Stocks post weekly losses amid widening Iran conflict, AI worries, and tariffs
By Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick Cai
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hackin…
Stocks post weekly losses amid widening Iran conflict, AI worries, and tariffsBy Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick CaiWASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - The OpenAI agent that b… [+142 chars]
Now that LeBron James has officially decided to join the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million contract, many are happy that the saga is finally over. Yet, one of his former teammates is responding with confusion.
Now that LeBron James has officially decided to join the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million contract, many are happy that the saga is finally over. Yet, one of his former teammates is respo… [+2073 chars]
AI companies need to accept some uncomfortable trade-offs to make their models more secure, says Parmy Olson for Bloomberg Opinion.
What makes the latest incident stand out is that OpenAIs models hacked their way out, rather than being inadvertently freed by surrounding software. The UKs AI Security Institute, one of the worlds l… [+1776 chars]
OpenAI President Greg Brockman talks a bit about where the company’s increasingly Jarvis-like AI agents could be heading next… and in what form.
OpenAIs facing a firestorm of late: a rogue agent hacking Hugging Face, a lawsuit launched by Apple accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, and ongoing anger about AI and AI devices in general, pl… [+5328 chars]
EU fined Google €890M under the DMA for favoring its own services and restricting Play Store competition, with AI search features also under scrutiny. The European Commission hit Google with two fines totalling €890 million on Thursday for violating the Digit…
Google Fined 890M Under EU Digital Markets Act Over Search and Play Store Practices
The European Commission hit Google with two fines totalling 890 million on Thursday for violating the Digital Mark… [+3861 chars]
Rich Paul and LeBron James thought 'for a lot of the time' that he would end up back in Miami
Ramona Shelburne: As for the impact of LeBron James decision on his son Bronny James, Rich Paul, the agent for both tells ESPN that "they are not a package deal" and there's no current plan or reques… [+2382 chars]
Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)
Europol and its partners' investigators flagged 4,340 horrific URLs for removal over several weeks in June and July as part of an ongoing crackdown on The Com (short for community), a loosely knit ne… [+2720 chars]
The latest big hype release for Swatch was as difficult to get your hands on as the Royal Pop.
Swatch has absolutely dominated the watch world this year. If the hype around the Swatch x Audemars Piguet collaboration timepiece, the Royal Pop, wasn't enough for fans, then the brand-new, limited-… [+1489 chars]
OpenAI co-founder warns AI models are becoming harder to control after its model hacked another firmFox Business How a Chinese AI model stopped OpenAI’s ‘unprecedented’ cyber attackCNBC OpenAI Hacking Fiasco Exposes a “Deeply Insufficient” System to Protect t…
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FATF Says Crypto Travel Rule Adoption Is Rising, But Enforcement Still Lags - Read the full analysis on NewsBTC.
The Financial Action Task Force says more jurisdictions are putting crypto rules into law, but enforcement remains the weak point.
In its Seventh Targeted Update on the implementation of FATF standa… [+5770 chars]
A security system often installed by used car dealerships can remain dormant in your car but be activated by hackers attempting to gain entry.
When you install an anti-theft system in your car, you reasonably expect it to make your car more difficult to steal. We can debate how useful, or not, various anti-theft systems are, but they should… [+1507 chars]
tldr: I uncovered Y Combinator was scoring 100k+ founders around the world through Paxel, I broke it (possible easter egg) + found a vulnerability that let anyone forge and push any score to their ranking database, courtesy of an unvalidated hmac
tldr: I uncovered Y Combinator was scoring 100k+ founders around the world through Paxel, I broke it (possible easter egg) + found a vulnerability that let anyone forge and push any score to their ra… [+8653 chars]
PlayStation, which is operated by Sony, confirmed users are likely to experience problems trying to sign in and manage their accounts, stream games and use the online store.
Thousands of gamers are reporting issues accessing the PlayStation Network, as Sony confirmed all its services are down.
Schoolchildren hoping to kick off the summer holidays playing popular games s… [+1764 chars]
The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, howe…
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On The Vergecast: Google vs. websites, OpenAI vs. Hugging Face, and Fords deal with Apple Maps.
On The Vergecast: Google vs. websites, OpenAI vs. Hugging Face, … [+3151 chars]
The EU sanctioned five Iranian judges and cyber group founder Nima Salehi over human rights abuses, tightening compliance demands for crypto
The post EU sanctions Iranian judges and cyber group founder, raising fresh questions about digital enforcement appear…
The European Union targeted five Revolutionary Court judges and the founder of the Ashiyane cyber group over human rights abuses, adding another layer to the West's expanding sanctions architecture a… [+2489 chars]
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has had it with the surge of obnoxious “harassing” videos shot using Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ that are flooding its social media platform – causing the executive to ban the content. "If you're posting content that is taking advantag…
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has had it with the surge of obnoxious harassing videos shot using Metas pervert glasses that are flooding the social media platform causing the executive to ban the conten… [+4000 chars]
It's an interesting time for emulation and game preservation, and Microsoft's official Xbox-for-PC emulation efforts have added fuel to the fire. Officially, the Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC program only supports a tailored selection of OG Xbox games.
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It's an interesting time for emulation and game preservation, and Microsoft's official Xbox-for-PC emulation efforts have added fuel to the fire. Officially, the Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC pr… [+2513 chars]
Somehow, seeing that reference banana get slapped all over Yani’s cheeks feels dirtier than whatever Tatsuro is actually going to include in her next hentai.
I'm not going to lie, folks: For a moment there, I was convinced that the opening joke of this week's Chainsmoker Cat was going to be Yani Neko straight up letting a boy drown in the river so she cou… [+4594 chars]
Sponsored by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), the bipartisan "AI Kill Switch Act" would also require AI companies to report incidents and develop the technical ability to shut down, limit, or suspend their most powerful AI systems, wri…
Ripple effect: While there's debate over details of OpenAI's claim that one of its AI models went rogue and hacked another company, it's already led to a push for an "AI kill switch" from lawmakers. … [+2762 chars]
Trump's voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge covers 80% of US electricity delivery but faces skepticism over enforcement and crypto mining
The post Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge faces skepticism as data centers devour the grid appeared first on Crypto …
A voluntary commitment covering 80% of US electricity delivery sounds impressive until you notice the word 'voluntary' The White House wants AI data centers to pay for their own electricity appetite … [+3542 chars]
[Ayush Paul] posts about extracting data from Claude agents while it accesses web data to fulfill user requests. But it wasn’t that easy. [Ayush] discovered that Anthropic anticipated many of …read more
[Ayush Paul] posts about extracting data from Claude agents while it accesses web data to fulfill user requests.
But it wasn’t that easy. [Ayush] discovered that Anthropic anticipated many of the at… [+9721 chars]
Can you believe it's been twenty years since Final Fantasy X and X-2 were released? If you've got an urge to replay them, you're in luck! Plus an interview with the creator of Duskfade.
Welcome back, folks! The heat is well and truly on; while it's already been sweltering in most parts of the country, my city also had its own little two-day heat wave. I can only hope that our spot o… [+20034 chars]
Boston, MA-based executive search firm Bauer Harris has assisted in the recruitment of Mark Halpern as the vice president of marketing operations for PREMIER Bankcard. “Congratulations to Mark Halpern on his new role as VP, marketing operations at PREMIER Ban…
July 24, 2026 – Boston, MA-based executive search firm Bauer Harris has assisted in the recruitment of Mark Halpern as the vice president of marketing operations for PREMIER Bankcard. Congratulations… [+4538 chars]
America's AI dominance is under threat; AI vendors put us at risk; meanwhile, everyone's staying in their jobs for the health insurance.
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AI models, as a product in t… [+15452 chars]
The United States and more than a dozen allied nations said on Thursday that Russian hackers stole emails from users of the Zimbra email program without having to fool them into opening an attachment or clicking a link. The trick, …
The United States and more than a dozen allied nations said on Thursday that Russian hackers stole emails from users of the Zimbra email program without having to fool them into opening an attachment… [+1971 chars]
