3 November 2026

Apple CEO John Ternus signals further expansion of Siri AI

Apple CEO John Ternus has signaled that Siri AI will keep growing. He spoke about it on November 2 on a call with analysts following the company's quarterly results. Today Siri mainly carries out requests, but, as he noted, it is built so that more capabilities can be added over time. He called AI agents a promising tool and stressed that Apple wants to introduce them in a way that safeguards users' security and privacy.

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Hackers defrost freezers in supermarkets in Belgium and Sweden

Hackers took control of supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden and raised their temperature to 50°C (122°F), Tom's Hardware reports, citing Bloomberg. In Belgium, the attack began overnight from November 1 to 2 and hit the Delhaize, Carrefour and Spar chains; in Sweden, ICA and Coop were affected, and stores had to throw out goods. The hackers remotely switched on defrost mode, just as in France a few weeks earlier. There are also reports of stores hit in Ireland, Estonia and the Netherlands.

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xAI powers Mississippi data center with eight turbines made from jet engines

Elon Musk's xAI is powering a data center in Mississippi with eight turbines converted from jet engines, Tom's Hardware reports, citing The New York Times. Each can produce up to 50 megawatts. State authorities issued permits for them, but the environmental group Southern Environmental Law Center has challenged those permits. It accuses the company of undercounting projected emissions and failing to guarantee that the turbines will meet emissions standards, including those for formaldehyde.

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OpenAI is calling its data centers “compute campuses”

OpenAI now writes about “compute campuses” instead of data centers, The Verge has noticed. The new term appeared on November 2 in an announcement of the Grid Protectors Program, in which the company promises to cover the costs its facilities create for local power grids. In the entire announcement, which runs about 900 words, “data center” appears only twice. OpenAI did not respond to the outlet's question about the reason for the change.

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