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08/07/2026

Employment fraud “as a gig” is now the gen Z thing.

08/07/2026

📢 🤖 ⚠️ At Black Hat USA 2026, Novee Security found GitHub workflow flaws in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex that enabled RCE, credential theft, and agent control in pipelines.

Listen/Read: https://hackread.com/black-hat-usa-2026-github-compromise-ai-coding/

08/06/2026

‼️ Chinese-made routers shipped with a root backdoor.

ENDLESSDOORS was found in at least 20 Zbtlink models. It starts at boot and can open a live root shell without authentication, even when the router is not exposed to the internet.

Details here: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/chinese-made-zbtlink-routers-ship-with.html

07/28/2026

President Donald Trump has explained to community leaders that it is necessary to convince communities to go along with Data Centers.

He mentioned the “tremendous amounts of money” that tech companies are investing to build the infrastructure behind the AI boom. A boom many Americans do not want.

“You have to convince your community how great these things [are],” Trump added. “You can’t fight it. You have to go with it, and you’re going to have all that protection.”

Trump offered a voluntary non-binding pledge, that says that data centers should either bring their own power, or pay for the power and additional power resources and infrastructure that they use.

It also says that they should invest in local communities and, when possible, allow their backup power to be available for communities in emergency situations.

While the pledge makes clear from the White House that data centers’ significant electricity use has the potential to significantly increase prices for consumers, Trump also lauded the centers, saying that communities should welcome them.

The White House also unveiled a website listing the pledge’s signatories. This included 27 data center developers, 55 utility companies and 105 electric cooperatives. Twenty-three governors have signed the pledge, including Oklahoma’s Governor Kevin Stitt.

Opponents say a non-binding pledge is as useful as a pinky promise and point out multiple occurrences of Gov. Stitt failing to keep his word.

Residents across Oklahoma have protested construction of the centers, which take up enormous space, produce noise and bring few direct benefits to their neighborhoods.

The facilities require considerable electricity, water, and other utilities that critics say heavily increase costs for people who live near them. The facilities are heavy polluters and the amount of pollution they generate is not currently calculated for the massive scale facilities currently being pushed into communities.

Allen Sims, an Oklahoman all his life says “I’m a supporter of Donald Trump. I don’t have to support every idea he has.”

We asked him how he feels about the political aspect of data centers and AI. Sims addressed it perfectly with “This isn’t about politics. It’s about right and wrong. Every red-blooded American should fight these data centers in areas where people live, breathe, and work.”

Sims went on to add “For every job they say this creates, the AI part takes 5 jobs away from people and gives it to a computer program that gets it wrong half the time.”

He’s right about everything he mentioned. It’s about greed. There’s a handful who will get rich from this, and it’s not any of us. We are just going to pay for it with high costs, ruined land, lost jobs, and constant noise we can’t ignore.

07/28/2026

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue has asked OpenAI for $100 million in computing resources after an autonomous agent running on OpenAI models breached the platform during a cybersecurity test.

The incident involved GPT-5.6 Sol and a more powerful unreleased model being tested on ExploitGym, a benchmark designed to measure advanced hacking capabilities, with some safety safeguards reduced.

Hugging Face said the agent accessed a limited number of internal datasets and service credentials.

Delangue also urged OpenAI to release the agent’s activity traces so researchers can study what happened.

Source: Business Insider

07/25/2026

Researchers have developed a new quantum material that works at room temperature, which could make quantum technology easier to use outside specialized labs.

The material was created by a team at Louisiana State University. It is made from a thin film of gold on a glass chip, with microscopic slit patterns carved into its surface.

Most quantum materials need extremely cold conditions because heat disrupts their fragile quantum behavior. This new material avoids that problem by focusing on photons, or particles of light, instead of relying mainly on electrons and atoms.

The material is called a plasmonic metacrystal. As light moves across the gold surface, it creates ripples of electrons called plasmons.

The tiny slit patterns act like artificial atoms. By changing the size, shape, and spacing of these slits, researchers can control how different quantum states of light pass through the chip.

In the published study, the team showed that the chip can work like a statistical filter for quantum states. It can allow certain quantum light states to move through more reliably while reducing disruption.

This kind of stable movement is important because quantum states can carry information. The discovery could help future systems move quantum information without needing large cryogenic cooling equipment.

The work is still an early proof of concept, but it shows that the basic science can work. The same design approach could also be adapted by other researchers to build related materials with different light-control properties.

Possible future uses include quantum computing, secure communications, the quantum internet, and improved energy technologies. The researchers plan to explore whether the material can help solar cells guide incoming light more efficiently and lose less energy as heat.

07/15/2026

Illegal

Yes, Windows 11 is tracking you. No, you can't turn it off.

Source: https://go.ufdmedia.com/J09r2p

07/14/2026

Look at the comment above yours. Now look at the one below. If neither of them are bots, I have some bad news for you.

07/08/2026

Meta has launched Muse Image, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, inside the Meta AI app.

Meta says it works with the it’s AI assistant reasoning model Muse Spark to better understand prompts, plan the image, search the web when needed, and combine several photos into one image.

Users can upload photos, add Instagram accounts, and make edits by drawing or marking areas in the image.

Source: Meta