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Pentagon makes dramatic missile shift as repeated conflicts drain US stockpiles and more top headlines
This piece is a morning news round-up from Fox News rather than a single in-depth story, leading with the Pentagon’s decision to shift its missile strategy after repeated conflicts have significantly depleted US stockpiles. The article does not provide further detail on what the shift involves, but frames it as the top story alongside two…
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Ari Aster lines up Jacob Elordi alongside Scarlett Johansson for mysterious new movie
The plot of the film is still unknown. The post Ari Aster lines up Jacob Elordi alongside Scarlett Johansson for mysterious new movie first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering. It devastated mom-and-pop businesses instead
The Trump administration’s crackdown on money laundering near the US-Mexico border has hit small immigrant-serving businesses hard rather than the cartels it targeted, according to business owners and legal experts. Since April, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has required financial-service providers in the region to report cash transactions over $200, down from the…
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The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
OpenAI has announced that an advanced unreleased AI model, known as Astra, produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems, some of which had stumped academics for decades. The development has stirred a mixture of excitement and unease among mathematicians, including Oxford’s Fields Medal-winning professor James Maynard, who describes grappling with what the shift means for…
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A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Computer scientists have found a way to extract the hidden “thinking” process that frontier AI models use to work through complex problems, exposing a vulnerability shared by major providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The technique offers evidence, though not proof, that some Chinese AI models may have been trained by “distilling” reasoning from US…
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How Andy Burnham could keep the killers of Pc Andrew Harper behind bars
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he is “increasingly confident” that the men who killed Pc Andrew Harper will serve their full sentences, after ordering justice secretary Alex Norris to find a way to prevent their early release. The move comes after the government’s Sentencing Act, which allows many prisoners to be freed after a…
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Building up the US power grid won’t be wasted, even if the AI bubble bursts
US power companies face a decision about how much new generation and grid capacity to build for surging datacentre demand, given that some planned AI facilities may never be completed if the AI boom cools. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company argues the bigger danger is under-building rather than over-building, since even if AI compute demand…
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Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
Researchers at the University of Birmingham and Fuzzware have shown that a malicious SIM card can hijack a phone or connected device by exploiting standardised “proactive SIM” features, potentially executing code, stealing files, forcing a shutdown, or downgrading a connection to 2G. Because the attack abuses functionality explicitly defined in cellular technical specifications rather than…
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Marvel Tōkon’s dire PC performance improved massively by new patch, drastically reducing CPU use and stutters
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, the fighting game published by Arc System Works and Marvel Games, has received a major patch that fixes severe PC performance problems that plagued the title since its launch last week. The issues had caused a stark gap in experience between console and PC players, with the latter suffering micro-stutters, abnormally…