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• OpenAI Bugging Suspect Was Courted by Saudi Royal, Feds Say

  Court filings show the engineer accused of placing a listening device in an OpenAI boardroom was communicating with a Saudi royal days before his arrest.

• Arm's AGI CPU Claims 1.99x AMD Rack Performance, With a Catch

  Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly twice AMD's rack-level performance in agentic AI workloads. The catch: much of the advantage comes from power modelling, not shipped silicon.

• Ukrainian FPV Drone Sim Hits Steam 1.0 With Real Jamming

  Remote Reaper: FPV Combat Drone Simulator has left Early Access on Steam. Built in Ukraine with military pilots, it models jamming, weak armor and custom 7- and 10-inch drones.

• FF7 Revelation Demo Makes Sephiroth the Twist's Interrogator

  A hands-on look at the Final Fantasy VII Revelation demo, where Sephiroth weaponizes Cloud's identity crisis in the first hour instead of the last.

• UCLA's $400 PhoneBot Uses a $50 Android Phone as Its Brain

  UCLA researchers built PhoneBot, a $400 open-source humanoid that offloads vision, sensing and walking control to a cheap Android phone. An old Honor 9 works fine.

• Intel's 480GB D-Series GPU Beats Nvidia on Memory, Not Speed

  Intel's new D-series GPU carries 480GB of LPDDR5X, the memory in your laptop, and outguns Nvidia's 288GB Blackwell Ultra B300 on capacity. The catch: no price or launch date yet.

• Apple's $250M Siri Settlement Opens Claims, $95 Payouts Possible

  Apple's $250 million Siri false-advertising settlement is taking claims until Dec. 21. Eligible iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 buyers could get $25–$95 per device.

• EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra X Ran a Home for 8 Hours on 81%

  CNET's reviewer killed his own breaker to test EcoFlow's Delta Pro Ultra X. The system kept the house running for nearly eight hours on 81% battery, at $10,999 before installation.

• Fake WatchGuard VPN Site Stole Admin Logins, Then Served the Real App

  A lookalike WatchGuard download page collected VPN server addresses, usernames and passwords, then handed over the real signed installer so nothing looked wrong.

• GTA 6 Sells Out PS5 Pro a Month Before Launch

  GTA 6 isn't out until November 19, but the PS5 Pro is already sold out at major US retailers as buyers chase the best version of Rockstar's sequel.

• Power To The Players Act: You'd Own Games, Not Licenses

  A new US bill would make buying a game mean owning it, force offline modes before server shutdowns, and rewrite the fine print behind every Steam and console purchase.

• Lenovo Yoga Pro 7i Aura Edition: RTX 5060 Power at $2,600

  Lenovo's 15-inch Yoga Pro 7i Aura Edition pairs an RTX 5060 with 15 hours of battery life for $2,600. It's a capable creative machine, but the price tag demands scrutiny.