Jensen Huang hired a PR firm known for handling sex scandals a year ago. Nvidia faces lawsuit

Jensen Huang hired a PR firm known for handling sex scandals a year ago. Nvidia faces lawsuit

Wired reports: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang began working with a crisis communications firm known for handling public scandals a year before he admitted to having an extramarital affair with a woman suspected by US intelligence of being a Chinese spy. The firm, Heller, has handled Huang’s behind-the-scenes communications since at least October 2025, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Risa Heller, the firm’s founder, has built a reputation as a fixer for powerful men facing allegations of sexual…

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Trump hopes to put the Iran war on hold

Trump hopes to put the Iran war on hold

The Washington Post reports: The United States is unlikely to restart major military operations against Iran, President Donald Trump indicated Monday, saying he was satisfied that current negotiations were making progress and that there was little need for now to engage in an extensive new attack. “Iran, militarily, is effectively over. We’re just keeping it the status quo, and we’re doing that really at the behest of countries that are their neighbors,” Trump told reporters in a surprise appearance in…

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France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking

France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking

BBC News reports: France has accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of being behind cyber-attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges and freezers across the country last month. Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the attack was “unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression”, adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions. Iran has yet to respond officially, but some Iranian media outlets have dismissed the allegations as baseless. The French hacking, which led…

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Immigrants are being systematically returned home despite court orders

Immigrants are being systematically returned home despite court orders

The New York Times reports: Mustapha Camara and immigrants like him had court protections that they thought made them safe from the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. They found themselves swept up nonetheless. To deport these immigrants, the administration has partnered with foreign governments, many with spotty human rights records. In exchange for money and foreign policy favors, they have agreed to accept deportees who cannot be returned to their countries of origin. But a New York Times investigation found…

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Firm linked to Trump’s sons got nearly $40 million in federal contracts to screen for Ebola and other diseases

Firm linked to Trump’s sons got nearly $40 million in federal contracts to screen for Ebola and other diseases

By Sharon Lerner, Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Robert Faturechi This story was originally published by ProPublica The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked to President Donald Trump’s elder sons invested in its parent company, according to records and interviews. The contracts, one to screen for Ebola in several U.S. airports and the other to respond to disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic…

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Chimpanzees learn when to use some of their calls — with parallels to how humans learn words

Chimpanzees learn when to use some of their calls — with parallels to how humans learn words

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: A new study led by researchers at the CNRS Institute of Cognitive Sciences in Lyon and the Taï Chimpanzee Project in the Ivory Coast has found the first evidence of arbitrary, conventionalised vocal communication in wild chimpanzees. This discovery narrows the perceived gap between chimpanzee and human communication. The words of human languages are, for the most part, both learnt and arbitrary. To say that words are arbitrary means that, in a slightly different…

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Scientists reach a record temperature: 280 billion times colder than the Universe

Scientists reach a record temperature: 280 billion times colder than the Universe

Science Alert reports: Even the seemingly empty vacuum of space isn’t completely cold. The Universe was born some 13.8 billion years ago in a state so hot and dense that the leftover radiation still permeates every one of its nooks and crannies. The average background temperature of space hovers around 2.7 kelvins – that’s -270.45 degrees Celsius, or -454.81 Fahrenheit. Now, scientists have made something with an equivalent temperature 280 billion times lower – shattering the previous record in humanity’s…

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Aza Raskin: The AI alignment problem and its solutions

Aza Raskin: The AI alignment problem and its solutions

  Are we losing control of AI? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore AI cyberhacking breaches, supercoordation, and the game theory of the AI alignment problem with Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and the Earth Species Project. Aza explains why social media was “baby AI,” how the attention economy took shape, and why incentives determine outcomes. Then, we break down what occurred in the Open AI cybersecurity breach (a.k.a The Hugging…

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Trump apparently knew Nvidia CEO was sleeping with a Chinese spy

Trump apparently knew Nvidia CEO was sleeping with a Chinese spy

The New York Times reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of the highly classified memo this past spring warning top Trump administration officials that Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, was in a close relationship with a Chinese spy, multiple people briefed on the matter said. The document was based on classified intelligence from electronic surveillance of Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen who was a senior executive at a Singapore-based company that was buying Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence…

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U.S. cleared Nvidia chips to Chinese firms with empty offices and troubling ties

U.S. cleared Nvidia chips to Chinese firms with empty offices and troubling ties

The New York Times reports: In a recently built industrial park on the northwest fringe of Beijing, the listed address of a company called New Matrix stands empty, a hollow gray shell with wires dangling from the ceiling where lights should be. Earlier this year, the Trump administration approved this Chinese firm to assemble Nvidia’s advanced chips into the computers that create artificial intelligence. President Trump allowed the sale of the chips, called the H200, to China late last year….

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Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6 billion heist — are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?

Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6 billion heist — are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?

The Guardian reports: Alex Pearce was doing the morning rounds at his fruit and vegetable wholesale business in London on Monday last week when he noticed something odd. The defrost light on refrigeration unit 2 was on, and the panel reading was 150C. Unit 4 was the same. As he approached his biggest unit, its defrost light also blinked on. It was at this point that Pearce thought: is this a cyber-attack? He walked over to the box connecting the…

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Turning Point has ‘become a destructive force in Republican politics’

Turning Point has ‘become a destructive force in Republican politics’

The New York Times reports: Turning Point USA bet big on Arizona. Leaders of the right-wing activist organization founded by Charlie Kirk said the state’s contest for governor was “the most important race in America.” The group’s handpicked candidate, Representative Andy Biggs, a MAGA-aligned Republican, was one of the last politicians Mr. Kirk personally endorsed before his assassination last year. Its political arm spent nearly $20 million to support Mr. Biggs’s campaign. But on Tuesday, Turning Point’s bet went bust….

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AIPAC wanted to shape the debate. Now it has become the debate

AIPAC wanted to shape the debate. Now it has become the debate

Politico reports: Just one day after Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayorship, some of the self-described democratic socialist’s big-money backers gathered in Lower Manhattan to celebrate and discuss how they could build on his victory. During Mamdani’s race against former Governor Andrew Cuomo, they had spent more than $3.4 million on his behalf through a super PAC called New Yorkers for Lower Costs. But the conversation that unfolded in the snug SoHo event space did not focus on affordability….

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How China’s clean-tech machine is reshaping the global climate fight

How China’s clean-tech machine is reshaping the global climate fight

Reuters reports: China sent $132 billion in clean technology and investment to the developing world last year, by far the largest contribution to carbon-dioxide reduction of any country. In fact, the nation’s green-manufacturing juggernaut, built in part through heavy subsidies from Beijing, nearly matches the current total of grants, loans and private finance that all wealthy countries sent to poorer ones in 2024 to help fight climate change, according to analysis. Those loans and grants stemmed from a climate-finance program…

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