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Justine Calma / The Verge : How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into “America's Semiconductor HQ”, attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years   —  Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images … Arizona's economy was once dominated by the “five C's”: cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate.

Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech : While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech   —  The artificial intelligence revolution will be only three years old at the end of November.  Think about that for a moment.

Having covered Ukraine … and Russia … for over three decades, especially the war between the two countries for the last several years, I’ve naturally been fascinated by the latest Trump administration effort to broker peace. The reaction I’ve been getting from contacts in Ukraine to the 28-point plan to end the war is not all that positive.   "It’s not worth the paper it’s written on," said one observer. "Any deal would have to include Ukraine…and Europe," noted another.  The overall consensus of analysts is that the document is slanted heavily towards Moscow. The man at the center of things, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has been diplomatic in various statements, basically saying he’s "reviewing the points" aiming at arriving at a "dignified peace." US AND RUSSIA DRAFT PEACE PLAN FOR UKRAINE REQUIRING MAJOR CONCESSIONS FROM KYIV There are all sorts of talks happening now between the U.S. and Ukraine and among European leaders....

President Donald Trump said the Democratic senators’ viral video urging service members to "refuse illegal orders" should be "punishable by death," intensifying outrage across the political spectrum — and confusion about what that advice could actually mean under federal law. While the lawmakers behind the video — led by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and joined by Sens. Mark Kelly , D-Ariz., and several Democratic House veterans and intelligence officers — framed the appeal as a defense of the Constitution, military legal codes make clear that refusing orders, even ones a service member personally believes are unlawful, can carry devastating penalties.  "You can’t expect a sailor to overrule Washington lawyers," Rachel VanLandingham, a retired Air Force JAG and professor at Southwestern Law School, told Fox News Digital. "That’s why it’s unfair to put the burden on the military instead of on policymakers." Under the Uniform Code of Military J...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached   —  American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds' Florida gubernatorial campaign plans to deploy a truck outside of former Vice President Kamala Harris' book tour stop in Miami on Thursday.  The truck will roll a video that delivers the message, "Kamala Harris and radical Florida Democrats are for they/them. Byron Donalds is for you," Fox News Digital has learned.  Without naming them, the video also targets two Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls, showing a graphic that includes rainbow pride flags and images of Harris, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and former U.S. Rep. David Jolly, a former House member who served in Congress as a Republican but who is running for governor as a Democrat. Harris , who lost the 2024 presidential election, authored a book about her whirlwind campaign titled "107 Days."  HARRIS ONCE BOASTED OF ‘BEHIND THE SCENES’ WORK TO GET ‘EVERY’ TRANS INMATE ACCESS TO GENDER SURGERIES Her event in Miami is scheduled to take place on Thursday night. ...

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg : Source: Twenty, which uses AI to help hackers for the US military penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $38M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital   —  Twenty's technology helps military hackers find ways to penetrate targets.  —  Last fall, a group of former military hackers …

An arm of 15-time NASCAR Cup Series championship team Hendrick Motorsports (HMS) recently signed a contract with ICE that included the purchase of more than two dozen Chevrolet vehicles , according to multiple reports Wednesday. Hendrick Motorsports Technical Solutions , the advanced manufacturing arm of one of auto racing’s most popular teams, underwent a refresh earlier this year and opened a 160,000-square-foot facility as a standalone business entity on the main Hendrick Motorsports campus in Concord, North Carolina – just over the Cabarrus County line from Charlotte. The $1.5 million contract signed in October called Hendrick Motorsports "uniquely positioned to fulfill this requirement within the necessary timeframe, having confirmed immediate availability of vehicles that fully meet ICE’s specifications." ICE originally authorized $2.25 million for the agreement, but the agency and motorsports company settled at a more conservative $1.5 million figure. RAM PARTNERS ...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune : Doppel, which makes an AI social engineering detection service, raised a $70M Series C led by Bessemer at a $600M+ valuation, up from $205M in May   —  Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet  —  I tried to fool my brother, sort of.  —  Next to him and his Pekingese on the couch …

Pranav Dixit / Business Insider : Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI   —  - Internal documents show how Meta's new Vibes AI video feed is performing across its biggest markets.

Senate Democrats are requesting an investigation into what they say is "partisan messaging" that the Trump administration used on official government websites during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.  Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Adam Schiff of California and others are urging the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) to launch a probe into whether the Trump administration crossed a line and broke federal laws due to messages posted on official government websites that pinned the blame on Democrats for the shutdown.  "Some agencies’ announcements appeared to include nothing more than partisan messaging and lacked a connection to official business," lawmakers wrote in a letter, sent to GAO Nov. 9.  Specifically, the lawmakers pointed to messaging posted on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website, which stated on its website during the shutdown: "The Radical Left are going to shut down the governm...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Ford and Amazon partner to let people purchase certified pre-owned Ford vehicles via Amazon Autos, initially available in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas   —  Ford is the second brand, after Hyundai, to list its vehicles on Amazon's new car buying site.

Eric Holthaus / The Guardian : Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain   —  ‘Less expensive and time consuming’ model helps with fast and accurate predictions, possibly saving lives and property

U.S. forces carried out a lethal strike Saturday on a narcotics vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization in the Eastern Pacific, killing three suspected narco-terrorists in international waters, according to U.S. Southern Command. The strike brings the total number of suspected narco-terrorists killed to 82, with three survivors, in an ongoing U.S. campaign targeting drug-smuggling vessels tied to designated terrorist groups. In a post on X, U.S. Southern Command said intelligence confirmed the vessel hit in Thursday’s strike was smuggling narcotics along a known trafficking route. The command described the strike as a "lethal kinetic operation" conducted in international waters as part of a broader effort to disrupt transnational criminal networks. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced the official launch of Operation Southern Spear, a new mission targeting narco-terror networks across Latin America. US MILITARY KILLS 2 SUSPECTED NARCO-TERRO...

Nikkei Asia : Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms   —  TOKYO — Artificial intelligence company Sakana AI has completed a funding round that pushed its value to approximately 400 billion yen …

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal : A look at Flighty, a flight-tracking app that often beats airline updates; downloads went up 3x when the FAA cut air traffic during the US government shutdown   —  There's a product that makes flying less miserable—and it has never been so valuable  —  It all goes back to an airport Chili's.