KrebsOnSecurity uncovered a new dark web service called Nexus offering more than 153 million driver's licenses and other government IDs for sale, including infrared and ultraviolet scans that could help forge counterfeit cards capable of passing hologram checks. The reporter found his own license, along with those of his mother, an FBI assistant director, and several security researchers, all apparently sourced from rental car and dispensary transactions.
Joe and Anthony Russo, who previously helmed several Marvel blockbusters, are returning to direct 'Avengers: Doomsday.' The directors say their motivation to rejoin the Marvel Cinematic Universe stems from a fresh creative approach rather than simply reprising past formulas.
Snowflake reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $1.55 billion, up 35% year over year, and adjusted earnings of 62 cents per share, both beating analyst expectations. The company raised its full-year product revenue forecast to $6.07 billion and pointed to growth in its CoCo AI coding agent, which now serves over 9,100 accounts after adding 2,000 in the quarter.
At a G20 gathering, leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Palantir urged world leaders to embrace rapid AI development and avoid heavy regulatory constraints. The executives framed AI adoption as essential and non-negotiable, echoing the deregulatory stance favored by the Trump administration.
Creator Daria Zabnieva's AI-produced show 'Bad Cat' has gone viral, drawing millions of viewers with its parody of a 1990s sitcom setting, complete with a smoking feline lead and Friends-inspired apartment decor. The series uses AI-generated visuals and characters despite widespread criticism of so-called 'AI slop' content flooding social platforms.
According to a report from The Information, OpenAI's forthcoming Astra model employs a technique called 'recurrent depth' or 'opaque recurrence,' which processes queries in loops rather than following the linear, step-by-step reasoning typical of current models. This approach reportedly makes it harder to trace how the model arrives at its answers through conventional chain-of-thought monitoring.
A developer who struggled with traditional music instruction wrote a tutorial that builds music theory from scratch using code, starting with a single oscillating number representing air pressure. The piece shows how the twelve-note system, scales, and chords can be derived computationally from physics and arithmetic rather than memorized as arbitrary convention, using simple audio programming examples like sine wave oscillators.
The UN Environment Program's new Limiting Overshoot report acknowledges that global temperatures will rise past the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C threshold, and instead focuses on how to minimize the severity and duration of that overshoot. The plan calls for nations to simultaneously cut greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero and deploy large-scale carbon dioxide removal, treating the latter as a supplement rather than a substitute for emissions cuts.
The FCC announced plans to build a public scorecard grading wireless, wireline, and VoIP providers on how well they block illegal robocalls. The rating could use numeric scores, letter grades, or risk categories, drawing on call-blocking statistics, complaint data, and enforcement records. The measure would apply to retail voice providers but exclude wholesale-only carriers.
Reformed cybercriminal Brett Johnson explains that generative AI tools now let attackers plan and execute fraud schemes far faster than before, compressing what once took days into hours. He describes AI's biggest value to threat actors as accelerating research, content creation, and social engineering rather than inventing new attack types.
A recent IEEE Spectrum careers newsletter, produced with Parsity, argues that engineers can gain mentorship benefits without ever formally asking someone to be a mentor. The author describes learning by observing and copying admired colleagues' habits, and by asking small, targeted questions about how others solve problems or approach their work.
New York City's education department has imposed a one-year blanket ban on AI tools for students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. High school students will still have access to AI, but only in limited, approved ways.
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