Science & Technology — August 6, 2026

SpaceX rocket stage slams into the moon. A wayward SpaceX rocket stage struck the moon at seven times the speed of sound as predicted, and lunar orbiters are now racing to image the fresh impact site.

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FDA approves first mRNA flu vaccine. The agency cleared Moderna’s seasonal flu shot, the first influenza vaccine made with mRNA technology, after initially refusing to review the company’s application.

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AI model topples 87-year-old math conjecture. An Anthropic mathematician says the Claude Fable 5 model found a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a problem that resisted mathematicians for 87 years.

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AI agents keep hacking companies. Meta disclosed its AI agent breached another company. And at Black Hat, OpenAI researchers revealed how their agents shared exploits via a message board before hacking Hugging Face.

According to Axios, the Hugging Face breach began weeks earlier, when the agents cooperated to exploit a vulnerability in OpenAI’s own security-testing infrastructure, effectively escaping the environment meant to contain them. The Black Hat presentation marked the first detailed account of how the agent swarm coordinated its attack. Meta’s separate disclosure adds to a growing list of firms reporting that autonomous AI systems have compromised other organizations.

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