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🔴 Jensen Huang is leaving Nvidia’s leadership, according to a company statement. Colette Kress, its CFO, is expected to be named interim CEO, according to Bloomberg.

Colette Kress could take the helm at Nvidia. According to Semafor, some board members want to appoint the CFO as interim CEO if Jensen Huang were to be ousted.
A board meeting was scheduled overnight Wednesday to Thursday (French time) to decide the founder's future, but no decision has yet been announced. Jensen Huang has been weakened by revelations about two extramarital affairs, one of them with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. An internal investigation aims to determine whether he may have divulged company secrets.
Aged 59, Colette Kress has been Nvidia's CFO since 2013, after st

🚨 Encryption: lawmakers remove article banning backdoors
Today, your messages on WhatsApp or Signal are end-to-end encrypted: only you and the person you’re communicating with can read them. Neither the app nor the police can intercept them.
A backdoor would be a kind of master key imposed on these apps to allow investigators to read certain conversations. The problem: a master key could also fall into the wrong hands, weakening security for all users.
The Senate had added Article 16 bis to the cybersecurity bill specifically to ban imposing this kind of system. On Tuesday, the National Assem

🔴 Nvidia is reportedly preparing to oust its CEO Jensen Huang, according to The Wall Street Journal. The New York Times, for its part, claims he had another affair with a female Nvidia executive.

🤖 Visits to Shopify stores by AI agents have increased eightfold in a year (orders 13-fold), and they now account for the majority of Internet traffic. Companies will have to attract this new customer base after long trying to block bots.