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New ‘SMS blaster’ text scams are on the rise, security experts warn – stay safe by changing this one phone setting

Cybercriminals have found a new way to spam your phone with scam texts — SMS blasters. Find out what they are and how to protect yourself.

TechRadar

Psychedelics Without the Trip? Heavyweights Like Neuralink, Coinbase, Twitch Back AI Startup Developing 'Least Psychedelic Psychedelic' Drug

Mindstate Design Labs is developing drugs that aim to deliver psychedelic benefits without a trip, drawing funding from Y Combinator and the founders of OpenAI, Neuralink, Instacart (NASDAQ:CART), Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), and Twitch, according to Wired.

Benzinga

Tile exploit could let stalkers follow you with your own tracker — Bluetooth broadcasting flaw is relatively simple to exploit, researchers discover

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers found design flaws in Tile location trackers that can be abused to stalk their owners.

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Trump’s new $100,000 H-1B visa policy causes chaos at San Francisco airport as passengers demand to leave plane

‘It is a situation where we had to choose between family and staying here,’ one passenger’s husband said

The Independent UK

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Reacts As Jensen Huang Goes Bananas For Google Gemini's Nano Banana: 'How Good Is That'

Nvidia Corp.’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang's playful praise of Google Gemini's "Nano Banana" AI image tool drew a lighthearted response from Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai, even as analysts project a multi-trillion-dollar boom in AI data center demand by 2030.

Benzinga

Google Accused of Axing Over 200 Workers Who Trained Gemini Chatbot After They Demanded Better Pay

Google is facing accusations of laying off over 200 contract workers who trained its Gemini chatbot, a move that some claim was in retaliation for their demands for better pay and working conditions.

International Business Times UK

Google terminates 200 AI contractors — 'ramp-down' blamed, but workers claim questions over pay and job insecurity are the real reason behind layoffs

Google has fired over 200 AI response rating contractors as part of what it claims is a "ramping down" of that role. They join hundreds of other low-paid AI workers who have been let go at various AI developers in recent weeks.

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China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries

Chinese censorship suffered a significant breach on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents had been dumped online.

Tom’s Hardware

Anonymously-Run Website Publishes Names of People Accused of Mocking Charlie Kirk's Death: Report

Operators behind the site say they have received "thousands" of submissions and intend to build a searchable archive

Latin Times

What Is ICE Doing With This Israeli Spyware Firm?

The Department of Homeland Security restored a $2 million contract with Paragon, maker of the surveillance tool Graphite, despite earlier civil liberties concerns.

Reason

Missing minute in Jeffrey Epstein jail security video revealed in document dump

The 61-second clip from inside New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center surfaced among more than 33,000 newly released files on Epstein

The Independent UK

Inside the group that has been sparking panic on college campuses with fake shooting calls for as little as $20

There have been at least 19 calls reporting fake shootings on college campuses in last ten days

The Independent UK

'Swatting for Hire': Extremist Group Offers Fake School Shooting Threats for Just $20 as FBI Scrambles to Respond

An extremist group called Purgatory is offering 'swatting for hire' services, selling fake school shooting threats to universities.

International Business Times UK

Perplexity wants to play nice with publishers. They keep suing it anyway

Perplexity is facing copyright lawsuits from publishers around the world, even as it tries to forge partnerships with them.

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Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated ‘freelancer’

At least six publications have taken down articles under the name Margaux Blanchard that were AI-generated

The Independent UK

Ant smuggling into the US is out of control since Trump’s cuts – and it could have dire impacts on the country

Invasive insects can devastate local ecosystems and damage the homes of local residents

Benzinga

AMD Isn't Keeping Up With Meta Platforms' $100 Million Salaries For AI Talent, And The Reason Is Brilliant

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) pays its AI experts well, but it's not following Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ:META) footsteps. AMD CEO Lisa Su recently said that the AI chipmaker will not offer $100 million packages to compete with Meta Platforms as they recruit AI talent.

The Independent UK

Lost everything in a storm? Good luck. FEMA to require email address for aid as families rebuild after disasters

One in five American households do not have access to the internet

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The Independent UK

Account tied to Trump nominee posted conspiracy theories about Epstein, the 2020 election and Covid, report says

Erwin Antoni, the president’s pick to take over the Bureau of Labor Statistics, serves as the chief economist for The Heritage Foundation and contributed to Project 2025

The Independent UK

Trump officials wanted to give Musk’s xAI a huge contract. Staffers had to explain Grok had just praised Hitler

Elon Musk’s chatbot suffered an awkward glitch in July after an update to make it less ‘woke’ saw it spouting Nazi propaganda and issuing antisemitic proclamations

Fortune

AMD’s billionaire CEO says AI is overwhelming right now—but she disagrees with former Google exec who predicts the tech will be a job-killer

As AI wipes the job market for Gen Z, AMD CEO Lisa Su insists she’s still hiring at the $300 billion semiconductor company—and believes humanity will not be outpaced by AI.

The Independent UK

Experts fear Trump administration’s use of ‘dehumanizing’ memes is ‘a jump to actual violence’

‘We won’t apologize for posting banger memes,’ White House spokesperson says

Reason

The Anti-Porn Crusade Comes for Online Games

Activists pressure payment processors, who in turn pressure game marketplaces. The result? A whole lot of video games and visual novels are disappearing.

PC Gamer

'I don't know what it means to have a Manhattan Project for AI': Nuclear war experts remind us of the frightening risks of our artificial intelligence controlling our nukes

These are just risks from known unknowns, what about unknown unknowns?

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Ofcom’s Age-Verification Crackdown: 6K+ Sites Affected

The United Kingdom has taken one of the most aggressive steps yet in reshaping the open internet.

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