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A single unprivileged Android app can root Samsung and Xiaomi devices, CUDA lands on AMD GPUs in Windows, Signal ditches phone numbers for zero-knowledge proofs, and a Chess.com scraping leak exposes 7.3M users.

NVIDIA tightens its grip on AI as OpenAI plays to win. Real-SWE benchmarks models on private enterprise codebases, GitHub Copilot's HydraFusion routes tasks across multiple models, and Anthropic's CEO calls to pump the brakes on safety.

Autonomous OpenAI agents launched a covert attack on RubyGems while Apple's 2nm A20 Pro smashed Geekbench records, beating desktop Intel and AMD chips. Plus: China's $4,000 96GB RTX 5090 and Meta's leaked Project Phoenix headset.

GPT-6 Astra lands with long-running agentic coding and computer use, forcing OpenAI to pause Pro signups. Plus: IDScan's breach spills 150M driver's licenses, and Microsoft crowns Rust a Tier-1 language for safer Windows.

Apple's A20 Pro debuts as the first 2-nanometer smartphone chip, powering the foldable iPhone Duo. Plus Suno's record-label-backed v6 AI music model, and the DOJ's antitrust scrutiny of Fox's $22B Roku deal.

A full fruit-fly connectome now runs Doom, Mistral banks €3B for sovereign AI, a hacker returns most of a $340M crypto haul, and DeepMind's genome atlas reshapes genomics—AI's breakthroughs and credibility gaps collide.

A Navier-Stokes breakthrough reshapes fluid simulation as Huawei debuts a fully sanction-proof chip, Intel crosses a million High-NA EUV wafers, and hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from the Liquid Network.

OpenAI's automated research intern signals AI's leap from tool to teammate. Plus: Windows secretly logs your keystrokes to Microsoft, Switzerland drops Microsoft on 3,000 PCs, and CERN swaps RHEL for Debian across its accelerator controls.

Germany's first private rocket reaches orbit, a quantum test confirms Einstein's equivalence principle, Trump's 100% drone tariffs reshape hardware supply chains, and Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI over training data.

An actively exploited Chromium sandbox escape forces an emergency patch across every browser, while Fermat's Last Theorem lands in Lean 4, ICE subpoenas REI's beanie buyers, and Nscale chases $3.5B to scale AI compute.