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Submission + - Chuck Norris has Died (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to a post on his verified Instagram account, the actor Chuck Norris has died. News reports yesterday said that he had an unidentified medical emergency in Hawaii.

Submission + - Co-founder of Supermicro allegedly smuggled $2.5B worth of GPUs to China (cnn.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips to China, in violation of US laws barring exports to that country without a license.

Yih-Shyan Liaw, known as Wally; Ruei-Tsang Chang, known as Steven; and Ting-Wei Sun, known as Willy, were charged with conspiring to violate export control laws, smuggling goods from the US and conspiring to defraud the US.

Liaw, who co-founded Super Micro Computer and served on its board of directors, was arrested Thursday in California and released on bail. Sun, a contractor, is held awaiting a detention hearing. Chang, who worked in the Taiwan office of Super Micro, remains at large.

Submission + - OpenAI to merge Atlas browser, ChatGPT, Codex into a single desktop super app (neowin.net)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: OpenAI is planning to combine its Atlas web browser, ChatGPT app, and Codex coding app into a singular desktop super app. CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, said the company was doubling down on its successful products.

By taking this move, the AI company aims to streamline the user experience and reduce fragmentation. With that said, each of the apps currently do quite different things so it will be interesting to see how they put this all together. Simo said in an internal memo: “We realized we were spreading our efforts across too many apps and stacks, and that we need to simplify our efforts. That fragmentation has been slowing us down and making it harder to hit the quality bar we want.”

OpenAI is in a fierce battle with companies like Anthropic and Google to produce the best models and products. By unifying and speeding up the development of their desktop offering, it gives OpenAI a leg up in the race.

Atlas is probably the least known among the three products. It lets users browse the web with ChatGPT packed in. This browser is only available on macOS, so fewer people have had a chance to use it.

Submission + - Supreme Court Hacker Approaching Sentencing (abovethelaw.com)

Submitted by beadon
beadon writes: > Remember when the Supreme Court was absolutely consumed with figuring out who leaked the Dobbs draft opinion? They assigned the Marshal to investigate, brought in outside help, and made scores of employees sign affidavits. The response was immediate, muscular, and deeply unserious. The investigation did basically everything except interview the justices, because why interview anyone with both opportunity AND motive? Say, a justice credibly accused of leaking the results of other decisions who might have feared that colleagues would water down the maximalist draft before the case came down? No need to check in on anyone like that!

However, access was widely available from "the front door" so to speak, and the accused Nicholas Moore, is set to plead guilty to accessing these files receiving sentencing soon after.

Comment Re:Here we go... (Score 2) 75

SOoooooooo many companies have done the EXACT same thing. This is a very tired playbook. Usually results in little to no real effective improvement, but the metrics and dashboards look good to upper management, and the consultants doing the implementation are well paid.

It's just re-arranging chairs in a big organization. Hardly newsworthy in my opinion.

Submission + - ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree (eff.org)

Submitted by beadon
beadon writes: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at least another $56.25 billion over the next three years, ICE's budget would be the envy of many national militaries around the world. Indeed, this budget would put ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel.

Submission + - Inside ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods (404media.co)

Submitted by beadon
beadon writes: A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that describes how the system works obtained by 404 Media.

Commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, can be queried without a warrant, according to an internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media. The purchase comes squarely during ICE’s mass deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for.

Do you know anything else about this tool? Do you work for ICE, CBP, or another agency? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency. This granular location information paints a detailed picture of who we are, where we go, and who we spend time with,” Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy project director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media.

Submission + - We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. (youtube.com) 1

Submitted by beadon
beadon writes: This video discusses the concerning vulnerabilities, questionable efficacy, and public pushback against Flock Safety cameras and similar ALPR (Automatic License Plate Reader) services.

It's long, but really interesting from a security perspective.

Submission + - Stefan Fatsis on the words that defined 2025 From rage bait to slop (reuters.com)

Submitted by beadon
beadon writes: In an era of search engines and algorithm-inspired slang, dictionaries can seem like analog relics.

But for writer Stefan Fatsis — who spent time working for America’s oldest dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster, while researching his new book “Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary” — they remain vital catalogs of language and, by extension, who we are as people.

Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, what they reveal about the year just passed, and the forces shaping language to come.

This conversation, conducted in December, has been edited for length and clarity.

Submission + - FCC approves 7,500 additional Starlink Gen2 satellites (reuters.com)

Submitted by beadon
beadon writes: WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) — The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it has approved SpaceX's request to deploy another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites as it works to boost internet service worldwide.

The FCC said Elon Musk's SpaceX can now operate an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, bringing the total to 15,000 satellites worldwide. The FCC is also allowing SpaceX to upgrade the satellites and operate across five frequencies and is waiving prior requirements that prevented overlapping coverage and enhanced capacity.

Submission + - Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell on Grand Jury subpeonas (federalreserve.gov)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June. That testimony concerned in part a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings.

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