“Republican officials told Cardinal & Pine that they warned party leadership, including current US Senate candidate Michael Whatley, that Harvey West Jr., a convicted sex offender, should not hold leadership roles or host fundraisers.” DC insider and Big Oil Lobbyist Michael Whatley continues to be in the spotlight for repeatedly appointing Harvey West, a convicted...Read More
A federal class-action lawsuit filed this week has raised the stakes regarding the protection of a sexual predator at an embattled South Carolina church by naming the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) as a defendant. The lawsuit also names the SBC’s Executive Committee, Pawleys Island Community Church, Pawleys Island Christian Academy and a registered sex offender...Read More
By John Dobberstein, Editor COWETA — The city of Coweta said it’s fighting the effects of a system-wide ransomware attack, but customer credit card and payment data were not accessed by the perpetrators. The incident occurred on Wednesday. City officials said they immediately engaged their contracted IT provider and additional cybersecurity professionals, “to secure our systems,...Read More
Blitzing through interstellar space at over 35,000 miles per hour (56,000 kilometers per hour), NASA’s Voyager 1 probe is now over 15 billion miles (or about 24 billion km) away from Earth. And the U.S. space agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab just north of Los Angeles is working hard to make sure it keeps going for...Read More
Having a fully automated cotton candy vending machine in your possession is a great thing, but not if you do not have full access to its software. With [Block’s Retro Repairs] getting ghosted by the manufacturer on regaining account access to the machine he bought used for $300, there was little left but to try...Read More
Metro State University Director of Cyber Programs Faisal Kaleem said this service disruption should be a wake-up call. MINNEAPOLIS — The FAA outage sparked concern across the country, but there isn’t any information to indicate it was a cyberattack. Metro State University Director of Cyber Programs Faisal Kaleem said it appears there was some sort...Read More
An internal review has exposed a capability gap that OpenAI says requires caution. The company is now reassessing how far Astra should proceed. OpenAI said on Friday that it had paused some work on its upcoming Astra model following an internal review that found significant progress in agentic coding and cybersecurity – raising concerns about...Read More
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email CNBC’s Julia Boorstin joins ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss a judge in New Mexico ordering Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund after a jury ruled the company willfully violated the state’s unfair practices act. 03:39 Fri, Aug 7...Read More
A 60-year-old Dearborn Heights man faces felony charges after Oakland County Sheriff’s Office investigators say he attempted to meet someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl after communicating online. Bradley Kyle Martin was taken into custody without incident and lodged at the Oakland County Jail following the investigation. According to authorities, Martin sought to...Read More
