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Capcom has confirmed a data breach affecting roughly eleven point seven million accounts tied to its CAPCOM ID platform. Attackers primarily exposed email addresses, though a smaller number of users lost additional personal details, and passwords were forcibly reset on one hundred ninety six accounts. Capcom says it has secured the platform and is urging users to stay alert for phishing attempts.
Staying in the world of chips and geopolitics, an Israeli security firm called Lava says it has identified thirty two Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B three hundred GPUs operating inside the network of China Telecom, a state-owned carrier. Those chips are explicitly barred from export under current US controls, raising serious questions about how they crossed the border and who facilitated it.
And rounding out today's broadcast, Mercedes-Benz is deepening its partnership with Nvidia, adopting the Drive AGX computing platform as part of its push toward level four autonomy. Level four means the car handles most driving scenarios without human input — a threshold the industry has been chasing for years, and Mercedes appears to be making a serious run at it.
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