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Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has installed 59 natural gas turbines for its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee without securing federal clean air permits, according to communications between regulators and xAI representatives.

Potential emissions from the turbines are far beyond the threshold that would require a federal permit, and would be released near predominantly Black communities already estimated to be suffering disproportionately high rates of lung disease, according to a Reuters analysis based on government data and information in the correspondence with r

UPDATE - NPM Package

To make sure it's clear in the midst of the NPM package situation: I did NOT conduct overt testing on Cline's repository.

I conducted my PoC on a mirror of Cline to confirm the prompt injection vulnerability. A different actor found my PoC on my test repository and used it to directly attack Cline and obtain the publication credentials.

The same actor used the credentials to publish an unauthorized version of Cline CLI to NPMJS containing a postinstall script that installed openclaw.

UPDATE - Fix Status

Cline fixed the vulnerability in <https://github.com/cline/clin

The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles and whether they belong there.

While humans are responsible for killing animals with their cars all the time, this incident has brought negative attention to the new technology. Local media picked up on the duck incident after a resident posted in a Mueller neighborhood Facebook group that an Avride autonomous vehicle (with a human safety operator behind the wheel) ran over and killed a duck, and did not stop afterwards. "It didn't slow down or hesitate at all, just steamr

A driver for ride share company "Lyft" is being closely monitored by the platform after he was accused of using artificial intelligence to claim a rider trashed his car.

The rider, a teenage girl who lives in Boca Raton, was accused by the driver of leaving his car with fast-food all over the backseat, as seen in the image above. The driver demanded payment to clean up the car and fix the damage. Lyft initially believed the driver and assessed a hefty fee to the girl's father --- it was his account used for the girl to ride. But upon seeing the image, the teen immediately told her dad it was

The Brief

• • A Georgia couple lost nearly $800,000 in a cryptocurrency scam initiated through a WhatsApp message, leaving them financially devastated.
  • The scam involved a legitimate-looking mobile trading app and an AI-generated "ghost site" that manipulated the couple's view of their investments.
  • The couple is speaking out to warn others about the sophisticated tactics used by scammers, while their children have started a GoFundMe to support them financially.

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - A retired Georgia couple is warning others after losing their entire life savings---