Amazon has put a camera in its Echo Studio speaker so that Alexa can see what is in front of it. The Echo Studio with Home Camera is one of five new Alexa devices the company unveiled on Wednesday, alongside a new Echo Dot, an Echo Time alarm clock, an Alexa Photo Frame and the Echo Show 16.
It was a dire warning, delivered on the biggest stage: Some 278,000 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote in federal elections and were poised to tilt the scales of the election in November, President Donald Trump warned in a primetime address to the nation in July. "The real number is actually much higher," he added. The president's bold claim set off a series of events that culminated in recent weeks with an unprecedented bid by the federal government to impose itself on state-run elections.
Financial giant Bank of America is reminding customers to bank safely by kindly not sharing your banking credentials with your AI agent. In an email blast to customers titled "Protecting your finances in the Al World," Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, "including an Al-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf." You can practically sense the frustration in the person sending the email.
With Russia's invasion of Ukraine straining on state finances, President Vladimir Putin is reaching for cash to fund his government and the war, squeezing tax revenue from an economy that's increasingly skewed toward the military -- while civilian needs take a back seat. read more
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who hit and injured a man with a vehicle in Houston, Texas, was indicted by a grand jury in Harris County on Friday. The 33-year-old officer, Mario Alberto Morales, was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly driving his vehicle into Miguel Parra Hernandez earlier this month, NBC News reported.
@#76 ... Or have we already been facing such an assault? ...
To wit...
Map Shows States Hit By Cyberattacks on Water Systems (August 2026)
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... A wave of cyber incidents targeting water and wastewater infrastructure has put utilities across multiple states on high alert, as federal authorities investigate attacks that have disrupted operations and exposed vulnerabilities in critical public services. ...
@#3
... and speaking of Pres Trump, his recent, I'll say, supportive comments about a male candidate's derriere leads me to this tune ...
Big Daddy Graham- Walk On The Mild Side (1984)
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@#75 ... Only if due to a series of massive failures. ...
While I may generally agree with your comment, I also add that ~America's next war~ may have already reached US soil.
I am not referring to foreign soldiers entering our shores.
I am talking about foreign cyber-soldiers entering our networked systems.
A.k.a. cyber-warfare.
Europe is already facing such an assault from Russia.
How soon before we face such an assault?
Or have we already been facing such an assault?
US Secret Service says it is helping to track funds stolen from crypto firm Binance in $6.3bn hack
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... North Korea thought to be behind $6.3bn crypto hack, as firm begins recovering some funds ...
Zoar - Nine Days North (1997)
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