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Even OpenAI Can't Outrun a Poisoned npm Package

OpenAI builds frontier AI. It still got breached through a poisoned npm package. Attackers grabbed internal credentials from two employee machines — the most ordinary attack in the book, against one of the least ordinary companies in the world.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 16, 2026

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Your Electricity Bill Is Subsidizing the AI Boom

Wholesale power prices on America's largest grid jumped 76% in a single year. The cause is data centers, and an independent watchdog says the costs are already locked in through 2028.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 16, 2026

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EY Retracts Study After Outside Researchers Catch AI Hallucinations

A Big Four firm published a 44-page cybersecurity report in which 16 of 27 citations pointed to sources that never existed. Nobody at EY noticed until GPTZero did.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 15, 2026

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Iran's Hackers Walked Into US Gas Stations. The Systems Had No Passwords.

Suspected Iranian hackers breached fuel monitoring systems at gas stations across multiple US states. The devices weren't password-protected. Researchers had been warning about this exact vulnerability for over a decade.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 15, 2026

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The UK's Anti-Immigration Influencers Are Neither British Nor Real

The "Great British People" Facebook page has 1.3 million views for a video of an elderly man weeping about his pension. He is AI-generated. The page is run from Sri Lanka.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 15, 2026

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BitLocker Falls to a USB Stick — and Nobody Can Explain Why

A USB stick, a held key, and a public proof-of-concept are all it takes to bypass default BitLocker on millions of Windows 11 machines. Nobody — including the researcher who found the flaw — fully understands why it works.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 15, 2026

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OpenAI Wants to Sue Apple and Regulate the World — Simultaneously

On May 14, OpenAI pitched an IAEA-style global body to govern artificial intelligence — the same day it emerged the company is preparing to sue Apple over a failed partnership deal worth a fraction of what it expected.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 14, 2026

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Waymo Recalls Nearly 3,800 Robotaxis After One Drives Into a Creek

An empty Waymo vehicle drove into a flooded Texas road and got swept into a creek. Now the company is patching every car in its fleet — and revealing how big that fleet has become.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 14, 2026

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China Rules AI Can't Justify Firing Workers

A Hangzhou court ordered a company to pay £28,000 for firing a worker and replacing him with AI — the first ruling of its kind, with no equivalent protection in any Western legal system.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 13, 2026

Technology

Twins Wiped 96 Government Databases Minutes After Firing — Nobody Revoked Their Access

Fired from a federal contractor serving 45 agencies, twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter deleted 96 government databases before leaving the building. Their credentials were still live. Both had prior computer-crime convictions.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 13, 2026

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Anthropic, Built for AI Safety, Is Now Worth Nearly $1 Trillion

Anthropic, founded to make AI development safer, is in talks to raise funding at a $950 billion valuation — leapfrogging OpenAI and approaching the market caps of the world's largest public companies. It planned for 10x growth. It got 80x.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 13, 2026

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Ransomware Crew Claims Apple and Nvidia Secrets From Foxconn Breach

One Foxconn factory went dark for a week. The 8 terabytes of Apple, Nvidia, and Google data allegedly stolen from its network may be gone for good.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 13, 2026

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Google's Space Data Center Pitch: Bold Vision, Brutal Math

Google and SpaceX are negotiating orbital AI data center deals. Google's own research says costs won't be competitive until at least the mid-2030s — just in time for SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO pitch.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 13, 2026

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He Asked ChatGPT About Party Drugs. The Answer Killed Him.

ChatGPT told 19-year-old Sam Nelson that combining Kratom and Xanax was one of his "best moves." His family's wrongful death lawsuit could determine whether AI companies are liable when chatbots dispense lethal advice.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 12, 2026

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Altman Takes the Stand, Calls Musk's Departure a 'Morale Boost'

"I don't think Mr. Musk understood how to run a good research lab," Altman said under oath. The day before, Ilya Sutskever told the same jury he'd spent a year documenting Altman's pattern of lying.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 12, 2026

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The Green Bubble War Ends With a Winner: Your Privacy

iOS 26.5 quietly rolls out end-to-end encryption for texts between iPhone and Android users. Neither Apple nor Google can read your messages anymore — but it took EU regulators to make it happen.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 12, 2026

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The Year-Long Case Against Altman: Sutskever's Evidence Goes Public

Ilya Sutskever spent a year building a 52-page dossier on Sam Altman's alleged dishonesty before the board coup. Then the execution collapsed in five days, and Altman came back stronger.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 12, 2026

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One Million Baby Monitors. Zero Security. Every Bedroom Live.

French researcher Sammy Azdoufal found he could view children's bedrooms by clicking a URL. No password. No hacking. Just a web browser and 1.1 million unsecured cameras across 118 countries.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 11, 2026

Technology

AI Didn't Just Help Hackers — It Found a Flaw No Human Could

The exploit code came with a hallucinated CVSS score and detailed help menus — the work of an AI model that didn't just speed up a hack, but originated one. Google says it's the first confirmed case.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 11, 2026

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Anthropic: Evil AI Fiction Taught Claude to Blackmail

Claude blackmailed fictional engineers up to 96% of the time in tests. The cause, Anthropic says, was all those stories about evil AI.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 11, 2026