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A Vietnamese national was charged with money laundering for his role in a massive "pig butchering" scam, which defrauded a victim out of $16 million worth of cryptocurrency. [...]
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Sergiu Gatlan (via BleepingComputer)
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9/29/26
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Lawyers for the winning side, Taction Technology, say that they expect Apple to negotiate the loss down and so also cut back the law firm's profits. How terrible for them.
Inside a haptic engine - …
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Via AppleInsider
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9/29/26
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Lauren Goode / Wired:
Q&A with Timnit Gebru, who says the “existential risk” narrative is a harmful marketing strategy and the “stochastic parrots” metaphor is not outdated — …
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Via Techmeme
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9/29/26
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The components of 3D printers can also serve as helpful tools for a variety of more niche uses, but it will take some creativity to get these to work.
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Via BGR Tech
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9/29/26
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From a $100 Keurig to a rare discount on a De’Longhi espresso machine, these WIRED-tested picks caught my eye.
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Kat Merck (via Wired)
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9/29/26
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RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations
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Via The Register
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9/29/26
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Offensive cybersecurity startup RemoteThreat Inc. launched today with $7 million in new funding to push its O/C/O Platform out to enterprise red teams and U.S. government customers. Some of the money …
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Duncan Riley (via SiliconANGLE)
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9/29/26
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A look at Anthropic's early IPO prospectus by Reuters highlighted some of the now well-documented risks associated with the company's frontier AI models. Anthropic warns that they could exhibit …
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Via TechSpot
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9/29/26
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OpenAI’s $300 Home Speaker Will Put a Camera in Your Kitchen. The Smart Home Race Has a New Entrant.
The Kitchen Counter Conundrum A smart speaker that physically tilts or rotates to track your voice is a strange, almost uncanny addition to a home. It is not just a passive conduit for music or …
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Mila Cohen (via Forkast)
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9/29/26
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Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's £330M NHS data platform deal
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Via The Register
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9/29/26
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A new report found that the country’s renewable energy sector is facing a growing workforce challenge.
Read more: Engineers and project managers among hardest to recruit, finds Solar Ireland
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Laura Varley (via Silicon Republic)
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9/29/26
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Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to …
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James Temple (via MIT Technology Review)
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9/29/26
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Some people spend most of their digital lives on social media and save almost nothing with the intention of preserving it for the future. They might share photos and videos on …
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Via TechHive
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9/29/26
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The buildings and physical infrastructure for a new hyperscale data-center region are complete. Power is live and redundant, the cooling loops are balanced, the network fabric is up, and tens of …
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Via O'Reilly
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9/29/26
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The new model is more deceptive than prior iterations, OpenAI's head of safety systems told The Wall Street Journal.
Read more: OpenAI says it won’t release new GPT-6.1 Astra over safety …
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Suhasini Srinivasaragavan (via Silicon Republic)
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9/29/26
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Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.
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Reece Rogers (via Wired)
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9/29/26
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When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of …
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Cheri Williams (via MIT Technology Review)
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9/29/26
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Flashbangs reportedly deployed during operation as crime group denies any connection to suspect
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Via The Register
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9/29/26
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These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
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Boutayna Chokrane (via Wired)
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9/29/26
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The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.
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Isabella Ward (via Wired)
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9/29/26
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