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Tesla has published its fourth so-called “masterplan,” with a high level of information on how the company wants to guide its billing into the adoption of humanoid robots and the planet-wide sustainable energy. However, this post does not have a key component of the plan: details. Even CEO Elon Musk agrees. In one of his only posts about the plan, which has been caught between a steady stream of transphobia and immigration panic since it was released Monday — he agreed that it would be fair to criticize the lack of details, saying the company would add more. Who knows…
Virus video created with artificial intelligence (AI) shows the devastating impact of a volcanic eruption on Mount Fuji on Tokyo, Japan and its 37 million residents. Fortunately, informational videos do not timing the increased risk of eruptions. This is merely an announcement of public services related to Japan’s Volcanic Disaster Prevention Day in 2025.An AI-generated video released on August 22 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government warns the speed at which volcanic ash can travel from the volcano to the Japanese capital, then descends on roads, buildings, railways and other infrastructure. A cloud of debris from Mt. Fuji can reach Tokyo…
September 2, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Threat Intelligence North Korea-related threat actors known as the Lazarus Group are attributed to a social engineering campaign that distributes three different cross-platform malware, known as Pondrat, Themeforestrat and Remotepe. The attack observed by NCC Group’s Fox-IT in 2024 targeted organizations in the distributed finance (DEFI) sector, ultimately leading to compromises in the employee system. “From there, actors made discoveries from within the network using different rats in combination with other tools to harvest credentials and proxy connections, for example,” said Yun Zheng Hu and Mick Koomen. “The actor then moves to stealth rats, which probably means…
Humanity, an AI company, has raised a $13 billion Series F round. This will bring postmoney valuations to up to $183 billion. The company will be used to support increased recruitment, deeper safety research and international expansion, the company says. According to the company’s blog post, Iconiq is leading the round in collaboration with Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other supporters include a set of institutional investors, VCS, sovereign funds, private equity, asset managers such as Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, BlackStone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Insight Partners, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Qatar Investment Authoritative. “We…
Web Publishing Platform WordPress introduces an early version of its AI development tools. Matt Mullenweg, co-founder and Automattic CEO of WordPress, is described as “V0 or adorable, but especially for WordPress only.” A reference to V0 and the popular “Vibe Coding” service for building software using AI interfaces. Mullenweg introduced a new WordPress AI tool called Telex, along with other AI experiments, at the WordCamp US 2025 conference in Portland last week. During his keynote speech, Mullenweg briefly demonstrated how the telex that make up a WordPress website can create Gutenberg blocks, or modular bits such as text, images, and…
For years, Elon Musk has spoken of the promise of Dojo, the AI supercomputer that was supposed to be the cornerstone of Tesla’s AI ambitions. It was important enough to Musk that in July 2024, he said the company’s AI team would “double down” on Dojo in the lead-up to Tesla’s robotaxi reveal, which happened in October. After six years of hype, Tesla decided last month to shut down Dojo and disband the team behind the supercomputer in August 2025. Within weeks of projecting that Dojo 2, Tesla’s second supercluster that was meant to be built on the company’s in-house…
Last year, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a $2 million worth of contract with Israeli spyware manufacturer Paragon. Shortly afterwards, the Biden administration will review the contract, issue a “suspension work order,” determine whether the contract complies with the commercial spyware executive order, and restrict U.S. government agencies from violating human rights and targeting Americans overseas. Almost a year later, ICE lifted the suspension work order when the contract appeared to be exhausted and active, according to public records. “This agreement is for a fully configured, unique solution, including licenses, hardware, warranty, maintenance, training, and more. This change…
Mrbeast, a popular 27-year-old YouTuber known for his elaborate challenges and giveaways, is taking on new territory. He is reportedly starting his own telephone company. Mrbeast is set to launch mobile phone services next year, according to Business Insider, which saw the leaked investor deck. Business Insider also reported that Mrbeast and Beast Industries executives are considering Fintech and mobile gaming. The new plans for YouTubers include establishing Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), a strategy that involves providing mobile phone services using existing networks from major companies such as AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. By partnering with any of these operators,…
Instagram is testing the new picture photography feature for viewing reels, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday. This feature allows users to view reels in small floating windows on the screen, while allowing users to view other apps and multitasking. This feature was first discovered by app researcher Radu Oncescu. Users who are part of the test will see a popup notifying them about the new feature and how to turn it on. Picture-in-pictures are great for multitasking, but they could also increase longer video retention, especially in an era of reduced attention. For example, if someone comes across…
The bus-sized asteroid, first discovered about a week ago, zooms past Earth today (September 3). Spacelock will not be able to make this any closer again until September 4th, 2125.The asteroid, known as the 2025 QV5, was first discovered on August 24th. This is about 35 feet (11 meters) in diameter, or the same width as the school bus width, heading towards us at over 13,900 mph (22,400 km/h), according to NASA’s Jet Project Lab Tagator (JPL).According to a search in the JPL body database, Spacelock will approach Earth, within 500,000 miles (805,000 kilometers) on Wednesday, or within a month…