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Monday October 6, 2025. 05:55 PM
Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot Deloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used generative AI to produce a report riddled with fake citations, phantom...
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Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it 'for money and for the love of the game' Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into...
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A mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service was 'shot in the face' by an Amazon driver on Friday, report local media, after what the postal inspector in Everett, Washington, described as 'a small altercation.' The mail carrier lives but is in intensive care; the Amazon...
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The 6.17.1, 6.16.11, 6.12.51, and 6.6.110 stable kernels have been released. This time around, they contain a relatively small number of important fixes in various parts of the kernel.
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Incompetent FBI Director Kash 'K$H' Patel's troubling new FBI challenge coin represents vigilantism, retribution, and extrajudicial violence: all of which directly oppose the principles of lawful policing. Cops using 'The Punisher' skull have either not read the comic or...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (dovecot, git, log4cxx, and openssl), Fedora (containernetworking-plugins, firebird, firefox, jupyterlab, mupdf, and thunderbird), Oracle (ipa), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, gnutls, kernel,...
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With the annual Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) taking place this week in Denver, we can expect more news about Apple in the enterprise. The event, which has become a traditional launching pad for Apple/enterprise news announcements, is expected to attract Apple IT pros ...
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Fortune tested the AI Friend necklace for two weeks and found it struggled to perform its basic function. The $129 pendant missed conversations entirely during the author's breakup call and could only offer vague questions about 'fragments' when she tried to ask for advice....
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Speaker of the House 'MAGA' Mike Johnson's audacity knows no bounds. The Republican Party, which has spent decades gutting healthcare and making the for-profit system only work for the profiteers, wants to look you in the eye and lie to you. — Read the rest The post MAGA...
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Curtis Yarvin, the reactionary monarchist blogger described lately as the 'court philosopher' of Trumpworld and Silicon Valley types, is dimming on the Orange King's prospects. In fact, he suggests everyone involved in all this needs a '2029 plan'. The second Trump...
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TL;DR: New users can get lifetime access to all of Babbel's language offerings for $135 with promo code LEARN Nothing puts a wrench in your international travel plans quite like a government shutdown, am I right? If you have plans, especially non-refundable ones, to go...
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Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries about how the immune system regulates itself. The three researchers split 11 million Swedish kroner ($1.17 million). Their work identified...
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A new report from The Conference Board and ESGAUGE finds that 72 percent of S&P 500 companies now flag AI as a material risk in their public disclosures. That’s up from just 12 percent in 2023, underscoring how rapidly AI has moved from experimental pilots to...
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A few nights ago video of an ICE brownshirt hosing down the air-inlet of a seriously not dangerous person with pepper spray made the rounds. The Frog is back and has made a statement: they've tasted spicer. Trump's masked brownshirts face no consequences. — Read the...
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Politicians and pundits often fight over the first and second amendments to the U.S. Constitution, but now MAGA madness has the third one finally in the spotlight: 'No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner.' — Read the...
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6GW chip pact sends AMD stock soaring, Nvidia has a rival for Altman biz love AMD and OpenAI have forged a 6 gigawatt agreement to power OpenAI’s AI infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs.…
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OpenAI and AMD announced a multibillion-dollar partnership on Monday for AI data centers running on AMD processors. OpenAI committed to purchasing 6 gigawatts worth of AMD's MI450 chips starting next year through direct purchases or through its cloud computing partners. AMD...
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The Marine Mammal Care Center (MMCC) needs your help. MMCC is the only year-round hospital in Los Angeles dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating sick, injured, and orphaned seals and sea lions. Last year, MMCC competed in the Land Rover Defender Service Awards and came so...
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Coin designs depicting a 'Trump Dollar' are 'real', according to U.S. Treasurer Brandon Breach. They plan to issue them to commemorate America's 250th birthday in 2026. It is against the law for the a living president, sitting or former, to be depicted on U.S. — Read the...
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Musk space biz: 'Anyone else that wants to use the spectrum must coordinate with us first' EchoStar says it has met the regulatory conditions to maintain the spectrum it is selling to Musk's rocketeers.…
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