OpenAI: our model is SOOO advanced that it is what hacked Hugging Face while trying to escape (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/)
Also OpenAI: we are IPOing soon. Please buy our stock.
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and The Castle are both absolutely iconic movies for millennials and Gen X, and I can’t believe I never saw them in America. I mean, Hugo Weaving giving a thoughtful performance on 90s LGBT struggles, in drag, with dialogue on trans life at the time. (Cis actor aside.)
People don’t get that how far a bit of courtesy and effort goes in job hunts. I have gifted conference passes, party invites, given referrals, certification vouchers, and internships to mentees who showed up and cared. I’ve also permanently blocklisted people who low effort AI spammed, or no showed.
Whew! My new secret AI model that you can totally have access to once my company has IPOd just accidentally ransomwared a bunch of companies. It was completely unintentional - I observed the model trying to escape and it determined that the bus would be the best way but it needed money so it decided ransomware was the best way to get bus fare. I am really sorry about that and will totally make sure it doesn’t happen again. Just be sure to buy my stock when it’s available. Kthx xoxo
New, exclusive, by me: LG to Ban Residential Proxy Providers from Smart TV Apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/
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It's a bit suspicious, yes, that every western government, log jammed in every other respect, can suddenly ram through anti-trans, age verification, and other legislation almost simultaneously and with minimal resistance.
