- Source: French authorities fully lifted the travel ban on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and removed a requirement for regular police check-ins as of November 10 (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg)
- Europol, Eurojust, and others dismantle 1K+ servers linked to Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet, as part of the ongoing Operation Endgame (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- A look at Indian messaging app Arattai, which officials are backing as a domestic WhatsApp alternative; Arattai maker Zoho says it had 350K sign-ups in October (Financial Times)
- At a Moscow demo, anthropomorphic robot AIDOL, one of the first in Russia, face-planted; organizers dragged the machine away and covered it with a black drape (Neil Vigdor/New York Times)
- UK-based BNPL startup Zilch raised $176.7M in equity and debt led by KKCG at the same $2B valuation as its 2022 funding, after raising $127M in 2024 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
- AI coding startup Cursor raised $2.3B co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B valuation, after raising a $900M Series C at a $9.9B valuation in June (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
- Leaker Evan Blass offers details on Samsung's upcoming trifold phone: named "Galaxy Z TriFold", 6.5" cover display and 10" total display, and 200MP main camera (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
- SMIC reports Q3 revenue up 9.7% YoY to $2.38B, above $2.35B est., and net profit up 29% YoY to $191.8M, above $161.2M est., as analog chip demand rises (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
- European carmaker officials warn the industry faces "devastating" chip shortages after the Netherlands' Nexperia takeover and is scrambling to find alternatives (Financial Times)
- A Chinese-born businessman who the US and China say ran one of SE Asia's largest scam compounds was extradited to China, three years after his Thailand arrest (Francesca Regalado/New York Times)
- Sources: Tencent and Apple agree to a deal to let Apple handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, after a year of talks (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
- Philadelphia-based grocery delivery company Gopuff raised $250M led by Eldridge Industries and Valor Equity at an $8.5B valuation, down from $15B in 2021 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
- The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google over allegedly demoting news outlets with promotional content; Google says this is part of its anti-spam efforts (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
- JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $42.1B, above ~$41.4B est., and net income down 55% YoY to ~$745M, as it competes in meal delivery and fast-commerce (Bloomberg)
- Valve says it has stopped production of its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, which it's "no longer manufacturing", after unveiling the Steam Frame (Jay Peters/The Verge)