Submission + - Chinese Hackers Pretended to Be a Top U.S. Lawmaker During Trade Talks (archive.is)
schwit1 writes: FBI is investigating a scheme to spy on trade groups using fake emails from China committee chair Rep. John Moolenaar
Comment The headline is fake news (Score 1) 3
The Michelin Mobility Intelligence system does not track personal identities. Instead, it aggregates data to show speeding behavior in specific locations at specific times.
As a result of this data, state troopers will focus on patrolling areas identified as speeding hotspots, including sections of I-5 and I-90. The targeted enforcement will take place from June 16 to July 31, with the aim of changing reckless driving patterns through increased patrols.
Comment BMW, I am so breaking up with you (Score 1) 132
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09...
Those first few drives felt exhilarating, too. The car was beautiful, the ride was smooth, and I felt like we were going places. Nearly two years later, I’m doing something I never thought I’d do: eagerly awaiting the end of a lease on a luxury car because its software is such a disaster that it makes my rusted-out Volvo look like a paragon of reliability.
Digital key issues have become so widespread that BMW owners have at times shared elaborate multi-step workarounds that read like instructions for disarming a bomb:
1. Open the BMW app on your phone and use it to unlock the door.
2. Sign in with your BMW ID in iDrive.
3. Place your iPhone in the vehicle’s charging tray.
4. Wait for the digital key to reappear in the Wallet app.
5. Double-click the side button, authenticate with Face ID, and—finally—start the car.
Comment You don't have a right to a Facebook page (Score -1, Troll) 56
FB Zuck owns it. It's his property, it's his call.
Submission + - Game Theory of Police Interrogation (joehuffman.org)
schwit1 writes: Here’s the problem. When you agree to a police interrogation, you and the police are playing two different games.
As the suspect, you believe you are playing a multiplayer, collaborative game.
But the police aren’t even playing a multiplayer game. They’re playing a one-player game, like Tetris.
As the suspect, you’re not a player in the game. You’re more like the game environment, producing falling blocks for the player—the police.
The police play this game by collecting your statements like blocks and fitting them into a picture that incriminates you. When enough blocks have fit together, the police have won the game and refer the case to a prosecutor.
As the suspect, you believe you are playing a multiplayer, collaborative game.
But the police aren’t even playing a multiplayer game. They’re playing a one-player game, like Tetris.
As the suspect, you’re not a player in the game. You’re more like the game environment, producing falling blocks for the player—the police.
The police play this game by collecting your statements like blocks and fitting them into a picture that incriminates you. When enough blocks have fit together, the police have won the game and refer the case to a prosecutor.
Submission + - Common Pesticide Linked to Widespread Brain Abnormalities in Children (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: Progressively higher prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos was associated with incrementally greater deviations in brain structure, function, and metabolism in children and teens, the researchers found, along with poorer measures of motor speed and motor programming.
Submission + - Trump Admin Wants to Own Patents of New Inventions Funded by Tax Dollars (newsweek.com)
schwit1 writes: Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has said that his department has been in contact with top universities to create "deals" that would give the government patents for their research and inventions.
Lutnick told President Donald Trump, along with the Cabinet and the press, that the government would be receiving the patents in return for the "tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars" spent in grants each year.
"So we are going to make a deal with them all, which is: if we give them the money, don't you think it's fair that the United States of America, and the taxpayers who funded it, get a piece of that?"
Lutnick told President Donald Trump, along with the Cabinet and the press, that the government would be receiving the patents in return for the "tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars" spent in grants each year.
"So we are going to make a deal with them all, which is: if we give them the money, don't you think it's fair that the United States of America, and the taxpayers who funded it, get a piece of that?"
Comment Good. Probably people intending to not leave (Score 0) 209
If you wanted to come to the US illegally the tourist visa used to be a safe choice.
Many of the illegals now being deported overstayed their tourist visas. Those now coming in on tourist visas are being scrutinized harder and tracked to ensure they depart on schedule.
Submission + - AI is Killing the Internet. Don't Let It Kill the Classroom Too. (realcleareducation.com)
schwit1 writes: AI isn’t merely churning out fluff. In one striking example, bots fueled a disproportionate share of the online discourse following mass shootings, and AI actively spreads misinformation. Online content is increasingly spun up by algorithms for other algorithms to amplify. This deluge of automated content is drowning humanity on the internet.
Lately, it seems that a similar dynamic is charging into our college classrooms with developers of educational technology at its vanguard. Let’s call it the Dead Education Theory, and it works something like this:
A college professor uses one of many dozens of free commercial AI tools to draft a rubric and an assignment prompt for their class. A student pastes that prompt into another AI app that produces an essay that they submit as their completed assignment. Pressed for time, the professor runs the paper through an AI tool that instantly spits out tidy boilerplate feedback. Off in the background, originality checkers and paraphrasing bots duel in an endless game of evasion and detection. On paper, the learning loop is complete. The essay is written. The grade is given. And the class moves on to its next assignment.
It’s entirely likely that this scenario is playing out thousands of times every day. A 2024 global survey from the Digital Education Council found that 86% of college students use AI in their studies, with more than half (54%) deploying it at least weekly and a quarter using it daily. Faculty are increasingly using AI to create teaching materials, boost student engagement, and generate student feedback, although most report just minimal to moderate AI use.
Lately, it seems that a similar dynamic is charging into our college classrooms with developers of educational technology at its vanguard. Let’s call it the Dead Education Theory, and it works something like this:
A college professor uses one of many dozens of free commercial AI tools to draft a rubric and an assignment prompt for their class. A student pastes that prompt into another AI app that produces an essay that they submit as their completed assignment. Pressed for time, the professor runs the paper through an AI tool that instantly spits out tidy boilerplate feedback. Off in the background, originality checkers and paraphrasing bots duel in an endless game of evasion and detection. On paper, the learning loop is complete. The essay is written. The grade is given. And the class moves on to its next assignment.
It’s entirely likely that this scenario is playing out thousands of times every day. A 2024 global survey from the Digital Education Council found that 86% of college students use AI in their studies, with more than half (54%) deploying it at least weekly and a quarter using it daily. Faculty are increasingly using AI to create teaching materials, boost student engagement, and generate student feedback, although most report just minimal to moderate AI use.
Exit quote: “Banning AI tools isn’t realistic; the genie has escaped that bottle. But instead of allowing AI to drain higher education of its humanity, we must design a future where AI amplifies authentic human thinking. AI will be in the classroom — there’s no question about that. The urgent question is how to keep humanity there as well.”
Submission + - An Online Group Says It's Behind a Campus Swatting Wave (nytimes.com)
schwit1 writes: Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.
An online group said that it was behind a number of recent hoax emergency calls that drew a heavy law enforcement response to college campuses across the United States and were timed to coincide with the start of the school year.
The group, which calls itself Purgatory, highlighted news media coverage of the recent hoaxes in a public-facing channel on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service often used by criminals.
The online group is suspected of being connected to several of the episodes, including reports of shootings, according to cybersecurity experts, law enforcement agencies and the group members’ own posts in a social media chat. The group’s claims could not be independently verified.
Federal authorities previously connected the same network to a series of bomb scares and bogus shooting reports in early 2024, for which three men pleaded guilty this year.
The spreading of false reports — a practice known as swatting — is intended to sow fear and chaos at educational and governmental institutions, as well as commercial places. Some swatting episodes have focused on the homes of politicians and other famous people.
An online group said that it was behind a number of recent hoax emergency calls that drew a heavy law enforcement response to college campuses across the United States and were timed to coincide with the start of the school year.
The group, which calls itself Purgatory, highlighted news media coverage of the recent hoaxes in a public-facing channel on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service often used by criminals.
The online group is suspected of being connected to several of the episodes, including reports of shootings, according to cybersecurity experts, law enforcement agencies and the group members’ own posts in a social media chat. The group’s claims could not be independently verified.
Federal authorities previously connected the same network to a series of bomb scares and bogus shooting reports in early 2024, for which three men pleaded guilty this year.
The spreading of false reports — a practice known as swatting — is intended to sow fear and chaos at educational and governmental institutions, as well as commercial places. Some swatting episodes have focused on the homes of politicians and other famous people.
Comment Hopefully not just focusing on CCP coders (Score 2) 27
Any non-US person(and H1B) should be off limits to all sensitive government and critical infrastructure systems.
Comment Next, Copilot will be in your Samsung phone (Score 1) 69
Whether you want it or not, and it won't be uninstallable.
Submission + - OpenAI Is Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to Police (futurism.com)
schwit1 writes: For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide.
As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "AI psychosis," has until recently done little more than offer copy-pasted promises.
In a new blog post admitting certain failures amid its users' mental health crises, OpenAI also quietly disclosed that it's now scanning users' messages for certain types of harmful content, escalating particularly worrying content to human staff for review — and, in some cases, reporting it to the cops.
"When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts," the blog post notes. "If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement."
As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "AI psychosis," has until recently done little more than offer copy-pasted promises.
In a new blog post admitting certain failures amid its users' mental health crises, OpenAI also quietly disclosed that it's now scanning users' messages for certain types of harmful content, escalating particularly worrying content to human staff for review — and, in some cases, reporting it to the cops.
"When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts," the blog post notes. "If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement."
Submission + - SpaceX succesfully launches Starship Test Flight 10 (spacex.com) 1
Zitchas writes: After stopping the launch on Sunday due to a problem with ground systems, and then not being allowed to start on Monday due to storms; Starship flight 10 successfully launched and landed as planned in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday. The flight included a whole range of test items, including different tile configurations and new internal systems. There were some concerning moments, but the ship made it through. A fair amount of fire, but it successfully landed right next to the buoy cam.
Comment "offset by the purchase of carbon credits" (Score 1) 58
Apple probably bought the carbon credits from this scammer.
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