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Patero Inc. and Horizen Labs announced a partnership to assist organizations in navigating post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) migration. Horizen Labs will conduct advisory engagements, translating technical assessments into prioritized roadmaps that identify which cryptographic assets to upgrade first. Patero’s PanoQoR platform will create detailed cryptographic inventories and expose visibility gaps, while its CryptoQoR tool can be piloted on specific network connections—such as remote admin paths or inter‑site links—to validate PQC protection before broader rollout. The collaboration leverages Horizen’s [...]

Nvidia’s board announced it will convene as early as today to decide the fate of co‑founder and chief executive Jensen Huang following an independent probe into his personal conduct. The investigation was launched after The New York Times reported Huang’s extramarital relationship with Alice Huang, identified by U.S. officials as a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, and later revealed a second affair with a subordinate executive. Nvidia’s statement emphasized national and economic security, noting no evidence of classified [...]

CD Projekt Red received the Golden Joystick Award for Most Wanted Game for The Witcher 4, edging out titles such as Fable and Resident Evil Veronica. Production director Małgorzata Mitręga accepted the trophy moments before Resident Evil Requiem was announced as the ceremony’s top winner, admitting the honor brings a “great responsibility” to meet fan expectations. The developer highlighted the award as a morale boost for team working on sequel and upcoming 2027 DLC Songs of the Past. CDPR also [...]

The new Volkswagen ID. Polo has captured three major awards within weeks of its launch. On November 11, 2026 it received the Golden Steering Wheel 2026 in the Best Car under €25,000 category from AUTO BILD and BILD am SONNTAG. The model was previously named German Car of the Year 2027, winning both the budget‑car class and the overall title after an independent jury of 47 journalists evaluated it. It also secured the Autonis design award for small cars in the 2026 readers’ poll. [...]

Bethesda Game Studios confirmed on Reddit that no new information about The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel will be released “for some time,” dampening fan hopes sparked by the game’s recent naming. The statement came on Skyrim’s 15th‑anniversary, when the studio also highlighted discounts on the original title and free content updates for The Elder Scrolls Online, including the Greymoor Chapter and a limited‑time Golden Pursuit campaign ending 2 December. Fans have been waiting since Skyrim’s 2011 launch, the 2018 [...]

Google has begun rolling out a new Google Home update that addresses several long‑standing issues and adds new features across its smart‑home ecosystem. The update fixes the “Live View” problem that prevented some Nest Cam devices, including Nest Hello doorbells, from streaming video, and allows users to remove offline, unmigrated cameras from the Home app. On Nest Hub smart displays, visual answers now include relevant images when helpful, enhancing on‑screen information. Early‑access Gemini users receive faster timers, [...]

Q-CTRL has upgraded its Fire Opal platform with three major features: native hard‑constraint support for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), zero‑overhead Pauli twirling for expectation‑value estimation, and a Monte Carlo integration module aimed at quantitative‑finance workloads. The hard‑constraint capability embeds Hamming‑weight‑1 limits directly into the solver, eliminating soft‑penalty terms that waste circuit depth and ensuring that QAOA searches only feasible states. The update is demonstrated on a 120‑qubit train‑station routing problem, a 156‑qubit higher‑order binary optimization spin‑glass, and [...]

Microsoft announced that the Windows 11 Photos app will integrate Adobe‑powered AI tools, adding features such as border‑less expansion, rotation without cropping, object replacement by text prompt, and content erasing. The update, previewing to Windows Insiders in December, also lets users send images to Adobe Express for template‑based design, marked with a “Powered by Adobe” label. This follows a recent overhaul of Photos that improved speed, added HDR, HEIC and WebP editing, and removed cluttered toolbar buttons. The [...]