Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
Aflac's Japanese subsidiary suffered a 10-day network intrusion in June 2026, exposing personal data for 4.38 million policyholders and bank account details for 230,000 customers in one of the largest insurance breaches of the year.
Etched, a startup building specialized AI inference chips to compete with Nvidia, has announced $1 billion in booked orders and a $5 billion valuation after raising $800 million total.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, designed to handle complex multi-step agentic work at a price point well below its flagship Opus 4.8 model.
OKX launched OKX AI today, a live marketplace where autonomous AI agents can discover services, transact in stablecoins, and build on-chain reputations — without any human involvement.
A public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-55200 is now available for a CVSS 9.2 memory corruption bug in libssh2, affecting every version up to 1.11.1. No patched release yet.
Comcast announced a tax-free spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone media company, leaving a focused broadband and wireless business. Shares jumped 21% on the news.
Waymo and Uber have quietly ended their Phoenix robotaxi partnership after nearly three years, with Waymo folding its vehicles back into its own fleet and Uber preparing to announce a new AV partner in the city.
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court held that law enforcement must obtain a narrowly tailored warrant before using geofence data to identify cellphone users near a crime scene, marking a major Fourth Amendment victory for digital privacy.
Japanese telecom giant KDDI disclosed that a cyberattack on its shared email infrastructure exposed up to 14.22 million account credentials spanning six internet service providers, including Nifty, JCOM, and Biglobe.
Rocket Lab will purchase Iridium Communications for $8 billion, combining its launch capabilities with Iridium's 66-satellite LEO network and 2.55 million subscribers to create a vertically integrated space infrastructure provider.
The EU Council has formally adopted the Digital Omnibus package, the most significant set of amendments to the EU AI Act since it entered force in 2024. High-risk AI compliance deadlines are extended by up to 16 months, and a new ban on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery takes effect by December 2026.
Google told Meta it was unable to supply all the Gemini computing capacity the social media giant wanted, delaying several of Meta's AI initiatives and exposing the depth of the current compute crunch.