Briefs

Afternoon briefs

Short items from today's intake that did not lead a full story, each with its source. Nothing here is a stitched article — every item stands on its own outlet.

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ai

Security risk assessments include repository protection status — GitHub — Changelog

BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter, topping 300,000 — Hacker News — Front Page

Import AI 479: Spacewar; low-latency tasks versus LLMs; Genie 4 — Import AI — Newsletter (Jack Clark)

Introducing the Grid Protectors Program — OpenAI — News

Nightly build v0.10.3-beta.10 — Prime Agent — Releases (watched repo)

pull_request_target blocked by default December 2 — GitHub — Changelog

Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now Steam can't be replaced — Hacker News — Front Page

Anthropic reveals $900B AI spending commitments ahead of IPO — Hacker News — Front Page

us-politics

EN DIRECT, midterms 2026 : « L’Iran veut un accord aussi rapidement que possible », assure Donald Trump — Le Monde

Cómo le está yendo realmente a la economía de EE.UU. bajo la presidencia de Trump — BBC Mundo

Mamdani’s progressive allies vie for seats in Congress — Al Jazeera English

"Cerró la frontera, pero vivimos peor": el descontento de los votantes latinos que le dieron a Trump un histórico apoyo en el sur de Texas — BBC Mundo

Trump to remove Rwanda and South Africa from US trade deal — BBC News — World

world

At least 4 dead and 16 injured following explosion at Cameroon steel plant — Africanews

Student protests resume in France as pupils return to school — Al Jazeera English

Full story: Nine dead in Florida private plane crash, co-pilot was 20

US midterms campaign 'shattering' spending records to be most expensive ever — BBC News — World

British adventurer returns home after 28-year journey around the world — Euronews

An Oxford professor to sit as the UK's chosen judge in the Falklands dispute in Hamburg — MercoPress

Ethics drive Wardah to pinnacle of Southeast Asia's beauty brands — Nikkei Asia

How Xi, Communist Party elders shaped key plenum document addressing wrongdoing — South China Morning Post