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Hacker steals ten petabytes from Chinese supercomputer

A hacker claimed to have exfiltrated more than ten petabytes of data from the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China. Samples posted on Telegram by an account named “FlamingChina” reportedly include classified defense documents, technical files, simulations and missile plans. Security experts who reviewed the samples say the attacker exploited a compromised VPN domain, then spread extraction across many systems to avoid detection; the operation allegedly took about six months. The seller is offering the dataset for cryptocurrency. The incident highlights significant security gaps in China’s high-performance computing infrastructure and raises national-security and data‑sovereignty concerns.

Ten Theses: Marketing 2026—Abolish or Reimagine

This OnlineMarketing.de piece by Ralf Scharnhorst presents ten theses about the future of marketing in 2026, framed as critical shifts away from traditional reach toward targeted, sustainable strategies. It argues that understanding audience segments is more valuable than broad reach, recommending three groups: buyers, non-buyers, and undecided, with budgets focused on the undecided to unlock conversions. It foresees AI-driven personalization supplanting viral hits, suggesting every ad impression could show a different, tailored creative. The analysis emphasizes video over TV, expansion of service formats, and AI-assisted efficiencies across production. It highlights three levers against Walled Gardens (cookie opt-out, ID solutions, Ad Context Protocol), stresses sustainability and real-time ESG data, and envisions marketing merging with product teams and brands evolving into AI personalities by 2030. The piece portrays these theses as scenario-based guidance for navigating imminent industry change.

Ten AI Stories That Shaped 2025

A year-in-review of 2025 highlights a turning point for AI: the end of American exclusivity at the frontier, intense multi-directional competition, and rapid advances in reasoning and agentic systems. Chinese startup DeepSeek released R1 (and later R1-0528), challenging assumptions about capital intensity. OpenAI posted large financial milestones (a $40B private raise at a $300B valuation, conversion to a public benefit corporation, and $1B monthly revenue by August) but faced stronger competitors and mixed reception for GPT-5. The year saw aggressive talent poaching and startup financings, major licensing deals (music and publishing), the first large-scale legal-commercial templates for AI-generated creative content, chip geopolitics and export-control reversals, massive infrastructure spending proposals, and mixed signals on economic impact and possible market overheating.