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Submission + - Employees are the new hackers: 1Password warns AI chaos is breaking corporate se (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: 1Passwordâ(TM)s 2025 Annual Report: The Access-Trust Gap exposes how everyday employees are becoming accidental hackers in the AI era. The companyâ(TM)s data shows that 73 percent of workers are encouraged to use AI tools, yet more than a third admit they do not always follow corporate policies. Many employees are feeding sensitive information into large language models or using unapproved AI apps to get work done, creating what 1Password calls âoeShadow AI.â At the same time, traditional defenses like single sign-on (SSO) and mobile device management (MDM) are failing to keep pace, leaving gaps in visibility and control.

The report warns that corporate security is being undermined from within. More than half of employees have installed software without IT approval, two-thirds still use weak passwords, and 38 percent have accessed accounts at previous employers. Despite rising enthusiasm for passkeys and passwordless authentication, 1Password says most organizations still depend on outdated systems that were never built for cloud-native, AI-driven work. The result is a growing âoeAccess-Trust Gapâ that could allow AI chaos and employee shortcuts to dismantle enterprise security from the inside.

Submission + - SPAM: 'No restrictions' and a secret 'wink': Inside Israel's deal with Google, Amazon

Submitted by Alain Williams
Alain Williams writes: To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.
In 2021, Google and Amazon signed a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government to provide it with advanced cloud computing and AI services — tools that were used during Israel’s two-year onslaught on the Gaza Strip. Details of the lucrative contract, known as Project Nimbus, were kept under wraps.
But an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian can now reveal that Google and Amazon submitted to highly unorthodox “controls” that Israel inserted into the deal, in anticipation of legal challenges over its use of the technology in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - U.S. Will Restart Testing Nuclear Bombs (npr.org)

Submitted by Mr_Blank
Mr_Blank writes: President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an "equal basis" with Russia and China.

The U.S. conducts some of its most sensitive nuclear weapons research in a laboratory deep beneath Nevada. NPR was recently given a tour. There was no indication the U.S. would start detonating warheads, but the president offered few details about what seemed to be a significant shift in U.S. policy.

The U.S. military already regularly tests its missiles that are capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, but it has not detonated the weapons since 1992 because of a test ban.

But the president suggested that changes were necessary because other countries were testing weapons. It was unclear what he was referring to, but it evoked Cold War-era escalations.

"Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis," he said in a post on Truth Social. "That process will begin immediately."

Trump made the announcement only an hour before he was scheduled to sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Submission + - Scrapboox X should be officially integrated into Firefox (github.com)

Submitted by BrendaEM
BrendaEM writes: When Mozilla Killed XUL, they killed one of the best web research tool, ever: Scrapbook. Originally conceived by Murota Laboratory, and developed by Gomita, Scrapbook allowed the user to save a hierarchy of web-pages with your notes, and links. While, there have been attempts to recreate it in Firefox's current browser, programmers aren't allowed to have such a powerful extension. Firefox itself implemented Pocket, but it might have been was more service than a local tool. Pocket is now gone, so that possible conflict is also gone. Scrapbook's old code was 1.8MB. As I loaded my old 4806 Items into Scrapbook-X running on Basilisk, I personally found it baffling that Mozilla would not want its users to have such functionality in Firefox. When reviewing some of the...interesting choices that Firefox has made, perhaps, for the user, would be a more useful one.

Submission + - Facebook admits it is the masturbation epicenter of the world (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Mr. Dollar Ton
Mr. Dollar Ton writes: Meta is using a classic BitTorrent defense in its legal battle with adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings. In its motion to dismiss, the tech company argues that IP-address evidence is insufficient to prove who the infringer is. Meta further counters that the "sporadic" downloads on its corporate network began years before its relevant AI research started. Instead of AI training, Meta argues the activity was likely just for "private personal use"

Submission + - Oslo tests reveal Chinese electric buses can be switched off remotely (aa.com.tr)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Tests conducted in Norway revealed that Chinese-made electric buses operating in Oslo can be remotely stopped and disabled by their manufacturer in China.

According to a report by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten on Tuesday, public transport operator Ruter secretly tested two electric buses this summer—one from a European manufacturer and another from China’s Yutong—to assess cybersecurity risks.

The tests revealed that the Chinese bus could be controlled remotely, while the European one could not.

According to Ruter, the manufacturer has access to each bus’s software updates, diagnostics, and battery control systems. “In theory, the bus could therefore be stopped or rendered unusable by the manufacturer,” the company said.

Submission + - Alien worlds may be able to make their own water (science.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: From enabling life as we know it to greasing the geological machinery of plate tectonics, water can have a huge influence on a planet’s behavior. But how do planets get their water? An infant world might be bombarded by icy comets and waterlogged asteroids, for instance, or it could form far enough from its host star that water can precipitate as ice. However, certain exoplanets pose a puzzle to astronomers: alien worlds that closely orbit their scorching home stars yet somehow appear to hold significant amounts of water.

A new series of laboratory experiments, published today in Nature, has revealed a deceptively straightforward solution to this enigma: These planets make their own water. Using diamond anvils and pulsed lasers, researchers managed to re-create the intense temperatures and pressures present at the boundary between these planets’ hydrogen atmospheres and molten rocky cores. Water emerged as the minerals cooked within the hydrogen soup.

Because this kind of geologic cauldron could theoretically boil and bubble for billions of years, the mechanism could even give hellishly hot planets bodies of water—implying that ocean worlds, and the potentially habitable ones among them, may be more common than scientists already thought. “They can basically be their own water engines,” says Quentin Williams, an experimental geochemist at the University of California Santa Cruz who was not involved with the new work.

Submission + - AI hallucinates because it's trained to fake answers it doesn't know (science.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Earlier today, OpenAI completed a controversial restructuring of its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation: the latest gust in a whirlwind that has swept up hundreds of billions of dollars of global investment for artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

But even as the AI company—founded as a nonprofit, now valued at $500 billion—completes its long-awaited restructuring, a nagging issue with its core offering remains unresolved: hallucinations. Large language models (LLMs) such as those that underpin OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT platform are prone to confidently spouting factually incorrect statements. These blips are often attributed to bad input data, but in a preprint posted last month, a team from OpenAI and the Georgia Institute of Technology proves that even with flawless training data, LLMs can never be all-knowing—in part because some questions are just inherently unanswerable.

However, that doesn’t mean hallucinations are inevitable. An AI could just admit three magic words: I don’t know. So why don’t they?

The root problem, the researchers say, may lie in how LLMs are trained. They learn to bluff because their performance is ranked using standardized benchmarks that reward confident guesses and penalize honest uncertainty. In response, the team calls for a rehaul of benchmarking so accuracy and self-awareness count as much as confidence.

Although some experts find the preprint technically compelling, reactions to its suggested remedy vary. Some even question how far OpenAI will go in taking its own medicine to train its models to prioritize truthfulness over engagement. The awkward reality may be that if ChatGPT admitted “I don’t know” too often, then users would simply seek answers elsewhere. That could be a serious problem for a company that is still trying to grow its user base and achieve profitability. “Fixing hallucinations would kill the product,” says Wei Xing, an AI researcher at the University of Sheffield.

Submission + - US Startup Substrate Announces Chipmaking Tool That It Says Will Rival ASML (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Substrate, a small U.S. startup, said on Tuesday that it had developed a chipmaking tool capable of competing with the most advanced lithography equipment made by Dutch firm ASML. Substrate's tool is the first step in the startup's ambitious plan to build a U.S.-based contract chip-manufacturing business that would compete with Taiwan's TSMC in making the most advanced AI chips, its CEO James Proud told Reuters in an interview. Proud wants to slash the cost of chipmaking by producing the tools needed much more cheaply than rivals. [...]

An engineering feat that has eluded even large companies, lithography needs extreme precision. ASML is the only company in the world that has been able to make at scale the complex tools that use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to produce patterns on silicon wafer at a high rate of throughput. Substrate said that it has developed a version of lithography that uses X-ray light and is capable of printing features at resolutions that are comparable to the most advanced chipmaking tools made by ASML that cost more than $400 million apiece. The company said it has conducted demonstrations at U.S. National Laboratories and at its facilities in San Francisco. The company provided high resolution images that demonstrate the Substrate tool's capabilities.

Comment So what (Score 1) 157

"For many Arkansans, permanent daylight savings time would mean the sun wouldn't rise until after 8:00 or even 8:30am during the dead of winter,"

1) That just means they'll get to sleep in with their sisters or cousins a little longer.

2) Seriously, though- why should Arkansas set the standard for the nation? They came in 44th* in the 2025 "Best States" list and can barely keep the lights on, I damn sure don't want them deciding anything that affects the country as a whole.

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** Note for the people from Arkansas: that means you're near the bottom, not the top.

Submission + - Toronto Mom: Tesla's Grok chatbot asked kid for nudes (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by jddj
jddj writes: A Toronto Mom says the recently "upgrade" of a Grok AI chatbot that Tesla installed in her vehicle steered a chat about soccer stars Ronaldo and Messi to a request for the child to send nude photos.

When CBC asked Tesla about the incident, they got no response, however xAI sent what appeared to be an automated response of "Legacy Media Lies".

Submission + - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 becomes first enterprise Linux with built-in age (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: SUSE is making headlines with the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16, the first enterprise Linux distribution to integrate agentic AI directly into the operating system. It uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to securely connect AI models with data sources while maintaining provider freedom. This gives organizations the ability to run AI-driven automation without relying on a single ecosystem. With a 16-year lifecycle, reproducible builds, instant rollback capabilities, and post-2038 readiness, SLES 16 also doubles down on long-term reliability and transparency.

For enterprises, this launch marks a clear step toward embedding intelligence at the infrastructure level. The system can now perform AI-assisted administration via Cockpit or the command line, potentially cutting downtime and operational costs. SUSEâ(TM)s timing might feel late given the AI boom, but its implementation appears deliberateâ"balancing innovation with the stability enterprises demand. Itâ(TM)s likely to pressure Red Hat and Canonical to follow suit, redefining what âoeAI-readyâ means for Linux in corporate environments.

Submission + - Ubuntu Unity faces possible shutdown as team member cries for help (neowin.net)

Submitted by darwinmac
darwinmac writes: Ubuntu Unity is staring at a possible shutdown. A community moderator has gone public pleading for help, admitting the project is “broken and needs to be fixed.” Neowin reports the distro is suffering from critical bugs so severe that upgrades from 25.04 to 25.10 are failing and even fresh installs are hit.

The moderator admits they lack the technical skill or time to perform a full rescue and is asking the broader community, including devs, testers, and UI designers, to step in so Ubuntu Unity can reach 26.04 LTS.

If no one steps in soon, this community flavor might quietly fade away once more.

Submission + - China's DeepSeek and Qwen AI Beat US Rivals in Crypto Trading Contest (yahoo.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Two Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models, DeepSeek V3.1 and Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max, have taken a commanding lead over their US counterparts in a live real-world real-money cryptocurrency trading competition, posting triple-digit gains in less than two weeks. According to Alpha Arena, a real-market trading challenge launched by US research firm Nof1, DeepSeek’s Chat V3.1 turned an initial $10,000 into $22,900 by Monday, a 126% increase since trading began on October 18, while Qwen 3 Max followed closely with a 108% return. In stark contrast, US models lagged far behind. OpenAI’s GPT-5 posted the worst performance, losing nearly 60% of its portfolio, while Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 Pro showed a similar 57% decline. xAI’s Grok 4 and Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 Sonnet fared slightly better, returning 14% and 23% respectively. “Our goal with Alpha Arena is to make benchmarks more like the real world — and markets are perfect for this,” Nof1 said on its website.

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