Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy-lift rocket exploded on the launch pad during a May 28 engine hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the company has confirmed. The anomaly occurred in the aft section of the first stage during a critical test intended to validate engines before...
Washington, D.C. — The Trump administration on Tuesday night, June 30, 2026, lifted previously imposed federal restrictions on Anthropic’s advanced artificial intelligence systems, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, following a cybersecurity-related dispute between the company and the U.S. government. The move, announced jointly by White House officials and Anthropic...
Tata Electronics, a key Apple manufacturing partner in India, has suffered a major ransomware attack that resulted in more than 630GB of confidential data being published on the dark web. The World Leaks group released over 200,000 files, including photographs of iPhone 18 Pro models undergoing drop tests, detailed motherboard...
Speaking at a technology conference hosted by Amazon Web Services in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned that advances in artificial intelligence and quantum computing are reshaping global security, likening them to "digital nuclear weapons" that are altering the nature of conflict. Ratcliffe said...
NEW YORK — A JetBlue Airways Airbus A321 arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport from Las Vegas reported a suspected collision with a drone while on final approach on Monday morning, prompting a federal investigation. The pilot of Flight 948 told air traffic controllers that something struck the aircraft...
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), which supports state insurance regulation across all 50 U.S. states, has confirmed it was compromised in a hacking campaign exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35273. Oracle issued an out-of-band advisory on June 11, 2026, after Google and others observed active...
United States – Meta has introduced Brain2Qwerty v2, an artificial intelligence system that converts brain activity into text using non-invasive magnetoencephalography (MEG), avoiding the need for surgical brain implants that have historically been required for comparable accuracy. The company said the system approaches performance levels previously seen only with invasive...
SACRAMENTO, California — Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a statewide partnership with artificial intelligence company Anthropic to deploy its Claude assistant across all California state agencies, cities, and counties. Revealed on June 29, 2026, the agreement makes Anthropic the default AI vendor under the California Department of Technology’s new Statewide...
At the Computex 2026 technology conference in Taipei, cybersecurity startup Scam.ai announced a partnership with semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm to launch Halo, an on-device deepfake detection model for live video calls. Demonstrated at Qualcomm’s exhibition booth during the Agentic AI track, Halo is optimized to run locally on personal computers using...
Washington, United States – Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a Chinese firm that the U.S. Defense Department has designated a Chinese military company and that an interagency committee has approved for addition to the Commerce Department’s Entity List,...
