Industry News (opens original source in a new tab)ScienceDailyA strange crystal made of electrons just revealed its hidden motionPhysicists have found a new way to peer inside one of matter’s most elusive quantum states: the Wigner crystal, where electrons stop behaving like independent particles and organize into a crystal-like pattern. By shining light on an atomically thin material cooled close to absolute zero, researchers uncovered optical signals that reveal not just where the electrons are, but how they move together. (opens original source in a new tab)12 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostChina’s top court highlights first Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law ruling amid global tensionsChina’s top court recently highlighted the first judicial ruling establishing the mandatory nature of its Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, which experts say could provide legal precedent and guide Chinese companies facing increasingly frequent overseas sanctions amid intensifying geopolitical tensions. The case, heard by the Shanghai Maritime Court, centred on a dispute that involved US sanctions, a Singapore shipping company, a Hong Kong-based company and electronic goods shipped from Shanghai. In.. (opens original source in a new tab)Sylvia Ma·12 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsMalicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ OrganizationsTwo malicious LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for about 40 minutes in March carrying credential-stealing code capable of harvesting cloud keys, SSH keys, Kubernetes tokens, database passwords, and other secrets from systems that installed them. Threat intelligence firm CloudSEK now says a dataset it obtained, built from roughly 434,000 files the attackers captured, maps potential exposure to more (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·12 August 2026
Robotics & Automation (opens original source in a new tab)Robotics & Automation NewsKapsch TrafficCom expands satellite tolling to the NetherlandsGeo-location platform now operating in the Netherlands and Belgium Kapsch TrafficCom has deployed its Geo Location Platform (GLP) for satellite-based tolling in the Netherlands, marking a key step in the expansion across European tolling domains. The GLP is now operating in both the Netherlands and Belgium, where it is used to create tolling transactions through […] (opens original source in a new tab)David Edwards·12 August 2026
Robotics & Automation (opens original source in a new tab)Robotics & Automation NewsChina racing ahead in autonomous car adoption, says new reportChina is the country most prepared for self-driving cars, according to a new report. The new study by the B2B car company eCarsTrade analyzed robotaxi deployment, road infrastructure, legal frameworks, and public sentiment across 15 countries to see which nations are actually putting driverless vehicles on the road. Driven by massive robotaxi deployment, nearuniversal 5G […] (opens original source in a new tab)David Edwards·12 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsSAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary CodeSAP has released patches to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Commerce Cloud (Data Hub Adapter) that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-58231, is rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as a case of insufficient authorization checks and input validation. "SAP Commerce Cloud allows an (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·12 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostChina’s EV sales slide again amid fading incentives, weak demand and persistent price warDeliveries of electric vehicles (EVs) in China fell 3.9 per cent in July from a year earlier, extending their decline to a seventh consecutive month as fading government incentives and weaker consumer demand weighed on the market. Domestic sales of pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles last month also fell 5.8 per cent from June, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). “A bleak market outlook is likely to affect most small [EV] companies, as some of them will be... (opens original source in a new tab)Daniel Ren·12 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsShieldBreak Zero-Day PoC Claims Microsoft Defender Patch Bypass With SYSTEM AccessThe security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a new Microsoft zero-day called ShieldBreak. The vulnerability, rooted in Microsoft Defender for Windows, demonstrates a patch bypass for CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), otherwise known as RoguePlanet. RoguePlanet has been described (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·12 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)Startup DailyThe Big 3 VCs back robot testing startup’s $11.5 million Seed raiseAlloy Robotics lands $11.5m from Australia’s VC trinity to slash robot test analysis from a day to 10 minutes. (opens original source in a new tab)Startup Daily·12 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)Startup DailyWhat to do when your business outgrows your brandThis story behind a rebrand is a reminder that sometimes, our businesses need to find an identity of their own. (opens original source in a new tab)George Hedon·12 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsCisco ASA and FTD Flaw Exploited in the Wild Can Trigger Remote DoSCisco has warned that a new vulnerability impacting Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20349 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of insufficient error checking when processing HTTP requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·12 August 2026