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Tesla is taking Cybercab orders from some personal buyers
The driverless two-seater costs $29,990, plus a mandatory $299 monthly subscription. It only works in designated Robotaxi areas, and the first buyers must take delivery in select Texas cities.
Tesla estimates deliveries in December, though regulators are still reviewing whether the car is street-legal.
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A router overload led to Friday's nationwide flight grounding
The problem began during a contractor's fiber upgrade at a remote FAA site, where a router flooded the network with connection attempts.
The agency disabled the affected locations, but cancellations continued Saturday after Friday's ground stop ended. Investigators are still checking whether equipment or installation was to blame.
Italy fines Meta €805 million over Facebook photo suggestions
Italy's privacy regulator says about 20 million Android users were affected by a feature that suggested phone photos and videos as posts.
Facebook must switch it off by default and seek separate consent, because its existing gallery-access notice didn't clearly explain that use.
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Elon Musk joins calls to bring Jensen Huang back to Nvidia
Musk, Replit CEO Amjad Masad and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney are among the people who signed a petition asking Nvidia's board to reinstate Huang.
It had more than 115,000 signatures by Saturday afternoon, including nearly 6,000 current employees. The petition also calls for an independent investigation.
Two Nvidia investors want the board to consider Huang's return
Altimeter Capital and Atreides Management asked for a deliberate leadership review after Huang's November 12 resignation.
They didn't demand his immediate reinstatement, saying interim CEO Colette Kress can lead while the board establishes the facts.
Samsung is in talks to buy data center cooling company Modine
Bloomberg reports that the companies are discussing a deal that could come together within weeks, though talks could still fall apart.
Modine's data center sales nearly doubled in its latest quarter as big North American customers spent more on AI infrastructure.
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Starship's booster exploded before its planned catch
After Friday's launch, the booster developed a problem on its descent and was diverted toward the Gulf of Mexico, where it exploded before reaching the water. The upper stage reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink satellites.
SpaceX had scheduled its first upper-stage catch attempt for Saturday.
The FAA still doesn't know what caused its network disruption
Officials grounded flights nationwide on November 13 because they couldn't explain instability in the FAA's network and feared a sensor might lose contact with aircraft, administrator Bryan Bedford said.
The disruption involved routers and networking equipment, but the agency hadn't established a definitive cause by Saturday afternoon.
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Singapore charges an executive over Nvidia server purchases
Prosecutors say companies led by Shi Bingzhe bought 917 servers containing restricted Nvidia hardware and had reason to believe the equipment was linked to criminal activity.
Malaysia is separately checking a Megaspeed subsidiary's shipments, but says it has found no evidence that the equipment left the country.
