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House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat Jim Himes is privately lobbying to preserve FBI's warrantless surveillance authority, arguing no Trump administration abuse despite civil liberties concerns

Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI upscaling faces backlash from gamers (uncanny visuals, artifacts, input lag) and developers (complexity, QA burden), despite Nvidia's promises of a visual breakthrough.

At Palantir's developer conference, CEO Alex Karp positioned the company's AI as essential for military advantage, showcasing battlefield intelligence fusion and predictive analytics as defense contra

Anthropic filed a court declaration denying it can manipulate Claude after military deployment, contradicting Pentagon claims of potential wartime sabotage in an escalating legal feud.

The Trump FCC approved Nexstar's acquisition of Tegna, creating a broadcaster reaching 80% of US households — blowing past the traditional 39% ownership cap through regulatory reinterpretation.

Stryker, a major medical device supplier, was hit by a destructive wiper attack that shut down its Windows network — a non-ransomware attack that permanently destroys data with no recovery.

Valve's major SteamOS update officially supports the original Steam Machine and third-party handhelds (ROG Ally, Legion Go), evolving from a device OS to a general gaming platform.

SpaceX won another US military launch contract from ULA, continuing to erode the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture's dominance through reusable rocket economics and superior launch cadence.

Trump's DOGE initiative is reshaping the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with Silicon Valley leadership to accelerate nuclear plant approvals, driven by AI's insatiable energy demands.

Jeff Bezos announced Blue Origin's plans for an orbital data center megaconstellation, positioning it to compete with SpaceX Starlink and Microsoft in space-based cloud computing.

Amazon is reportedly building an AI-centric smartphone with Alexa as its primary interface, re-entering the phone market a decade after the Fire Phone's $170M failure.

Hachette pulled 'The Shy Girl' horror novel after multiple readers identified AI-generated passages, highlighting the growing trust crisis in publishing between authors, publishers, and readers.

A jury found Elon Musk committed securities fraud through his tweets during the 2022 Twitter takeover, ruling that his public statements harmed investors in a class-action lawsuit.

A takedown-resistant malware campaign has infected 14,000+ routers globally using P2P architecture, encrypted communications, and multi-stage persistence to survive cleanup efforts.

GDC 2026 was saturated with AI vendor pitches — AI NPCs, chat-to-game tools, automated QA — but actual shipped games showed minimal AI integration, revealing a gap between hype and developer reality.

Federal cyber evaluators called Microsoft's cloud a 'pile of shit' for lacking security documentation yet approved it for government use, highlighting procurement dysfunction despite Microsoft's role

Accenture acquires Ookla (Speedtest + Downdetector) from Ziff Davis for $1.2B — an 80x return on the original $15M investment — bringing consumer internet monitoring tools into the enterprise fold.

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI signed Trump's voluntary 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge' to fund their own power generation, but the agreement lacks enforcement mechanisms.

Research shows LLMs can deanonymize pseudonymous users across platforms with 90% precision and 68% recall, threatening the fundamental assumption that pseudonymity provides adequate online privacy.

A novel supply-chain attack using invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code in plain sight has been discovered across GitHub and major repositories, rendering traditional code review useless