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The biggest story right now is Apple taking OpenAI to court, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Apple claims former employees walked out the door with confidential designs, supplier data, and engineering files before landing at OpenAI and Jony Ive's hardware venture io Products. Apple is calling that business, in no uncertain terms, rotten to its core.
Shifting to the battlefield, a Russian drone called Molniya recently struck a Ukrainian facility with no visible control antenna — just a camera and a computer onboard. Ukraine believes the targeting and navigation may now run entirely without human input, and analysts suspect the hardware could be built around Nvidia's Jetson Orin platform, acquired through a commercial off-the-shelf loophole.
And on a quieter but practical note, GitHub's security team has published a guide urging repository maintainers to enable six key protective settings right now. It's a reminder that open-source infrastructure is only as trustworthy as the hygiene of the people maintaining it — and that hygiene, too often, gets skipped.
Those are the stories shaping the conversation today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
