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Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: 'It's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game' Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest interview  It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts.…

Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: 'It's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game'

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

Nobody cares

I’d rather be a piledriver: www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/m...

Arizona apparently has a “stupid motorist law” that forces people who drive into flash flood waters to pay the costs of their rescue. Careful out there! Cars aren’t waterproof like they are in movies.

I gave up working on a story about apathy.

Every designer and programmer you’ve ever met has had to turn down some fucking asshole’s “killer app” idea where they asked us to work for free, for the exposure, and we said no instantly because the idea was self evidently bad.

That’s why there’s a demand for AI. To realize terrible ideas.

The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much Few passengers are told they can opt out, and when they do, airport staff may push back US lawmakers are trying to extend the use of facial recognition at airports, despite many airline passengers objecting to the practice.…

The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much

~ 423 gallons (1,602 liters).
~ 2,836 lbs (1,286 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $2,370 cost of fuel.
~ 4 tons of CO2 emissions.

Microsoft hails cloud and AI revenue for boffo earnings Azure numbers shared for the first time. No details about AI, however. Microsoft on Wednesday reported better than expected revenue for the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, thanks to the company's booming cloud business and, allegedly, to AI.…

Microsoft hails cloud and AI revenue for boffo earnings

10/19/87

“As recently as 200 years ago, 90% of people were farmers growing food to survive.” Now, we stare at glowing screens all day and complain when our macchiati have too much milk.

www.meta.com/superintelli...

Bruh we just want healthcare, clean water, and groceries we can afford

So…what was the reason?

Maybe love is just an economy based on resource scarcity, but I fail to see what that’s got to do with you and me.

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Google execs say employees have to 'be more AI-savvy' as competition ramps up Google has fewer employees than it did in early 2023, and the company is pushing AI in part to boost efficiencies.

New: Google execs are "urgently" pushing employees to use more AI tools in their day-to-day as the company tries to get more productivity out of everyone amid growing AI $$ spending. cnb.cx/44RB5X8

8.7 magnitude (!) earthquake off Kamchatka triggers tsunami warning for the Aleutian islands and tsunami watches down the Pacific coast www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

When a funeral is clickbait AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.

Fortune throwing its hat in the ring www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-...

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.

just insanely disrespectful — death as content farm grist

Seriously underrated movie

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.

Added level of bleakness to these stories.

A heartbreaking economic indicator: More people are giving up their pets | CNN Business In recent months, animal rescues and shelters across the country are reporting sharp increases in animals being surrendered, with several of those organizations telling CNN that financial hardship was...

😕https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/economy/us-pet-surrenders-shelters-economy

Teenage wasteland. It's only teenage wasteland. Teenage wasteland, oh yeah, it's only teenage wasteland. They're all wasted! (Violin-synth solo out...)

I gotta be honest, I miss the days of riding around Lake Washington blasting The Who. Life was simpler then.

Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts : Satya Nadella lays out revised mission for Redmond. Spoiler: It involves AI

You can read the original here: www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/m...

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Mediocrity, Accountability, and Artificial Intelligence The managerial class loves AI because it allows them to avoid responsibility for their failures. That should terrify us all.

Nice call to @theregister.com's @lot49.com here: whatwelost.substack.com/p/mediocrity...
We're just guessing here, but given that 1 in 3 people lack clean drinking water – a popular beverage at datacenters – a few billion among us probably have priorities other than kibitzing with Microsoft Copilot.

Like management consulting, but cheaper?

Docs: Groq revised its 2025 revenue projections to $500M+ within the past month, citing delays in data center capacity, after projecting $2B+ earlier this year (The Information)

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