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A member of one of the world’s wealthiest royal families was found passed out on a busy London street after a cocaine binge while a barefoot toddler wandered dangerously close to traffic, a British court has heard. Mahrah Al Nahyan, 32, a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family through marriage, was discovered slumped against railings alongside an unconscious man as a three-year-old child played unattended nearby. The shocking incident unfolded June 13 in west London, where concerned members of the public rushed to protect the child before alerting police, according to The Times. Al Nahyan reportedly remained unconscious for approximately...

A few days ago, I started a thread about proprietary software from Adobe had been reverse engineered using AI tools. Today I ran across this Github Repo that connects with AI agents from a variety of the leading AI companies and allows anyone using the tool to look at raw binaries, firmware and reverse engineer features without the source code. The tool on Github is called REA or reverse engineer anything and supposedly is blowing up in popularity and now people are now taking the code and enhancing it making the power of products like this and AI Agents grow...

The billionaire should join the mega-project through his Boring Company, Kirill Dmitriev has saidThe time has come for Elon Musk to join efforts to build a 70-mile underwater tunnel linking Russia and the US, Russian presidential aide Kirill Dmitriev has said. Dmitriev, who also heads Russia's sovereign wealth fund (RDIF), first proposed the project in October 2025, describing it as a link that would "symbolize unity" and saying it would spur resource exploration, create jobs, and boost both economies. The tunnel would run under the Bering Strait, which is 51 miles wide at its narrowest point and separates Russia's Chukotka...

HIALEAH, Fla. — A North Bay Village police officer was arrested Tuesday after authorities said she attacked her boyfriend at her home in Hialeah after he said he “wanted to end things.” According to an arrest report from the Hialeah Police Department, the boyfriend of Officer Marcia Sangronis flagged officers down Tuesday morning to report that he had been physically abused. The HPD report states that the victim told officers that Sangronis, 38, becomes “angry and violent” whenever discussing “his lack of motivation to pursue a career in law enforcement.” According to the report, he had stayed the night at...

[Note: This is the Abstract of an ACM study, which I broke up into paragraphs for readability.] AI assistants are increasingly framed as digital coworkers rather than tools. In immersive settings such as VR, AI embodiment design choices can become salient social signals that shape human–AI interaction. We investigate how such choices influence users’ perceptions of and behavior toward AI coworkers by employing three functionally identical AI assistants varying in human-likeness and gender presentation. In a controlled study, 189 knowledge workers completed work tasks with them, provided ratings, and allocated monetary rewards; we additionally interviewed 34 participants. Our results show...

The front lawn of an Indiana courthouse was torn up when a woman who was allegedly driving drunk decided to do donuts in the grass, authorities said. A 68-year-old woman was arrested for DUI and "numerous other charges" after she drove her car in circles on the Jennings County courthouse lawn, the sheriff's office said in a post on social media on Tuesday. "If you’ve had a few too many margaritas with dinner, please don’t get behind the wheel, and definitely don’t do donuts on the courthouse lawn," authorities said in the post. "We encourage everyone to enjoy themselves responsibly...

Two women consulted a man named Mark Stephen Asea for computer troubles. Asea runs a TikTok channel where he identifies as a "Demonologist," "Clairsentient," "Empath," "PTSD," "Grey Hat Hacker" and "Woodsman." Asea reportedly hacked their devices and began to post their personal information to his TikTok channel. Fox News reports, In a video reviewed by a detective, Asea allegedly rattled off details about one woman's devices and claimed to know her recent spending. ‘Let's talk about your actual password,' he said, according to a transcript in the affidavit. ‘How about we talk about the last 10 purchases you made online?'...

AI security/control will probably develop into something akin to "anti-virus" software. The closest analogy is the entire cybersecurity industry: Antivirus began as one layer, but eventually we needed firewalls, identity management, intrusion detection, security operations centers, audits, penetration testing, and incident-response teams. What follows is the most likely path for AI.

BELL COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - A Middlesboro woman faces a wanton endangerment charge after a neighbor reported finding a bullet hole in her shower and a stray round wrapped in a bathroom towel. According to an arrest citation, an apartment resident on Exeter Avenue reported to the Middlesboro Police Department Monday that she discovered a bullet hole in her shower and a bullet inside a towel in her bathroom. Officers responded to the neighboring apartment and spoke with Teresa Stout, 55. Police say Stout gave consent for officers to search the apartment and retrieve a small revolver from her bedside...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under Anthony Fauci funded deadly gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the likely Chinese epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.However, SARS-COV-2 was apparently not the first deadly virus that created panic in the former NIAID director's office.According to a journal entry obtained by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and published by Just the News, Fauci privately expressed terror upon learning that his agency had supported a U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases experiment that took Ebola — a deadly virus with a case fatality rate ranging from 25% to...

Long time Freeper "Lazmataz", a beloved and cherished staple of the conservative website Free Republic, yesterday was accused by several female Freepers of somehow annoying them, and making them feel uncomfortable. "Laz," as he's affectionately known on the website, absolutely denied the charges. "It's all an attempt to smear me. Everyone knows that I'm running for "Admin Moderator" next year, and they're trying to discredit me.