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OpenAI’s Fidji Simo says Meta's team didn't anticipate risks of AI products well—her first task under Sam Altman was to address mental health concerns

Simo has overseen OpenAI's addition of parental controls to ChatGPT teen accounts, and says more mental health safeguards are to come.

Fortune

Report: FBI Urges Law Enforcement Agencies to Identify Themselves Amid Rising Reports of ICE Impersonators

The bulletin encourages agencies at every level to collaborate in distinguishing legitimate ICE operations from impersonations, framing the surge in fake officers as a national law enforcement issue.

Latin Times

Even the FBI Thinks Masked ICE Agents Are a Bad Idea

In a bulletin first reported by Wired, the bureau warns masked agents are easier for criminals to impersonate.

Reason

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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace accused of directing expletive-ridden rant at ‘incompetent’ airport cops: police report

The Republican congresswoman was ‘very irate’ and ‘talking loudly using profanity,’ the police report says

The Independent UK

Influencers could learn a thing or two from traditional journalism about disclosing who’s funding their political coverage

Online influencers, through their postings on Instagram, Threads, TikTok and elsewhere, have created an exuberant universe of news and commentary that often outruns mainstream media in reach and even impact. They work the same waterfront as journalism and public relations, but their relationship with those mainstay practices built around fact…

The Conversation

Google's New York office has a major bug problem - just not the kind you might think

Google's Chelsea campus forced to work from home until bedbug infestation is cleared.

TechRadar

WNBA fans react in disgust to news that men are betting on players’ menstrual cycles

FadeMeBets, who has 29,000 followers on Instagram, advises his followers to bet the ‘under’ based on when he thinks players are on their periods

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ICE Eyes New Social Media Intelligence Program to Support Deportations With Round-the-Clock Monitoring: Report

ICE is preparing to dramatically expand its social media surveillance capabilities by hiring nearly 30 private contractors to analyze posts, photos, and online messages and convert them into intelligence for arrests and deportation raids

Latin Times

New ‘SMS blaster’ text scams are on the rise, security experts warn – stay safe by changing this one phone setting

Cybercriminals have found a new way to spam your phone with scam texts — SMS blasters. Find out what they are and how to protect yourself.

TechRadar

Psychedelics Without the Trip? Heavyweights Like Neuralink, Coinbase, Twitch Back AI Startup Developing 'Least Psychedelic Psychedelic' Drug

Mindstate Design Labs is developing drugs that aim to deliver psychedelic benefits without a trip, drawing funding from Y Combinator and the founders of OpenAI, Neuralink, Instacart (NASDAQ:CART), Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), and Twitch, according to Wired.

Benzinga

Tile exploit could let stalkers follow you with your own tracker — Bluetooth broadcasting flaw is relatively simple to exploit, researchers discover

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers found design flaws in Tile location trackers that can be abused to stalk their owners.

Tom’s Hardware

Trump’s new $100,000 H-1B visa policy causes chaos at San Francisco airport as passengers demand to leave plane

‘It is a situation where we had to choose between family and staying here,’ one passenger’s husband said

The Independent UK

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Reacts As Jensen Huang Goes Bananas For Google Gemini's Nano Banana: 'How Good Is That'

Nvidia Corp.’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang's playful praise of Google Gemini's "Nano Banana" AI image tool drew a lighthearted response from Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai, even as analysts project a multi-trillion-dollar boom in AI data center demand by 2030.

Benzinga

Google Accused of Axing Over 200 Workers Who Trained Gemini Chatbot After They Demanded Better Pay

Google is facing accusations of laying off over 200 contract workers who trained its Gemini chatbot, a move that some claim was in retaliation for their demands for better pay and working conditions.

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Tom’s Hardware

Google terminates 200 AI contractors — 'ramp-down' blamed, but workers claim questions over pay and job insecurity are the real reason behind layoffs

Google has fired over 200 AI response rating contractors as part of what it claims is a "ramping down" of that role. They join hundreds of other low-paid AI workers who have been let go at various AI developers in recent weeks.

Tom’s Hardware

China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries

Chinese censorship suffered a significant breach on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents had been dumped online.

Latin Times

Anonymously-Run Website Publishes Names of People Accused of Mocking Charlie Kirk's Death: Report

Operators behind the site say they have received "thousands" of submissions and intend to build a searchable archive

Reason

What Is ICE Doing With This Israeli Spyware Firm?

The Department of Homeland Security restored a $2 million contract with Paragon, maker of the surveillance tool Graphite, despite earlier civil liberties concerns.

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The Independent UK

Missing minute in Jeffrey Epstein jail security video revealed in document dump

The 61-second clip from inside New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center surfaced among more than 33,000 newly released files on Epstein

The Independent UK

Inside the group that has been sparking panic on college campuses with fake shooting calls for as little as $20

There have been at least 19 calls reporting fake shootings on college campuses in last ten days

International Business Times UK

'Swatting for Hire': Extremist Group Offers Fake School Shooting Threats for Just $20 as FBI Scrambles to Respond

An extremist group called Purgatory is offering 'swatting for hire' services, selling fake school shooting threats to universities.

Fortune

Perplexity wants to play nice with publishers. They keep suing it anyway

Perplexity is facing copyright lawsuits from publishers around the world, even as it tries to forge partnerships with them.

The Guardian - US

Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated ‘freelancer’

At least six publications have taken down articles under the name Margaux Blanchard that were AI-generated

The Independent UK

Ant smuggling into the US is out of control since Trump’s cuts – and it could have dire impacts on the country

Invasive insects can devastate local ecosystems and damage the homes of local residents

Benzinga

AMD Isn't Keeping Up With Meta Platforms' $100 Million Salaries For AI Talent, And The Reason Is Brilliant

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) pays its AI experts well, but it's not following Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ:META) footsteps. AMD CEO Lisa Su recently said that the AI chipmaker will not offer $100 million packages to compete with Meta Platforms as they recruit AI talent.

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