Shares of Super Micro Computer (SMCI) plummeted more than 29% on Friday, wiping out nearly $5 billion in market value, after federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal indictment against the company’s co-founder and two others. The charges allege a massive, multi-year conspiracy to smuggle restricted Nvidia AI chips to China using "dummy servers" and literal hair dryers to bypass U.S. export controls. The indictment, unsealed in Manhattan by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, names Yih-

Meta Platforms has fired a major shot in the ongoing "platform wars," unveiling a high-stakes monetization program designed to lure established influencers away from TikTok and YouTube. The initiative, officially named Creator Fast Track, offers guaranteed monthly payouts and algorithmic "boosts" to creators who bring their established audiences to Facebook. Announced on March 18, 2026, the program is a direct response to the "daunting" barrier many creators face when startin

OpenAI is reportedly developing a unified desktop "super app" that will consolidate its fragmented product lineup into a single AI-powered work environment. The move, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on March 19, 2026, marks the end of OpenAI’s "side quest" era as the company doubles down on enterprise productivity and autonomous agentic workflows. The new application will merge the core ChatGPT conversational interface with Codex, OpenAI's specialized coding agent,

Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have successfully dismantled the command-and-control infrastructure of four major botnets that had hijacked more than three million devices worldwide. The operation, finalized on March 19, 2026, targeted the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad networks, which were responsible for some of the most destructive cyberattacks in internet history. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that the botnets were primarily

Aura, a leading provider of intelligent digital safety and identity theft protection, has confirmed a significant security breach that exposed approximately 900,000 records. The company, which markets itself as a shield against the very type of cybercrime it recently fell victim to, attributed the incident to a "targeted phone phishing attack" (vishing) against one of its employees. The breach, first flagged by the notification service Have I Been Pwned on March 18, 2026, all