AI
Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems (Video)
- Inability to extrapolate beyond their training data
- Hallucinations
- Prompt injection
Why Replacing Humans with AI is Going Horribly Wrong (Video)
Companies that replaced customer service humans with AI, including Tesla, IBM, and Duolingo, found that the work was too poor in quality. AI is more effective in structured tasks. Implementing AI gradually and purposefully can lead to productivity increases of up to 35%. Automating repetitive tasks is a good use case.
Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
Some experts increasingly see it as inevitable that digital "clones" of patients could one day aid family members, doctors, and ethics boards in making end-of-life decisions that are aligned with a patient’s values and goals. The new version of "death panels" -- utter madness.
Perplexity AI rolls out Comet browser for free worldwide
Perplexity initially launched Comet in July to Perplexity Max subscribers for $200 a month.
OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
OpenAI is pulling in roughly $13 billion in annual revenue, with 70% coming from everyday people paying $20 a month to chat with an AI. But OpenAI has also committed to spending over $1 trillion over the next decade. The company has recently locked in deals for more than 26 gigawatts of computing capacity from Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom — infrastructure that’ll cost vastly more than what’s coming in.
California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots
SB 243 will go into effect January 1, 2026, and requires companies to implement certain features such as age verification, and warnings regarding social media and companion chatbots.
Politics
Artillery shell exploded prematurely over California freeway during marines celebration
Shrapnel fragments rained on vehicles parked on Interstate 5 including highway patrol and JD Vance’s detail.
The exercise was canceled after the shell prematurely exploded.
US court orders spyware company NSO to stop targeting WhatsApp, reduces damages
A U.S. court has ordered Israel's NSO Group to stop targeting Meta Platforms' (META.O), opens new tab WhatsApp messaging service, a development the spyware company warned could put it out of business.
Amazon Ring security cameras moving deeper into law enforcement with Flock Safety, Axon deals
Flock Safety is teaming up with Amazon’s Ring Security to offer the public and law enforcement a new way to share video footage that can assist in crime investigations.
Bernie Sanders on Beating Authoritarianism, Billionaires and AOC - On with Kara Swisher
GoFundMe created 1.4M donation pages for nonprofits; some Bay Area organizations had no clue
GoFundMe has taken upon itself to create "nonprofit pages" for 1.4 million 501C-3 organizations using public IRS data along with information from trusted partners like the PayPal Giving Fund. These pages are made without notifying the nonprofits, and they don't have any easy way to contact GoFundMe and claim the money. Donation pages are set to give GoFundMe a tip of 16.5%.
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Rand Paul: 'All of these people have been blown up without us knowing their name'
All of these people have been blown up without us knowing their name, without any evidence of a crime.
Trump posts video of him dumping shit on protestors
Cases of Victorian-era whooping cough soar in Florida amid plummeting vaccine rates
As of September 27, the latest data available, there have been 1,295 cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, in Florida, an 81 percent surge compared to the entirety of 2024.
Infosec
Apple Just Added A Powerful Anti-Scam Tool To iPhones — Here’s How To Activate It
As part of Apple’s iOS 26 software update, released last month, there is a new call screening feature for unknown callers. Siri will ask your caller who is calling and the reason for the call. The transcribed conversation will appear as a message and you can direct Siri to ask more questions, pick up the phone or reject the call.
Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years
Popular meal replacement drinks, such as Huel’s Black Edition powder, contain more lead and cadmium in a single serving than a healthy adult should eat in a day.
Network security devices endanger orgs with ’90s era flaws
Enterprises have long relied on firewalls, routers, VPN servers, and email gateways to protect their networks from attacks. Increasingly, however, these network edge devices are becoming security liabilities themselves.
Many of the vulnerabilities discovered in the past two years should have been caught with automatic code analysis tools or code reviews. Looking at what we’ve seen the last 12 months, there’s no evidence that security efforts being made by those vendors are having an effect.
Another problem? These appliances have a lot of legacy code, some that is 10 years or older. Tackling vulnerabilities in old code, known as security debt, is expensive and hard.
Vendors need to set a higher standard for themselves
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