1. 📰 Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers (direct link) (👍1155 👎5)

from Not The Onion ([email protected])

US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America

Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has updated its Covered List to include all foreign-made consumer routers, prohibiting the approval of any new models. The FCC notes that miscreants have exploited security flaws in routers to disrupt networks or steal intellectual property, and routers are also implicated in the Volt, Flax, and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks. Just not overwhelmingly silly as suddenly banning ALL new routers not made in America, given that it’ll take years to spool up the production capacity alone." “I welcome this Executive Branch national security determination, and I am pleased that the FCC has now added foreign-produced routers, which were found to pose an unacceptable national security risk, to the FCC’s Covered List,” stated FCC chair Brendan Carr. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by RobotToaster

2. 📰 FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States (direct link) (👍183 👎0)

from The Onion ([email protected])

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord. A recently declassified CIA report confirmed that all known al-Qaeda-affiliated organizations—from Pakistan to Yemen, and from Somalia to Algeria—have been instructed to kick back and enjoy the show as the United States’ federal government, energy grid, and industrial sector are rendered impotent by internal dissent, decay, and mismanagement. Soon, the United States will watch in horror as its bridges crumble, its desperate citizens suffer in want of medicine and paying employment, and its once vast riches are reduced to naught. The FBI has also warned that numerous al-Qaeda agents may have established sleeper cells for the purpose of “getting a kick out of” the nation’s downfall on American soil. “If we’d listened to experts or even our own common sense, we would’ve realized that this plot was being actively orchestrated within our own borders. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Five

3. 📰 US judge dismisses $100,000 suit over spiciness of New York taqueria’s sauce (direct link) (👍108 👎0)

from Offbeat ([email protected])

US judge dismisses $100,000 suit over spiciness of New York taqueria’s sauce

But in mid-February, US district judge Dale Ho dismissed Manz’s case, writing that the plaintiff’s “claims fail as a matter of law”. “Mr Manz has failed to state a claim that Los Tacos negligently served excessively spicy salsa at the Times Square location,” the judge wrote. “A reasonable person with Mr Manz’s characteristics could have easily discovered that the salsa at Los Tacos was spicy,” Ho wrote. Ho alluded to how Los Tacos argued that Mexican food – and more specifically salsa – “is often spicy”. And last week he dropped the lawsuit involving the police response, according to the New York Times. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by lobut

4. 📰 AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (direct link) (👍97 👎1)

from Not the Onion ([email protected])

AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not moneyThis week’s big headline is: “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation“. [Business Insider]The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an AI company … you get paid in AI tokens. Other companies would love to pay workers in AI tokens too! Tech-illiterate CEOs and venture capitalists keep talking about AI tokens like they’re a commodity you can pile up. It’s the word “token.” They want AI tokens to be treated like crypto tokens. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by cypherpunks

5. 📰 Chocolate ‘Boner’ Syrup Recalled for Actually Containing Viagra Ingredient (direct link) (👍80 👎2)

from And Finally… ([email protected])

Chocolate ‘Boner’ Syrup Recalled for Actually Containing Viagra Ingredient

This week, Lockout Supplements issued a voluntary recall of its “Boner Bears Chocolate Syrup” for having unlabeled amounts of sildenafil.

Posted by slothrop

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🖼️ AI image generator fabricates ‘archival’ Bigfoot photo (direct link), posted in Strange Times (👍204 👎11)

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