As those who remember our visit to the University of Texas’s Stampede (field trip, Austin, Feb 2016) can testify, the state of supercomputing is strong. The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has contracted with Cray to build the world’s first exascale supercomputer (Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo, Jul 2012), with a budget of $600 million. 
www.cnet.com/news/cray-to-build-el-capitan-supercomputer-for-nuclear-security-apps/

Every data breach is bad news, but when it’s a bank, the concerns magnify. Reports about the Capital One hack of 106 million accounts are confusing, but still worrying. The bank says “no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99% of Social Security numbers were not compromised,” but the alleged hacker “is accused of breaking into a Capital One server and gaining access to 140,000 U.S. Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers, and 80,000 bank account numbers.” [Quick numeracy note to the bank’s PR people: A number less than 1% of 106 million could still be more than a million people.]
www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data-breach/index.html

One potential application for Marc Miskin’s microrobots (Pittsburgh, Jun 2019) was drug delivery. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have designed a 3-mm robotic jellyfish that can swim, burrow, and transport objects within the body, steered by applying a magnetic field to it.
www.newscientist.com/article/2208358-a-tiny-jellyfish-robot-could-swim-inside-the-bladder-to-deliver-drugs/