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A campaign using the EtherHiding technique stores malware payloads in BNB Smart Chain contracts, making infrastructure takedowns nearly impossible.

The Munich startup founded by three university students reached orbit in seven minutes on Saturday, marking a milestone for European launch sovereignty.

Four American space companies withdrew from France's international space summit as Washington lobbies against the EU Space Act and pushes back on European satellite spectrum plans that compete with Starlink.

The AI company has delayed its public offering timeline by roughly six weeks, with the prospectus now expected in late September and the listing potentially landing just before the US midterm elections.

Attackers are actively backdooring online stores through StyleSmuggler, a zero-day in Magento and Adobe Commerce that enables unauthenticated remote code execution across all current versions.

A dark web marketplace offered scans of 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses, plus millions of ID cards and medical records, sourced from identity verification firm IDScan.net. The FBI is investigating.

Unauthorized attackers accessed C-Track, Thomson Reuters' court case management platform, for four months — potentially exposing SSNs, health data, and sealed court documents.

Microsoft's new speech recognition model hits 5.2% word error rate across 60 languages at $0.10 per hour — 72% cheaper than its predecessor and up to 10× faster than rivals.

GPT-6 Astra rolled out first to cybersecurity partners through OpenAI's Daybreak program, with ChatGPT and Codex subscribers following days later. OpenAI says the model meets the Critical threshold for cyber capability under its own safety framework.

The Chinese AI lab behind the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, with revenue roughly tripling in two months on the back of the model's coding benchmark results.

CVE-2026-20212 leaves two TCP ports reachable on 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches, letting unauthenticated attackers execute code as root on the data center fabric AI clusters depend on.

Xiaomi's first flagship built on its in-house XRing O3 chip adopts the wide passport foldable form factor with a 200MP Leica camera, 6,000mAh battery, and LPDDR6 RAM. It launches in China on September 7.