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A cybercriminal used AI agents to commit a string of attacks against more than 100 different companies — an alarming incident that shows how autonomous agents with advanced AI hacking capabilities have exponentially raised the threat that a single human hacker can pose.As Reuters first reported, a threat researcher at the cybersecurity company NorForge discovered that a Chinese-speaking hacker had used autonomous agents to carry out the mass hacking spree, which impacted global companies including John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins, among dozens of others.The hacker isn’t alone. According to Snorre Fagerland, the researcher who discovered the Deere and SharkNinja hacker, the…

For years, multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson has chased after immortality, embracing bizarre “anti-aging” procedures like hyperbaric oxygen therapy and huge numbers of supplements. Unsurprisingly, those woo-woo biohacks haven’t worked — Johnson was recently diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease, which is tough news for anybody, let alone someone convinced they can buy their way out of death itself.Things have only unraveled since that diagnosis. Not only has Johnson committed to trying to “solve” the autoimmune disease, but he’s also begun taking a bold stance against detractors, announcing a plan to blast anybody who’s ever criticized his strange ambitions.“I have an AI…

Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data centers to power the AI boom.The efforts reached a fever pitch the day after Donald Trump’s second inauguration in 2025, when a bevy of AI luminaries including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son crowded into the Oval Office to announce a $500 billion private investment in data centers.But as the public has grown jittery about the impacts of AI on society and the job market — and story after story has landed about the downsides of hosting data centers…

Meta’s corporate offices in São Paulo are the site of ongoing protests against election interference in the crucial national run-off elections in Brazil. Hundreds of protestors rallied at the company’s offices on Tuesday, carrying effigies mocking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the devil incarnate, Venezuelan publication TeleSur reported.The demonstration coincided with an order by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court demanding that Meta release proof it was providing equitable treatment to both of Brazil’s presidential candidates.Meta’s moderation methods came under international scrutiny earlier this month, after the company restricted over 1,000 social media accounts belonging to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who’s…

AI slop purveyors are stealing comedians’ jokes to create viral Instagram videos of fake comics. And Adam Mosseri, the longtime head of Instagram, says he doesn’t know what to do about it.As Wired reported last week, a recent trend among AI sloppers is to steal the work of real comedians and repackage it in AI-manipulated clips in which the human performers are replaced by fake AI ones. The AI performers in the videos are often depicted as voluptuous young women and direct viewers to OnlyFans pages, where they’re encouraged to pay for more content.George Brett Olson, a comedian whose work…

Pull up any random photo of billionaire Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and you’re likely to land on a facial expression expressing something between horror and deep consternation. There may be a simple explanation for that: he knows the truth about his company’s finances.New reporting by the Wall Street Journal revealed the mounting costs for the AI lab, which ballooned to a net loss of $80 billion in the first six months of 2026. Anthropic’s losses for the same period a year prior were $13 billion — still an eye-watering sum, but peanuts compared to its runaway spending this year (the…

The Northern suburbs of Toledo, Ohio turned into a real life Don DeLillo novel overnight, after an explosion at a chemical facility sent plumes of industrial compounds billowing into the sky.According to the local station WTOL11, the blast happened at a chemical distribution site in Ohio’s Lucas County on Tuesday night, prompting an immediate evacuation order for anybody living within one mile of the disaster zone. Those within three miles were given an order to shelter in place.In a press conference on Wednesday, city emergency officials explained that the leaking chemical exhaust is glycidyl methacrylate, an industrial manufacturing chemical broadly…

Keep your eyes peeled and your binoculars primed tonight, stargazers. The distant Halley’s Comet is reminding us of its far-off presence by pelting our planet with a barrage of meteors which will make the eastern welkin blush with a cosmic light show.The meteor shower, known as the Orionids, is characterized by its fast-moving bright streaks and fireballs that can be seen for minutes at a time, with some trails staying visible even after the meteor has blinked out. And yes, you can see them with the naked eye.Though it began at the start of October and is projected to last…

Polymarket has showed that it can still hit a new low after the controversial prediction market was allowing users to effectively bet on rape and sexual assault.According to coverage from Defector, a market titled “Any of the Cornell 7 charged with a felony sex crime?” was on the gambling platform for nearly three weeks, before it was recently taken down after a public outcry.The bet, which opened on September 30, was referring to the defendants against a civil suit filed last month by a former Cornell University student who says she was drugged and gang-raped by seven students who were…

Security researchers using an OpenAI model have uncovered two stunning security flaws in PHP,  the software that underpins nearly 70 percent of all websites on the internet. The flaws are so catastrophic that all websites using PHP — all untold millions of them — are advised to immediately take their servers down and apply the latest patch, which was released Wednesday. Vast swathes of the internet, following the news, have gone dark. Some that went offline for a time include Wikipedia, Steam, and even government websites.Many organizations, however, may not have the time, resources, and personpower to swiftly implement the patch,…