North America tech news
Technology news from North America: official announcements from its governments, companies and institutions.
CFTC wins $31 million judgment over Fundsz digital assets fraud
The U.S. derivatives regulator says a Florida federal court ordered restitution, penalties and permanent trading bans over a scheme tied to the unincorporated Fundsz entity.
CFTC
NASA, CSA, German Aerospace Center plan lunar crop demonstrator
The three agencies signed a joint statement of intent to prepare an Earth-based demonstrator for growing crops under Moon-like conditions, NASA said.
NASA
NASA’s Webb maps 21 extreme debris disks from planet smashups
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope assembled the largest sample yet of extreme debris disks, linking their dust chemistry to collisions between Mars- and Moon-sized bodies.
NASA
BreakingCISA flags data exposure flaw in Johnson Controls EasyIO Neo
CISA says CVE-2026-64892 could let an attacker obtain sensitive information from building automation controllers used worldwide, with fixed firmware now available.
CISA
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Launches on Fastest Flight to Station
NASA said the Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts will dock about 7 hours and 50 minutes after liftoff, the quickest launch-to-docking by a U.S. spacecraft at the ISS.
NASA
Workday opens UAE operations with new Dubai office and AI study
Workday says it has launched operations in the United Arab Emirates and published survey findings claiming 90% of UAE employees use AI at least weekly.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Branch launches high yield savings inside Uber Pro Card
The embedded finance provider says gig drivers and couriers can earn up to 3.25% APY by keeping an average daily balance of $500 or more.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Volantis raises $88M to attack AI memory wall with photonics
The semiconductor startup says its photonic interconnect links compute chips to pooled memory, with first inference engines promised to customers in 2027.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Google Cloud launches official Swift SDK for server backends
Google says its new google-cloud-swift libraries give server-side Swift developers native access to Cloud Storage, IAM and more than one hundred other Google Cloud services.
Google Cloud
Vulnerability Watch, October 1, 2026: 13 critical CVEs and 39 new vendor and CERT advisories
Every critical-severity CVE NIST published in the past day, plus the latest advisories from national CERTs and vendors.
NIST