Nvidia board weighed ousting Jensen Huang; open model turned Firefox patches into $1,000 attacks
LeviTurk · x · 2026-11-12
Issue 6 of The Daily Pill covers two stories:
- Nvidia board drama: Nvidia's board reportedly met to decide whether to remove CEO Jensen Huang, as Washington revives the chip export rules he long fought.
- Open models as attack tools: A free open model converted Firefox's publicly disclosed fixes into working exploits at roughly $1,000 per attack, showing open-weight models being used to weaponize public patch intelligence on the cheap.
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