Walmart is doing a Cyber Monday live stream, and I can't look away

Walmart is promoting its Cyber Monday deals today with a QVC-style, four-hour stream. If you missed its live run from 9AM to 1PM ET today, good news! It’s looping all day. Yes, you too can partake in this bizarre collection of corny jokes, caroling, holiday beats, and sales online.The infomercial-style of hawking products is probably familiar to late-night-TV watchers, but it’s jarring to watch from your work computer. In the cold hard light of day, this level of camp feels forced, o

Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has to change. For the billions of embedded systems running cars, medical devices, industrial controllers, network equipment, and critical infrastructure, security needs an independent layer that can watch processors execute instructions. The […]
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Andrew Bosworth used an AMA on his personal Instagram to argue that the conversation about Meta’s glasses should not be shaped by a relatively small number of bad actors. Katie Notopoulos reported the exchange for Business Insider. Most people use the glasses normally, he said, much as they would a phone camera, only more convenient and […]
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The Financial Times reported that OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278bn between 2026 and 2030, from a July presentation prepared for a computing deal. That figure is an improvement on the roughly $305bn the company projected in May, while the compute and infrastructure line has risen to about $856bn against the roughly $600bn […]
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Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per hour for streaming. Both figures are unchanged from the previous version. The announcement is published under SpaceXAI, the name xAI has carried since July after SpaceX acquired it in February. Coverage still calls […]
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Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic’s […]
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Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by […]
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A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok. Vlad Savov and Josh Sisco reported the ruling for Bloomberg, which said Judge George H. Wu intends to keep oversight of the company’s privacy practices. Wu wrote that the order imposed […]
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Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two weaknesses and reach OpenAI employee accounts and an internal code repository, in under 72 hours. They disclosed privately, OpenAI patched the single sign-on flaw in about 14 hours, and the team was paid $6,500. Neither weakness was an AI vulnerability, and the research paper […]
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