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Nvidia directors have ordered an independent review after reports of an intelligence effort targeting CEO Jensen Huang. The board says it has no reason to believe secrets were compromised.
State governments are moving from AI safety pledges to enforceable reporting, disclosure and oversight rules. New York is preparing RAISE Act registration, California is building independent verification, and Illinois has enacted a comparable incident-reporting deadline—while Washington’s frontier-AI accord remains voluntary.
AI demand is turning advanced chip packaging into a strategic bottleneck. Yole Group expects its revenue to overtake traditional packaging in 2026, while industry capital spending approaches $28 billion. TSMC’s CoWoS lead, tight capacity and panel-based alternatives show why the next AI supply-chain contest is being fought after fabrication.
TSMC is reportedly studying a return to memory manufacturing after Nvidia asked it to assess 3D DRAM. The report describes an early evaluation, not an approved factory or a confirmed production programme.
NTT Docomo says customer information was exposed in unauthorized access affecting its online services. A separate 5G Standalone outage has ended, with network congestion cited as its cause.
OpenSSH 10.6p2 and Alpine patches address CVE-2026-123158, a password bypass limited to particular musl, non-PAM SSH configurations. Installing a fix is only half the job: the daemon must be restarted.
Sony’s quarterly operating profit rose 45% to ¥622.3 billion, while Nintendo’s fell 16% to ¥73.9 billion. Their first-half trends tell a more nuanced story.
A breach of refrigeration-control systems at three French blood-service sites was detected before blood products were lost. The reported extreme temperature was a remote control setting, not proof of actual heat.
Cyberattacks on mobile alert services in Ukraine and Russia sent false warnings about radiation, chemical threats and nuclear strikes. Officials said their main public-warning channels remained operational, but the incidents exposed how a trusted digital layer can be manipulated.