Thursday, November 12
Daily News Stuff 12 November 2026
Futhark Edition
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Futhark Edition
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- Softbank has totally not defaulted on an order for 13 gigawatts of gas turbine generators as Elon Musk claimed. (Tom's Hardware)
Did it cancel the order? Yes.
Did it lose $3.7 billion in the process? Also yes.
- Elon Musk meanwhile wants to build a $24 billion data center in Starbase, Texas, with 10 gigawatts of gas turbine power plants. (Tom's Hardware)
The article does note that he's likely to face resistance from the incoming Khmer Bleu state administration.
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- Meanwhile in Georgia the citizens of Effingham County have filed a RICO suit against their own country commissioners and OpenAI. (Tom's Hardware)
Georgia's RICO laws apparently allow anyone to sue anyone for anything.
- There's a critical vulnerability in Apache, which runs something like... Oh. Only 21% of public-facing websites these days. (Apache)
So about six trillion.
There's more, but it's now commonly behind proxies or services like Cloudflare that mitigate attacks of various kinds.
In this case the bug is restricted to HTTP/2, so if you remove the entries for h2 and h2c from your configuration file so that it falls back to HTTP/1 you're safe and you shouldn't notice any difference. It will be a little slower, but if you're not Google you won't care.
- There's a new AWS emulator out from... Oh. There's a new AWS emulator out from AWS. (GitHub)
We heard you liked AWS so we put AWS in your AWS so you can AWS while you AWS.
- Cloud platform N-able - of which I have never heard until this moment - currently isn't. (Bleeping Computer)
Someone found and published 30 "zero-day" vulnerabilities all at once so they locked and bolted the door. And the windows, floor, ceiling, air ducts, and everything else, while they scrambled to fix them.
Apparently all fixed now.
Just in time for Apache to rain on their picnic.
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Khmer Blue. Clever. Gonna remember that one.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 12 2026 11:57 PM (zbGh0)
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RICO is a federal law that allows people to file pro se lawsuits. But US politics does have actual rackeetering, and actual corrupt organizations.
I would be surprised if zero OpenAI/Anthropic build proposals involved corrupt real estate transactions with corrupt local governments, and I would be surprised if zero ChiCom assets filed bullshit lawsuits in US courts.
I would be surprised if zero OpenAI/Anthropic build proposals involved corrupt real estate transactions with corrupt local governments, and I would be surprised if zero ChiCom assets filed bullshit lawsuits in US courts.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, November 13 2026 12:26 AM (6eVrQ)
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