US' El Capitan Is Now the World's Fastest Supercomputer. The supercomputer, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieves 1.742 exaFLOPs. China's machines could be even faster, but it's not sharing details publicly. pcmag.com/news/us-el-cap…

ECB warns of 'bubble' in AI stocks as funds deplete cash buffers. The warning came as part of the ECB's twice-yearly Financial Stability Review, a laundry list of risks ranging from wars and tariffs to cracks in the plumbing of the banking system. reuters.com/world/europe/e…

Luxury Sales Are Slowing Around the World. Japan is still the land of rising fortunes for luxury-goods companies, even as trendsetters elsewhere have pulled back on purchases of expensive designer goods. on.barrons.com/3Voi5un

European stock markets hit a three-month low, driven by a broad-based selloff following Ukraine's unprecedented strike on a Russian military base using US-made long-range missiles. Russia's subsequent threat to lower the threshold for nuclear weapon use. euronews.com/business/2024/…

Justice Department Will Request Judge Order Google To Sell Chrome In Antitrust Case. The department will recommend federal judge Amit Mehta, who issued the search monopoly ruling in August, force Google to sell off Chrome—one of Google’s. trib.al/jI57uP6

Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the "Elden Ring" game, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the technology giant looks to add to its entertainment portfolio. Sony already has a 2% stake in Kadokawa. cnbc.com/2024/11/19/son…

Two telecoms cables in Baltic Sea severed, raising suspicions of sabotage. Outages include 1,200km link between Germany and Finland and 218km cable between Lithuania and Sweden. The episode recalled other incidents in the same waterway. theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Pollution in Delhi hits record high, cloaking city in ‘hazardous’ smog. Indian capital imposes emergency measures including closing of schools and offices and barring heavy vehicles. theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

How a viral, duct-taped banana came to be worth $1 million. The work entitled “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. It first debuted in 2019 as an edition of three fruits at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, where it became a discussed sensation. apnews.com/article/banana…

Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection, it said on Monday, after the pioneer of no-frills travel in the U.S. struggled with a long run of quarterly losses, failed merger attempts and looming debt maturities. reuters.com/business/aeros…

Google removes EU-based news content from search feeds as part of 'time-limited test. Google has begun a "small, time-limited test" in eight countries to determine the impact of removing European Union-based news publishers from a user's search results. euronews.com/next/2024/11/1…

Russia’s Gazprom stops the flow of natural gas to Austria. The official cutoff of supplies before dawn Saturday came after Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer held a hastily called news conference to emphasize his country has a secure supply of alternative. apnews.com/article/austri…

At least 10 people died and others were injured in a blaze at a nursing home near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain, before firefighters managed to extinguish the flames. The alarm was raised just before 5 a.m. on Friday in Villafranca de Ebro. apnews.com/article/spain-…

Italian regulator drops Ryanair case after $1.6 million customer refund pledge. Italy's antitrust authority (AGCM) said it had dropped a case against Ryanair after the low-cost airline committed to refund more than 1.5 million euros to customers marketscreener.com/quote/stock/RY…

Computer chip equipment maker ASML facing the threat of more U.S.-led curbs on trade with China, is upbeat on sales growth over the next five years as a boom in AI fuels strong demand for the company's most advanced tools. CEO Christophe Fouque reuters.com/technology/asm…

Paris prosecutors requested a 2-year prison sentence for far-right leader Marine Le Pen and an additional 5-year period of ineligibility to run for office, in a trial over the suspected embezzlement of European Parliament funds where her ability to independent.co.uk/news/ap-marine…

Bluesky has added 1 million users since the US election as people seek alternatives to X. The social network said it had signed up 1m additional users in the seven days since the election. It is on the cusp of hitting 15m users. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

COSCO Group is set to expand its carrying capacity by 20%, a move echoed by several competitors. A remote fishing town on the edge of Peru’s coastal desert is the site for a $1.3 billion megaport majority-owned by the Chinese shipping giant Cosco. abcnews.go.com/International/…

Indian Cola Tycoon Ravi Jaipuria’s Varun Beverages Expands Pepsi Franchise In Africa. The India-listed company will acquire SBC Tanzania for $154.5 million and SBC Beverages Ghana for $15.1 million, Varun Beverages said in a statement on Tuesday. trib.al/JJAoasJ

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X. We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles. We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives. theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…