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Casely is recalling 430,000 power banks after a fatal charger explosion. In legal news, the hacker responsible for breaching the U.S. Supreme Court and other agencies has been sentenced to one year of probation. Meanwhile, to combat potential mass unemployment from AI, Elon Musk has proposed a “Universal HIGH INCOME” program, mirroring OpenAI’s call for a Public Wealth Fund to manage economic shifts.
Computer science history was marked by the rediscovery of Dennis Ritchie’s lost thesis. In security, Trail of Bits outperformed Google’s quantum cryptanalysis benchmarks by exploiting vulnerabilities in their Rust prover code. Meanwhile, Ubuntu 24.10 dailies are testing an experimental AppArmor-based permission prompting feature, and developers have launched ezli.me, a lightweight, Rust-built URL shortener.
An investigation in Pakistan has linked a recent HIV outbreak among 331 children to reused syringes at a government hospital. Globally, the U.S. and Philippines are launching a manufacturing hub to counter China’s supply chain dominance, while the U.S. and EU negotiate a controversial biometric data-sharing deal. Meanwhile, rising GPU scarcity is driving up AI costs amid new allegations of Amazon price-fixing.
A global crisis of AI-generated deepfake nudes has impacted hundreds of students across 28 countries. In legal news, Thomson Reuters faces a lawsuit alleging an employee was fired for protesting its ICE contracts. Meanwhile, researchers have used CRISPR to successfully silence the extra chromosome in Down syndrome cells, even as experts warn that AI-assisted cognition could lead to human intellectual stagnation.
Amazon is expanding its satellite reach with an $11.5 billion acquisition of Globalstar to rival SpaceX. Meanwhile, SpaceX eyes a massive $2 trillion IPO valuation. In cybersecurity, a flaw at Fiverr left sensitive customer files publicly searchable. Additionally, privacy concerns grow over Flock Safety’s AI surveillance, as beef production drives significant global calorie loss through inefficient feed use.
Hackers claim access to Venice’s flood defenses, threatening St. Mark’s Square. The Philippines accuses China of using cyanide to damage South China Sea reefs, while the CIA reportedly used Pegasus spyware to rescue a US airman in Iran. Meanwhile, the FAA has authorized military anti-drone lasers in U.S. airspace, a fake Claude website is spreading malware, and AI-generated code is causing engineer burnout.