Prosecutors in Keelung Taiwan indicted nine individuals including a senior Nvidia manager and two Super Micro sales executives for an illicit scheme to smuggle advanced artificial intelligence hardware to mainland China violating United States export controls. The indictment marks the first criminal prosecution of an active Nvidia employee for hardware...
Meta Platforms plans to release its consumer artificial intelligence agent platform, codenamed Hatch, within the coming weeks, followed by its new foundational model, Watermelon, in October. According to internal documents reviewed by media outlets, Hatch is adapted from the OpenClaw architecture to execute multi-step tasks across external services, including DoorDash,...
Investment giant Apollo Global Management disclosed that attackers utilized sophisticated social engineering tactics to compromise its cloud platform between July 6 and July 10, 2026. The unauthorized access exposed highly sensitive personal records, including full names, contact information, and social security numbers. Internal corporate investigations into the intrusion officially concluded...
The United States Department of the Treasury announced the creation of a Quantum Readiness task force to help government agencies and critical infrastructure transition to post-quantum security technologies. Established on August 25, 2026, the specialized working group addresses cryptographic vulnerabilities posed by future quantum computing capabilities. Current public-key cryptography standards...
Ukrainian military investigators reported that an autonomous Russian drone equipped with an Nvidia microcomputer struck a Zaporizhzhia gas facility, killing civilians. Forensic examination of the recovered wreckage revealed an onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module, which executed target selection without real-time human control. Investigators noted the absence of external communication...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were scheduled to meet Senator Mark Warner in Washington as Congress intensified scrutiny of artificial intelligence after an OpenAI security test led to an intrusion at Hugging Face. Warner, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, did not disclose the meeting agenda....
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive on August 24, 2026, ordering federal agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite within three days. Tracked as CVE-2026-73570, the critical flaw enables remote code execution and poses an immediate threat to government network security....
NASA has officially cleared the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for final launch preparations, targeting liftoff as early as August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. Officials from NASA, the Roman mission team, and SpaceX concluded a successful Flight Readiness Review...
Elon Musk said SpaceX would wind down its Falcon rocket program once Starship flies reliably several times each week, directing scarce engineering and production resources toward higher Starship launch rates. Musk made the statement Aug. 22 on X while responding to physicist Casey Handmer, who cited reported NASA unease about...
Apple is cutting more than 200 positions across teams developing Siri, Vision Pro and related software, as it redirects resources toward artificial intelligence and future devices, according to Bloomberg and Apple. About 100 roles are being eliminated in the Vision Products Group, while roughly 100 more affect Siri and software...
