Sec-3 Silicon Valley family indicted for stealing Google trade secrets for Iran Federal prosecutors unsealed a grand jury indictment on February 19, 2026, charging three San Jose engineers with a coordinated scheme to exfiltrate proprietary hardware secrets to Iran. The trio - a husband, wife, and sister - is accused of stealing hundreds of confidential files related to Google’s Tensor processors and advanced cryptography, even resorting to manually photographing computer scr

AI-1 In a visual that has launched a thousand memes, the intense rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic was stripped of all corporate polish last week. This was during the closing photo-op of the India AI Impact Summit, when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei conspicuously refused to join hands, despite a direct call for a symbolic show of industry unity by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Editorial credit: Tada Images / Shutterstock The moment, captured i

A new era of "sustainable spaceflight" officially began this week as the world’s first wooden satellite, LignoSat, successfully transitioned from the International Space Station (ISS) into its independent orbit. Developed by researchers at Kyoto University and the logging giant Sumitomo Forestry, the palm-sized cube is designed to prove that renewable timber can replace the polluting aluminum alloys currently standard in satellite manufacturing. Image courtesy of: www.nanosat

The cybersecurity landscape has officially entered the era of autonomous warfare. On February 12, 2026, ransomware prevention leader BlackFog released its definitive State of Ransomware 2025 report, documenting a staggering 49% year-on-year increase in publicly disclosed attacks. The report's most chilling revelation, however, isn't just the volume of attacks (1,174 incidents), but the arrival of the world’s first-ever AI-led ransomware campaign that operated with zero human

Last week, PayPal confirmed that a significant software error in its PayPal Working Capital (PPWC) loan application left sensitive user data exposed for nearly six months. The glitch, which went undetected from July to December 2025, allowed unauthorized individuals to view and scrape "the crown jewels" of personal identity, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, business addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. Editorial credit: Algi Febri Sugit