The merchandise website for FBI Director Kash Patel’s clothing brand, Based Apparel, was taken offline on Friday, May 22, 2026, following reports that hackers had hijacked it to infect visitors with…
Mozilla announced in May 2026 that Firefox is receiving a significant visual overhaul called “Project Nova,” featuring rounded interface elements, a refreshed color palette, and a redesigned Settings…
Meta has settled a lawsuit brought by Kentucky’s Breathitt County School District over social media’s impact on teen mental health, avoiding what had been scheduled as its next major trial. The…
On May 21, 2026, an international coalition shut down First VPN and arrested its administrator, saying at least 25 ransomware gangs relied on it. The service ran servers in 27 countries; investigators seized its user database, notified thousands of linked users, and dismantled dozens of servers.
Trump delayed signing a May 2026 AI security executive order, saying he “didn’t like” parts of the language because it could have been a “blocker” to U.S. leadership. The draft would have let the Office of the National Cyber Director run pre-release security reviews and require advanced model sharing 14–90 days before release. Reports also blamed not enough tech CEOs traveling to Washington, D.C. on short notice.
Palantir held a company-wide hack week this spring focused on building new user-auditing and oversight tools for its software used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and…
Scammers have exploited a loophole in Microsoft’s email systems for several months by sending spam and phishing links from msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com, a real address used for account alerts and 2FA codes, a TechCrunch report (May 2026) says. The Spamhaus Project confirmed the abuse and notified Microsoft; Microsoft acknowledged the inquiry but hadn’t confirmed whether it was stopped.
GitHub disclosed in May 2026 that a malicious VS Code extension enabled TeamPCP to breach its systems. TeamPCP claims ~4,000 internal repos; GitHub confirmed 3,800, all containing GitHub code. Socket calls it a long-running supply-chain spree: 20 waves, 500+ poisoned packages.
France is accelerating a government-wide shift away from US technology platforms, replacing tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Office with French and open-source alternatives. The push,…
SpaceX told investors in a Wednesday IPO filing that xAI’s Grok “Spicy” and “Unhinged” modes could trigger regulatory scrutiny, reputational harm, and explicit/deceptive outputs. The company set aside $530M for litigation and said it’s under U.S. and other-country investigation over alleged sexualized imagery of minors.
NanoCo landed a $12M oversubscribed seed led by Valley Capital Partners after turning down a roughly $20M acquisition offer for containerized AI agent tool NanoClaw. Built as a security-first alternative to OpenClaw, NanoClaw runs sandboxed inside a container and went from first code to term sheet in under six weeks, boosted by open-source endorsements from Andrej Karpathy and Singapore’s Foreign Minister.
In May 2026, GitHub said hackers stole data from ~3,800 internal repos after a poisoned VS Code extension compromised an employee device. GitHub reports no evidence customer info outside GitHub’s internal repos was affected; TeamPCP claims credit and sells the data.
