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Internet Chaos

SignDrop turns a Windows security feature into a path to SYSTEM access ↗

A public proof of concept abuses Windows log authentication to escalate privileges. An independent team reports a successful but unreliable test; local access and specific conditions are required, and Microsoft has not confirmed the flaw.

Holy Shit Tech

A cosmic lighthouse that flashes every 7.9 minutes: astronomers find a white dwarf beaming radio pulses while orbiting a Sun-like star ↗

A team at Curtin University's node of ICRAR in Australia reports in Nature Astronomy a radio source, GPM J071507−114153: a white dwarf that pulses roughly every 7.9 minutes while orbiting a Sun-like G-type star about every 1.3 days. It is the first time such radio pulses have been traced to a white dwarf with a Sun-like partner, adding a new clue to the puzzle of long-period radio transients.

Big Moves

SMIC says AI demand will make chip-foundry capacity "very tight" in 2027 as full-year revenue tops $12 billion ↗

On its third-quarter 2026 earnings call, Chinese chipmaker SMIC said AI computing demand is outstripping supply and that the industry expects foundry capacity to be very tight in 2027, possibly into the second half of 2028. SMIC expects full-year revenue above $12 billion, up nearly 30%. Third-quarter revenue rose 28.1% year over year to 21.98 billion yuan, while demand for phones and low-end consumer electronics stayed weak.

Holy Shit Tech

China's TCL CSOT says inkjet-printed OLED screens are now in mass production, with a 29.5 billion yuan factory set to light up in May ↗

At its DTC 2026 conference on Nov. 13, TCL CSOT CEO Zhao Jun said gaming monitors with inkjet-printed OLED screens reached mass-production shipments this year after 13 years of R&D. The company's 29.5 billion yuan t8 printed-OLED plant in Guangzhou has topped out and is scheduled to light its first panels next May and reach mass production in the fourth quarter of 2027.