Comment Can't Fix Headlights But AI Wizards! (Score -1, Offtopic) 148
This is a failed experiment. America is poison and is eating itself from the inside.
If only I could see where I was going 'cept these damn headlights!
Submission + - How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation — and Blinded Us All (autoblog.com)
schwit1 writes: Modern LED technology promised safer roads. Instead, it’s creating a blinding menace that regulators refuse to address.
- Headlight brightness has doubled in a decade, with widespread driver complaints and frustration.
- Regulatory loopholes allow manufacturers to increase brightness because of outdated federal standards.
- Regulations capping maximum brightness for LED headlights have still not been formulated.
- Headlight brightness has doubled in a decade, with widespread driver complaints and frustration.
- Regulatory loopholes allow manufacturers to increase brightness because of outdated federal standards.
- Regulations capping maximum brightness for LED headlights have still not been formulated.
Submission + - Hacker Dressed as the Pink Ranger Takes Down White Supremacist Websites Live (gizmodo.com)
t0qer writes: On stage at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, a hacker known as Martha Root deleted the servers of three websites run by white nationalists. The takedown, performed by Root while dressed up as the Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers, came at the end of a talk on the Nazi online ecosystem that also featured journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, per TechCrunch. The three sites targeted included WhiteDate, a white nationalist dating site; WhiteChild, a website for matching white sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, an online labor market for white supremacists. As of Monday, the websites remain offline.
Submission + - VW Bring Back Physical Buttons (caranddriver.com)
sinij writes:
Volkswagen is making a drastic change to its interiors, or at least the interiors of its electric vehicles. The automaker recently unveiled a new cockpit generation with the refreshed ID. Polo that now comes with physical buttons.
Unfortunately, glued-on-dash tablet look is still there.
Submission + - Ubisoft Hacked by Four Different Groups (pcquest.com)
sinij writes:
Hackers breached Ubisoft's backend around 11 a.m. UTC on December 27, flooding countless accounts with billions of in-game Rainbow Six Siege credits, rare skins, and packs, while sending random fake ban messages. Ubisoft shut down all servers and the marketplace that afternoon to control the damage and also promised no punishments for players who spent the gifted credits and launching full transaction rollbacks with quality checks.
Submission + - 'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste (sciencealert.com) 1
alternative_right writes: The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution.
Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It's based on how some fish filter-feed to eat microscopic prey.
Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It's based on how some fish filter-feed to eat microscopic prey.
Comment Kill The Bird & Both Wings Die. (Score -1) 94
How many thousands of years will we waste on hate and control?
Mind your own fucking business and get a fucking hobby, assholes.
Submission + - America is building a society that cannot function without AI (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: The United States is rapidly building a society that assumes artificial intelligence will always be available. AI now sits at the center of banking, healthcare, logistics, education, media, and government workflows, increasingly handling not just automation but decision-making and cognition itself. The risk is not AI being “too smart,” but Americans slowly losing the ability — and habit — of thinking and functioning without it. As more writing, research, planning, and judgment are outsourced to centralized systems, human fallback skills quietly atrophy, making society efficient but brittle.
That brittleness becomes a national risk when AI’s real dependencies are considered. Large-scale AI depends on data centers, power grids, and stable infrastructure that can fail due to outages, cyber incidents, or geopolitical pressure. Foreign adversaries do not need to defeat the US militarily to cause disruption; they only need to interrupt systems Americans assume will always work. A society optimized for AI uptime rather than resilience may discover, very suddenly, that when the intelligence layer goes dark, confusion spreads faster than solutions.
That brittleness becomes a national risk when AI’s real dependencies are considered. Large-scale AI depends on data centers, power grids, and stable infrastructure that can fail due to outages, cyber incidents, or geopolitical pressure. Foreign adversaries do not need to defeat the US militarily to cause disruption; they only need to interrupt systems Americans assume will always work. A society optimized for AI uptime rather than resilience may discover, very suddenly, that when the intelligence layer goes dark, confusion spreads faster than solutions.
Submission + - Top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025 1
An anonymous reader writes: Top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025
The past year has been another relentless one in terms of developments in the Post Office Horizon scandal.
If 2024 was the aftermath of the ITV drama on the scandal, 2025 was about more people drilling deeper into it ..
.. Fujitsu has received significant attention this year for its role in the scandal, while former subpostmasters who suffered as a result of a second Post Office system, known as Capture, have had major successes in their own campaign for justice.
The past year has been another relentless one in terms of developments in the Post Office Horizon scandal.
If 2024 was the aftermath of the ITV drama on the scandal, 2025 was about more people drilling deeper into it
Comment Apple Inc. Are Idiot Magnets (Score -1) 37
Learn how to be stupid? Isn't that an oxymoron?
Hairy Krishna Everyone!!
Submission + - Threat groups steal identities to access Microsoft 365 accounts (scworld.com)
spatwei writes: A threat actor was observed using device code phishing to trick unsuspecting users into granting a cybercriminal access to their Microsoft 365 accounts.
In a Dec. 18 blog post, Proofpoint Threat Research explained that in device code phishing, an attacker will socially engineer someone into logging into an application with legitimate credentials. The app then generates a token that’s obtained by the threat actor, which gives them control over the Microsoft 365 account.
While it’s not a novel technique, the Proofpoint team pointed out that it’s notable to see it used increasingly by multiple threat clusters, including TA2723, a tracked financially motivated cybercriminal threat actor.
“Over the last few years, there has been an increasing focus by threat actors on identity, including account takeovers, which is the result of a successful attack using the OAuth device code phishing technique we’ve reported,” said Sarah Sabotka, a staff threat researcher at Proofpoint. “If a threat actor can successfully establish a foothold by compromising a legitimate user’s identity, the opportunities for upstream attacks are endless.”
In a Dec. 18 blog post, Proofpoint Threat Research explained that in device code phishing, an attacker will socially engineer someone into logging into an application with legitimate credentials. The app then generates a token that’s obtained by the threat actor, which gives them control over the Microsoft 365 account.
While it’s not a novel technique, the Proofpoint team pointed out that it’s notable to see it used increasingly by multiple threat clusters, including TA2723, a tracked financially motivated cybercriminal threat actor.
“Over the last few years, there has been an increasing focus by threat actors on identity, including account takeovers, which is the result of a successful attack using the OAuth device code phishing technique we’ve reported,” said Sarah Sabotka, a staff threat researcher at Proofpoint. “If a threat actor can successfully establish a foothold by compromising a legitimate user’s identity, the opportunities for upstream attacks are endless.”
Comment The Consumers (Score 1, Insightful) 25
Problem is that they don't realize it.
Submission + - Young Journalists Drone, Expose Russian Ships Off Dutch-German Coasts (digitaldigging.org)
schwit1 writes: Seven German journalism students, as a continuation of their OSINT course project, tracked the movements of ships with Russian crews off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany and linked them to swarms of drones appearing over European military airfields and other strategic sites.
The guys not only analyzed thousands of data points, but also used leaked documents, established connections with sources in European agencies, and drove 2,500 km across three countries chasing one of the ships – even launching their own drone to fly over it.
At the end of the article, there’s precise data on the vessels, so you can follow them yourself.
The guys not only analyzed thousands of data points, but also used leaked documents, established connections with sources in European agencies, and drove 2,500 km across three countries chasing one of the ships – even launching their own drone to fly over it.
At the end of the article, there’s precise data on the vessels, so you can follow them yourself.
Submission + - Arkansas becoming 1st state to sever ties with PBS, effective July 1 (apnews.com)
joshuark writes: Arkansas is becoming the first state to officially end its public television affiliation with PBS. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, whose members are all appointed by the governor, voted to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, 2026, citing the $2.5 million annual membership dues as “not feasible.” The decision was also driven by the loss of a similar amount in federal funding after the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was defunded by Congress.
PBS Arkansas is rebranding itself as Arkansas TV and will provide more local content, the agency’s Executive Director and CEO Carlton Wing said in a statement. Wing, a former Republican state representative, took the helm of the agency in September.
“Public television in Arkansas is not going away,” Wing said. “In fact, we invite you to join our vision for an increased focus on local programming, continuing to safeguard Arkansans in times of emergency and supporting our K-12 educators and students.”
“The commission’s decision to drop PBS membership is a blow to Arkansans who will lose free, over the air access to quality PBS programming they know and love,” a PBS spokesperson wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
The demise of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is a direct result of President Donald Trump’s targeting of public media, which he has repeatedly said is spreading political and cultural views antithetical to those the United States should be espousing. Trump denied taking a big should on television viewers.
PBS Arkansas is rebranding itself as Arkansas TV and will provide more local content, the agency’s Executive Director and CEO Carlton Wing said in a statement. Wing, a former Republican state representative, took the helm of the agency in September.
“Public television in Arkansas is not going away,” Wing said. “In fact, we invite you to join our vision for an increased focus on local programming, continuing to safeguard Arkansans in times of emergency and supporting our K-12 educators and students.”
“The commission’s decision to drop PBS membership is a blow to Arkansans who will lose free, over the air access to quality PBS programming they know and love,” a PBS spokesperson wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
The demise of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is a direct result of President Donald Trump’s targeting of public media, which he has repeatedly said is spreading political and cultural views antithetical to those the United States should be espousing. Trump denied taking a big should on television viewers.
Submission + - 97% Of Buildings On Earth 3D Mapped (nature.com)
Gilmoure writes: Imagine a video game with the world's buildings already mapped in basic spatial dimensions!
"Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world . The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth.
The data set, published in the open-access journal Earth System Science Data on 1 December1, covers 2.75 billion buildings, each mapped with footprints and heights at a spatial resolution of 3 metres by 3 metres.
The 3D map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning, according to study co-author Xiaoxiang Zhu, an Earth observation data scientist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany."
– nature.com
"Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world . The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth.
The data set, published in the open-access journal Earth System Science Data on 1 December1, covers 2.75 billion buildings, each mapped with footprints and heights at a spatial resolution of 3 metres by 3 metres.
The 3D map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning, according to study co-author Xiaoxiang Zhu, an Earth observation data scientist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany."
– nature.com
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