💰 $600M Funding Frenzy & Microsoft Patches 63 CVEs Including 3 Zero-Days

$600M+ AI Infrastructure & Clean Energy Funding Surge

November 10 marks a funding frenzy day with over $600 million raised across multiple high-impact startups in AI infrastructure, clean energy, biotech, and enterprise software. This surge reflects continued investor confidence in infrastructure-heavy sectors despite broader market uncertainties.

• Majestic Labs - $100M Series A: Developing high-memory AI servers to shrink entire data centers into compact units, addressing massive power and space requirements of AI workloads
• Valar Atomics - $130M Series A: Scaling nuclear gigasite reactors for clean baseload power generation to support energy-hungry AI data centers
• Scribe - $75M Series C (Unicorn): Achieved unicorn status to scale its AI workflow optimization platform for enterprise automation
• Gamma - $68M Series B ($2.1B valuation): AI-powered visual storytelling platform for enterprise presentations and marketing
• Other Notable Rounds: Iambic Therapeutics ($100M Series B for AI drug discovery), CoLab ($72M Series C for engineering design), AirOps ($40M Series B), Fastbreak AI ($40M Series A for sports scheduling)

Read full funding roundup on TechStartups →

Microsoft November Patch Tuesday: 63 CVEs Including 3 Actively Exploited Zero-Days

Critical Security Update: Microsoft's November 2025 Patch Tuesday addresses 63 CVEs, including three zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild. Enterprise IT teams and developers should prioritize immediate patching to mitigate elevated privilege attacks affecting Windows systems from legacy versions through Server 2025.

VMware Zero-Day Alert: CISA flagged CVE-2025-41244 affecting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations, attributed to China-linked threat actor UNC5174. Federal agencies must apply mitigations by November 20, 2025.

View CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog →

Docker Engine v29: Containerd Image Store Now Default

Docker officially released Engine v29 on November 6, announcing on November 10 that a feedback survey will run through December 10, 2025. The headline change: containerd image store becomes the default for image layer and content management in new installations, marking a significant shift toward better Kubernetes interoperability.

• Containerd Default: Both execution and storage now use containerd, reducing internal complexity and bringing Docker Engine in sync with Kubernetes
• Existing Users Safe: Current installs not forced to migrate; legacy graph drivers remain available but deprecated. Docker Desktop users already on containerd throughout 2025
• Updates containerd to v2.1.5: Opt-in nftables support added as alternative to iptables for network rule creation
• API Module Path Change: Developers must update imports from github.com/docker/docker to github.com/moby/moby for future compatibility

Read Docker Engine v29 release notes →

DoD CMMC 2.0 Rollout Begins November 10

The U.S. Department of Defense officially launched the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 program on November 10, 2025, requiring all contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) to demonstrate cybersecurity compliance through third-party assessments.

• Three Certification Levels: Level 1 (Foundational), Level 2 (Advanced), Level 3 (Expert) - contractors must achieve level matching data sensitivity they handle
• NIST SP 800-171 Alignment: Framework mandates annual self-assessments or triennial third-party audits depending on certification level
• Contract Requirement: Companies bidding on DoD contracts must include CMMC certification status in proposals - non-compliance risks losing eligibility
• Massive Impact: Affects over 300,000 companies in DoD supply chain - creating urgent need for compliance assessments

Learn more about CMMC 2.0 requirements →

Netflix Engineering: Real-Time Distributed Graph at Internet Scale

Netflix Tech Blog published a deep dive into their Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG) system in October 2025, revealing how Netflix processes streaming data at internet scale to power personalized recommendations for over 260 million subscribers globally.

• Billions of Events Daily: RDG ingests user interactions, viewing patterns, and engagement metrics, building real-time relationships between users, content, actors, genres, and metadata
• Sub-Second Updates: Enables instant recommendation refresh as users browse - eliminating hours-long batch processing delays
• Motivation: Overcome batch processing limitations that delayed personalization updates by hours - now updates happen as users interact with content
• Developer Insights: Provides architectural patterns for stream processing at scale, graph database design, and low-latency data ingestion applicable to any high-traffic personalization system

Read full Netflix engineering deep dive on Real-Time Distributed Graph →

OpenAI Developing Consumer Health Tools with Medical AI Assistant

OpenAI is reportedly developing a suite of consumer health tools powered by its generative AI models, potentially including a personal health assistant capable of analyzing medical data, summarizing health records, and providing personalized wellness insights.

• Potential Capabilities: EHR integration, wearable device data analysis, symptom checking, medication interaction alerts, appointment scheduling, health trend tracking via ChatGPT-like interface
• Regulatory Hurdles: Must navigate FDA oversight, HIPAA compliance, medical device classifications, and clinical validation before public release
• Competitive Landscape: Joins Google (Med-PaLM), Microsoft (Azure Health Bot), Amazon (AWS HealthLake) in healthcare AI race
• Developer Impact: Watch for OpenAI API updates with potential health-specific endpoints for building healthcare applications

Market Snapshot: November 10, 2025