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Questions are swirling around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang following reports of an extramarital affair and what sensitive information may have been exposed to Chinese intelligence. Nvidia insists no company secrets were compromised, but security experts warn that personal relationships can create vulnerabilities that are difficult to fully assess or contain.
Shifting to the streets of San Francisco, Waymo's autonomous vehicles are generating fresh headlines for all the wrong reasons. One robotaxi reportedly tailgated and attempted to push through a California Highway Patrol blockade, while a separate vehicle was spotted driving around with an active traffic citation. The incidents raise pointed questions about how self-driving systems handle edge cases that human drivers navigate through judgment and social awareness.
And Nintendo is once again flexing its legal muscle in the ongoing battle against console modification. The gaming giant has filed a DMCA takedown on GitHub targeting firmware for the Picofly modchip, a device used to run unauthorized software on the Switch. Nintendo frames this as copyright protection, though the modding community argues the line between piracy and personal ownership rights remains genuinely contested.
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