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Google TV Botnets, Musk Buyouts & $176B AI Agents | Tech Field Day News Rundown: November 4, 2026

What happens when your smart TV moonlights as a cybercrime proxy and Elon Musk tries to buy out an entire neighborhood to silence data center noise complaints?

This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tom Hollingsworth and guest host Ken Nalbone⁠ unpack the week’s biggest enterprise IT stories: Google’s infrastructure seizure targeting the XCPE botnet baked into Chinese Android TV hardware, SpaceXSI offering buyout deals to 418 homeowners near its turbine-powered Colossus GPU cluster, and Intel making waves with a…

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