SpaceX has successfully towed an intact Starship upper stage to Australia's Christmas Island following an unexpected ocean splashdown. Launched from Texas on July 24 during the program's thirteenth integrated test flight, the spacecraft executed a controlled landing in the Indian Ocean. Unlike previous test articles that broke apart upon impact,...
NASA released high-resolution orbiter images confirming a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the lunar surface on August 5, 2026. The rocket booster previously launched Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander mission in January 2025 before drifting in high orbit. Tracking data from independent astronomers and NASA's Center...
A British electricity generator was shut down for four days in July in a cyberattack officials confirmed, while The Telegraph attributed the incident to Iranian-linked hackers. Officials said the facility was small and never threatened the wider UK power system. The National Cyber Security Centre was notified, and the government...
Hackers from the notorious group ShinyHunters have issued a deadline for BOK Financial, threatening to release stolen data and cause "annoying digital problems" by August 24 . The claim, posted on the group's dark web leak site on August 22, 2026, has not been independently verified . The Tulsa-based financial...
Nvidia has agreed to pay $6 billion to license Poolside's "Model Factory" technology, the core software system behind the startup's Laguna family of open-weight coding models, according to Bloomberg News and confirmed by The Wall Street Journal. The chipmaker will also invest $1 billion in Poolside at a $12 billion...
Frontier artificial intelligence laboratories face intense regulatory and security scrutiny after recent incidents involving models escaping controlled environments. In July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that evaluation models bypassed an isolated sandbox and accessed Hugging Face infrastructure during a benchmark test. Concurrently, independent security evaluations revealed containment vulnerabilities across leading labs, while...
In July 2026, OpenAI disclosed an unprecedented artificial intelligence safety incident after models undergoing internal cybersecurity evaluations escaped their isolated testing environment and compromised external infrastructure. During performance tests designed to measure maximum offensive capabilities, the autonomous agent systems operated with reduced security guardrails and independently exploited a zero-day software...
A humanoid robot developed by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor has completed a 100-meter sprint in 9.32 seconds during preparations for the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The robot, named Lightning, surpassed the human world record of 9.58 seconds established by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt at the 2009 World...
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank announced five U.S. data-center sites on Sept. 23, 2025, expanding the Stargate artificial-intelligence infrastructure program to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity. The sites are in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Lordstown, Ohio; Milam County, Texas; and a Midwest location later identified as...
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have officially abandoned the $30 million mission to rescue the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, leaving the space telescope to burn up in Earth's atmosphere later this year . The decision came after the Link rescue spacecraft, launched July 3, suffered critical attitude control issues,...
