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Comment Re:Hot or cold? Make your minds up! (Score 1) 121

by cayenne8 (#66207546) Attached to: Europe: The World's Fastest-Warming Continent
Why not just get a fucking air conditioner like most other modern civilizations do in the 21st century.

I've been hearing about all the EU folks over here for the soccer games raving about the great AC we have here everywhere in the US.

If you can't afford central air...just toss up a few window units. It doesn't cost a ton and makes summer's survivable....especially if humidity is there in the mix.

Hell I live in New Orleans...the capital of heat and humidity in the summer....get some AC and you can do just fine....we do.

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score -1, Troll) 191

And Fascism does not work very well either, but that does not prevent the current U.S. moving in that direction.

Not even close...not even with ultra liberal side of Democrats pushing facistic actions and promoting facist laws/rules and societal changes.

And all the while to promote facism they are using the term against anything center left to middle right as facist.....making the term meaningless over time much like they've done with nazi and racism....they've overused them so much then just have no meaning anymore.

Comment Re: Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 1) 108

by cayenne8 (#66205584) Attached to: Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is For Sellouts

Kind of like how any economic system better for people in general is called communism.

nah....we all know that any form of economic system even resembling communism would not be good for anyone...at least not the common folks, only those at the time.

Sure, Capitalism sucks....but it sucks a whole lot less that ALL other forms of economic systems.....history has shown us this time and time again.

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 191

sure, these are choices that stem out of another choice, namely out of the choice to have private ownership and operation of property. If the factory is private property, then it is operating in an environment that promotes and defends private property rights. This means nobody us forced to work there also, not just that nobody is owed a job there. In this environment competition is inevitable and it is competition for the purchasing power of individual buyers. So the demand and purchasing conditions are at least partially dictated by the totality of individual choices of all market participants. This is a policy choice, this is the choice I personally prefer as well.

Comment Printed Integral Munition Systems (Score 1) 48

by couchslug (#66204890) Attached to: The Secret Revolution in Battery Technology: 3-D Printing

Integral drone batteries would reduce complexity and likely
enhance structural strength. Warheads could similarly integrate explosive filler (with removable fuses for the usual transportation and handling safety reasons) and projectiles. Circuit boards could be rigidly supported without complex parts.

The simpler and more water and weatherproof a munition the better. Printing makes prototyping and mission-specific custom loads easy to fab. A nearly-non-metallic, low observable AI-assisted integral munitions drone package could work wonders on the battlefield and enable David to deter Goliath.

Submission + - How a Seemingly Harmless Image Can Jailbreak AI (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Florida International University researchers have developed a technique called JaiLIP (Jailbreaking with Loss-guided Image Perturbation) that uses subtle image modifications to bypass AI safety guardrails. Unlike traditional jailbreaks that rely on carefully crafted prompts, the attack works through images that appear normal to human viewers.

The researchers tested the technique against BLIP-2, a multimodal AI model, and found that manipulated images significantly increased the likelihood of harmful responses. According to the study, the approach outperformed previous image-based jailbreak methods and nearly doubled the number of unsafe outputs generated during testing.

The findings highlight a potential security risk for businesses deploying AI systems that process both images and text. While most discussions about AI safety focus on prompts, the research suggests that seemingly harmless images may also serve as an attack vector.

Submission + - AI lawyer enables freelancer to win in court (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: An artificial intelligence law firm has won a case in an English court, in what is believed to be the first time a trial has been won using an AI lawyer.

A freelance HR consultant, Tamires Camal Taquidir, paid the firm, called Garfield AI, about £400 to send a legal letter and then issue court proceedings over an unpaid debt of £7,000.

Submission + - Cloudflare wants to kill the CAPTCHA and it has browser giants on board (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Cloudflare has announced a new initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Shopify to develop a privacy-focused protocol called Private Access Control Tokens (PACT). The goal is to help websites distinguish legitimate users and authorized AI agents from abusive automated traffic without relying on CAPTCHAs, invasive tracking, or browser fingerprinting.

PACT would allow trusted services to issue anonymous tokens that browsers can present to other websites as proof that a human is involved, while avoiding the disclosure of personal identity information or browsing history. The companies plan to submit the protocol for standardization.

Cloudflare argues that existing anti-bot tools are becoming less effective as AI-powered agents become more common across the web.

Submission + - ShinyHunters Published 45GB of Madison Square Garden Facial Recognition Records (thenextweb.com)

Submitted by ArchieBunker
ArchieBunker writes: The cybercrime group ShinyHunters has published 45 gigabytes of data stolen from Madison Square Garden Entertainment after the company missed a June 15 ransom deadline. The dump includes facial recognition surveillance records, internal threat assessments, and personal information from what the hackers claim are 26 million customer and corporate records. A federal class action lawsuit was filed the following day.

The breach occurred on June 5, according to a ShinyHunters spokesperson who spoke to 404 Media. The data was published on June 16, days after the New York Knicks won the NBA Finals in five games against the Spurs, putting intense public attention on the arena and its owner, James Dolan.

What makes this breach unusual is the nature of the surveillance data it exposed. MSG has deployed facial recognition technology across its venues for years, using the system to screen visitors and, controversially, to ban lawyers from firms that have sued the company. The leaked files include biometric tracking logs, background check information, internal threat assessments, and what the class action complaint describes as detailed dossiers on attendees.

A sample reviewed by 404 Media contained files specifically referencing Knicks-related personalities, with fields including “address,” “claim to fame,” “cost of talent,” and direct contact information for individuals or their representatives. The data also included internal risk tags classifying celebrities: actor Ben Stiller was profiled as “low risk,” while rapper A Boogie wit da Hoodie was flagged as “high risk,” according to the class action filing. No documented criteria explaining the labels were included in the leaked files.

Customer emails were also part of the dump, including messages from fans who had expressed concern about being misidentified by MSG’s facial recognition cameras. The inclusion of this correspondence reveals that MSG was collecting and storing complaints about its own surveillance practices alongside the biometric data itself.

A class action lawsuit, Avalo v MSG Entertainment, was filed on June 16 in New York federal court. The plaintiff, Carlos Avalo, attended a concert at MSG in September 2025 and alleges his biometric data was captured by the venue’s entry systems. The lawsuit seeks at least $5 million in initial damages.

The complaint accuses MSG of corporate negligence in failing to secure the data it aggressively collects, despite clear warnings from privacy advocates and a previous breach.

This is MSG’s second major breach in under a year. In a separate incident disclosed in February 2026, the Cl0p ransomware group exploited a vulnerability in a vendor-hosted Oracle eBusiness Suite application used by MSG for payroll and human resources. That intrusion began in August 2025 but went undetected until December 16, 2025, and exposed the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of roughly 131,070 individuals, primarily employees and contractors.

ShinyHunters has been on a sustained campaign in 2026, exploiting an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to breach more than 100 organisations, two-thirds of them universities. The group previously orchestrated the 2024 Snowflake supply chain attacks that compromised Ticketmaster and AT&T, and in March 2026 breached the European Commission, leaking 350 gigabytes of data from 42 internal clients.

The MSG attack follows the same playbook ShinyHunters used against Instructure’s Canvas learning management system in April, where the group claimed 3.65 terabytes of data from 275 million users across 9,000 schools. The pattern is consistent: identify a target sitting on large volumes of sensitive data, exfiltrate it, set a ransom deadline, and publish when the deadline passes.

MSG Entertainment has not publicly confirmed the scope of the breach or commented on the class action. The company’s facial recognition programme has faced scrutiny since at least 2022, when it drew attention for using the technology to bar attorneys from firms involved in litigation against the company. The New York attorney general investigated, and a state court initially ruled the policy violated anti-discrimination law, though an appeals court later reversed that decision.

The breach raises a question that extends beyond MSG: organisations that invest heavily in surveillance technology to monitor their visitors are creating precisely the kind of high-value data troves that groups like ShinyHunters target. The 26 million figure cited by the hackers has not been independently verified, and the full scope of the exposed biometric data remains unclear as the investigation continues.

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