today is IR report writeup day!

"Bikes 'not for jousting,' says Lime after duel video"

Gotta say that is a headline I did not expect to read...

Cycle jousting seems like an entirely sensible sport in the grand scheme of things...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9zrdpg7256yo

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117467920904451947

the calls are coming from inside the house

My husband and I got together with my father and nephew the other day and carved these glorious jack-o-lanterns. 🎃

when fucking 70% of your userbase says they want the game to be friendlier and you dont listen, yes youre going to bleed users because PEOPLE PLAY GAMES TO HAVE FUN

PEOPLE DONT WANT A FUCKING XANAX PERSCRIPTION TO PLAY ARC RAIDERS

oh wow it took them six fucking months to liten?

oh - penny arcade says that arc raiders has finally setup a pve game mode?

no more muggings?

i uninstalled the game after i spent a month trying to build a single rifle, and when i finally did it, i got mugged on my first run out with it.

embark studios has made it clear they cant be trusted

this bananas nonsense continues:

firmus ipo implodes: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/09/firmus-australian-stock-market-listing-bust-finance

barclays being shady about loans: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/19/bank-of-england-said-to-be-reviewing-barclays-handling-of-private-credit-loans

amazon expecting prolonged negative cashflow & is buying gpus long before it can even give them power: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-billion-ai-bet-data-centers-spending-challenges-2026-10

microsoft bails out of nscales datacenter project in the uk: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-pulls-out-uk-data-center-deal-with-nscale-telegraph-reports-2026-10-18/

anthropic is hiking bond yields on its own: https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/anthropic-offers-blackstone-over-10-yield-in-60b-ai-chip-financing--ft-reports-4955122

wtf is happening

microsoft doesnt want you using exchange

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/19/admin-i-spent-all-weekend-on-my-servers-after-microsoft-breaks-exchange-server-with-october-updates/5303724

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/117468581551681797

you cant play in the ai pool unless youre wealthy enough

big mastodon changes tomorrow:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/10/5.0-a-closer-look/

https://www.verticalslice.news/rockstar-accused-of-rewarding-moles-for-spying-on-union-members-with-additional-time-off doing this and being rewarded with an expired chipotle coupon is inevitably what comes from deep denial of your own value, and that of your coworkers. love yourself and your comrades enough to never do this, or anything approaching it.

WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE ALLOWED TO MONDAY AGAIN?!

The breach was confirmed on October 17.

Infosecurity-Magazine: OpenCode Breach Could Affect OpenAI, Anthropic and Google https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/opencode-breach-openai-anthropic/ #infosec #databreach #opensource #Anthropic #Google #OpenAI

🚨 EUVD-2026-104390

📊 Score: 6.9/10 (CVSS v3.1)
📦 Product: Criminal Management System
🏢 Vendor: vraj404
📅 Updated: 2026-10-19

📝 A weakness has been identified in vraj404 Criminal Management System up to 2808d057e7ddc5295519a487365b0cacfd0ba8c4. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file home.php of the component Submission Form. This m...

🔗 https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-104390

#cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability

A Florida police department claims that scammers used AI to clone a sheriff’s voice, with scammers increasingly using voice clones that trick people into thinking they’ve missed jury duty or have a warrant out for their arrest are increasing.

According to Florida news outlet News6, scammers cloned Osceola County Sheriff Steve Moser’s voice and left a voicemail with a resident.    

“They cloned his voice and was using Steve’s picture as well to say it was him making the phone call, and it was not,” Sheriff Chris Blackmon told News6.

Impersonating a police officer is a third-degree felony in Florida. The Osceola County sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This particular scam cloning cops is spreading across several states, with reports of jury duty and arrest warrant scams targeting people in Georgia and Pennsylvania in the last week. These other reports don’t mention AI voice cloning explicitly, but note that the scammers sometimes have similar voices and tones as local police officers.  

Voice cloning scams have been around for years, with scammers using commercially available AI voice impersonation tools to target the elderly, families, and businesses. Last year, 404 Media investigated real-time deepfake scams that incorporated voice and video to defraud people. In 2024, we reported on the ways scammers cloned celebrity voices and use AI videos in YouTube ads to scam people.

Scammers often impersonate company executives or leadership to trick employees into sending money, and voice cloning appears to be an increasing part of that. In February, scammers cloned a managing partner of a law firm with AI. Ultimately, a private bank ended up transferring $108 million.

boy does the americans hit different now

the irony of the ai powered language learning app telling me how to say this in swedish is not lost upon me

Authorities say the wife of Alfozan, the OpenAI employee who allegedly bugged an OpenAI exec conference room, was to leave the U.S. on one flight, then a "member of the Saudi military booked and paid" for another one-way flight to Saudi Arabia for the wife and son.