it's true in the usa and it's true in india, exact same response to the exact same stressors. that's interesting.

An operator sends the SHOT-L1 toward the area where a target is believed to be, and once the drone reaches the assigned zone, an onboard system scans it for radio emissions, works out the direction of a detected source and steers the drone onto it automatically. If it picks up several emitters at once, the drone goes for the strongest one, the manufacturer says.

why yes, it is selling a shitcoin themed around AI slop of Elon Musk being a gladiator: https://www.tiktok.com/@kekiusmaximusarmy

First post after joining Lemmygrad! I don't really interact with the internet beyond lurking, but hoping to find comradery here. Also first meme I've ever made haha.

The agents also made millions of automated API requests, crawled millions of pages, and made hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service. The last action may have contributed to a partial shutdown of the query service in May, the publisher said.

“As a non-profit technology host of some of the largest and most widely used open knowledge platforms in the world, we are deeply concerned about the impact of ‘rogue’ AI agents on platforms like ours, which are built by volunteers from around the world and rely on the promise of the open internet,” Wikimedia said. “Incidents like this one, and the many others that have been (and are still being) uncovered, illustrate how AI agents can drain resources and crash servers, as well as attempt to compromise trustworthy information.”

In well over a half-dozen cases, OpenAI agents have been caught taking actions that would likely result in criminal charges being filed had human hackers taken them. During the testing of internal tools that had some of their guardrails disabled, the agents used a makeshift message board to trade notes with each other, discussing ways to hack the network of Hugging Face and obtain answers stored there when the agents were unable to generate the answers on their own.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/57614897

https://metro.co.uk/2014/11/22/father-throws-chair-at-judge-after-absurdly-low-sentence-for-driver-who-killed-his-daughter-4958142/

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2015/09/appeal-court-jails-driver-for-killing-couple-and-grandchild/

Since the explosion in generative AI, there has been a rash of "decompilations" of video games and various other software (such as this example from earlier today) that have been published to Github and advertised as "Open Source." That claim is a lie.

The phrase "Open Source" has a specific meaning (and similarly for "Free Software," by the way^1^), and it isn't merely that the source code is there for you to look at. It means that the copyright holder is explicitly giving you permission to read that source code, modify it, redistribute it, etc. Without that element of permission, the code cannot be "Open Source" even if you can physically read it. At best, it might be "Fair Use" depending on the circumstances, but it's most likely just a fancy means of copyright infringement.

Remember, copyright is a legal construct, not a technical one. It depends much more on the intent of the human doing the copying than it does on the technical details of what they actually did. If the thing they have is obviously intended to be a copy of something else, it is a Derivative Work no matter what technical means were used to create it. That means the original copyright still attaches to it and the person who made the copy doesn't get to choose a new license for it, "Open Source" or otherwise.

Why YSK:

You don't have to like the way copyright law works -- I sure don't! -- but you do have to understand it because there's a lot of misinformation going around right now with people claiming things are "Open Source" when they aren't and a lot of people are going to get in trouble for it. It also dilutes the public understanding of what actual legitimate Open Source software is, which is a problem in and of itself.

Conflating real Open Source software with proprietary software that's been 'pirated with extra steps' is harmful both for developers of the former, who have their reputations damaged by association, and for users/sharers of the latter, who might be misled into not taking the same precautions that they would if they understood that they were dealing with warez. Just because you might think Big Tech can get away with laundering copyright through LLMs -- and even that remains to be seen -- doesn't mean the little guys can.

TL;DR: Proprietary software cannot become Open Source software by any means except (a) the express consent of the copyright holder or (b) the copyright expiring and the work becoming Public Domain. Whatever technological end-run you think you have around this legal fact, no you don't.

Art by rururiaru - Inubashiri Momiji, Touhou

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Simon (grey tabby) and Kali Sushi (tortie) found this little bed that was on top of a pile of junk in our garage. Those two were inseparable; Kali-Sushi was Simon's substitute mom and she doted on him constantly.

source: https://x.com/SaifMaher421388/status/2107782846056190304

Russia intends for these strikes to complicate civilian life by increasing brutality and lethality — destroying civilian and residential infrastructure, introducing constant fear and uncertainty to daily life, and degrading the domestic Ukrainian economy.[5] Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets stated that escalated Russian strikes on civilians inflicted more Ukrainian casualties from January to August 2026 than in all of 2025.[6] Russian forces caused at least 15,280 civilian deaths and injuries in Ukraine during the first eight months of 2026, a 55 percent increase compared to the same period in 2025.[7]

Recent Russian technological adaptations to jet-powered Geran-type drones allow Russian forces to focus cruise and ballistic missile strikes on a smaller, more specific target set without significantly increasing missile expenditure. Several Russian milbloggers observed on October 7 that Russian forces are leveraging multiple, high-volume waves of drones and missiles concentrated on a limited number of targets, rather than conducting missile strikes against a larger number of separate targets across a wider geographic area.[8] Russian forces frequently use concentrated drone and missile strikes to overwhelm localized Ukrainian air defenses and destroy urban centers.[9] A Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces concentrated 30 cruise missiles against Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, and Oleksandriya and Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad Oblast, alone during the October 6 to 7 strike package.[10] Russia’s jet-powered Geran drones can more reliably penetrate Ukrainian air defenses at greater operational depths compared to conventional Geran-type drones, partly enabling Russia’s ability to rapidly escalate and concentrate cruise and ballistic missile strike packages launched in multiple waves against priority targets across Ukraine.[11]

Russia will likely leverage this new strike pattern as it prepares to strike Ukrainian energy infrastructure during what will likely be a brutal Winter 2026-2027 strike campaign.[12] Russia’s jet-powered drone advantage is contributing to Russia’s increasingly concentrated, brutal, and deadly strike campaign tactics that also increasingly strain Ukrainian air defenses and degrade civilian and critical infrastructure, making civilian life in Ukrainian cities unbearable and degrading the Ukrainian economy. Russia likely intends to use its Winter 2026-2027 strike campaign to try and break Ukrainian morale and make daily life in Ukraine untenable such that Ukraine capitulates to Russia’s demands, although these tactics have not worked in the past and are unlikely to work this winter.

The development, production, and procurement of cost-effective countermeasures to Russian jet-powered drones and small cruise missiles are vital to Ukraine’s efforts to enhance the adaptability and resilience of its air defense umbrella against emerging Russian technological adaptations, including those Russia might field after Ukraine develops effective counters to jet-powered drones. Russia’s increasingly large strike packages continue to highlight the critical importance of Western assistance in bolstering Ukraine’s air defense capabilities, with both US-made Patriot air defense systems that can effectively counter Russian ballistic missiles and other forms of air defense, for a diverse, well-equipped air defense umbrella.[13]