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Shengjia Zhao — formerly of OpenAI — is the new chief scientist at Meta's new Superintelligence Lab, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Threads on Friday.

Why it matters: The company is spending billions of dollars to hire key employees as it looks to jumpstart its effort and compete with Google, OpenAI and others.

Mark Zuckerberg details Meta's superintelligence plans

The United Kingdom has surpassed China as the second largest global holder of US public debt.

The English ally now holds $779 billion, partly taking the place of the BRICS which are offloading their holdings. China falls back to third place, with $765 billion. Japan remains the top holder, with $1.113 trillion.

China Drops American Debt

Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Denver have found a novel way to create extreme electromagnetic fields, much like those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on a thumb-sized chip in the laboratory.

The breakthrough promises a revolution in science, allowing quantum scientists to probe ideas that are straight out of science fiction and improve our understanding of medicine and physics, a press release said. 

US chip recreates LHC-scale energy for medical, quantum breakthroughs

A Litchfield Park woman has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for her role in helping the North Koreans obtain remote tech jobs, helping generate $17 million in illegal funds for herself and the regime.

Phoenix-area woman sentenced for aiding North Korea in remote IT work scheme

Israel has confirmed that its troops killed two Palestinian teens overnight in the occupied West Bank, but said its forces targeted people throwing firebombs.

Ahmad Ali Asaad Ashira al-Salah, 15, and Mohammad Khaled Aliyan Issa, 17, were shot dead on Wednesday night, in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.

The Israeli army confirmed the report to AFP, saying its forces had killed two people from a group of “several terrorists”.

Macron: France to recognize Palestine as a state prompting Netanyahu's criticism

Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink said it had a "network outage" on Thursday. The company said it was working on a solution.

There were more than 60,000 reports of an outage on Downdetector, a site that logs issues.

Musk's Starlink hit with outage day after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service

President Trump meets with Fed Chair Jerome Powell

Hulk Hogan, the blond and boisterous body-slammer who brought pro wrestling into the mainstream in the 1980s while becoming one of the most recognizable celebrities of his generation, died Thursday. He was 71

Hulk Hogan, Pro Wrestler Who Became a Household Name, Dies at 71

Google’s rumored Pixel Watch 4 may charge on its side rather than on its back, based on leaked official renders of the watch published by Android Headlines. The watch may also get a roughly 25 percent improvement in charging speed over the Pixel Watch 3.

Google’s Pixel Watch 4 might charge on its side

Quality threat intelligence has traditionally been the domain of enterprise-level budgets and premium subscriptions.

The kind of fresh, actionable data that transforms how SOCs operate has remained frustratingly out of reach for many organizations. Until now.

Exclusive! Threat Intelligence That Powers Best SOCs Worldwide Is Now Free

President Donald Trump will join a tour of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, on Thursday afternoon, a sharp escalation in his pressure campaign on the body’s chairman Jerome Powell over the central bank’s renovation project and interest-rate policy.

Trump to tour the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion renovation

security

Google has released an urgent security update for its Chrome browser, addressing three critical vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to execute arbitrary code on users’ systems.

The Stable channel update to version 138.0.7204.168/.169 for Windows and Mac, and 138.0.7204.168 for Linux, is currently rolling out to users worldwide over the coming days and weeks.

Chrome High-Severity Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code

A sneaky menace made its way into Arch User Repository. Another reminder to not blindly trust packages from AUR, PPA and even from Snapcraft.

Someone Slipped a RAT into Arch Linux!

Two significant Grafana vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to redirect users to malicious websites and execute arbitrary JavaScript code. 

The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2025-6023 and CVE-2025-6197, affect multiple versions of Grafana, including 12.0.x, 11.6.x, 11.5.x, 11.4.x, and 11.3.x branches. 

Grafana Vulnerabilities Allow Malicious Sites Redirection And Code Execution

devs

Introducing GitHub Spark

GitHub Spark is a new tool in Copilot that turns your ideas into full-stack apps, entirely in natural language.

President Donald Trump is set to deliver remarks on artificial intelligence and sign AI-related executive orders as he rolls out his administration's "action plan" to give the U.S. a competitive advantage with the nascent technology.

Watch: Trump delivers remarks on AI 'action plan' and signs executive orders

Microsoft has hired around two dozen employees from Alphabet's Google DeepMind artificial intelligence research lab in recent months, a person familiar with the recruiting told CNBC.

The person asked not to be named in order to discuss internal matters.

Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind AI talent as it beefs up Copilot

Needham & Company senior media and internet analyst Laura Martin joins Market Domination with Josh Lipton to discuss Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) upcoming earnings report and what investors need to see for the stock to be considered in good shape.

4 advantages give Alphabet a 'strategic position' in AI race

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’

Apple and Google may be required to change the way they operate some of their mobile services in the UK, according to proposed decisions by the UK's competition regulator.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the tech giants over their app stores, browsers and operating systems.