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A critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's PeopleSoft platform has exposed hundreds of organizations to a ransomware group known as ShinyHunters. The attackers exploited the flaw for more than two weeks before Oracle flagged it, stealing gigabytes of data and extorting at least one victim into paying up. It's a stark reminder of how long the window between breach and disclosure can remain dangerously open.
Shifting to the roads, Renault has published details on electric motors that eliminate rare earth materials entirely. That's significant because rare earths are geopolitically sensitive, expensive, and environmentally costly to mine. If Renault can make this work at scale, it changes the supply chain math for the entire electric vehicle industry in a meaningful way.
And Elon Musk has crossed a threshold no individual has reached before, becoming the world's first trillionaire. The milestone reflects the compounding valuations of his ventures, particularly Tesla and SpaceX, but it also raises real questions about wealth concentration, market power, and what it means when a single person's net worth rivals the GDP of entire nations.
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