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Foreign these are the daily tech headlines for the week ending Saturday, March 7, 2026. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's catch up on the news. The Wall Street Journal sources say US Investigators suspect Chinese government linked hackers breached an FBI internal network containing data tied to domestic surveillance orders. The compromised system held metadata like phone numbers, IP addresses and website routing information, but not the content of communications. The FBI says it detected and addressed suspicious activity, but the investigation is ongoing and the full scope of the intrusion is not clear. The US President signed an executive order aimed at strengthening efforts against cybercrime, particularly fraud and extortion, carried out by transnational criminal groups. The order directs officials to review and improve operational, technical, diplomatic and regulatory tools used to combat these organizations. It also calls for an action plan to identify the groups responsible for digital crimes and propose ways to stop their operations. Nintendo is suing the US Government over imposed tariffs, arguing that they were unlawful after a Supreme Court ruling limited the president's authority to impose them and under the International Emergency Economic Powers act. The company says it was financially harmed and wants refunds with interest for tariffs already paid on imported products. Nintendo previously raised prices on the original Switch due to tariffs, but hasn't increased the price of the Switch 2 Google and Microsoft said Anthropic's AI technology is still available for non defense projects after the Department of Defense blacklisted the company as a supply chain risk. Amazon also confirmed it will continue using Anthropic's models to cloud customers outside of DoD work. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi said the company plans to challenge the designation in court. The Pentagon directed federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology, including Claude, within six months, with some contractors having already switched to alternatives. Meanwhile, Claude's consumer growth continues. App Intelligence provider App Figures reports daily active users on Mobile reached 11.3 million on March 2. That's up 183% from the start of the year, and app installs hit 149,000, surpassing ChatGPT's 124,000 in new downloads. Claude is the number one app on the US App Store and in 15 other countries with more than 1 million daily signups. That's according to similar web web traffic, also up rising 43% month over month in February. Anthropic also says paid subscribers have doubled since early 2026. Anthropic used Cloud Opus 4.6 to identify 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks, 14 classified as high severity. Most were fixed in Firefox 148, with remaining patches scheduled for the next release. The team focused on the JavaScript engine and expanded through the code base, finding Claude more effective at detecting bugs than creating exploits, succeeding in only two cases despite $4,000 spent on API credits. The exercise highlights AI's utility in securing complex open source projects. We also have a bunch of OpenAI news. The company launched Codex Security, a tool that scans code for vulnerabilities, validates them and suggests fixes. This evolved from last year's Aardvark research Agent and analyzes repositories, tests weaknesses in sandbox environments, and generates proof of concept exploits. In testing, Codex security flagged nearly 800 critical and over 10,500 high severity issues, including bugs in open source projects like Open ssh, gnu, TLS and Chromium. The Research preview is free for the first month. For enterprise, business and education customers, OpenAI and Oracle abandoned plans to expand a major AI data center in Abilene, Texas, after negotiations stalled over financing and OpenAI's ever evolving infrastructure needs. The deal's collapse has opened the possibility for Meta to lease the expansion site from developer Crusoe, Bloomberg reports. Nvidia helped facilitate discussions between Meta and the developer, and OpenAI has delayed ChatGPT's adult mode for the second time, citing a focus on personalization, intelligence improvements and making the experience more proactive. The feature is meant to allow adult content, but requires an age verification system that works. OpenAI says the extra time will improve age prediction and protections for younger users. The company confirmed it still plans to release the feature. Around 10 million people now appear to have had their personal data stolen. In the 2024 Transport for London hack, the scattered spider group breached TfL systems, disrupting online services and causing 39 million pounds in damages. A leaked database revealed names, emails, phone numbers and addresses. TFL notified 7.1 million customers by email, but this number also means millions likely remained unaware. The ICO cleared TFL of wrongdoing, and two British teenagers are set to stand trial in June. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to dailytechnewsshow.com that's where you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I am Sarah Lane. Thank you for listening and enjoy the rest of your weekends and we'll talk to you Monday.