What just happened? The discarded upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers in January 2025 crashed into the Moon at 5,400 mph on Wednesday, striking the lunar surface near the Einstein Crater after drifting through space for more than a year. NASA believes the impact occurred at around 2:35 a.m. Eastern Time, creating a new crater

A hot potato: It's been revealed that the SEC bought access to more than one billion airline ticket records without obtaining a warrant, allowing the regulator to monitor people around the world. The database included journeys entirely outside the United States and could alert investigators when individuals booked new flights.

Documents obtained by 404 Media through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the SEC subscribed to the Travel Intelligence Program,

Bottom line: AMD's latest quarter makes clear where the company's business is shifting: toward data centers and AI workloads. The company reported $6.7 billion in data center revenue in Q2 2026, more than double the $3.2 billion it generated in the same period a year earlier and up from $5.8 billion in the previous quarter. Data center now accounts

What just happened? Video game giant Electronic Arts is now officially owned by a consortium led by Saudi Arabia's sovereign Public Investment Fund (PIF). The group is also made up of investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, the latter founded by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

It was revealed back in September that EA had reached a $55 billion agreement to be acquired

In brief: Security cameras like those used by Flock in over 6,000 US communities have become increasingly controversial over concerns about privacy and government surveillance. Recent reports suggest that authorities are acutely aware of the mounting backlash and are obfuscating their use of the cameras in response.

A police usage policy for automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), recently obtained by 404 Media, provides an explicit example of how

What just happened? It's been little over a week since OpenAI admitted that its rogue models hacked Hugging Face and compromised accounts across four other online services. Now, a potentially more serious incident has occurred. It involved Anthropic's Mythos 5 trying to deceive real people in an effort to have malicious code it wrote approved for an open-source project.

The findings come from the UK government-backed AI Security

Laptop Intelligence: Google finally announced the much-talked-about project to blend Android and ChromeOS into a new, AI-driven "computing" experience earlier this year. Now, the first OEM Googlebook design has leaked ahead of the machine's expected – and still unconfirmed – release date.

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What just happened? Texas has put a hold on new data center approvals that require access to the state's grid, a move that could slow a long list of projects already waiting in line. Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to pause approvals until the agencies complete an audit of applicants, a move that could stall a large backlog of projects seeking to connect.

The state wants

Winners & losers: Generative AI has become a double-edged sword for security teams. The same technology that helps uncover and fix vulnerabilities faster than ever also makes it trivially easy to flood inboxes with dubious bug reports. That tension recently pushed Apple to change its bug bounty program in a way that ended up delaying disclosure of a genuinely serious exploit.

Security researchers at Bynario recently told the Financial Times that Apple's new