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CISA has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20253, a critical Splunk Enterprise flaw that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to manipulate files, and ordered federal civilian agencies to patch by Sunday under Binding Operational Directive 26-04.
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Market intelligence platform Klue has confirmed attackers stole OAuth tokens connected to customer Salesforce environments on June 12, as the newly emerged Icarus extortion group publicly claims responsibility and the list of affected organizations continues to grow.
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Human Rights Watch obtained Bulgarian export licensing records showing surveillance firm Circles sold phone-interception and geolocation tools to ten governments — including the UAE, Bahrain, and Azerbaijan — between 2018 and 2023, raising fresh questions about the EU's export control enforcement.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that price increases on the company's products are "unavoidable" due to a worsening global memory shortage driven by AI chip demand, signaling the supply crunch has reached even the most insulated players in consumer hardware.
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South Korea's Kospi surged 2.8% as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix reached all-time highs, while U.S. chip stocks including Intel and Micron powered a broad market rebound following a volatile Federal Reserve policy meeting.
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Amazon is investigating three engineers who testified before the Seattle City Council in support of a one-year moratorium on AI data center construction, prompting a civil rights complaint alleging the company violated a local ordinance protecting employee political speech.
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Waymo has recalled nearly 3,900 robotaxis after 13 incidents in which vehicles entered closed freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San Francisco, marking the company's second voluntary recall in just over a month.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimously Thursday to allow AI data centers and other large power users to connect more quickly to the U.S. electric grid, advancing a Trump administration priority amid rising public concern over electricity costs and grid reliability.
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President Trump announced on Truth Social that Apple will partner with Intel to design and build semiconductors in the U.S., sending Intel shares up as much as 8.8% in premarket trading on Thursday.
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A new study by climate risk analytics firm First Street finds that 79% of global data center capacity is exposed to acute climate hazards including flooding, extreme winds, and wildfires, with the Asia-Pacific region carrying the highest share of risk.
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Allbirds rebranded to Smartbird and named Nadia Carlsten — former head of AWS's quantum computing center — as its new CEO, sending shares up 39% as the company deepens its pivot from footwear to AI infrastructure.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led international AI coalition at a closed-door G7 summit meeting in France on Wednesday, joined by roughly a dozen tech executives including OpenAI's Sam Altman.
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CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google joined G7 world leaders in Evian-les-Bains on Wednesday for a working lunch on AI policy, as export control disputes and frontier model risks dominate the geopolitical agenda.
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SpaceX's pending inclusion in major index funds is alarming passive investors, as the newly public company carries implied volatility nearly three times higher than the iShares bitcoin ETF and holds a $2.7 trillion market cap with no earnings.
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CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch CVE-2026-48907, a maximum-severity flaw in the Joomla Content Editor plugin, by Friday after confirmed active exploitation. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute PHP code with no prior privileges required.
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Intel has entered risk production on its most-advanced chip node, 18A-P, at the VLSI Symposium in Honolulu, moving the company closer to a potential deal to manufacture chips for Apple and other outside customers.
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The Department of Justice has filed a motion in a Mississippi federal court to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act lawsuit against SpaceX, arguing that shutting down power at xAI's Memphis-area data centers would threaten national security and military AI operations.
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Mobileye Global said it will deploy an initial 100-vehicle robotaxi fleet in a major U.S. city in 2027, with plans to scale to roughly 17,000 vehicles over five years, placing the self-driving supplier in direct competition with its own customers.
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