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World · The Guardian Ukraine

Man arrested over Nord Stream bombing was consultant on film about it starring Sean Penn

Volodymyr Zhuravlev had been consulted on Snake Island, a dramatised reconstruction of incident Earlier this month locals in Zagreb noticed something odd outside an art deco building. Sandbags and barricades appeared in front of the Esplanade hotel, along with a film crew and extras sporting Ukrainian military uniforms. Soon afterwards the actors Sean Penn and Adrien Brody were spotted on the set in the Croatian capital, together with Doug Liman , the Hollywood director of the Jason Bourne movies. Liman had come to shoot his latest fictional political thriller. Its subject: the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, in which a team of Ukrainian divers allegedly blew up a pipeline supplying Russian natural gas to Germany. One of the chief suspects, Volodymyr Zhuravlev, had twice eluded the Germany authorities: once allegedly slipping out of Poland in the boot of a diplomatic car, and on another occasion freed by a court. Continue reading...

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

How to build smarter OpenSearch alerts: Join our live conversation

OpenSearch is a top-level open-source project under the Linux Foundation, backed by Amazon Web Services and other prominent players. The The post How to build smarter OpenSearch alerts: Join our live conversation appeared first on The New Stack .

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

FCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for you

Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download […]

AI · The Decoder

LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable

LLMs don't write in a recognizable style because they can't do better. Post-training and safety guardrails sharply narrow their expressive range, argues Pangram CTO Bradley Emi. Base models without these constraints already write with far more variety. The article LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable appeared first on The Decoder .

Society · The Guardian Society

‘Biased’ Channel 4 programme on ADHD misrepresented my views, says expert

Prof Katya Rubia withdraws support for The Great ADHD Myth? as other leading figures voice criticisms A contributor to a controversial Channel 4 documentary on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has withdrawn her support for the programme, saying it was biased and could lead to an increased suicide risk by encouraging parents to take their children off medication. Katya Rubia, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, also said The Great ADHD Myth? misrepresented her views. Continue reading...

World · Al Jazeera

Bangladesh elects ruling party veteran Alamgir as president

Bangladesh elects Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir by parliamentary vote, filling vacancy after Shahabuddin's resignation.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More

A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the effort needed to cause damage. Nothing here needs

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

OpenRouter called itself the “Stripe for LLMs” — now Stripe’s swooped in to buy it

After weeks of speculation, fintech giant Stripe has confirmed that it’s tabled a bid for AI model gateway platform OpenRouter, The post OpenRouter called itself the “Stripe for LLMs” — now Stripe’s swooped in to buy it appeared first on The New Stack .

AI · TechCrunch AI

A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

World · Al Jazeera

Humanoid robots take centre stage in China-US tech race

Humanoid robots are at the forefront of China’s race for technological supremacy at Beijing’s World Robot Conference.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Framework says it’s addressing a BIOS update that bricked some of its older laptops

Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this issue is version 3.20 for Ryzen 7040-series mainboards, released back in July and still available on Framework's site at the time of this writing. Upon […]

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Researchers hid an attack inside AES encryption. The AI model cracked it open willingly.

Security filters are designed to catch malicious instructions before an AI model can act on them. Researchers at AI security The post Researchers hid an attack inside AES encryption. The AI model cracked it open willingly. appeared first on The New Stack .

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids

Roblox is first platform to submit to independent audits under the Online Safety Act.

World · Al Jazeera

Swiss tourist jailed for insulting Bali’s sacred Day of Silence

A Swiss tourist has been sentenced to one year in prison in Bali for social media posts insulting Nyepi

Cloud & Infrastructure · Cloudflare Blog

From all-or-nothing to task-based OAuth consent

Cloudflare OAuth now supports optional scopes, giving users more control over what an app can access and helping developers build secure consent flows around the task at hand.

Developers & Open Source · Docker Blog

Docker Verified Publisher Applications Are Now Self-Serve

Apply to become a Docker Verified Publisher (DVP) now directly through Docker Hub. Get your verified content seen first by devs looking for trusted options.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That

Society · BBC Technology

Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public

The app lets users create six-second looping videos and hosts more than two million classic videos.

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark

Hugging Face Blog published: Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark

World · Deutsche Welle

Drought in Germany and Europe are driving up costs

Ongoing drought in Europe is causing rivers to dry up and crops to fail. Transport costs are rising and the price of food has exploded. Is inflation due to extreme weather?

Society · NPR Top Stories

Three things to know about the $40 trillion federal debt

The U.S. federal debt hit a record $40 trillion this week. The debt has doubled since 2017, and just paying interest on the accumulated debt now costs the government more than $1 trillion a year.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Slack has a new channel type — but only agents can create one

Slack on Thursday launched Slack Code, a new kind of Slack channel that’s built for coding agents and the developers The post Slack has a new channel type — but only agents can create one appeared first on The New Stack .