'oligarchs' for stalling Starlink's entry into the Indian market despite five years of regulatory compliance. Ambani's Jio and rival Airtel control roughly 80% of India's telecom market. Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi responded with a jab referencing billionaire Gautam Adani, prompting Musk to call the exchange 'troubling.'
Abstract, the Ethereum layer-2 built by Pudgy Penguins parent Igloo Inc., announced it will cease operations on Dec. 15, 2026, giving more than 144 deployed apps roughly two months to migrate. Users must move funds via Abstract's Migration Hub or Native Bridge, which has a three-hour delay, and any funds not bridged by the deadline will be lost. Igloo CEO Luca Netz said the company spent tens of millions over two years without achieving product-market fit.
Firmus, the Nvidia-backed Australian AI data center operator, has withdrawn its planned initial public offering, which would have raised about $5 billion and ranked as Australia's second-largest share sale ever. The company said market volatility and unfavorable offer terms led its board to scrap the listing, and it will instead seek funding through private markets while weighing other public or private options.
Firmus, an AI data centre operator backed by Nvidia, Blackstone and Jane Street, has abandoned plans for a stock market debut that would have valued it above $30bn, citing market volatility and investor interest. The company said it will instead seek funding through private markets while weighing other public and private options. The withdrawal follows UniSuper and other institutional investors declining to join the IPO over valuation concerns.
Microsoft told Family and Premium subscribers it will let up to five other people on a plan use Copilot and AI features, which were previously limited to the primary account holder. The company is also replacing per-feature AI limits with a single shared AI usage allowance, and converting the current 1TB-per-person OneDrive storage into a shared 2TB pool, effective after each subscriber's first renewal following May 2, 2027.
A developer published a reference guide detailing inconsistencies in keyboard key naming and modifier behavior between Windows and Mac systems. The post covers differences like Backspace/Delete naming conventions, Enter versus Return functionality, and the extra Control modifier key available on Mac keyboards compared to Windows.
Physicists have demonstrated initial operation of nuclear clocks based on a thorium-229 isotope transition, moving the concept from theory toward a working timekeeping device. These prototypes use a nuclear transition rather than the electron transitions employed by today's atomic clocks.
In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, mathematics professor Álvaro Lozano-Robledo responds to a distressed undergraduate who questioned whether a career in math academia is still viable given rapid progress in large language models. The student, who described feeling at a loss about career trajectory and even the meaning of life, asked whether academia would remain open to passionate but not exceptionally gifted students. Lozano-Robledo frames his post as advice to reassure students making near-term decisions about their futures.
Counterpoint Research forecasts that OLED notebook display shipments will rise 50% in 2026, partly driven by Apple's expected shift to OLED in next-generation MacBook Pro models. The firm projects advanced notebook displays overall will grow 11% even as the broader notebook display market shrinks 3%, with OLED's share of the advanced segment rising from 56% to 75% as MiniLED declines.
Peter Thiel reportedly gave a series of talks in Nashville arguing that calls for AI regulation echo the kind of centralized control associated with the biblical Antichrist. The lectures reportedly frame advocates of AI oversight as enabling this threat, according to the report.
Apple has pushed a new carrier settings update, version 72.0.3, to iPhone 18 Pro Max users running the iOS 27.2 beta on AT&T, following last week's fix for devices on the stable iOS 27.0 release. The update addresses the same issue in which some users lost cellular service entirely, with affected phones showing an 'SOS' status indicator.
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