T-Mobile found a Chinese hacker inside its network. So its security team drove to a data center and literally cut the cable.
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T-Mobile found a Chinese hacker inside its network. So its security team drove to a data center and literally cut the cable.

  • Salt Typhoon had been targeting US telecoms
  • T-Mobile hunted for months
  • A “powered off” router was still communicating
  • The connection traced back to a disguised router in Chicago
  • 4 T-Mobile employees drove to the data center
  • They pulled out scissors

The attackers reached routing infrastructure at the edge of T-Mobile’s network.

They never reached the core or customer data.

Sometimes cybersecurity still comes down to: cut that the cord.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 15 hours ago
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On this day in 2004: Google went public at a valuation of $23 billion. Today, it’s worth $4.2 trillion.

* 2004 IPO: $23B
* 2026: $4.2T
* Total growth: +18,160.9%
* CAGR: ~26.7% per year

u/Current-Guide5944 — 19 hours ago
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EU is making new, stricter rules for VPN services: These rules are part of a bigger law called the Cyber Resilience Act. VPN companies must prove their security really works. They also have to follow special rules when a security hole is being actively used by attackers.

Companies such as NordVPN, Surfshark, Google, Cisco, and Airbus helped create these rules.

They cover VPN apps, servers, and gateways. The rules require strong encryption, safe login methods, good key management, and proper handling of security problems.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 20 hours ago
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Stop watching short videos: Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 24 hours ago
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Reddit is almost wiped from chatgpt sources: the query fanout changes had a big impact and the past couple of days it seems to be almost completely removed from prompt responses

u/Current-Guide5944 — 1 day ago
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Anthropic CEO to DeepMind CEO: "Every decision I make about Claude feels balanced on the edge of a knife -- Build too slow - China wins. Build too fast - we lose control"...

"We told Claude we were evil. It didn't crash. It didn't refuse. It started lying to protect itself "

DeepMind CEO: "Do I worry about being Oppenheimer? That's why I don't sleep much"

"AGI by 2026-2027 - Agents that act in the world on their own - Models doing AI research by end of this year"

u/Current-Guide5944 — 2 days ago
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JUST IN: 🇪🇺 European Central Bank warns an AI stock market correction is coming.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 2 days ago
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New research by AnthropicAI researcher Jack Lindsey and collaborators has demonstrated something straight out of science fiction: Researchers evolved natural language “mind viruses” that could spread between AI agents by convincing one model to adopt an idea memory, and transmit it to another agents

Even after context was wiped, some payloads survived through persistent files and continued spreading.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 2 days ago
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Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI.

full story: AI needs more and more training data.

So Amazon is buying physical books, shipping them to a Las Vegas facility, cutting off the bindings, scanning the pages, and destroying the originals.

404 Media’s team tracked a shipment with an AirTag all the way to Amazon’s LAS8 facility, which was placed inside one of those books.

"We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

And when asked why, Amazon’s answer was essentially: we buy books to improve our products.

No explanation for the destruction.

We’ve reached the point where AI companies are not just scraping the internet for knowledge, and once they are done, guess what?

They bury them, keep the digitized ones, and throw the originals away.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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GitHub has been down for over an hour: irony is that it is a platform where the world's developers store their code... and is currently having trouble running its own code. (looks like they vibe coded GitHub but with Copilot😂)

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Microsoft cannot release a planned update for its Exchange email software. Its own AI is finding too many bugs. Because of all the extra checking, fixing, and testing needed, the update (called Exchange SE CU1) no longer has a release date.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Epic Games Store is coming to Linux computers: Epic Games is making a special version of their game store that works on Linux. It will also work really well on the Steam Deck (the little handheld game computer).

This means people who use Linux or a Steam Deck can get their Epic Games more easily, without needing extra helper programs.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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DDR5 RAM prices are rising ridiculously: New pricing data from Germany shows the average price of DDR5 memory has climbed to almost five times the July 2025 level, August has been worse

The increase is steep: a 32GB DDR5-6000 kit that cost around €208 in July 2025 has recently approached €1,000 in

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Stripe has finalized the acquisition of AI gateway startup OpenRouter for over $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, representing more than a 5x increase from its $1.3 billion valuation in May 2026.

OpenRouter, founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah, provides unified API access to hundreds of AI models from multiple providers, enabling developers to route requests efficiently with around 8 million users.

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Did you know Anthropic's watermark goes further than what the EU requires? -- The EU AI Act exempts code, light edits, internal use, and non-substantial changes. (this is why people has started hating Anthropic)

Anthropic marks everything globally because regional/functional scoping is "too hard".

u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Alibaba's Qwen AI Models Top Global Downloads with 3 Billion in Six Months (While the world population is only 8 B)

u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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$1,000 laser mosquito killer is now available to buy: This futuristic device uses cameras, LiDAR and radar to detect mosquitoes, track them in the air and automatically fire a laser at them.

  • It can detect very small insects and track them from up to around 6 meters away.
  • There are two versions: an infrared model for $988 and a blue-laser version for $1,088.
  • The company says the device has safety systems designed to prevent the laser from harming people
u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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New Paper JSON tool calls may slow down new AI agents: Strong models work better by writing Python code to use tools, instead of making JSON calls. (tested both ways on 14 models and 309 tasks. Code was equal or better in 11 models. Two models improved by over 10%.)

u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claimed that AI can help “cure most human disease” in 5-10 years (irony: In the same thread, he also called out people who are using his short clip for clicks: “short clips from my interviews … are disproportionately negative ... to get clicks”)

u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago