The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers

I kid you not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/

Microsoft president Brad Smith acknowledged that the four rounds of layoffs this year are more about using the money saved to fund AI data centers and GPUs than workers being replaced by AI.

I think this is important for the media to get right versus making it seem like ChatGPT can replace a human worker.

Go find more hardcoded secrets. And share them with the rest of us.

https://www.intigriti.com/researchers/blog/hacking-tools/advanced-github-dorking-guide

Public service announcement.

(Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )

#FortiWeb Pre-Auth #RCE (CVE-2025-25257)

https://pwner.gg/blog/2025-07-10-fortiweb-fabric-rce

How's that AI coding going for you? Ah... I see.

Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

"... Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers...."

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/

#ai #cybersecurity #llm