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How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions https://www.404media.co/how-a-massive-chinese-crime-ring-hacked-staples-to-steal-millions/

How anyone can even consider voting for any Republicans anymore is beyond me.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/21/trump-deportation-deals
"Nika is one of more than 25,000 people deported by the Trump admi…

Destroying rare books to stave off large language model collapse seems like a far cry from recursive self-improvement for generative 'AI'.

Millions of mothers still don’t have clean water to give birth. It’s time to end this shame | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mother-baby-birth-water-ethiopia-aid-b3070715.html

Everyone on TV wears a poppy, starting around this time of year.
It is supposed to commemorate how stupid it was to force millions of people to die in pointless power-struggle racism-fueled wars. The red for all the blood spilled.
I don't generally bother. It seemed to become more a symbol of heroism than a lament at the horror and pointlessness. To encourage soldiers rather than discourage them from agreeing to this insanity.
I put one in my profile name for a bit this year though.
It ain't red.
The pointless utter horror of it all, never ended it seems. I mean come on.
And apparently a poppy these colours has been working as an excellent troll on the insane gammon press.
[I think you can copy emoji from this server if you ask your admin. I only control mine.]
#freePalestine

Hmm, I wonder why they didn’t just use a herd of #AI agents to fix the code?
Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Software Flaws Exposed By Anthropic's Mythos - Slashdot

Neben dem Dom gefällt mir in Mailand am besten der "Bosco verticale" (vertikaler Wald): zwei begrünte Hochhäuser, auf denen viele, viele Bäume wachsen. Dadurch ist es innen kühl – ganz ohne Klimaanlage.
Vor einiger Zeit hatte ich einen Artikel dazu geschrieben, kannte ihn also schon.
Ansonsten sind viele kleine Geschäfte geschlossen, weil man hier im August Urlaub macht.
Ich freue mich, dass ich so viel verstehe bzw. mir vieles zusammenreime, während ich mich durc…

When discussing scientific achievements made mostly or partly by AI systems, especially the headline-making ones, it's good to think about the resources being allotted to such projects, which are plausibly incomparable to previous investment. For instance, I suspect that no one had previously invested several millions of dollars to hire a team of mathematicians exclusively to tackle a single millennium problem.

So intensely gross that the US government engaged in a conspiracy to groom a 16 year-old Minnesotan kid for two years to direct his justifiable rage against the US in (allegedly) the most ineffective and random-violence directions, so they could entrap him when he turned 18— and those federal agents are well-paid career professionals in good standing, will testify against the young man they conspired to point at the Mall of America and promise to provide with a gun, not one step of which cou…

The prevalence of criminal activity and making it easy for criminals by the Republican party is pitiful.
"More than 990,000 households that received food assistance last year had benefits stolen. (The reason it’s necessary to use data from a private company: The federal government has stopped tracking rates of this crime.)"

Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.
Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it.