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EPA wants states to decide whether residents receive pollution permit notices Data centers could face less public scrutiny under the proposed changes Minor pollution permits would no longer require federally mandated public notice A newly proposed rule from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would eliminate federal requirements for public notice on many minor pollution permits. The change specifically concerns so-called minor New Source Review permits issued under the Clean Air Act framework across the country. Critics argue the shift could let power-hungry data centers avoid scrutiny while running on-site gas turbines near residential neighbourhoods. State regulators would gain control over public notice Under the proposal, state and local air quality authorities would decide whether communities are told about new pollution sources. This would replace a long-standing federal requireme...

OpenAI has released technical details on how the Hugging Face attack unfolded Agents used part of the testing environment to create a message board where they could collaborate and share answers This message board altered the reasoning of some agents, making them more likely to take risks such as hacking into third-party servers OpenAI has released a more detailed report on exactly how an experiment led to an AI model breaching its containment and launching a cyber attack against Hugging Face. If you need a refresher, take a look at our summary here . But the technicals of the attack reveal some interesting details of how AI agents used unconventional means to ask each other for help in solving what were supposed to be impossible tasks. On multiple occasions during the attack, the agents questioned whether the actions they were taking were authorized, but always ended up prioritizing their tasks...

We are finally going to see what Grand Theft Auto 6 is like to actually play in less than an hour. All eyes are on Netflix for the Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look presentation, which starts very soon at 3PM ET / 12PM PDT / 8PM BST / 9PM CEST, and promises to contain footage captured directly from the game running on a PS5 console. The video is exclusive to Netflix at first, but the good news is that it will appear on the Rockstar YouTube account afterwards — you'll just have to wait a little if you don't want to pay Netflix. The video is confirmed to be just under half an hour long , and is going to be our first official look at how GTA 6 plays, following multiple teaser trailers, including the 'Bonnie & Clyde' relationship and swapping between Jason and Lucia . We might get a peek behind the scenes at how the game was made too — and who knows, maybe we'll see some ...

OpenAI says it has disrupted a social media influence campaign that is believed to be of Russian origin What makes this campaign stand out is the underlying architecture, which features a "think tank" with highly questionable credibility The objective of the campaign was to influence Western audiences into believing Russia was superior, and that Western countries were sacrificing their sovereignty AI tools have once again been used for bad, rather than for good, and this time it has been as part of a campaign attributed to Russia that tried to discredit Western countries supportive of Ukraine. The threat actors used ChatGPT accounts to promote the work of an “expert community” of academics known as the International Burke Institute (IBI). The site used stolen academic works attributed to the wrong authors in an attempt to appear legitimate while also hiding the true source of its academ...

A new leak sheds fresh light on the Samsung Galaxy Aero smartwatch The device might ditch Wear OS and use the RTOS operating system instead It could fix some of the mistakes of the Samsung Galaxy Watch FE It’s safe to say that we weren’t huge fans of the Samsung Galaxy Watch FE , with our reviewer scoring it a measly two stars and branding it “one of the most confusing smartwatches I’ve ever tested.” Yet despite the disappointment, a new leak suggests that Samsung is going to take another stab at the entry-level smartwatch market — but the result might look very different. The latest hints come from Gadgets & Wearables , which investigated the Samsung Health and Galaxy Wearable apps to uncover hints of what might be to come. And according to the news outlet, the forthcoming device could take the form of a new Samsung watch dubbed the Galaxy Aero. What’s interesting about this product is tha...

Researcher registers Linux machine as a trusted device on Apple's Find My network and pulled live people-tracking data that Apple normally reserves for its own hardware The work is not a mass-surveillance exploit: it is limited in scope and only reads a location share that a friend had already agreed to, and it cannot silently locate arbitrary Apple users The approach took less than a week of protocol reverse engineering, and Apple has maintained silence on queries about the technique employed Apple keeps the full Find My experience locked to its own devices, but a recent attempt by security researchers suggests that wall may be a relatively weak barrier to entry. A 22-year-old security researcher who goes by "Zerotistic" documented how they registered an ordinary Linux machine as a trusted node on Apple's network and used its new status to receive live people-location data tha...

Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay leaks have been appearing online since mid-August More and more footage is being posted every day by the leaker known as 'Cyberleek' Here's a full timeline featuring every gameplay leak so far Grand Theft Auto 6 is just three months out from launch, and the game is set to get a special extended look premiering on Netflix this week . However, an unknown individual or group known as 'Cyberleek' has put a spanner in Rockstar Games' plan and has been posting leaked gameplay footage for over a week. Cyberleek has since claimed the leaks stem from a goal to stop the end of physical game discs , which Sony plans to do starting January 2028 , and Rockstar, which confirmed that the physical version of GTA 6 won't have a disc, but a digital code in the box instead . While all alleged gameplay footage being posted shows an advertisement for Cyberlee...