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Valve Warns Steam Machine Buyers About Scam Messages After Cyberattack
If you’ve been holding out on buying Valve’s ludicrously expensive home console, you may have saved yourself from more than an empty wallet. European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or Steam Controller may be the victims of a personal information data breach after one of Valve’s hardware distribution... Read more
The Outlaw Chemist Teaching People How to Make Drugs From Scratch
But shortly afterward, his Patreon account was taken down too. In an email statement, a spokesperson for the platform said: “Patreon prohibits works that provide instructions around the creation of controlled substances or other recreational drugs. We take violations of our policies seriously, and after an internal investigation, we... Read more
AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push
Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that controlling the security layer matters more than controlling the model. AWS announced at Black Hat USA... Read more
Honolulu police shuts down Ewa Beach gambling room, making arrest
Honolulu police shut down an alleged illegal gambling room in Ewa Beach on Thursday, seizing gaming machines, cash and arresting a man during a search tied to the department’s continuing crackdown on underground gambling operations. Officers carried out a search warrant at a property on Old Fort Weaver Road... Read more
Report: Analyst Shatters Expectations of an All-Glass iPhone
If you were hoping for an all-glass iPhone, a new report from Barron’s might shatter that dream. The financial news source reports that Jefferies analyst Edison Lee believes development on an all-glass mobile device has come to a halt. According to the report, Lee thinks the device was canceled... Read more
Orange Crush: TAG Heuer Drops a Bright Revamp of the Original Metal F1 Watch
One element of the ’80s F1 rubber straps that has not carried over to the new collection, though, is the V-shaped grooves on the bottom portion of the original straps. TAG made the ’80s rubber straps extra long so surfers and divers could wear the F1s over wet suits.... Read more
Novig sues three more states, CFTC appeals Wisconsin ruling, today in Prediction Market News LIVE
Today in prediction market news, we’re following a wave of legal and regulatory developments across the industry, including Novig filing lawsuits against Washington, Massachusetts, and New Mexico, New York seeking to move its Kalshi case back to state court, and the CFTC appealing the Wisconsin prediction market ruling. We’ll... Read more
Meta’s New Open-Weight Model Can Run AI Agents on Your Laptop
Meta is putting its money (and AI models) where its mouth is. The company said Monday that its latest model is built specifically for AI agents. Meta Glimmer is out now and is built to run on your laptop or PC. Meta Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter model, which... Read more
The Best Portable Solar Panels: My Take After Years of Testing
The 350-W panels are fairly easy to set up; though the metal fasteners on the kickstands take a bit of fiddling. Unfortunately, the 500-W panels are downright finicky. To fold down compactly, it is broken into twelve separate sections and folds out in a double row, so I found... Read more
Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority
Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touch that production system, or commit the company to an external action. Those are different problems, and most enterprises are only solving the first one. An AI agent can follow... Read more