The New York Times reports that Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman with close ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security to gather intelligence on U.S. AI chip technology. U.S. intelligence agencies reportedly surveilled her for at least a year, and President Trump was briefed on her relationship with Jensen Huang but did not act. Her company, Megaspeed, made a multibillion-dollar purchase of advanced Nvidia chips around the time she was photographed with him in Taipei in 2024.
slashdot.org
· 2026-11-07
Apple's built-in Passwords app checks saved logins against a local list of known leaked passwords and uses privacy-preserving cryptographic checks with its servers for others, without transmitting the actual password. The app also flags weak or reused passwords even if they haven't appeared in a known breach, though it doesn't reveal where a leak occurred.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-07
The New York Times reports that Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore's Megaspeed, was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security to gather intelligence on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and potentially sway US chip export policy. The Financial Times separately reports US officials believe the two were romantically involved, a detail shared with President Trump before his Beijing trip but allegedly never disclosed to Jensen Huang himself.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-07
Hackers exploited vulnerable internet-connected refrigeration systems, briefly spiking temperatures at three French blood and plasma storage sites on November 2, according to the Établissement Français du Sang. The same wave of attacks hit refrigerators at supermarket chains across at least 11 European countries and previously affected hundreds of French stores and several US military commissaries, forcing large amounts of food to be discarded.
wired.com
· 2026-11-07
Police say sophisticated thieves stole six pallets of Nvidia equipment worth $11.4 million after the shipment left Oakland on August 29 bound for Fort Worth, Texas. The loss wasn't discovered until early September, and investigators lost the suspect vehicle's trail in San Bernardino County after multiple lengthy stops. No suspects have been arrested.
techspot.com
· 2026-11-07
A British Army appeals court document reveals that Corporal Daniel Barton-Kennedy disobeyed orders to remove his phone's SIM card and enable security protections before deploying to Tapa, Estonia, near the Russian border, during Exercise Eastern Warrior in January 2026. His phone was subsequently hacked and nude photos were stolen and used to blackmail him; he pled guilty to disobeying a lawful command, was demoted, and sentenced to 10 months in detention.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-11-07
The New York Times reported that a woman who cultivated a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security, the country's top intelligence agency. The report characterizes her as an operative working on behalf of Chinese state intelligence rather than an independent actor.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-11-07
Security researchers disclosed CVE-2026-123158, a vulnerability in Alpine Linux's default OpenSSH setup that allows attackers to log into password-disabled or key-only accounts simply by sending an oversized password string. The bug stems from musl libc, the lightweight C library used by Alpine and other distros including Void Linux, OpenWrt, and Yocto-based embedded systems, meaning the exposure extends beyond Alpine itself. Alpine Linux and OpenSSH maintainers have issued patches, and users are urged to update and restart affected services immediately.
zdnet.com
· 2026-11-07
A series of bomb threats has targeted European television broadcasters, with messages warning that 'the clock is ticking,' prompting evacuations and disruptions. These threats follow a separate wave of bomb threats made against passenger flights in preceding days.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-11-06
Following a major hack affecting Binance, insurers covering crypto assets are likely to tighten policy language and strengthen security reviews, according to Reuters. The insurers may also add new exclusions to their coverage terms in response to the breach.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-11-06
Organizations are deploying new encryption standards designed to withstand future quantum computers, which are expected to eventually break today's cryptographic systems. Separately, recent advances in AI's mathematical problem-solving abilities have raised concerns that AI systems, not quantum machines, could be the first to break current encryption methods.
wsj.com
· 2026-11-06
A commentary piece argues that incident records once used solely to document security decisions are now being fed into AI systems with permission to use that data for model building and validation. It notes that SOAR platforms have long automated playbooks, but the new shift is that closure notes, suppressed alerts, and tuning decisions can end up as vendor training material rather than just internal evidence.
darkreading.com
· 2026-11-06
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