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Nscale, a UK-based AI data center company, has named Fidji Simo, who recently departed OpenAI's No. 2 role, to its board of directors. She joins other prominent tech figures including Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker and Nick Clegg as the company prepares for a possible public listing this fall.
Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles confirmed the ShinyHunters extortion group breached its DAVID driver database on September 4, 2026, after the gang claimed to have stolen over 200,000 driver records. FLHSMV said the intruder used login credentials from a single Plant City Police Department account that had been improperly saved on the employee's personal device, contradicting ShinyHunters' claim that it exploited a password-reset flaw across multiple accounts.
Trezor disclosed that hackers who compromised 138 accounts at email marketing provider Brevo used the access to send roughly 347,000 phishing emails to its customers. The messages, disguised as security alerts, directed recipients to a fake app designed to steal their wallet backup passwords. Trezor says its own products and account systems were not breached, but the stolen credentials could let attackers drain victims' crypto holdings.
Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $19.35 billion, topping analyst expectations, with net income climbing 60% to $4.7 billion. The gains were driven by a 62% jump in cloud revenue, including a 121% surge in cloud infrastructure sales, prompting shares to rise more than 6% in premarket trading.
Fidji Simo, a former OpenAI executive, has taken a seat on the board of Nscale, a startup that builds data centers for AI workloads and has raised billions in funding. The move comes as Nscale reportedly prepares for an eventual public listing.
Trezor disclosed that a breach at its third-party email provider Brevo let attackers send fake security alerts to its opt-in newsletter subscribers, reaching roughly 347,000 email addresses. The fraudulent messages warned of a fake microcontroller vulnerability and pushed recipients to a malicious app requesting wallet backup phrases; Trezor says 2,500 people clicked the link before it disabled the domain within 20 minutes.
A developer found that copying the login.keychain-db file from one Mac to another no longer works on macOS Tahoe when the destination Mac has a Secure Enclave chip. Previously, users could transfer this SQLite-based keychain file and unlock it on a new machine simply by entering the correct password, but that method now fails.
ID verification company IDScan disclosed that hackers accessed its systems without authorization, a breach later linked to a criminal marketplace called Nexus selling scans of over 170 million identity documents. Security researcher Brian Krebs verified the stolen trove includes 153 million driver's licenses, 10 million ID cards, 3 million passports and travel documents, and hundreds of thousands of medical cards, mostly belonging to US residents with some Canadian records included. The attackers claimed to have quietly siphoned data from IDScan's systems for more than a year before being detected.
Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter results that topped Wall Street forecasts, with adjusted earnings of $1.92 per share and revenue of $19.35 billion, both above LSEG estimates. Revenue climbed nearly 30% year over year, driven largely by rapid growth in cloud infrastructure as Oracle pushes deeper into AI-related data center buildouts. The company raised its long-term outlook, now projecting $8.10 in adjusted earnings per share on at least $90 billion in revenue for fiscal 2027.
Commentators aligned with Steve Bannon's political circle, including Joe Allen, have started describing artificial intelligence systems built in data centers as 'algorithmic immigrants,' framing AI development as akin to immigration that threatens American workers and culture. The phrase is being used to fold anti-AI sentiment into existing far-right anti-immigration narratives.
A newly compiled dataset tracking all-cause mortality across 134 countries indicates that official COVID-19 death tolls were vastly understated, with excess deaths pointing to more than 6 million uncounted fatalities worldwide. The analysis suggests roughly half of governments either failed to accurately measure or deliberately concealed the true scale of pandemic deaths.
IDScan.net, an identity verification company, disclosed that an unauthorized third party may have accessed customer accounts containing full names and government ID numbers. In response, the company is notifying affected customers and providing free credit monitoring and identity protection services while cooperating with federal law enforcement.