‘It goes too far’: Robby Starbuck SHRM panel legitimizes anti-DEI stance, stakeholders say Summary SHRM has named conservative influencer Robby Starbuck as a panelist for its upcoming Blueprint conference, drawing strong criticism from DEI professionals and stakeholders. Critics say platforming Starbuck — who has publicly called DEI “poison” and taken credit for companies scaling back […]
Massachusetts Initiates Legal Battle Against Kalshi, Robinhood Summary Massachusetts’ attorney general has sued Kalshi, alleging the prediction-market operator offers unlicensed sports wagering to state residents via so-called “event contracts.” The complaint seeks damages, civil penalties, injunctive relief and costs, and alleges Kalshi’s platform lacks adequate consumer safeguards to prevent compulsive gambling and financial harm. The […]
Kenya’s central bank blames hackers for mobile banking fraud, but insiders may be the real threat Summary Customers across Kenya report receiving calls or texts immediately after deposits or payments, followed by unauthorised withdrawals. While the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) frames the problem as a rising cyber-threat, victim accounts, former bank compliance staff and […]
TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill Summary Techdirt reports that Donald Trump’s allies are close to a deal that would transfer roughly 80% of TikTok’s U.S. assets to a consortium led by Andreessen Horowitz, Oracle and Silver Lake, leaving about 20% under Chinese ownership. The […]
Atlantic City casinos post best summer in over a decade as August revenue climbs Summary Atlantic City recorded its strongest summer performance since 2012, driven by a rebound in in-person play and record online gambling in August. In August the nine casinos won $312 million from in-person gamblers (up 6.1% year-on-year), and combined gaming revenue […]
AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria Summary Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used a generative AI called Evo, trained on roughly two million bacteriophage genomes, to propose complete viral genomes for the small bacteriophage phiX174 (≈5,000 bases, 11 genes). The team chemically synthesised 302 AI-designed genomes and tested them on […]
Rail Customer Coalition letter to STB presents various issues relating to proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger Summary The Rail Customer Coalition (RCC), representing manufacturing, energy and agricultural interests, sent a letter to the Surface Transportation Board (STB) outlining major concerns about the proposed $85 billion Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger. The deal would create the first […]
Raven Stealer Scavenges Chromium Data Via Telegram Summary A lightweight infostealer called Raven, written mainly in Delphi and C++, is being distributed on underground forums and via cracked software. It targets Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave) and other applications to harvest credentials, cookies, autofill entries and browsing history. Raven uses in-memory techniques and a Telegram-based […]
AI-Powered Sign-up Fraud Is Scaling Fast Summary Shiv Ramji (President, Auth0 at Okta) warns that attackers are shifting from traditional login attacks to automating fraudulent account registrations using generative AI. Sign-up funnels have become the path of least resistance: AI scales fake registrations rapidly, exploits promotional offers and overwhelms verification steps. Observations include nearly half […]
Five truths for public sector HR: The kind of activism we actually need now Summary The PPMA’s reflection as it marks 50 years sets out five practical, people-centred principles for public sector HR to turn constant change into real progress. The authors argue that repeated reorganisations have often been theatre, not transformation, and call for […]
