AI
Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
In April, Uber had already blown through its Claude Code budget for 2026.
Amazon joins Microsoft in sending shocking message to employees
Amazon shut down an internal AI leaderboard called KiroRank on May 29, which had been tracking AI token usage.
Amazon’s retreat from tokenmaxxing metrics is the latest in a series of similar moves across the industry. The same week, Meta also abolished its own internal AI usage leaderboard.
Uber’s COO Andrew Macdonald recently said the company has not found a clear relationship between increased AI spending and the delivery of successful products. His comments followed a disclosure that Uber had already exhausted its annual budget for certain AI coding tools by April.
Microsoft unveils Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
It’s available as an “experimental release” to customers of the company’s Frontier program, Microsoft said, and will require Intune policy configuration and “opt-in attestation.”
The launch follows Google’s recent announcement of Spark, an autonomous agent that runs within the Google Workspace application suite. Spark can also be considered a response to the launch of OpenClaw last year, initially under the name “Clawdbot.”
OpenClaw has drawn scrutiny due to apparent security flaws, but Microsoft promises Scout is built with “enterprise-grade security and controls, so it can be trusted in your organization from day one.”
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
Claude Helps Recover Locked $400K Bitcoin Wallet After 11 Years (tomshardware.com)
They changed their wallet password while "stoned" and forgot it.
The user already had some candidate passwords and multiple wallets stored on their PC.
They dumped their whole college computer into Claude. This was when the AI discovered an older backup file of the wallet from December 2019 hidden in the data.
Chipotlai Max
The AI coding agent that steals Chipotle's support bot. Free inference paid for by burritos.
Codex Discovered a Hidden HTTP/2 Bomb
The attack was discovered by Codex, which chained two techniques known to humans for a decade: a compression bomb and a Slowloris-style hold.
Politics
New Website Detects Apocalypse If Billionaire Jets Start Fleeing en Masse
Trump still protected from tax enforcement, but anti-weaponization fund is dead, Blanche says
Falsely calls the fund a "lawsuit settlement" when it is no such thing.
North Carolina’s GOP Is Proposing Legalizing Vigilante Killings of Abortion Providers
Conservative lawmakers in North Carolina have asked voters to approve a state constitutional amendment recognizing the personhood of embryos and establishing that anyone who ends an embryonic life is guilty of first-degree murder. The bill also provides that private individuals have a right to use deadly force to prevent “the willful destruction of life.”
Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech
“If the United States hadn’t forced our country, our companies, and our industry, we wouldn’t have done something like this. But we are also grateful to the US for enabling our country’s semiconductor industry chain to truly grow.”
United Airlines flight to Spain pulls U-turn, apparently over Bluetooth device name
Someone had a Bluetooth speaker and they named it a certain four-letter word.
"There is an active Bluetooth network labeled 'BOMB'."
Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars
When they’re being eaten, bean plants release chemicals that draw in parasitic wasps.
M&S chief’s pay slashed by £3m after cyberattack turmoil
The crippling cyberattack forced the supermarket to scrap its bonus policy across the business.
Infosec
1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug
Another zero-day disclosed without telling Microsoft, again because they abuse security researchers.
It seems that if you never used github.dev in the past, this won't affect you anyway.
Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” to ensure whoever’s calling you is who they appear to be.
Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure
Some Outlook users may have believed their email sessions were protected by SSL/TLS while the client silently continued using insecure plaintext connections instead.
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