NASA awards SpaceX $946 million contract modification for three additional ISS missions
NASA has formally awarded SpaceX a $946 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to supply three additional crewed flights to the International Space Station (ISS). The agreement extends SpaceX’s operational transport services through 2030, ensuring uninterrupted American access to the orbital laboratory during its final years of planned operation. Editorial credit: Skyloom Production / Shutterstock The award expands SpaceX’s total operational missions under the Commerc
AWS admits permanent data loss on Bahrain data centers 6 months after Iran strike
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued a critical status update admitting it is unable to restore service or recover data hosted exclusively within its primary Middle East cloud infrastructure. The disclosure follows kinetic missile and drone strikes launched by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) earlier this year, which severely damaged data center facilities across Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The announcement highlights an unprecedented physical vulnera
Jensen Huang predicts Nvidia chip sales volume will double next year as sovereign AI demand accelerates
Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang projected that the semiconductor giant will ship twice as many silicon units in the coming year compared to current volume. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a high-level AI summit convened by King Charles III at Dumfries House in Scotland, Huang attributed the aggressive unit expansion to global sovereign AI investments, expanding enterprise adoption, and the integration of artificial intelligence hardware across diverse in
Security researchers use Anthropic’s Claude to hack into multiple OpenAI employees’ accounts
A three-member team of cybersecurity researchers from startup Hacktron AI - Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and Rahul Maini - has demonstrated how AI models can drastically accelerate offensive security workflows. Editorial credit: PJ McDonnell / Shutterstock Participating in an authorized bug bounty assessment, the researchers leveraged Anthropic’s flagship Claude reasoning models to chain multiple software vulnerabilities together in under 72 hours. Eventually, they obtaine
Revolut hit by $3m extortion demand after hackers access 680 customer records
Revolut is reportedly facing a $3 million ransom demand after hackers obtained sensitive information belonging to hundreds of its customers and threatened to sell the data to other criminal groups. Editorial credit: Matthew Nichols1 / Shutterstock The group behind the extortion attempt, calling itself “iamnotavillain,” reportedly demanded 6,000 Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency worth approximately $3 million, and gave the fintech company 24 hours to pay. The hackers th
