Nvidia prepares to oust Jensen Huang. Reported affairs multiply, $7 billion of chip sales to China

Nvidia prepares to oust Jensen Huang. Reported affairs multiply, $7 billion of chip sales to China

CNBC reports: Shares of Nvidia fell more than 7% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company’s board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang. The news landed minutes after The New York Times reported that Huang had an extramarital relationship with another executive at the company. The alleged relationship was with Kimberly Powell, vice president of health care at Nvidia, according to the report. Powell’s bio on the Nvidia website says she’s “responsible…

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Trump’s reaction to the Nvidia scandal shows how little he cares about national security

Trump’s reaction to the Nvidia scandal shows how little he cares about national security

David A. Graham writes: Sometimes a news story is important because it reveals information for the first time. Other times, it’s a big deal because it confirms what many people already suspected. The latest development in the story of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang falls into the second category. As news of Huang’s extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy rocks Silicon Valley, Washington, and Wall Street, President Trump has pleaded ignorance. In particular, he has said he was unaware of…

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How Scott Colom won deep-red Mississippi with little help from the Democratic party

How Scott Colom won deep-red Mississippi with little help from the Democratic party

The Guardian reports: The ad is simple, less than half a minute long, but many say it was the moment the nation took notice of Mississippi’s US Senate race. In it, the incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a cattle farmer, answers a reporter’s question about the rising price of beef: “You know, you have so many proteins to choose from,” she says. The ad then cuts to a man flipping burgers on a grill. “Pick another protein?” he says. “Shhiiiiii…

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A closed border was all that mattered for Palantir’s Alex Karp in 2025

A closed border was all that mattered for Palantir’s Alex Karp in 2025

  Futurism reports: For years now, Palantir CEO Alex Karp has been cozying up to the Trump administration, from aiding Immigration and Customs Enforcement through AI-powered surveillance tech and musing about legalizing war crimes to making unsavory comments about women and bragging that he frequently chats with “real Nazis.” Karp has been accused of going “full MAGA,” defending president Donald Trump by trying to argue that he isn’t a fascist. His company helped the so-called Department of Government Efficiency as…

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Argentina’s Milei cares more about the U.S. tech oligarchy than serving his own constituents

Argentina’s Milei cares more about the U.S. tech oligarchy than serving his own constituents

Julia Kornberg writes: After decades of chronic inflation and atrocious economic mismanagement by the country’s center-left, Argentines were initially won over by Mr. Milei’s outsider status, his unvarnished style and his vows to repair the country’s shambling finances once and for all. Over the last three years, the president has made major inroads in his efforts to downsize the state and deregulate the economy, slashing funding for the country’s public health care, infrastructure and education systems — increasingly unpopular austerity…

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Prepare for the AI apocalypse like you’d prepare for a natural disaster

Prepare for the AI apocalypse like you’d prepare for a natural disaster

Matteo Wong writes: Since late last year, a small but growing chorus of cybersecurity experts has been warning that AI models were pushing the internet toward a sort of cataclysm. Hospitals, banks, utilities, basically anything and everything connected to the web could be hacked. Over the past month or so, those scenarios have come alive in almost spectacular fashion: Last month, AI was used to find major security flaws in software used by 70 percent of websites, prompting governments to…

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Theory that the universe is twice as old as we thought, passes key cosmological tests

Theory that the universe is twice as old as we thought, passes key cosmological tests

University of Ottawa: A radical alternative to the standard picture of the cosmos is gaining attention after researchers at the University of Ottawa reported that it successfully matched several important astronomical observations. The model suggests that the Universe could be 26.7 billion years old, nearly twice the widely accepted age of 13.8 billion years, and that neither dark matter nor dark energy is needed to explain its behavior. If further research supports these findings, the theory could offer a very…

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In our Nvidia-state, is Jensen Huang too big to fail?

In our Nvidia-state, is Jensen Huang too big to fail?

Charlie Warzel writes: Given the obsession over the AI race between the United States and China, you might imagine that news of the man leading the most important company in AI being caught in an extramarital relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy would spark outrage and excoriation without parallel. You could suppose that such reckless behavior, upon discovery, might lead to widespread calls for immediate resignation and for deep investigation—not just of the executive, but the…

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Despite denial, Trump was told on trip to China about spying on Nvidia CEO

Despite denial, Trump was told on trip to China about spying on Nvidia CEO

The New York Times reports: President Trump was told aboard Air Force One in May en route to China that the United States had obtained sensitive intelligence showing that Nvidia’s chief executive was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy, people with knowledge of the matter said. The message was delivered by Marco Rubio, his secretary of state and national security adviser, shortly before the Nvidia leader, Jensen Huang, joined the presidential trip to Beijing…

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Hegseth survived impeachment but oversight is coming

Hegseth survived impeachment but oversight is coming

The Intercept reports: Self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth narrowly avoided impeachment Tuesday night, as solidarity from House Republicans blocked a bill introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., charging Hegseth with “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Though Democrats overwhelmingly joined Massie’s effort following their midterm election landslide, the House voted 211 to 204 to refer the charges to a committee, allowing Republicans to slow the process. With 11 Democrats absent, they lacked the numbers. Massie, however, dismissed the impact of Democratic…

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The fridge-hacking spree is an internet-of-things wake-up call

The fridge-hacking spree is an internet-of-things wake-up call

Wired reports: Amid an onslaught of AI vulnerability discovery and AI-assisted hacking, some of the most consequential critical infrastructure attacks this year may have little to do with the technology at all—instead providing a stark reminder that cybersecurity fundamentals are still key to digital defense. Three sites in France that handle blood and plasma bags were briefly impacted this week by widespread attacks on vulnerable internet-connected refrigerators. On Wednesday, the Établissement Français du Sang (EFS) confirmed that cold rooms storing…

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Montana votes to ban corporate political money. Next stop? Probably the Supreme Court

Montana votes to ban corporate political money. Next stop? Probably the Supreme Court

CNBC reports: Imagine a corporation wants to spend $10 million to defeat a political candidate. Under the Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 Citizens United ruling, it can spend as much as it wants provided it doesn’t coordinate with the candidate’s campaign. On Tuesday, Montana voted to change that. In a state President Donald Trump won by nearly 20 points in 2024, roughly 65% of Montanans voted to approve Initiative 194 — the “Montana Plan” — embracing a novel legal strategy to…

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The garbage man: Bill Gates has earned billions investing in climate-polluting landfills

The garbage man: Bill Gates has earned billions investing in climate-polluting landfills

By Alex Cuadros This story was originally published by ProPublica In November 2015, world leaders descended on Paris to negotiate a historic agreement to limit global warming. But on the summit’s opening day, attention turned to a private citizen slouched awkwardly in a chair on stage: Bill Gates. Gates, with his characteristic flop of sandy hair, grinned impishly as President Barack Obama called him a “visionary” and a “driving force” behind a pair of pledges that both saw as key…

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Space junk orbiting our planet may be fast approaching a critical threshold

Space junk orbiting our planet may be fast approaching a critical threshold

Astronomy reports: In the 2013 movie Gravity, Russia destroys its own spy satellite with a missile, creating a cloud of shrapnel and subsequent orbital collisions that rip apart spaceships and astronauts alike. Earth orbit is a place where life imitates art: Eight years later, Moscow launched an actual missile strike on a defunct Soviet satellite, blasting thousands of pieces of metal through space and threatening the International Space Station (ISS) at the nearby altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers). As…

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