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Everyone is Lying to You for Money is a must-watch exposé of crypto

Everyone is Lying to You for Money is a must-watch exposé of crypto

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Ben McKenzie in Everyone Is Lying to You for Money Victor Pena/2026 Easy Money Productions, Inc In a 2021 ad that ran during the Super Bowl – one of the most-watched TV programmes in the US – the actor Matt Damon walks through a hall displaying some of humanity’s greatest achievements and says, with extreme gravitas, “Fortune favours the brave.” The words crypto.com flash on the screen. The not-at-all-subtle implication is that you too can have it all and do something historic; don’t worry about the risk. This was the moment that Ben McKenzie lost it. In his documentary Everyone Is Lying To You For Money, you can see McKenzie on his couch in shock at what he’s seen on TV. His personal journey – from an actor with an economics degree (his breakout hit was the teen drama The O.C.) to one of the foremost voices speaking out about the grifters of the cryptocurrency world – makes for an entertaining watch, one that he narrates with a light-hearted tone and a streak of charming …

Quantum computers could expose our digital secrets – but there are much better reasons to build them

Quantum computers could expose our digital secrets – but there are much better reasons to build them

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Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and sub-atomic scales. Because of this, they operate in radically different ways to current machines. Tasks requiring trillions of years on existing supercomputers might be reduced to days on future quantum computers. They could tackle a range of challenges that are out of reach for existing technology. These potential challenges include code-breaking. In 1994, the American computer scientist Peter Shor came up with a quantum algorithm capable of breaking the form of encryption that would later underpin routine email messaging and internet security. Shor’s advance drew interest from the US military and intelligence community, which began investing in the emerging field. While decryption is often touted as a potential use for quantum computers, there are now protections against attempts to use them in this way. And in recent decades, other exciting applications have emerged. So is the threat to secure communications being overstated? Currently, nobody …

5 Emmerdale spoilers for next week: Dr Todd prepares to expose Charity

5 Emmerdale spoilers for next week: Dr Todd prepares to expose Charity

Published by Daniella Wilson

Dr Caitlin Todd’s (Caroline Harker) blackmail against Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) intensifies in Emmerdale next week, and the secret could be on the brink of exposure. Will Charity be able to find the money in time, or will the fact baby Leyla is actually her child – fathered by Ross Barton (Michael Parr) – be revealed? Speaking of Ross, his romance with Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) reaches new heights as they enjoy their secret trysts, unaware that her step-daughter Gabby (Rosie Bentham) is upset about his lack of interest in her. Elsewhere, Archie Breckle (Kai Assi) has to face up to the repercussions of his actions, and Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) continues to spiral. Here’s everything happening in Emmerdale between Monday, 1 and Thursday 4 June. 4 Emmerdale spoilers for next week 1. Dr Caitlin Todd deals Charity Dingle an ultimatum Caroline Harker as Dr Todd and Emma Atkins as Charity Dingle in Emmerdale. ITV Some terrible news arrives for Charity – Kim Tate (Claire King) has decided to pullout out buying her share of The …

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web

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As AI increasingly takes over the work of modern programmers, the cybersecurity world has warned that automated coding tools are sure to introduce a new bounty of hackable bugs into software. When those same vibe-coding tools invite anyone to create applications hosted on the web with a click, however, it turns out the security implications go beyond bugs to a total absence of any security—even, sometimes, for highly sensitive corporate and personal data. Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands of vibe-coded web applications created using the AI software development tools Lovable, Replit, Base44, and Netlify and found more than 5,000 of them that had virtually no security or authentication of any kind. Many of these web apps allowed anyone who merely finds their web URL to access the apps and their data. Others had only trivial barriers to that access, such as requiring that a visitor sign in with any email address. Around 40 percent of the apps exposed sensitive data, Zvi says, including medical …

200,000 MCP servers expose a command execution flaw that Anthropic calls a feature

200,000 MCP servers expose a command execution flaw that Anthropic calls a feature

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Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol as the open standard for AI agent-to-tool communication. OpenAI adopted it in March 2025. Google DeepMind followed. Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation in December 2025. Downloads crossed 150 million. Then four researchers at OX Security found an architectural problem that affects all of them. MCP’s STDIO transport, the default for connecting an AI agent to a local tool, executes any operating system command it receives. No sanitization. No execution boundary between configuration and command. A malicious command returns an error after the command has already run. The developer toolchain raises no flag. OX Security researchers Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, Mustafa Naamnih, Nir Zadok and Roni Bar scanned the ecosystem and found 7,000 servers on public IPs with STDIO transport active — and estimate 200,000 total vulnerable instances extrapolated from that ratio. They confirmed arbitrary command execution on six live production platforms with paying customers. The research produced more than 10 CVEs rated high or critical across LiteLLM, LangFlow, Flowise, Windsurf, Langchain-Chatchat, Bisheng, DocsGPT, GPT Researcher, Agent Zero, …

Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins

Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins

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Elon Musk is boosting a post on X promoting The New Yorker’s extensive investigation into Sam Altman’s allegedly deceptive behavior, WIRED has confirmed. The move comes just as Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman heads to a jury trial in a federal courtroom on Monday morning. People scrolling X on Monday reported seeing an April 6 post from Ronan Farrow, a coauthor on the New Yorker article, promoting the investigation. A pop-up on the post on X’s mobile app says it was boosted by @elonmusk, who also owns the platform. Boosting is a feature that allows X subscribers to pay an additional fee to amplify posts. WIRED was able to independently verify the pop-up window. Musk also reposted Farrow’s story on Monday from his account. “Calling him “Scam” Altman is accurate,” he wrote on X, referring to a line in the article about his nickname for the leader of OpenAI. “This is very much worth reading.” X and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from WIRED. The New Yorker declined to …

Exposé of parasite SEO firm Clickout Media removed from Google

Exposé of parasite SEO firm Clickout Media removed from Google

Published by Sam Flores

Clickout Media uses what have been described as parasite SEO tactics A Press Gazette investigation into parasite SEO firm Clickout Media has been removed from Google’s search index after a spurious legal complaint. On Wednesday (25 March), Press Gazette revealed how UK-based Clickout Media has bought a number of news websites in order to exploit their reputations in Google and promote online casinos. In some cases, journalists have been fired and replaced with AI-powered writers. Some sites were removed from Google’s search results as a result of Press Gazette’s reporting, effectively killing the sites off. Now Press Gazette’s own reporting of this issue has been removed from the Google archive after a bogus copyright complaint. A search of the exact Press Gazette headline: “The SEO parasites buying, exploiting and ultimately killing online newsbrands” does not bring the article up. A note at the bottom of the Google search results page reveals for this query states: “In response to multiple complaints that we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 results from …

Liquid-cooled AI systems expose the limits of traditional storage architecture

Liquid-cooled AI systems expose the limits of traditional storage architecture

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Presented by Solidigm Liquid cooling is rewriting the rules of AI infrastructure, but most deployments have not fully crossed the line. GPUs and CPUs have moved to liquid cooling, while storage has depended on airflow, creating an operationally inefficient hybrid architecture. What appears to be a pragmatic transition strategy is, in practice, a structural liability. “A hybrid cooling approach is an operationally inefficient situation,” explains Hardeep Singh, thermal-mechanical hardware team manager at Solidigm. “You’re paying for and maintaining two entirely separate, expensive cooling infrastructures, and could be exposed to the worst-of-both-world’s problems.” While liquid cooling requires pumps, fluid manifolds, and coolant distribution units (CDUs), air-cooled components require CRAC units, cold aisles, and evaporative cooling towers. Organizations moving to a hybrid solution by just adding some liquid cooling are absorbing the cost premium without capturing the full TCO benefit. The thermal physics makes things worse. Bulky liquid-cooling cold plates, thick hoses, and manifolds physically obstruct airflow inside the GPU server chassis. This concentrates thermal stress on the remaining air-cooled components, including storage drives, memory, and network …

‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell | Ghislaine Maxwell

‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell | Ghislaine Maxwell

Published by Sam Flores

On 9 September 2022, Lucia Osborne-Crowley flew from London to Miami and caught a Greyhound bus north to West Palm Beach. The writer and journalist had arranged to meet Carolyn Andriano, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell from the age of 14 until she was 17, starting in 2001. Andriano had been a crucial witness in the trial against Maxwell in 2021. When the two women met, Andriano said she had just been visited by a private investigator – a man in his 60s, who had heard she was talking to someone about a book. In a restaurant that afternoon, Osborne-Crowley was approached by a man in his 60s. What was she writing, he wanted to know. He offered her drugs, cash and a meeting with one of Epstein’s pilots, then put his hands under her skirt. When the manager asked him to leave, he waited in the car park; Osborne-Crowley had to escape through a staff exit. She had been following the Epstein case for six years by then and had …

11 Subtle Phrases That Expose A Person’s True Nature

11 Subtle Phrases That Expose A Person’s True Nature

Published by Jenni Sidey

Character doesn’t always reveal itself in big, dramatic moments. More often, it shows up in small, repeated patterns, especially in everyday language. The phrases people default to under stress, in disagreement, or when they think no one is analyzing them, tend to say more than polished public behavior ever could. Psychologists who study communication note that habitual language reflects underlying beliefs. The words someone reaches for instinctively are rarely random. They reveal how a person sees power, responsibility, empathy, and accountability. A single comment might not mean much. But repeated over time, certain phrases quietly expose a person’s true nature. Here are 11 subtle phrases that expose a person’s true nature 1. ‘That’s not my problem’ Miljan Zivkovic / Shutterstock Boundaries are healthy, but this phrase often carries indifference rather than clarity. When someone consistently distances themselves from collective responsibility, it reveals how they view community. There’s a difference between protecting your time and rejecting empathy entirely. If this line appears frequently, especially in situations where basic decency is involved, it signals limited concern for …