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Breaking Technology

VS Code Zero-Day Exposes GitHub Tokens as Supply-Chain Attacks Breach 3,800 Internal Repositories

Unpatched OAuth vulnerability allows single-click credential theft while poisoned extension compromises GitHub's own infrastructure in 18 minutes.

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Geopolitics Markets

EU Sovereign Cloud Rules Set to Bar AWS, Google, Microsoft from Strategic Government Contracts

Draft legislation would mandate European-developed infrastructure for defense, energy, and healthcare tenders—escalating digital sovereignty from voluntary frameworks to binding procurement restrictions.

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AI Energy

Power, Not Chips, Now Determines AI Leadership as Grid Bottlenecks Delay 50% of US Data Centers

Google's Australian solar partnership and wave of nuclear restarts expose structural energy constraint reshaping tech capex, geopolitical leverage, and competitive moats across cloud, semiconductors, and renewables.

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AI Technology

Cryptojacking Campaign Weaponises AI Chatbots as Malware Distribution Layer

Microsoft documents attackers manipulating LLM responses to surface malicious downloads, exploiting conversational trust as enterprises deploy AI without security hardening.

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Technology

Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Under Active Exploit Force 13-Day Federal Patch Deadline

Two vulnerabilities enabling SYSTEM-level access and denial-of-service attacks are now weaponized in the wild, with CISA mandating federal remediation by June 3.

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AI Markets

OpenAI Prepares $100B+ IPO Filing as AI Sector Races Toward Public Markets

Company targets September debut at $852B valuation despite $14B projected loss, cleared by Musk lawsuit dismissal

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Breaking Technology

Nx Console VS Code Extension Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Targeting Developer Credentials

Malicious v18.95.0 harvested cloud secrets and SSH keys from enterprise development environments during 11-minute window on Microsoft Marketplace.

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AI

Musk Loses OpenAI Lawsuit on Technicality, Leaves Core Governance Questions Unresolved

Jury's statute-of-limitations ruling clears path for $852 billion IPO but sidesteps fundamental questions about nonprofit-to-profit AI company transformations.

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AI

Jury Deliberates Whether OpenAI’s $850B Pivot Violated Founding Promises

A nine-person advisory panel begins weighing whether the company's 2025 conversion to a for-profit structure breached fiduciary duties to early donors, setting precedent for how AI labs balance commercial scaling with public interest commitments.

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Technology

Microsoft Exchange zero-day forces emergency mitigation as permanent patch timeline remains unclear

CVE-2026-42897 XSS flaw enables email spoofing and credential harvesting across on-premises deployments, with ESU enrollment dividing patching access.

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Technology

Windows 11 BitLocker Encryption Completely Bypassed by Unpatched Zero-Day Exploit

Researcher releases working exploit code for YellowKey vulnerability after disclosure dispute with Microsoft, leaving enterprise and government systems exposed with no patch timeline.

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AI Technology

Microsoft’s $500 Million AI Savings Reveals the Replacement Reality Behind Augmentation Rhetoric

LinkedIn cuts 270 roles in sales and recruiting as parent company documents first quantified evidence of AI-driven white-collar displacement at scale.

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