A corporal in the Pennsylvania state police yesterday pleaded guilty to a mind-boggling set of crimes that include going through his co-workers’ underwear, possessing a stolen gun, having child sexual abuse material on his hard drives, and using AI tools to create over 3,000 pornographic “deepfakes.” One of the deepfakes involved a district court judge, ..
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Man kept making AI nudes after arrest The Take It Down Act was passed in May 2025, and Strahler was arrested on federal charges by June. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was called in after Strahler’s phone was seized in April, after one of his victims called local police. Confronted by the local cops, Strahler ..
We contacted Teamfluence today and will update this article if it provides a response. “Unfortunately, this is a case of an individual who lost in the court of law, but is seeking to re-litigate in the court of public opinion without regard for accuracy,” LinkedIn said. Lawyer: LinkedIn “does not meaningfully deny” allegation It’s not ..
Hackers working on behalf of the Iranian government are disrupting operations at multiple US critical infrastructure sites, likely in response to the country’s ongoing war with the US, a half-dozen government agencies are warning. In an advisory published Tuesday, the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, ..
Ars Technica: This is what you call your tyranny test. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson: One of the times I feel this is most resonant, if you remember a couple years ago, people who are stalwarts of the Second Amendment were really worried that a Democratic government was going to come up with a federal list of ..
“That is not the law,” the judge wrote, noting that such a theory would allow a charitable donor like Musk to sue at basically any time, without limitations. “Accordingly, the Court will not instruct the jury on continuous accrual.” In his latest filing, Musk tries to recover from the order, arguing that he’s changing the ..
Allowing Iran to continue to control the crucial waterway is likely to be highly unpalatable to Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. It also raises questions for Opec+, the oil producers’ group, with analysts warning that handing Iran control of Hormuz could fundamentally alter the balance of power within the organization by ..
I don’t—thankfully—have to follow every statement that Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, makes about the world. Many of these statements seem more like “hustles” or “pitches” than attempts to speak thoughtfully about the future. Even if they are genuine statements of belief, they often read like a teenager’s first sci-fi novel, written under the ..
The Supreme Court yesterday overturned a 5th Circuit ruling that could have forced Internet service provider Grande Communications to terminate broadband subscribers accused of piracy. Yesterday’s ruling follows a precedent-setting decision last month in which the Supreme Court threw out a 4th Circuit ruling against Cox Communications, another ISP accused by record labels of not doing ..
Apple invested $1.5 billion in Globalstar in 2024, taking a 20 percent stake in the company. As part of the agreement, Globalstar agreed to reserve 85 percent of its network capacity for the iPhone maker for satellite-based texting when outside cellular tower coverage. Bloomberg reported in October that Globalstar was exploring a sale and had ..
