Science & Technology — November 3, 2026

Publishers sue Brave over content scraping. The New York Times and other outlets allege the web browser scraped copyrighted articles and distributed them to customers including AI companies Anthropic and Perplexity.

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Google dismantles 1.3 million-device botnet. A manufacturing partner secretly built backdoors into 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes, Google says; the company shut down the botnet and cut ties with the partner.

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China targets crewed moon landing before 2030. The country released a public timeline for a lunar landing within three years, intensifying the space race with NASA’s Artemis program.

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Bird flu kills third person since livestock spillover. A Washington state resident died after exposure to infected cattle — the first U.S. bird flu death in a year; officials say the public risk remains low.

According to Ars Technica, the fatality reflects an ongoing pattern rather than an isolated event: the virus continues to circulate among livestock herds and occasionally crosses over to humans, typically those with direct animal contact. Health officials have maintained their assessment that the danger to the general population is limited, though the recurring human infections tied to agricultural exposure underscore why authorities continue monitoring the outbreak in cattle.

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