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Friday August 22, 2025. 12:20 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Jay Blahnik was a fitness superstar with a book and nearly two decades of work with Nike before he was hired in 2013 to work on the Apple Watch. He became known inside Apple as the creator of the watch's signature...
Underground forums now recruiting English-speaking social engineers English speakers adept at social engineering are a hot commodity in the cybercrime job market.…
Thursday August 21, 2025. 11:40 PM
Google is rolling out AI Mode in Search to 180 countries, expanding beyond the US, UK, and India, with even more countries being added soon. The search giant is also expanding its AI Mode's agentic capabilities, so you can now use natural language to find restaurant...
A very long-held belief that the mechanical computer, 'the Norden Bombsight,' gave the United States a massive advantage in World War II has been shattered. It isn't that the bombsight doesn't work, but that the type of bombing and targeting it was designed for, flying...
Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine...
It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies’ generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever....
Light pollution extends the active hours of birds worldwide by nearly an hour, fundamentally altering the natural rhythms of over 500 species across multiple continents. Analysis of 60 million bird call recordings reveals that artificial lighting causes birds to begin...
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In case you were wondering the White House has issued a press release wherein Trump confirms his prejudice with a long list of complaints about museum exhibits. Seeking to better honor the United States' long-standing and historic policies of discrimination, Donald Trump...
Denmark's PostNord will end centuries of letter delivery as digitalization and high postage costs make physical mail nearly obsolete. The BBC reports: The steep decline in letter volumes has been driven largely by digitalization, and PostNord announced in March that it will...
The machinations of Trump and his lapdog attorney general were unable to secure ethically challenged Alina Habba a job. There were 77 pages to be written about the Trump Administration's attempt to illegally place Alina Habba in the role of US Attorney for New Jersey. —...
The Trump administration is reviewing more than 55 million foreigners holding valid U.S. visas to identify potential violations that could lead to revocation or deportation. According to the State Department, all visa holders are now subject to 'continuous vetting' for...
The ultra-luxurious Santa Monica Proper hotel faces a class-action lawsuit alleging it has failed to pay workers minimum wage, sometimes compensating them less per hour than the $20 it charges guests for a bowl of hummus. Filed this week in L.A. — Read the rest The post LA...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As banks around the world prepare to replace many thousands of workers with AI, Australia's biggest bank is scrambling to rehire 45 workers after allegedly lying about chatbots besting staff by handling higher call...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a previously unrecorded tiny moon orbiting Uranus. 'It's a small moon but a significant discovery, which is something that even NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft didn't see during its flyby nearly 40 years ago,' said Maryame El...
Cisco, the San Jose-based technology giant, has announced another round of layoffs affecting Bay Area workers, marking a familiar pattern of reporting skyrocketing revenue followed by drastic job cuts. From a report: According to Aug. 13 WARN filings with California's...
A new cryptocurrency promoted by Kanye West’s X account soared in value—then crashed, inflicting losses on the majority of investors.
Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas It's been more than 200 years since the United States issued a letter of marque allowing privateers to attack the vessels of foreign nations, but those...
Another merchant of manufactured moral panic has shuffled off this mortal coil, as James Dobson — the man who turned 'family values' into a cash-printing hate machine – died Thursday at 89. As reported in The New York Times, the Focus on the Family founder spent decades...
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