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US lawmakers have called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to testify before Congress regarding concerns about potential Chinese espionage tied to the company's chip sales and operations. The summons signals heightened scrutiny of Nvidia's dealings with China amid broader US national security reviews of advanced semiconductor exports.
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture linked to Donald Trump, said it will buy back its WLFI governance token after the price fell more than 60% this year, including a 10% drop since Democrats won control of Congress. The company has not detailed the size or timing of the buyback program.
Voters are casting ballots today in midterm elections that will determine which party controls Congress for the remainder of President Trump's second term. The outcome is expected to influence not just political dynamics in Washington but also business conditions and financial markets.
The Associated Press says it will call races in all 435 House seats and 35 Senate contests, but final control of each chamber may not be known for days. House control requires 218 seats, with Republicans currently holding 219 of 435 seats; Senate control requires 51 Democratic seats or 50 Republican seats due to Vice President JD Vance's tiebreaking vote, with Republicans currently holding a 53-47 edge. The AP notes that in 2022 it took four days to call the Senate and eight days to call the House, citing slow-counting states like California and ranked-choice voting states like Alaska and Maine as contributing factors.
The Center for Renewing America, a think tank founded by OMB Director Russell Vought, published a post arguing that certain winning Democratic candidates—those it links to a supposed alliance between progressives and Muslims—could legally be denied seats in Congress. Legal scholar Richard Pildes called the argument a distortion of established norms for partisan ends. The CRA did not respond to requests for comment.
Cryptocurrency-linked super PACs, led by Fairshake, have committed more than $200 million to influence 2026 congressional races, according to Public Citizen, surpassing spending by online betting and data-center groups this cycle. Fairshake is backing 33 House candidates across both parties and directing at least $1 million each to six incumbents, including House Financial Services Committee leaders French Hill and Bill Huizenga. Coinbase has been a major funder, contributing $25 million to Fairshake's midterm push after donating $79 million to 2024 races.
At ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 in Denver, former CISO Lora Vaughn, now founder of The Vaughn Group consultancy, presented a simplified threat-modeling approach built around four whiteboard questions rather than lengthy formal reports. She said the method works across organizations of any size, from the NSA to small businesses, and can guide security investment decisions.
A technical proposal argues that US federal statutes should be tracked like source code, with line-by-line attribution showing which public law changed a provision, when it took effect, and what the text read on any given date. It uses the shifting small-business debt limit in 11 USC § 1182(1) — altered repeatedly by the CARES Act and subsequent extensions between 2020 and 2025 — to illustrate how current amendment notes and effective-date prose make it hard to reconstruct the law as it stood at a specific moment.
At ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 in Denver, cyber legal expert Daniel B. Garrie, CEO of Law and Forensics, presented frameworks to help CISOs justify AI deployment decisions and preserve evidence in case of disputes or breaches. The approaches include scoring AI deployment risk, documenting board-level risk decisions, and specifying what incident data must be preserved, building on JAMS AI Rules he helped author in 2024 for arbitrating AI disputes.
Crypto-industry political action committees have amassed $176 million in contributions ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, according to reporting on campaign finance figures. The funds are intended to back candidates viewed as favorable to digital-asset regulation in Congress.
At ISC2 Security Congress 2026 in Denver, Atlassian product security manager Deepam Kanjani described a real incident, with details altered to protect confidentiality, in which a malicious package carrying the Shai-Hulud worm evaded detection despite a matching SHA hash and a credible-looking GitHub repository. The malicious code sat three layers deep as a transitive dependency, so it never appeared in a top-level audit, and the organization's SBOM showed the environment as clean even as a behavioral scanner's warning was initially dismissed as a false positive.
Senior Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration is refusing to disclose information about abuses of a government surveillance authority currently under congressional debate. They argue that details lawmakers need to evaluate the program are being kept from public and congressional view.