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AWS Emulator header from Amazon: coloured puzzle pieces and the words How we built the agents that built AWS Emulator

Apps & Software · 4 min read

AWS Emulator puts a free copy of AWS on your computer, and AWS says AI agents wrote every line

AWS Emulator is a free, open-source copy of AWS that runs on your own computer. AWS says AI agents wrote all of its code and no person reviewed it.

Video of the day

AlphaGenome 2 predicts what a DNA change does inside one type of cell, but it is for research only

Official video, played from YouTube. Read our story

AI

Google's header image for the Gemini Decisions API announcement

Google's Gemini Decisions API gives fast yes-or-no AI answers, each with a score for how sure it is

The words Gemini 4 Carbon beside a glowing glass-like crystal on a deep blue background

Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to paying developers and AI Ultra users, with a price rise due 1 December

Photo prints of Airbnb stays: a wooden treehouse in autumn woods and a cabin among orange trees

Airbnb is building its own AI travel agent, and says a chatbot is the wrong way to plan a trip

Big Tech & Business

Nvidia's board opens an independent investigation around CEO Jensen Huang, as shares fall and a lawsuit lands

Poster in Nvidia colours about Nvidia H200 chips sold to China, with the words 'Approved buyer? Empty office'

US cleared Chinese firms to handle Nvidia's H200 chips; some had empty offices, the Times reports

Binance CFO Kaiser Ng leaves nine days after the US$6.3bn hack; Justin Yek takes over

Science & Breakthroughs

Artist's illustration of starlight being filtered through a digital twin of a telescope to reveal 51 Eridani b

51 Eridani b isn't a new planet, but the software that found it in old Webb data could find new ones

Artist's impression of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touching down on the small grey asteroid 1998 KY26

Hayabusa2's next asteroid, 1998 KY26, is too warm to hide ice, a new study finds

Artist's concept of NASA's six-wheeled PROMISE rover drilling on the Moon's surface at night

NASA Moon Base: eight companies can bid for up to $10bn of lander work, and a rover reuses Mars parts

Phones & Gadgets

The Ring Drone Cam, a small black flying camera with caged propellers, hovering above its white Ring dock against a wall

Ring's $249.99 Drone Cam will fly through your home to check on it, if US regulators approve it

Google Pixel Tag in a pale green holder on a keyring with two brass keys, resting in a terracotta tray on a wooden desk

Google's first tracker, Pixel Tag, goes on sale 11 November for $29.99, for Android phones only

Five Googlebook laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo on a black background under the Googlebook name

Googlebook's first big update brings 31 fixes, from Zoom crashes to reboot loops

Apps & Software

Patch Tuesday November 2026: Microsoft fixes over 1,000 flaws and an Outlook bug used in attacks

Apple TV sign language feature: Being Heumann on a TV with an interpreter in the lower-right corner, beside an Apple TV box

Apple TV adds sign language interpreters you can switch on, starting with Being Heumann on 13 November

Poster in blue with the name Iris Ohyama and the words "Shopped at Iris Plaza? Check now", on the Iris Ohyama data breach

Iris Ohyama data breach: details of up to 7.7 million Iris Plaza shoppers may have leaked

Launches

SpaceX will try to catch both halves of Starship on Flight 15, as soon as Friday

GTA 6 leads Jason and Lucia escaping on a dirt bike as a police car and helicopter chase them through Vice City

GTA 6 launch trailer lands: Grand Theft Auto VI arrives 19 November on PS5 and Xbox, with no PC date

The new white Tesla Roadster with both doors open and a large rear wing, in a dark studio

Tesla's new Roadster flew in a Texas demo, but buyers still have no price or delivery date

Gaming

A Horde village in WoW: Forever with spiked wooden fences and red banners under green mountains

WoW: Forever is the biggest World of Warcraft launch ever, Blizzard says, but it shares no player count

Collage of classic EA game box covers, including Wing Commander, Road Rash and Ultima, floating on a starry dark background

EA puts 25 classic games on Steam, with Wing Commander restored from a rediscovered tape vault

Nintendo Switch 2 sales pass 26 million, but slow down as memory costs bite

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