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The Trump administration is pushing to give private companies the legal authority to hack back against foreign cybercriminals. The proposal would loosen longstanding restrictions on offensive cyber operations, essentially deputizing corporations to strike at overseas actors targeting them. It's a significant shift that raises real questions about escalation, accountability, and where private action ends and state action begins.
Meanwhile, in orbit, Russia is moving faster than expected with Rassvet, its answer to Starlink. Ukrainian intelligence underestimated the pace of development, and Moscow is now targeting a constellation of nine hundred twenty four satellites by two thousand thirty five. Coverage remains intermittent for now, but the trajectory points toward a new theater of geopolitical competition that nobody has fully reckoned with yet.
Closer to earth and closer to your wallet, Google's Gemini three point seven Flash is drawing attention for a notable improvement in capability at its budget price tier. Three weeks ago reviewers were writing it off after it failed basic coding tasks. Now it's generating playable games from scratch, though analysts note it still struggles with multi-step reasoning, and some open models continue to outwrite it on prose.
That's where things stand today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
