Russian hackers shut JLR for 6 weeks, costing Britain $2.5B, NYT says
A 31 August 2025 attack tied to Russian hackers stalled Jaguar Land Rover production and hit the British economy hard.

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A 31 August 2025 attack tied to Russian hackers stalled Jaguar Land Rover production and hit the British economy hard.
A frontier model goes live under a named-partner list, signaling a shift from voluntary reviews to managed rollout.
Custom inference chips are multiplying, and decision-makers now have to manage the build-versus-buy power shift.
A 2026 Axonius Actionability Report quantifies the blind spot that makes “95% coverage” dangerously untrue for autonomous agents.
Apple calls it a “hundred-year flood.” Musk says the supply-demand gap is insane, and companies are already passing costs through.
Memory shortages and surging AI demand are forcing AWS to raise EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML rates again.
General access is planned for “the coming weeks,” but now enterprises face a staggered, compliance-heavy rollout.
Wiz Research found CVE-2026-12957, Amazon patched May 12, and today’s disclosure shows how fast supply-chain access becomes account takeovers.
The agency says removing manual override controls could speed ADS innovation, while still requiring safe stopping performance.
A Wiz-discovered Amazon Q flaw (CVE-2026-12957) let malicious Git repos run code and steal cloud credentials via MCP configs.
A nearly 100 billion-transistor design plus two-layer vertical stacking could reset expectations for how fast silicon gets denser.
OpenAI is holding back GPT 5.6 in a limited preview, and executives are reacting to the precedent it sets.