WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump on Monday, June 22, 2026, signed two executive orders to speed U.S. quantum computing development and mandate a government-wide transition to post-quantum cryptography. Executive Order 14409, “Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks,” sets the first enforceable federal deadlines for upgrading encryption. All federal...
India – Tata Electronics, a key Indian manufacturing partner for Apple and Tesla, has confirmed it was recently targeted by a cyberattack that led to the exposure of confidential technical data, including proprietary component designs and quality inspection standards. In a statement released on June 22, 2026, the company said...
South Korea — SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics to become the world’s most valuable memory chipmaker, according to market data released on June 22, 2026. The change marks the first time since 2000 that Samsung has lost its leading position in the global memory sector, underlining how rapidly the...
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...
SpaceX is preparing to launch its new Starfall spacecraft on an uncrewed demonstration mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. The disk-shaped capsule, about 3.1 meters in diameter and 0.75 meters tall, will ride a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40...
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...
One Medical, a U.S. healthcare network owned by Amazon, has confirmed that unknown attackers accessed a third‑party file storage system holding archived patient data between June 8 and 11, 2026. The breach involves legacy records from One Medical Seniors and Iora Health, affecting demographic and clinical information for patients in...
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 – New Gallup research shows that tech workers who rarely use artificial intelligence face a substantially higher risk of being laid off than colleagues who use the technology regularly. In a February survey of more than 23,000 U.S. workers, including 660 people who reported being unemployed after their...
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...
