United States – Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the global technology supply chain is experiencing severe shortages of critical memory and storage chips as demand for components used in artificial intelligence applications accelerates. The announcement validates warnings from chipmakers that high-bandwidth memory has become scarce, shifting the balance...
United States-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere, the software company behind the AI coding agent Cursor, in an all-stock deal valued at US$60 billion. Announced after SpaceX’s record-breaking initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange on June 12, the transaction will compensate Anysphere...
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...
United States-based Longshot Space Technologies, a startup developing a hydrogen-powered “space gun” launcher for orbital payloads, will begin a new series of hypersonic tests for the U.S. military in the Mojave Desert over the next month. The company plans to fire its launcher between 12 and 20 times during the...
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...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent advisory after researchers uncovered a large-scale credential theft campaign targeting Fortinet firewalls and VPN appliances, dubbed "FortiBleed." According to data from cybersecurity firm SOCRadar, administrative credentials for at least 86,644 internet-facing Fortinet devices have been compromised worldwide, impacting...
Washington, United States — NASA has awarded a multi-billion-dollar contract for an upcoming Mars mission to the rocket startup founded by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, formally positioning the company as a primary competitor to SpaceX. The award follows a closely watched selection process in which the agency moved...
Salesforce has disabled the Klue Battlecards application integration after Klue disclosed a security breach involving OAuth token abuse that led to unauthorized access to customer data. According to company reports released on June 19, 2026, an attacker infiltrated Klue’s integration infrastructure on June 11 using a compromised legacy credential tied...
