Brussels, Belgium – European cybersecurity firm Paradigm Shift has publicly detailed a new hardware-level BootROM exploit, dubbed "Usbliter8," that compromises the SecureROM component in millions of Apple devices built on A12 and A13 Bionic chips. The flaw affects widely used products such as the iPhone XS, iPhone XR, the iPhone...
United States-based Aether AI, a frontier artificial intelligence startup founded by University of California San Diego Assistant Professor Biwei Huang, has raised a $20 million seed round to advance its development of "Causal World Models" for robotics and Physical AI. The financing was led by venture capital firm MPCi, with...
The United States government has ordered Anthropic to suspend worldwide access to its newly launched Fable 5 artificial intelligence model, following an emergency directive issued three days after the system’s public release. Officials acted on national security concerns after Amazon’s CEO warned that internal researchers had reportedly bypassed Fable 5’s...
United States – ChatGPT’s share of the overall AI market has dropped below 50% for the first time since its public launch, according to data released on June 21, 2026, marking a significant shift in the competitive landscape for consumer and enterprise AI tools. The platform still reports about 1.1...
United States-based security firm Paradigm Shift has disclosed a proof-of-concept exploit, dubbed “usbliter8,” that targets a critical SecureROM vulnerability in Apple’s A12 and A13 processors. The flaw resides in the read-only memory that is burned into the chip at the time of manufacture, meaning it cannot be altered or corrected...
The United States government has ordered AI company Anthropic to take its advanced Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline over concerns about automated hacking capabilities. The directive followed internal federal security reviews that found Fable 5, launched on June 9, 2026 as a defensive cybersecurity tool, could autonomously execute...
Google has confirmed it will fully remove Manifest V2 support from the Chromium codebase, ending functionality for many legacy ad-blocking extensions such as uBlock Origin. The change will take effect with Chrome 150, scheduled for release at the end of June 2026, concluding a multi-year transition to Manifest V3. Under...
San Francisco, United States – Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Jumper, a principal architect of Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold system, has left the company to join AI startup Anthropic, the firms confirmed on Saturday, June 20, 2026. Jumper, who spent nearly nine years at DeepMind, played a central role in building AlphaFold,...
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, California — SpaceX successfully launched the classified NROL-179 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office early Friday morning, adding another national security flight to its growing manifest. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the coastal California site at 4:50 a.m. EDT, carrying a secretive government...
Cupertino, California – Apple has issued an urgent firmware update for its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to fix a high-severity security vulnerability that could allow nearby attackers to eavesdrop on users. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-20701 and assigned a CVSS score of 8.8, stems from incorrect authorization in the...
