Voters Reject AI Data Centers, Google's Privacy Pivot, and DigiCert Exposed | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 11/09/2026. This week we are covering: DigiCert leaving customer passports exposed on the open internet, voters overwhelmingly rejecting AI data centers at the ballot box, Google donating agentic container infrastructure projects to the CNCF, and much more.

🔓 Certification Company DigiCert Certified Insecure

DigiCert accidentally left an internal archive system containing sensitive customer data, including photo IDs and passports, accessible on the public internet for nearly 16 months.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/06/digicert-admits-16-month-security-lapse-exposed-customer-information/5308097https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2084460

🗳️ Datacenters Have Been Weighed, Have Been Measured, And Been Found Wanting

Voters across 10 states rejected 40 out of 41 local ballot measures for new data centers, prompting OpenAI to suddenly pledge better community engagement and utility ratepayer protections.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/data-center-ballot-measures-2026-midterm.html

📦 gVisor Is Not a Horribly Outdated Clothing Line From Lids

Google officially donated three AI agent-focused infrastructure projects—gVisor, AgentSubstrate, and OpenRL—to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to encourage wider industry adoption.

https://thenewstack.io/gvisor-cncf-kubernetes-open-source/

🕵️ Company You Already Knew Was Terrible Proudly Continues To Get Worse

Google quietly updated its privacy policy to allow content from Drive, Gmail, and Photos to be used for personalized advertising if users share that data with other Google services like Google AI.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/updated-google-privacy-policy-says-your-gmail-might-be-used-for-advertising

🐙 GitHub is Crossing the Rubicon To Embrace Azure Blobs

To handle a massive surge in commits driven by AI coding agents, GitHub rolled out a new storage architecture called Rubicon that separates compute from storage and backs repositories with Azure Blob storage.

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/inside-githubs-new-git-storage-architecture/#what-comes-next

👖 AI Slop Is Coming For Christmas - Again - This Time In The Name Of $2,000 Jeans

Christian Dior is facing backlash from animators after claiming its new six-minute holiday commercial was hand-animated despite obvious visual evidence that it was generated using AI.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/advertising/sylvain-chomet-dior-christmas-ad-268960.html

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (02:02) - Certification Company DigiCert Certified Insecure
• (05:33) - Datacenters Have Been Weighed, Have Been Measured, And Been Found Wanting
• (10:17) - gVisor Is Not a Horribly Outdated Clothing Line From Lids
• (13:44) - Company You Already Knew Was Terrible Proudly Continues To Get Worse
• (17:00) - GitHub is Crossing the Rubicon To Embrace Azure Blobs
• (21:49) - AI Slop Is Coming For Christmas - Again - This Time In The Name Of $2,000 Jeans