She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight
 She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight

She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost.  It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández crossed the border from the eastern edge of Tijuana into Southern California, sending voice messages to her mother and sister as she walked.  This story is part of Dying…

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OpenAI projections point to a massive $278 billion cash burn through 2030 that exceeds the national budgets of Indonesia and Norway — $856 billion compute tab outpaces tenfold revenue surge
 OpenAI projections point to a massive $278 billion cash burn through 2030 that exceeds the national budgets of Indonesia and Norway — $856 billion compute tab outpaces tenfold revenue surge

OpenAI reportedly expects to spend $278 billion more money than it generates between 2026 and 2030 due to aggressive spending on compute capacity and adjacent infrastructure.

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Devs say Chinese AI company silently uploaded hundreds of megabytes of local workspace data, company apologizes — Z.AI, the firm behind the GLM models, didn’t ask for user consent and made 564 attempts to exfiltrate 313MB archive

The second largest AI company in China is having to work frantically to patch up its reputation after a number of prominent devs raised flags about their local files and data being siphoned to online servers without consent.

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European AUDI buyers could be facing a lawsuit from … Audi
 European AUDI buyers could be facing a lawsuit from … Audi

A joint venture between Chinese carmaker SAIC and German car brand Audi, the all-electric AUDI (all caps) brand has been turning heads in the Chinese market with solid all-weather performance, reasonable prices and plenty of chunky Teutonic style. Now,…

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The AI models that cheat the most, according to new CAIS benchmark

We know models cheat. A new benchmark measures how much, and on what tasks.

Samsung and LG vow to remove ‘botnet’ apps from their smart TV app stores that turned sets into an AI scraping machines — but the shocking claim that over 40% of webOS apps had ‘residential proxy’ code raises the question of how things got this bad
 Samsung and LG vow to remove ‘botnet’ apps from their smart TV app stores that turned sets into an AI scraping machines — but the shocking claim that over 40% of webOS apps had ‘residential proxy’ code raises the question of how things got this bad

Millions of smart TVs, including Roku and Fire TV as well and LG and Samsung, have been infected with malware that can make their TV join botnets.

Three Questions To Ask Before Starting A Digital Transformation Project

Do the executives and directors share the same understanding of what the transformation involves?

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Could We Get To October Without An Atlantic Hurricane?

2026 holds the record for the latest date of hurricane formation in the Atlantic, and we are still waiting. Could we make it to October hurricane-free in the Atlantic?

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The Human-AI Symphony Playbook: Becoming AI-Native

AI-native is not technology you install: it is a workforce that reinvents how you work and why you exist.

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Cloudflare saves 100 TB of RAM again, this time by slashing server hashes by 90% — cutting 100,000 entries down to 10,000 eliminates massive cache bloat
 Cloudflare saves 100 TB of RAM again, this time by slashing server hashes by 90% — cutting 100,000 entries down to 10,000 eliminates massive cache bloat

Cloudflare has saved 100 TB of RAM again, but this time by tuning its hash-mapping algorithm.