Redmi is preparing to launch its Turbo smartphone lineup in India, starting with the upcoming Redmi Turbo 5. This phone was initially released in China a few months ago and will soon be available in India as well. The Redmi Turbo 5 will reportedly emphasize gaming, battery life, and fast charging. Xiaomi has confirmed that the smartphone will be available through Amazon India. The microsite also gives users a first look at the Indian version of the smartphone through teaser images. However, Xiaomi is still keeping the official launch date under wraps for now.
Redmi Turbo 5 Design Revealed
The teaser images shared by Xiaomi offer a clear look at the Redmi Turbo 5’s design ahead of its launch. The smartphone appears similar to the version that launched earlier in China. It includes two rear camera lenses positioned on the top-left side, with an LED flash next to them. Xiaomi has also confirmed a black color variant for the Indian market. The phone carries Redmi branding on the flat rear panel, and the right side houses both the power button and volume controls.
Expected Specifications of Redmi Turbo 5
In terms of specifications, the Redmi Turbo 5 will most likely prioritize performance and battery life. The device may come with a 6.59-inch 1.5K AMOLED screen that supports a 120Hz refresh rate, delivering outstanding performance when playing games or browsing. The phone may come powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8500-Ultra chipset and offer 16 GB RAM along with 512 GB of internal storage. It may also have a Sony IMX882 primary camera sensor capable of capturing up to 50 MP images with OIS.
Another feature expected on the device is a massive 7,560mAh battery with fast 100W charging and reverse charging. There may also be durability certifications for IP66, IP68, and IP69. The Xiaomi Redmi Turbo 5 might emerge as a gaming smartphone with excellent performance and efficient cooling. The high-capacity battery may appeal to gamers due to extended use.
Expected Price and Availability
According to recent leaks, this device may launch in India on June 10. The smartphone is expected to target the premium mid-range market with pricing that could stay below Rs 45,000. Redmi will also introduce different memory variants, and the phone is likely to compete with the OnePlus Nord series and iQOO Neo 10.
Redmi is preparing to launch its Turbo smartphone lineup in India, starting with the upcoming Redmi Turbo 5. This phone was initially released in China a few months ago and will soon be available in India as well. The Redmi Turbo 5 will reportedly emphasize gaming, battery life, and fast charging. Xiaomi has confirmed that the smartphone will be available through Amazon India. The microsite also gives users a first look at the Indian version of the smartphone through teaser images. However, Xiaomi is still keeping the official launch date under wraps for now.
Redmi Turbo 5 Design Revealed
The teaser images shared by Xiaomi offer a clear look at the Redmi Turbo 5’s design ahead of its launch. The smartphone appears similar to the version that launched earlier in China. It includes two rear camera lenses positioned on the top-left side, with an LED flash next to them. Xiaomi has also confirmed a black color variant for the Indian market. The phone carries Redmi branding on the flat rear panel, and the right side houses both the power button and volume controls.
Expected Specifications of Redmi Turbo 5
In terms of specifications, the Redmi Turbo 5 will most likely prioritize performance and battery life. The device may come with a 6.59-inch 1.5K AMOLED screen that supports a 120Hz refresh rate, delivering outstanding performance when playing games or browsing. The phone may come powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8500-Ultra chipset and offer 16 GB RAM along with 512 GB of internal storage. It may also have a Sony IMX882 primary camera sensor capable of capturing up to 50 MP images with OIS.
Another feature expected on the device is a massive 7,560mAh battery with fast 100W charging and reverse charging. There may also be durability certifications for IP66, IP68, and IP69. The Xiaomi Redmi Turbo 5 might emerge as a gaming smartphone with excellent performance and efficient cooling. The high-capacity battery may appeal to gamers due to extended use.
Expected Price and Availability
According to recent leaks, this device may launch in India on June 10. The smartphone is expected to target the premium mid-range market with pricing that could stay below Rs 45,000. Redmi will also introduce different memory variants, and the phone is likely to compete with the OnePlus Nord series and iQOO Neo 10.
#Redmi #Turbo #Launch #India #AmazonRedmi">Redmi Turbo 5 Will Launch in India Soon Through Amazon
Redmi is preparing to launch its Turbo smartphone lineup in India, starting with the upcoming Redmi Turbo 5. This phone was initially released in China a few months ago and will soon be available in India as well. The Redmi Turbo 5 will reportedly emphasize gaming, battery life, and fast charging. Xiaomi has confirmed that the smartphone will be available through Amazon India. The microsite also gives users a first look at the Indian version of the smartphone through teaser images. However, Xiaomi is still keeping the official launch date under wraps for now.
Redmi Turbo 5 Design Revealed
The teaser images shared by Xiaomi offer a clear look at the Redmi Turbo 5’s design ahead of its launch. The smartphone appears similar to the version that launched earlier in China. It includes two rear camera lenses positioned on the top-left side, with an LED flash next to them. Xiaomi has also confirmed a black color variant for the Indian market. The phone carries Redmi branding on the flat rear panel, and the right side houses both the power button and volume controls.
Expected Specifications of Redmi Turbo 5
In terms of specifications, the Redmi Turbo 5 will most likely prioritize performance and battery life. The device may come with a 6.59-inch 1.5K AMOLED screen that supports a 120Hz refresh rate, delivering outstanding performance when playing games or browsing. The phone may come powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8500-Ultra chipset and offer 16 GB RAM along with 512 GB of internal storage. It may also have a Sony IMX882 primary camera sensor capable of capturing up to 50 MP images with OIS.
Another feature expected on the device is a massive 7,560mAh battery with fast 100W charging and reverse charging. There may also be durability certifications for IP66, IP68, and IP69. The Xiaomi Redmi Turbo 5 might emerge as a gaming smartphone with excellent performance and efficient cooling. The high-capacity battery may appeal to gamers due to extended use.
Expected Price and Availability
According to recent leaks, this device may launch in India on June 10. The smartphone is expected to target the premium mid-range market with pricing that could stay below Rs 45,000. Redmi will also introduce different memory variants, and the phone is likely to compete with the OnePlus Nord series and iQOO Neo 10.
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Redmi is preparing to launch its Turbo smartphone lineup in India, starting with the upcoming…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form, for some unknown amount of time, according to a report from Krebs on Security. The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says.
Surely the secret information was buried in some obscure folder with an inscrutable name, I hear you saying. The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.”
But there’s no way the contents were that sensitive, you object. But the contents included passwords, keys, and tokens—and the passwords were plain text in a .CSV file.
CISA gave a statement to Krebs, saying the following:
“Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident[…] While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences.”
Since the repository was created in November of last year, the duration of the vulnerability seems to have been about six months—but it could have been much shorter depending on what information as added when.
To refresh your memory, CISA is a relatively new branch of the Department of Homeland Security that has had an overall rough time during Trump 2.0, even though, by signing it into law in 2018, Trump actually midwifed CISA into existence during Administration 1.0, and sorry about the tangent, but Trump’s speech to mark the occasion was an exceptional example of Trump poetry, including excerpts like this one:
“The cyber battlespace evolves — and it is evolving, and unfortunately, faster than a lot of people want to talk about. But battlespace it is. So as the cyber battlespace evolves, this new agency will ensure that we confront the full range of threats from nation-states, cyber criminals, and other malicious actors, of which there are many.”
Incontestably true, Mister President. Battlespace it is.
Now, to add to CISA’s worries, it seems, according to one interpretation from the Krebs report on what was in the repository, an individual employee working for a government contractor called Nightwing was using Github to move material from a work device to a home device—sorta like emailing documents to yourself, but somehow even less secure than that.
I’m no expert on federal Cybersecurity, but this from Krebs sounds like stuff we as citizens don’t want our government leaking:
“One of the exposed files, titled ‘importantAWStokens,’ included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — ‘AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv’ — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system[s] included one called ‘LZ-DSO,’ which appears short for ‘Landing Zone DevSecOps,’ the agency’s secure code development environment.”
Kreb’s source about the information left out in the open was Guillaume Valadon of GitGuardian, a company that scans GitHub for secrets, meaning his business is finding situations like this one. Valadon told Krebs it was “the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career.”
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form, for some unknown amount of time, according to a report from Krebs on Security. The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says.
Surely the secret information was buried in some obscure folder with an inscrutable name, I hear you saying. The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.”
But there’s no way the contents were that sensitive, you object. But the contents included passwords, keys, and tokens—and the passwords were plain text in a .CSV file.
CISA gave a statement to Krebs, saying the following:
“Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident[…] While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences.”
Since the repository was created in November of last year, the duration of the vulnerability seems to have been about six months—but it could have been much shorter depending on what information as added when.
To refresh your memory, CISA is a relatively new branch of the Department of Homeland Security that has had an overall rough time during Trump 2.0, even though, by signing it into law in 2018, Trump actually midwifed CISA into existence during Administration 1.0, and sorry about the tangent, but Trump’s speech to mark the occasion was an exceptional example of Trump poetry, including excerpts like this one:
“The cyber battlespace evolves — and it is evolving, and unfortunately, faster than a lot of people want to talk about. But battlespace it is. So as the cyber battlespace evolves, this new agency will ensure that we confront the full range of threats from nation-states, cyber criminals, and other malicious actors, of which there are many.”
Incontestably true, Mister President. Battlespace it is.
Now, to add to CISA’s worries, it seems, according to one interpretation from the Krebs report on what was in the repository, an individual employee working for a government contractor called Nightwing was using Github to move material from a work device to a home device—sorta like emailing documents to yourself, but somehow even less secure than that.
I’m no expert on federal Cybersecurity, but this from Krebs sounds like stuff we as citizens don’t want our government leaking:
“One of the exposed files, titled ‘importantAWStokens,’ included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — ‘AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv’ — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system[s] included one called ‘LZ-DSO,’ which appears short for ‘Landing Zone DevSecOps,’ the agency’s secure code development environment.”
Kreb’s source about the information left out in the open was Guillaume Valadon of GitGuardian, a company that scans GitHub for secrets, meaning his business is finding situations like this one. Valadon told Krebs it was “the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career.”
#Worst #Leak #Ive #Witnessed #U.S #Cybersecurity #Agency #Leaves #Digital #Keys #Public #GitHubCISA,Github,leaks">‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form, for some unknown amount of time, according to a report from Krebs on Security. The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says.
Surely the secret information was buried in some obscure folder with an inscrutable name, I hear you saying. The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.”
But there’s no way the contents were that sensitive, you object. But the contents included passwords, keys, and tokens—and the passwords were plain text in a .CSV file.
CISA gave a statement to Krebs, saying the following:
“Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident[…] While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences.”
Since the repository was created in November of last year, the duration of the vulnerability seems to have been about six months—but it could have been much shorter depending on what information as added when.
To refresh your memory, CISA is a relatively new branch of the Department of Homeland Security that has had an overall rough time during Trump 2.0, even though, by signing it into law in 2018, Trump actually midwifed CISA into existence during Administration 1.0, and sorry about the tangent, but Trump’s speech to mark the occasion was an exceptional example of Trump poetry, including excerpts like this one:
“The cyber battlespace evolves — and it is evolving, and unfortunately, faster than a lot of people want to talk about. But battlespace it is. So as the cyber battlespace evolves, this new agency will ensure that we confront the full range of threats from nation-states, cyber criminals, and other malicious actors, of which there are many.”
Incontestably true, Mister President. Battlespace it is.
Now, to add to CISA’s worries, it seems, according to one interpretation from the Krebs report on what was in the repository, an individual employee working for a government contractor called Nightwing was using Github to move material from a work device to a home device—sorta like emailing documents to yourself, but somehow even less secure than that.
I’m no expert on federal Cybersecurity, but this from Krebs sounds like stuff we as citizens don’t want our government leaking:
“One of the exposed files, titled ‘importantAWStokens,’ included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — ‘AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv’ — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system[s] included one called ‘LZ-DSO,’ which appears short for ‘Landing Zone DevSecOps,’ the agency’s secure code development environment.”
Kreb’s source about the information left out in the open was Guillaume Valadon of GitGuardian, a company that scans GitHub for secrets, meaning his business is finding situations like this one. Valadon told Krebs it was “the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career.”
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The Roomba Max 705 Combo robot + AutoWash dock is the perfect household helper. With a self-cleaning roller mop, detailed edge cleaning, anti-tangle dual rubber brushes, and a powerhouse dock, this impressive robovac-mop combo takes all of the gruntwork out of the normal household cleaning chores. Usually $1,300, the Max 705 is nearly half off at $800. If you’ve been looking to upgrade your cleaning routine, snag this model for $500 less than usual, for a limited time.
Looking to own your own Roomba robot vacuum? These iRobot promo codes and coupons will make it more affordable than ever to own your own powerful robot vacuum from the iconic brand.
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I test lots of robot vacuums, and my favorite from iRobot’s lineup is the Roomba Max 705. It’s packed with two anti-tangle brushes, excellent navigation, a self-emptying base station, and left my home sparkling clean. It’s a great choice for a Roomba for pet hair, and it’s done a great job with the litter my cat leaves all over the house, too. Extra bonus: it’s gorgeous. You can get 33% off this powerful robot vacuum right now with this iRobot discount code.
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Looking for something a little more affordable? The Roomba Plus 405 Combo Robot is cheaper but still packs mopping and vacuuming, and still comes with an auto-emptying docking station. It’s already a pretty affordable model and a great iRobot vacuum for hardwood floors, and right now you can get it for $300 cheaper with this iRobot coupon.
Save $290 on Smart Cleaning: The Roomba 205 DustCompactor Combo Robot Vacuum & Mop
If you don’t want a big base station in your home but still want a robot vacuum that can vacuum and mop, the Roomba 205 DustCompactor is for you. The Roomba 205 will compact and store debris for up to 60 days inside the robot itself, no emptying station required. It’s bagless, like my favorite Shark robot vacuum, so you don’t need to worry about buying and replacing bags to use the vacuum. If that sounds up your alley, don’t miss your chance to save almost $300 on this robot vac with this iRobot promo code.
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Save $500 on Max 705 Combo
The Roomba Max 705 Combo robot + AutoWash dock is the perfect household helper. With a self-cleaning roller mop, detailed edge cleaning, anti-tangle dual rubber brushes, and a powerhouse dock, this impressive robovac-mop combo takes all of the gruntwork out of the normal household cleaning chores. Usually $1,300, the Max 705 is nearly half off at $800. If you’ve been looking to upgrade your cleaning routine, snag this model for $500 less than usual, for a limited time.
The brand iRobot launched the first Roomba robot vacuum back in 2002, and popularity for the handy devices skyrocketed from there. Countless competitors have emerged, but Roomba is still going strong. Its latest models have all the new features we love, from doubling as a vacuum and a mop to fantastic navigation and suction. The Roomba Max 705 is currently keeping my house clean as I test it for our robot vacuum guide, and it’s doing a great job both mopping and vacuuming the floors in my massive second story.
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Save 33% on the Roomba Max 705 With Anti-Tangle Brushes Using This iRobot Offer
I test lots of robot vacuums, and my favorite from iRobot’s lineup is the Roomba Max 705. It’s packed with two anti-tangle brushes, excellent navigation, a self-emptying base station, and left my home sparkling clean. It’s a great choice for a Roomba for pet hair, and it’s done a great job with the litter my cat leaves all over the house, too. Extra bonus: it’s gorgeous. You can get 33% off this powerful robot vacuum right now with this iRobot discount code.
Tackle Every Mess Effortlessly: $300 Off the Roomba Plus 405 Combo Robot With AutoWash Dock
Looking for something a little more affordable? The Roomba Plus 405 Combo Robot is cheaper but still packs mopping and vacuuming, and still comes with an auto-emptying docking station. It’s already a pretty affordable model and a great iRobot vacuum for hardwood floors, and right now you can get it for $300 cheaper with this iRobot coupon.
Save $290 on Smart Cleaning: The Roomba 205 DustCompactor Combo Robot Vacuum & Mop
If you don’t want a big base station in your home but still want a robot vacuum that can vacuum and mop, the Roomba 205 DustCompactor is for you. The Roomba 205 will compact and store debris for up to 60 days inside the robot itself, no emptying station required. It’s bagless, like my favorite Shark robot vacuum, so you don’t need to worry about buying and replacing bags to use the vacuum. If that sounds up your alley, don’t miss your chance to save almost $300 on this robot vac with this iRobot promo code.
Get 10% Off Your First iRobot Purchase When You Sign up for Emails
Not sure what you want to get from iRobot, but know you want an iRobot discount code? You can sign up for iRobot’s emails and get a code for 10% off whatever your first purchase is. Enjoy!
Save $500 on Max 705 Combo
The Roomba Max 705 Combo robot + AutoWash dock is the perfect household helper. With a self-cleaning roller mop, detailed edge cleaning, anti-tangle dual rubber brushes, and a powerhouse dock, this impressive robovac-mop combo takes all of the gruntwork out of the normal household cleaning chores. Usually $1,300, the Max 705 is nearly half off at $800. If you’ve been looking to upgrade your cleaning routine, snag this model for $500 less than usual, for a limited time.
The brand iRobot launched the first Roomba robot vacuum back in 2002, and popularity for…
Watching Bluey, the beloved Australian cartoon show for kids, you might not think of Dropout, a streaming platform that revels in adult humor. But thanks to Game Changer‘s provocative Season 8 premiere episode, “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Dropout CEO and host Sam Reich has revealed an incredible connection between the comedy streamer and the hit cartoon.
To answer burning questions we had about Game Changer‘s “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko spoke with Reich about the ins and outs of the “legally spicy” episode. When asked about Lou Wilson’s Bluey rant — during which a parody of the adorable pup appeared onscreen — Reich revealed that he’d previously worked with Bluey creator Joe Brumm.
“I don’t think that most people know this,” Reich said. “It’s the tiniest little diatribe, but we did an animated series really early on for Dropbox called What the Fuck 101, which was like a messed-up Magic School Bus.”
Mashable Top Stories
“At the time,” Reich explained, “The chief animator of that [show] was like, ‘I’m gonna have to pull double duty on this and another project that’s been green-lit, because it’s really personal to me.’ And so, simultaneously, this guy, Joe Brumm, was doing What the Fuck 101 and the first season of Bluey. And before that, he did a huge number of College Humor shorts. I mean, all over his resume, the biggest thing on his resume was College Humor before it was Bluey.”
Reich clearly relished his time working with Brumm, both at College Humor and its spinoff streamer Dropout. And of Bluey, he said, “I’ve watched a fair amount of it. It’s fantastic. It’s so heartfelt and distinct and original, and it’s a work of art. And you would never guess the other things that Studio Joho was doing for us.”
Watching Bluey, the beloved Australian cartoon show for kids, you might not think of Dropout, a streaming platform that revels in adult humor. But thanks to Game Changer‘s provocative Season 8 premiere episode, “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Dropout CEO and host Sam Reich has revealed an incredible connection between the comedy streamer and the hit cartoon.
To answer burning questions we had about Game Changer‘s “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko spoke with Reich about the ins and outs of the “legally spicy” episode. When asked about Lou Wilson’s Bluey rant — during which a parody of the adorable pup appeared onscreen — Reich revealed that he’d previously worked with Bluey creator Joe Brumm.
“I don’t think that most people know this,” Reich said. “It’s the tiniest little diatribe, but we did an animated series really early on for Dropbox called What the Fuck 101, which was like a messed-up Magic School Bus.”
Mashable Top Stories
“At the time,” Reich explained, “The chief animator of that [show] was like, ‘I’m gonna have to pull double duty on this and another project that’s been green-lit, because it’s really personal to me.’ And so, simultaneously, this guy, Joe Brumm, was doing What the Fuck 101 and the first season of Bluey. And before that, he did a huge number of College Humor shorts. I mean, all over his resume, the biggest thing on his resume was College Humor before it was Bluey.”
Reich clearly relished his time working with Brumm, both at College Humor and its spinoff streamer Dropout. And of Bluey, he said, “I’ve watched a fair amount of it. It’s fantastic. It’s so heartfelt and distinct and original, and it’s a work of art. And you would never guess the other things that Studio Joho was doing for us.”
#Bluey #unexpected #Dropout #connection #Game #Changer #shock">‘Bluey’ has an unexpected Dropout connection beyond the ‘Game Changer’ shock
Watching Bluey, the beloved Australian cartoon show for kids, you might not think of Dropout, a streaming platform that revels in adult humor. But thanks to Game Changer‘s provocative Season 8 premiere episode, “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Dropout CEO and host Sam Reich has revealed an incredible connection between the comedy streamer and the hit cartoon.
To answer burning questions we had about Game Changer‘s “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko spoke with Reich about the ins and outs of the “legally spicy” episode. When asked about Lou Wilson’s Bluey rant — during which a parody of the adorable pup appeared onscreen — Reich revealed that he’d previously worked with Bluey creator Joe Brumm.
“I don’t think that most people know this,” Reich said. “It’s the tiniest little diatribe, but we did an animated series really early on for Dropbox called What the Fuck 101, which was like a messed-up Magic School Bus.”
Mashable Top Stories
“At the time,” Reich explained, “The chief animator of that [show] was like, ‘I’m gonna have to pull double duty on this and another project that’s been green-lit, because it’s really personal to me.’ And so, simultaneously, this guy, Joe Brumm, was doing What the Fuck 101 and the first season of Bluey. And before that, he did a huge number of College Humor shorts. I mean, all over his resume, the biggest thing on his resume was College Humor before it was Bluey.”
Reich clearly relished his time working with Brumm, both at College Humor and its spinoff streamer Dropout. And of Bluey, he said, “I’ve watched a fair amount of it. It’s fantastic. It’s so heartfelt and distinct and original, and it’s a work of art. And you would never guess the other things that Studio Joho was doing for us.”
The news of an affordable Volvo EV for the US came during a media roundtable this week related to the US launch of the new EX60. Luis Rezende, president of Volvo Cars America, said that the decision to discontinue the EX30 was not solely about tariffs and profitability, noting that the company is preparing to introduce a new EV in 2027 that will occupy a similar role in the lineup — though not necessarily at exactly the same price point as the EX30.
“Very similar, I would say,” Rezende said about the mystery EV’s price comparison to the EX30. “It’s going to be an EV that will deliver a lot of good things in a bigger space, but it will be also fun to drive, I can promise you.”
Other than that, details were scarce. Volvo’s executives talked later about the desire to build a larger, family-oriented SUV at its factory in Charleston, South Carolina — though that vehicle will likely use a “multi-fuel” strategy rather than being exclusively electric from launch.
The EX60, which will start customer deliveries in the US this summer, is Volvo’s attempt at a reset in the US. The compact SUV, which is built on a different architecture than the EX30, will start at $59,795 for the entry-level P6 Plus version, and climbs up to $68,745 for the more powerful P10 AWD Ultra variant.
Volvo is the latest automaker to try, and stumble, in its efforts to build an affordable EV for the US market that is both desirable and profitable for the company. To date, few have pulled it off, as it requires a certain level of scale, vertical integration, and mastery of the supply chain that only companies in China seem to have really nailed down. Of course, Volvo is owned by China’s Geely, but the company’s desire to sell EVs in North America will necessitate a different approach to affordability.
Affordability was one of the EX30’s main selling points. When it was first announced in 2023, Volvo said the price would start at $34,950, positioning it as the smaller, less expensive EV that many people were clamoring for. But after the election of Donald Trump, Volvo was forced to delay the EX30’s arrival in the US until 2025, citing newly leveled tariffs against vehicles built in China. Eventually, the model that went on sale in the US started at $44,900, about $10,000 more than the original price.
Then, in February, further bad news as Volvo issued a recall for the EX30 because the vehicles’ batteries were at risk of overheating or catching on fire. The next month, Volvo pulled the plug on the vehicle in the US.
Correction May 18th:A previous version of this story stated that the EX60 is the only Volvo EV in the US. The EX90 is also available.
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The news of an affordable Volvo EV for the US came during a media roundtable this week related to the US launch of the new EX60. Luis Rezende, president of Volvo Cars America, said that the decision to discontinue the EX30 was not solely about tariffs and profitability, noting that the company is preparing to introduce a new EV in 2027 that will occupy a similar role in the lineup — though not necessarily at exactly the same price point as the EX30.
“Very similar, I would say,” Rezende said about the mystery EV’s price comparison to the EX30. “It’s going to be an EV that will deliver a lot of good things in a bigger space, but it will be also fun to drive, I can promise you.”
Other than that, details were scarce. Volvo’s executives talked later about the desire to build a larger, family-oriented SUV at its factory in Charleston, South Carolina — though that vehicle will likely use a “multi-fuel” strategy rather than being exclusively electric from launch.
The EX60, which will start customer deliveries in the US this summer, is Volvo’s attempt at a reset in the US. The compact SUV, which is built on a different architecture than the EX30, will start at $59,795 for the entry-level P6 Plus version, and climbs up to $68,745 for the more powerful P10 AWD Ultra variant.
Volvo is the latest automaker to try, and stumble, in its efforts to build an affordable EV for the US market that is both desirable and profitable for the company. To date, few have pulled it off, as it requires a certain level of scale, vertical integration, and mastery of the supply chain that only companies in China seem to have really nailed down. Of course, Volvo is owned by China’s Geely, but the company’s desire to sell EVs in North America will necessitate a different approach to affordability.
Affordability was one of the EX30’s main selling points. When it was first announced in 2023, Volvo said the price would start at $34,950, positioning it as the smaller, less expensive EV that many people were clamoring for. But after the election of Donald Trump, Volvo was forced to delay the EX30’s arrival in the US until 2025, citing newly leveled tariffs against vehicles built in China. Eventually, the model that went on sale in the US started at $44,900, about $10,000 more than the original price.
Then, in February, further bad news as Volvo issued a recall for the EX30 because the vehicles’ batteries were at risk of overheating or catching on fire. The next month, Volvo pulled the plug on the vehicle in the US.
Correction May 18th:A previous version of this story stated that the EX60 is the only Volvo EV in the US. The EX90 is also available.
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Andrew J. Hawkins
#Volvo #teases #affordable #replace #discontinued #EX30Cars,Electric Cars,News,Transportation,Volvo">Volvo teases a new affordable EV to replace discontinued EX30
Volvo’s compact, quirky EX30 had a lot of problems when it was first released. Tariffs essentially erased its affordability, making it more expensive to own, and a battery recall made it dangerous to park indoors. But its discontinuation didn’t spell the end of Volvo’s efforts to sell more affordable electric models. In fact, the Swedish automaker is already at work on a new offering for the US market.
The news of an affordable Volvo EV for the US came during a media roundtable this week related to the US launch of the new EX60. Luis Rezende, president of Volvo Cars America, said that the decision to discontinue the EX30 was not solely about tariffs and profitability, noting that the company is preparing to introduce a new EV in 2027 that will occupy a similar role in the lineup — though not necessarily at exactly the same price point as the EX30.
“Very similar, I would say,” Rezende said about the mystery EV’s price comparison to the EX30. “It’s going to be an EV that will deliver a lot of good things in a bigger space, but it will be also fun to drive, I can promise you.”
Other than that, details were scarce. Volvo’s executives talked later about the desire to build a larger, family-oriented SUV at its factory in Charleston, South Carolina — though that vehicle will likely use a “multi-fuel” strategy rather than being exclusively electric from launch.
The EX60, which will start customer deliveries in the US this summer, is Volvo’s attempt at a reset in the US. The compact SUV, which is built on a different architecture than the EX30, will start at $59,795 for the entry-level P6 Plus version, and climbs up to $68,745 for the more powerful P10 AWD Ultra variant.
Volvo is the latest automaker to try, and stumble, in its efforts to build an affordable EV for the US market that is both desirable and profitable for the company. To date, few have pulled it off, as it requires a certain level of scale, vertical integration, and mastery of the supply chain that only companies in China seem to have really nailed down. Of course, Volvo is owned by China’s Geely, but the company’s desire to sell EVs in North America will necessitate a different approach to affordability.
Affordability was one of the EX30’s main selling points. When it was first announced in 2023, Volvo said the price would start at $34,950, positioning it as the smaller, less expensive EV that many people were clamoring for. But after the election of Donald Trump, Volvo was forced to delay the EX30’s arrival in the US until 2025, citing newly leveled tariffs against vehicles built in China. Eventually, the model that went on sale in the US started at $44,900, about $10,000 more than the original price.
Then, in February, further bad news as Volvo issued a recall for the EX30 because the vehicles’ batteries were at risk of overheating or catching on fire. The next month, Volvo pulled the plug on the vehicle in the US.
Correction May 18th:A previous version of this story stated that the EX60 is the only Volvo EV in the US. The EX90 is also available.
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The acquisition will take a key infrastructure supplier out of the hands of Anthropic’s competitors. The company told TechCrunch it will wind down all hosted Stainless products, including its SDK generator. An Anthropic spokesperson said Stainless customers will still own the SDKs they’ve generated to date, and have full rights to modify and extend them however they wish.
The New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.
Rattray developed software that could take API specifications and turn them into production-ready SDKs across multiple programming languages, including Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, Go, and Java. It became a popular tool because the platform automatically updates the SDKs as APIs change and eliminated the time-consuming process of manually maintaining them.
The technology is particularly valuable to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Replicate, Runway, and Cloudflare that are building AI agents that can connect to external software and complete tasks on behalf of users. Stainless’s SDK tools are an easy way to build and maintain those connections — but going forward, the tools will only be available to Anthropic, not its competitors.
According to Anthropic, Stainless software has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of its API.
“I started Stainless because SDKs deserve as much care as the APIs they wrap,” Rattray said in a press release posted Monday. “Anthropic was one of the first teams to bet on this with us. We have been watching what developers have built on Claude over the last few years, which made bringing our teams together an easy decision. The team gets to keep doing the work we love, on the platform where it matters most.”
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The acquisition will take a key infrastructure supplier out of the hands of Anthropic’s competitors. The company told TechCrunch it will wind down all hosted Stainless products, including its SDK generator. An Anthropic spokesperson said Stainless customers will still own the SDKs they’ve generated to date, and have full rights to modify and extend them however they wish.
The New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.
Rattray developed software that could take API specifications and turn them into production-ready SDKs across multiple programming languages, including Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, Go, and Java. It became a popular tool because the platform automatically updates the SDKs as APIs change and eliminated the time-consuming process of manually maintaining them.
The technology is particularly valuable to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Replicate, Runway, and Cloudflare that are building AI agents that can connect to external software and complete tasks on behalf of users. Stainless’s SDK tools are an easy way to build and maintain those connections — but going forward, the tools will only be available to Anthropic, not its competitors.
According to Anthropic, Stainless software has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of its API.
“I started Stainless because SDKs deserve as much care as the APIs they wrap,” Rattray said in a press release posted Monday. “Anthropic was one of the first teams to bet on this with us. We have been watching what developers have built on Claude over the last few years, which made bringing our teams together an easy decision. The team gets to keep doing the work we love, on the platform where it matters most.”
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#Anthropic #acquired #dev #tools #startup #OpenAI #Google #Cloudflare #TechCrunchAnthropic,Stainless">Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare | TechCrunch
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google.
Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal. However, The Information reported last week that Anthropic was in talks to acquire Stainless, which is backed by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, for more than $300 million.
The acquisition will take a key infrastructure supplier out of the hands of Anthropic’s competitors. The company told TechCrunch it will wind down all hosted Stainless products, including its SDK generator. An Anthropic spokesperson said Stainless customers will still own the SDKs they’ve generated to date, and have full rights to modify and extend them however they wish.
The New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.
Rattray developed software that could take API specifications and turn them into production-ready SDKs across multiple programming languages, including Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, Go, and Java. It became a popular tool because the platform automatically updates the SDKs as APIs change and eliminated the time-consuming process of manually maintaining them.
The technology is particularly valuable to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Replicate, Runway, and Cloudflare that are building AI agents that can connect to external software and complete tasks on behalf of users. Stainless’s SDK tools are an easy way to build and maintain those connections — but going forward, the tools will only be available to Anthropic, not its competitors.
According to Anthropic, Stainless software has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of its API.
“I started Stainless because SDKs deserve as much care as the APIs they wrap,” Rattray said in a press release posted Monday. “Anthropic was one of the first teams to bet on this with us. We have been watching what developers have built on Claude over the last few years, which made bringing our teams together an easy decision. The team gets to keep doing the work we love, on the platform where it matters most.”
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex…
launched the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors for commercial desktops and workstations. With these processors, the company offers enterprise-level 3D V-Cache capabilities to enhance performance for demanding workloads. AMD designed these processors for professionals working in content creation, architecture, engineering, and design.
These processors are the latest in AMD’s lineup, designed for commercial desktops and professional workstations. Along with performance upgrades for heavy workloads, the lineup also includes enterprise security and long-term platform support features.
3D V-Cache for Professional Workloads
3D V-Cache will be introduced in enterprise workstation processors with the upcoming Ryzen PRO 9000 Series. With increased cache memory, the company aims to improve processor performance when handling intensive tasks or applications. The increased cache memory will enhance the performance of applications working on large files by making it easier for them to access them. The company states that the technology aims to increase processor efficiency in professional environments.
The Ryzen PRO 9000 Series is designed for professionals such as creators, architects, engineers, and designers who rely on heavy-duty professional software. According to AMD, the chips will provide improved performance during the editing and encoding of videos in 4K and 8K resolutions, along with compositing performance in media workflows. The processors are also intended for architects and construction professionals, including BIM and 3D modeling. Manufacturing professionals working with CAD models and simulations will benefit from the performance of this series of chips.
Performance and Security
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The AMD Ryzen PRO 9000 Series comes in various configurations designed for desktop computers and business workstations. These CPUs are offered in six-core, eight-core, 12-core, and 16-core varieties with several thermal design power (TDP) choices. AMD has created high-performance CPUs for individuals who require reliable performance on challenging projects.
Along with performance upgrades, the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series also focuses on enterprise reliability and security. As part of the AMD PRO platform, the processors include advanced security protections and manageability tools for IT departments. AMD says the platform supports long-term business deployments with stable and consistent performance.
Availability Details
According to AMD, the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors will arrive in the second half of 2026. Lenovo has already confirmed that it will feature the new processors in its ThinkStation P4 workstation at NXTBLD. AMD may also announce additional OEM partners and systems closer to launch.
launched the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors for commercial desktops and workstations. With these processors, the company offers enterprise-level 3D V-Cache capabilities to enhance performance for demanding workloads. AMD designed these processors for professionals working in content creation, architecture, engineering, and design.
These processors are the latest in AMD’s lineup, designed for commercial desktops and professional workstations. Along with performance upgrades for heavy workloads, the lineup also includes enterprise security and long-term platform support features.
3D V-Cache for Professional Workloads
3D V-Cache will be introduced in enterprise workstation processors with the upcoming Ryzen PRO 9000 Series. With increased cache memory, the company aims to improve processor performance when handling intensive tasks or applications. The increased cache memory will enhance the performance of applications working on large files by making it easier for them to access them. The company states that the technology aims to increase processor efficiency in professional environments.
The Ryzen PRO 9000 Series is designed for professionals such as creators, architects, engineers, and designers who rely on heavy-duty professional software. According to AMD, the chips will provide improved performance during the editing and encoding of videos in 4K and 8K resolutions, along with compositing performance in media workflows. The processors are also intended for architects and construction professionals, including BIM and 3D modeling. Manufacturing professionals working with CAD models and simulations will benefit from the performance of this series of chips.
Performance and Security
Image Credit: Unsplash
The AMD Ryzen PRO 9000 Series comes in various configurations designed for desktop computers and business workstations. These CPUs are offered in six-core, eight-core, 12-core, and 16-core varieties with several thermal design power (TDP) choices. AMD has created high-performance CPUs for individuals who require reliable performance on challenging projects.
Along with performance upgrades, the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series also focuses on enterprise reliability and security. As part of the AMD PRO platform, the processors include advanced security protections and manageability tools for IT departments. AMD says the platform supports long-term business deployments with stable and consistent performance.
Availability Details
According to AMD, the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors will arrive in the second half of 2026. Lenovo has already confirmed that it will feature the new processors in its ThinkStation P4 workstation at NXTBLD. AMD may also announce additional OEM partners and systems closer to launch.
AMD Ryzen PRO 9000 Series Specifications
Processor
Cores / Threads
Boost / Base Clock
Total Cache
TDP
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D
16C / 32T
Up to 5.5 / 4.3 GHz
144MB
170W
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 9755X3D
8C / 16T
Up to 5.2 / 4.7 GHz
104MB
120W
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965
16C / 32T
Up to 5.5 / 4.3 GHz
80MB
170W
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9955
12C / 24T
Up to 5.4 / 3.4 GHz
76MB
120W
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9945
12C / 24T
Up to 5.4 / 3.4 GHz
76MB
65W
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 9755
8C / 16T
Up to 5.4 / 3.8 GHz
40MB
120W
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 9745
8C / 16T
Up to 5.4 / 3.8 GHz
40MB
65W
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 9655
6C / 12T
Up to 5.4 / 3.9 GHz
38MB
120W
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 9645
6C / 12T
Up to 5.4 / 3.9 GHz
38MB
65W
#AMD #Expands #VCache #Technology #Commercial #Desktop #MarketAMD">AMD Expands 3D V-Cache Technology to Commercial Desktop Market
AMD has launched the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors for commercial desktops and workstations. With these processors, the company offers enterprise-level 3D V-Cache capabilities to enhance performance for demanding workloads. AMD designed these processors for professionals working in content creation, architecture, engineering, and design.
These processors are the latest in AMD’s lineup, designed for commercial desktops and professional workstations. Along with performance upgrades for heavy workloads, the lineup also includes enterprise security and long-term platform support features.
3D V-Cache for Professional Workloads
3D V-Cache will be introduced in enterprise workstation processors with the upcoming Ryzen PRO 9000 Series. With increased cache memory, the company aims to improve processor performance when handling intensive tasks or applications. The increased cache memory will enhance the performance of applications working on large files by making it easier for them to access them. The company states that the technology aims to increase processor efficiency in professional environments.
The Ryzen PRO 9000 Series is designed for professionals such as creators, architects, engineers, and designers who rely on heavy-duty professional software. According to AMD, the chips will provide improved performance during the editing and encoding of videos in 4K and 8K resolutions, along with compositing performance in media workflows. The processors are also intended for architects and construction professionals, including BIM and 3D modeling. Manufacturing professionals working with CAD models and simulations will benefit from the performance of this series of chips.
Performance and Security
Image Credit: Unsplash
The AMD Ryzen PRO 9000 Series comes in various configurations designed for desktop computers and business workstations. These CPUs are offered in six-core, eight-core, 12-core, and 16-core varieties with several thermal design power (TDP) choices. AMD has created high-performance CPUs for individuals who require reliable performance on challenging projects.
Along with performance upgrades, the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series also focuses on enterprise reliability and security. As part of the AMD PRO platform, the processors include advanced security protections and manageability tools for IT departments. AMD says the platform supports long-term business deployments with stable and consistent performance.
Availability Details
According to AMD, the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors will arrive in the second half of 2026. Lenovo has already confirmed that it will feature the new processors in its ThinkStation P4 workstation at NXTBLD. AMD may also announce additional OEM partners and systems closer to launch.
AMD has launched the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors for commercial desktops and workstations. With…
Gudtrip is a cannabis vape pen from blockchain hardware manufacturer Puffpaw that is touting its ability to allow consumers to earn bitcoin while they smoke weed. Each of the company’s individual vape pen products has $2-3 worth of bitcoin attached to it, which can be redeemed via a QR code or NFC connection within the company’s associated mobile app. While Gudtrip has been criticized for effectively gamifying smoking marijuana, they claim that there is no direct reward tied to hitting the vape pen and seemingly have changed language on their website that previously claimed “Every hit earns crypto.”
Currently, Gudtrip’s vape pen is sold only in California, where recreational cannabis is legal. Buyers activate the pen by scanning a QR code or tapping via NFC to connect it to the Gudtrip app, which unlocks the bitcoin reward as an upfront loyalty payment. The app then tracks puff-seconds of usage and displays the data purely as a personal awareness feature, much like a step counter or sleep tracker on a fitness device. Users can check in daily to build streaks that boost non-monetary virtual points awarded in the app, but according to Gudtrip, those points exist only for record-keeping inside the app and cannot be redeemed for cash, products, or any other value. Puffpaw describes Gudtrip as building a user-powered network that mixes cannabis, Bitcoin, and artificial intelligence.
Gudtrip has opted for using bitcoin for their crypto rewards program rather than creating their own crypto token out of thin air. Many marketing gimmicks have been tried around crypto rewards that turned out to be nothing more than pump and dump schemes by many businesses over the years, including in the marijuana industry. Perhaps the most notorious crossover between the crypto and marijuana industries was Potcoin. Dennis Rodman infamously went to North Korea on a trip that was sponsored by the marijuana-themed altcoin. The promotion drove an immediate price surge, with the coin jumping nearly 97% to more than $0.18 shortly after Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on June 13, 2017, lifting its market capitalization near $40 million. However, after Potcoin hit an all-time high of roughly $0.51 in late 2017, it has since lost more than 99% of its value and now trades around $0.0008.
With all that said, reporting from DL News has indicated Puffpaw did at one point explicitly tell customers that a token would be launched in the future in a now-deleted post on X. Additionally, reward points in crypto-related apps are oftentimes eventually converted to crypto tokens with real monetary value. Previous reporting from Protos also indicates Gudtrip previously said rewards would be made via a token known as VAPE.
Gudtrip has also faced some backlash due to the perceived gamification of vaping (a characterization that the company explicitly rejects). Health researchers raised specific concerns to DL News after reviewing the product’s marketing. Joshua Gowin, an associate professor who studies frequent cannabis use, said gamifying cannabis use certainly sounds like habit-formation is the goal. Janna Cousijn, who leads the Neuroscience of Addiction Lab at Erasmus University Rotterdam, called it potentially a very dangerous and unethical device that could stimulate the development of addiction. Other experts warned that incentives tied to frequent use could impair health decisions and increase risks such as anxiety, memory issues, and respiratory effects.
Today we received a media request from @dlnews@DefiLlama regarding ethical concerns raised about @Gudtrip.
To set the record straight, we’re publishing our response openly – for our users, and for the public.
In response, Gudtrip founder Reffo Tse posted on X to correct what he called factual errors in media coverage. Tse wrote that the product records puff-seconds for user awareness only and that there is no financial reward of any kind tied to consumption. He emphasized that the bitcoin loyalty payment is issued upfront to every customer and is not scaled to, gated by, or associated with the level, frequency, or duration of use. “We believe that an adult in a legal market who has visibility into their own consumption is better positioned to avoid problematic use than one who does not,” Tse added.
The gamification of everything is becoming an increasing concern of many, and crypto often plays a key role in this trend of turning the entire world into one big casino. One recent example is Tuyo, a DeFi-powered Visa debit card that runs on crypto and includes a “buy now, pay maybe” feature that randomly waives fees on selected purchases through an undisclosed algorithm. The system frames ordinary spending as a game of chance, with critics describing it as engineered addiction that preys on the same psychological triggers found in casinos and loot boxes.
Prediction markets have drawn similar scrutiny. Platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket allow bets on real-world events including elections, but reports show campaign staffers have used non-public internal polling data to place profitable trades before the information reached the public. A U.S. soldier is also facing federal charges related to prediction market trades surrounding the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. These prediction market platforms have suspended users for suspected insider activity and are increasingly cooperating with law enforcement, but regulators and lawmakers continue to highlight the uneven playing field that favors those with inside information.
Gudtrip itself also includes the ability for awarded bitcoin to be seamlessly transferred to other more speculative, AI-directed investments such as decentralized finance (DeFi) and prediction markets. The website claims, “Users can choose to allocate eligible rewards into open-source AI agent tools that explore opportunities across DeFi (decentralized-finance), Gudtrip-native incentives, prediction markets, and selected RWA (real world assets) strategies.”
Gudtrip is a cannabis vape pen from blockchain hardware manufacturer Puffpaw that is touting its ability to allow consumers to earn bitcoin while they smoke weed. Each of the company’s individual vape pen products has $2-3 worth of bitcoin attached to it, which can be redeemed via a QR code or NFC connection within the company’s associated mobile app. While Gudtrip has been criticized for effectively gamifying smoking marijuana, they claim that there is no direct reward tied to hitting the vape pen and seemingly have changed language on their website that previously claimed “Every hit earns crypto.”
Currently, Gudtrip’s vape pen is sold only in California, where recreational cannabis is legal. Buyers activate the pen by scanning a QR code or tapping via NFC to connect it to the Gudtrip app, which unlocks the bitcoin reward as an upfront loyalty payment. The app then tracks puff-seconds of usage and displays the data purely as a personal awareness feature, much like a step counter or sleep tracker on a fitness device. Users can check in daily to build streaks that boost non-monetary virtual points awarded in the app, but according to Gudtrip, those points exist only for record-keeping inside the app and cannot be redeemed for cash, products, or any other value. Puffpaw describes Gudtrip as building a user-powered network that mixes cannabis, Bitcoin, and artificial intelligence.
Gudtrip has opted for using bitcoin for their crypto rewards program rather than creating their own crypto token out of thin air. Many marketing gimmicks have been tried around crypto rewards that turned out to be nothing more than pump and dump schemes by many businesses over the years, including in the marijuana industry. Perhaps the most notorious crossover between the crypto and marijuana industries was Potcoin. Dennis Rodman infamously went to North Korea on a trip that was sponsored by the marijuana-themed altcoin. The promotion drove an immediate price surge, with the coin jumping nearly 97% to more than $0.18 shortly after Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on June 13, 2017, lifting its market capitalization near $40 million. However, after Potcoin hit an all-time high of roughly $0.51 in late 2017, it has since lost more than 99% of its value and now trades around $0.0008.
With all that said, reporting from DL News has indicated Puffpaw did at one point explicitly tell customers that a token would be launched in the future in a now-deleted post on X. Additionally, reward points in crypto-related apps are oftentimes eventually converted to crypto tokens with real monetary value. Previous reporting from Protos also indicates Gudtrip previously said rewards would be made via a token known as VAPE.
Gudtrip has also faced some backlash due to the perceived gamification of vaping (a characterization that the company explicitly rejects). Health researchers raised specific concerns to DL News after reviewing the product’s marketing. Joshua Gowin, an associate professor who studies frequent cannabis use, said gamifying cannabis use certainly sounds like habit-formation is the goal. Janna Cousijn, who leads the Neuroscience of Addiction Lab at Erasmus University Rotterdam, called it potentially a very dangerous and unethical device that could stimulate the development of addiction. Other experts warned that incentives tied to frequent use could impair health decisions and increase risks such as anxiety, memory issues, and respiratory effects.
Today we received a media request from @dlnews@DefiLlama regarding ethical concerns raised about @Gudtrip.
To set the record straight, we’re publishing our response openly – for our users, and for the public.
In response, Gudtrip founder Reffo Tse posted on X to correct what he called factual errors in media coverage. Tse wrote that the product records puff-seconds for user awareness only and that there is no financial reward of any kind tied to consumption. He emphasized that the bitcoin loyalty payment is issued upfront to every customer and is not scaled to, gated by, or associated with the level, frequency, or duration of use. “We believe that an adult in a legal market who has visibility into their own consumption is better positioned to avoid problematic use than one who does not,” Tse added.
The gamification of everything is becoming an increasing concern of many, and crypto often plays a key role in this trend of turning the entire world into one big casino. One recent example is Tuyo, a DeFi-powered Visa debit card that runs on crypto and includes a “buy now, pay maybe” feature that randomly waives fees on selected purchases through an undisclosed algorithm. The system frames ordinary spending as a game of chance, with critics describing it as engineered addiction that preys on the same psychological triggers found in casinos and loot boxes.
Prediction markets have drawn similar scrutiny. Platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket allow bets on real-world events including elections, but reports show campaign staffers have used non-public internal polling data to place profitable trades before the information reached the public. A U.S. soldier is also facing federal charges related to prediction market trades surrounding the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. These prediction market platforms have suspended users for suspected insider activity and are increasingly cooperating with law enforcement, but regulators and lawmakers continue to highlight the uneven playing field that favors those with inside information.
Gudtrip itself also includes the ability for awarded bitcoin to be seamlessly transferred to other more speculative, AI-directed investments such as decentralized finance (DeFi) and prediction markets. The website claims, “Users can choose to allocate eligible rewards into open-source AI agent tools that explore opportunities across DeFi (decentralized-finance), Gudtrip-native incentives, prediction markets, and selected RWA (real world assets) strategies.”
#Smoke #Weed #Earn #Bitcoin #Vape #Pen #Increasingly #Dystopian #NightmareBitcoin,Crypto,gamification,vaping,weed">‘Smoke Weed and Earn Bitcoin’ With This Vape Pen in Our Increasingly Dystopian Nightmare
Gudtrip is a cannabis vape pen from blockchain hardware manufacturer Puffpaw that is touting its ability to allow consumers to earn bitcoin while they smoke weed. Each of the company’s individual vape pen products has $2-3 worth of bitcoin attached to it, which can be redeemed via a QR code or NFC connection within the company’s associated mobile app. While Gudtrip has been criticized for effectively gamifying smoking marijuana, they claim that there is no direct reward tied to hitting the vape pen and seemingly have changed language on their website that previously claimed “Every hit earns crypto.”
Currently, Gudtrip’s vape pen is sold only in California, where recreational cannabis is legal. Buyers activate the pen by scanning a QR code or tapping via NFC to connect it to the Gudtrip app, which unlocks the bitcoin reward as an upfront loyalty payment. The app then tracks puff-seconds of usage and displays the data purely as a personal awareness feature, much like a step counter or sleep tracker on a fitness device. Users can check in daily to build streaks that boost non-monetary virtual points awarded in the app, but according to Gudtrip, those points exist only for record-keeping inside the app and cannot be redeemed for cash, products, or any other value. Puffpaw describes Gudtrip as building a user-powered network that mixes cannabis, Bitcoin, and artificial intelligence.
Gudtrip has opted for using bitcoin for their crypto rewards program rather than creating their own crypto token out of thin air. Many marketing gimmicks have been tried around crypto rewards that turned out to be nothing more than pump and dump schemes by many businesses over the years, including in the marijuana industry. Perhaps the most notorious crossover between the crypto and marijuana industries was Potcoin. Dennis Rodman infamously went to North Korea on a trip that was sponsored by the marijuana-themed altcoin. The promotion drove an immediate price surge, with the coin jumping nearly 97% to more than $0.18 shortly after Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on June 13, 2017, lifting its market capitalization near $40 million. However, after Potcoin hit an all-time high of roughly $0.51 in late 2017, it has since lost more than 99% of its value and now trades around $0.0008.
With all that said, reporting from DL News has indicated Puffpaw did at one point explicitly tell customers that a token would be launched in the future in a now-deleted post on X. Additionally, reward points in crypto-related apps are oftentimes eventually converted to crypto tokens with real monetary value. Previous reporting from Protos also indicates Gudtrip previously said rewards would be made via a token known as VAPE.
Gudtrip has also faced some backlash due to the perceived gamification of vaping (a characterization that the company explicitly rejects). Health researchers raised specific concerns to DL News after reviewing the product’s marketing. Joshua Gowin, an associate professor who studies frequent cannabis use, said gamifying cannabis use certainly sounds like habit-formation is the goal. Janna Cousijn, who leads the Neuroscience of Addiction Lab at Erasmus University Rotterdam, called it potentially a very dangerous and unethical device that could stimulate the development of addiction. Other experts warned that incentives tied to frequent use could impair health decisions and increase risks such as anxiety, memory issues, and respiratory effects.
Today we received a media request from @dlnews@DefiLlama regarding ethical concerns raised about @Gudtrip.
To set the record straight, we’re publishing our response openly – for our users, and for the public.
In response, Gudtrip founder Reffo Tse posted on X to correct what he called factual errors in media coverage. Tse wrote that the product records puff-seconds for user awareness only and that there is no financial reward of any kind tied to consumption. He emphasized that the bitcoin loyalty payment is issued upfront to every customer and is not scaled to, gated by, or associated with the level, frequency, or duration of use. “We believe that an adult in a legal market who has visibility into their own consumption is better positioned to avoid problematic use than one who does not,” Tse added.
The gamification of everything is becoming an increasing concern of many, and crypto often plays a key role in this trend of turning the entire world into one big casino. One recent example is Tuyo, a DeFi-powered Visa debit card that runs on crypto and includes a “buy now, pay maybe” feature that randomly waives fees on selected purchases through an undisclosed algorithm. The system frames ordinary spending as a game of chance, with critics describing it as engineered addiction that preys on the same psychological triggers found in casinos and loot boxes.
Prediction markets have drawn similar scrutiny. Platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket allow bets on real-world events including elections, but reports show campaign staffers have used non-public internal polling data to place profitable trades before the information reached the public. A U.S. soldier is also facing federal charges related to prediction market trades surrounding the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. These prediction market platforms have suspended users for suspected insider activity and are increasingly cooperating with law enforcement, but regulators and lawmakers continue to highlight the uneven playing field that favors those with inside information.
Gudtrip itself also includes the ability for awarded bitcoin to be seamlessly transferred to other more speculative, AI-directed investments such as decentralized finance (DeFi) and prediction markets. The website claims, “Users can choose to allocate eligible rewards into open-source AI agent tools that explore opportunities across DeFi (decentralized-finance), Gudtrip-native incentives, prediction markets, and selected RWA (real world assets) strategies.”
Gudtrip is a cannabis vape pen from blockchain hardware manufacturer Puffpaw that is touting its…
Irrigreen apps: You create a zone, then use the app to define its boundaries. Similar to the aforementioned systems, Oto’s sprinkler is designed for precision watering, firing water in a beam in a single direction instead of a wide spray. That said, Oto’s spray is comparably narrow, only hitting a single, designated patch instead of producing a two-dimensional curtain of water like Irrigreen’s “water printing” system. You get a nice preview of this as you set the boundaries of your yard.
Like its competitors, Oto lets you set each zone as a spot (for watering a single tree, perhaps), a line (for a flowerbed), or a 2-D area (for a yard). I tested all of these modes but spent most of my time working with area zones, which are the most complex option. When defining an area zone, I found Oto’s system to be virtually identical to that of Irrigreen and Aiper, though ever so slightly slower to respond to commands. Even so, it’s very easy to use: A simple interface lets you drop points around the sprinkler to define the boundaries of the zone. When you’ve made a full circle around the sprinkler, the area is complete.
Once configured, you can assign each zone a schedule, with copious options available around which days to water (odd days, even days, select days of the week, every day), and designate a start time (though there is no tying time to sundown or sunrise). Each schedule also gets a weekly watering limit (in inches of depth), which you’ll then parse out over each week’s watering runs. Weather intelligence features let you elect to skip watering if your zip code receives measurable rainfall or if winds are high (both based on internet reports); the user can tweak both the amount of rain and windspeed needed to trigger a skip. The app logs the 20 most recent runs and includes a calendar that details upcoming events.
When watering an area, Oto takes a novel approach to covering the lawn, first moving in circular arcs directly around the sprinkler, then slowly increasing in range with each successive swipe. When finished, it does additional “clean-up” runs to hit any areas that the initial watering arcs didn’t reach. The speed is slow enough and the size of the water’s beam is large enough that the resulting coverage is solid. After test runs, I found the yard to be plenty wet across the entire zone, with no dry patches.
As with all sprinklers, changes in water pressure can make for occasional over- or underwatering of areas, but I found this to be a minimal problem when using the Oto. However, when watering at the terminus of Oto’s range, the power needed to throw the water that far can make for a strong splashdown, which may result in some soil erosion or damage to more sensitive plants.
The Oto also has a “play mode” option that lets you use the sprinkler for a watery game of chase or a more random “splash tag” mode, aka “try to avoid getting hit by the water.” Pro tip: It’s impossible not to get hit.
Irrigreen apps: You create a zone, then use the app to define its boundaries. Similar to the aforementioned systems, Oto’s sprinkler is designed for precision watering, firing water in a beam in a single direction instead of a wide spray. That said, Oto’s spray is comparably narrow, only hitting a single, designated patch instead of producing a two-dimensional curtain of water like Irrigreen’s “water printing” system. You get a nice preview of this as you set the boundaries of your yard.
Like its competitors, Oto lets you set each zone as a spot (for watering a single tree, perhaps), a line (for a flowerbed), or a 2-D area (for a yard). I tested all of these modes but spent most of my time working with area zones, which are the most complex option. When defining an area zone, I found Oto’s system to be virtually identical to that of Irrigreen and Aiper, though ever so slightly slower to respond to commands. Even so, it’s very easy to use: A simple interface lets you drop points around the sprinkler to define the boundaries of the zone. When you’ve made a full circle around the sprinkler, the area is complete.
Once configured, you can assign each zone a schedule, with copious options available around which days to water (odd days, even days, select days of the week, every day), and designate a start time (though there is no tying time to sundown or sunrise). Each schedule also gets a weekly watering limit (in inches of depth), which you’ll then parse out over each week’s watering runs. Weather intelligence features let you elect to skip watering if your zip code receives measurable rainfall or if winds are high (both based on internet reports); the user can tweak both the amount of rain and windspeed needed to trigger a skip. The app logs the 20 most recent runs and includes a calendar that details upcoming events.
When watering an area, Oto takes a novel approach to covering the lawn, first moving in circular arcs directly around the sprinkler, then slowly increasing in range with each successive swipe. When finished, it does additional “clean-up” runs to hit any areas that the initial watering arcs didn’t reach. The speed is slow enough and the size of the water’s beam is large enough that the resulting coverage is solid. After test runs, I found the yard to be plenty wet across the entire zone, with no dry patches.
As with all sprinklers, changes in water pressure can make for occasional over- or underwatering of areas, but I found this to be a minimal problem when using the Oto. However, when watering at the terminus of Oto’s range, the power needed to throw the water that far can make for a strong splashdown, which may result in some soil erosion or damage to more sensitive plants.
The Oto also has a “play mode” option that lets you use the sprinkler for a watery game of chase or a more random “splash tag” mode, aka “try to avoid getting hit by the water.” Pro tip: It’s impossible not to get hit.
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Once configured, setup proceeds much like the Aiper and pricier Irrigreen apps: You create a zone, then use the app to define its boundaries. Similar to the aforementioned systems, Oto’s sprinkler is designed for precision watering, firing water in a beam in a single direction instead of a wide spray. That said, Oto’s spray is comparably narrow, only hitting a single, designated patch instead of producing a two-dimensional curtain of water like Irrigreen’s “water printing” system. You get a nice preview of this as you set the boundaries of your yard.
Like its competitors, Oto lets you set each zone as a spot (for watering a single tree, perhaps), a line (for a flowerbed), or a 2-D area (for a yard). I tested all of these modes but spent most of my time working with area zones, which are the most complex option. When defining an area zone, I found Oto’s system to be virtually identical to that of Irrigreen and Aiper, though ever so slightly slower to respond to commands. Even so, it’s very easy to use: A simple interface lets you drop points around the sprinkler to define the boundaries of the zone. When you’ve made a full circle around the sprinkler, the area is complete.
Once configured, you can assign each zone a schedule, with copious options available around which days to water (odd days, even days, select days of the week, every day), and designate a start time (though there is no tying time to sundown or sunrise). Each schedule also gets a weekly watering limit (in inches of depth), which you’ll then parse out over each week’s watering runs. Weather intelligence features let you elect to skip watering if your zip code receives measurable rainfall or if winds are high (both based on internet reports); the user can tweak both the amount of rain and windspeed needed to trigger a skip. The app logs the 20 most recent runs and includes a calendar that details upcoming events.
When watering an area, Oto takes a novel approach to covering the lawn, first moving in circular arcs directly around the sprinkler, then slowly increasing in range with each successive swipe. When finished, it does additional “clean-up” runs to hit any areas that the initial watering arcs didn’t reach. The speed is slow enough and the size of the water’s beam is large enough that the resulting coverage is solid. After test runs, I found the yard to be plenty wet across the entire zone, with no dry patches.
As with all sprinklers, changes in water pressure can make for occasional over- or underwatering of areas, but I found this to be a minimal problem when using the Oto. However, when watering at the terminus of Oto’s range, the power needed to throw the water that far can make for a strong splashdown, which may result in some soil erosion or damage to more sensitive plants.
The Oto also has a “play mode” option that lets you use the sprinkler for a watery game of chase or a more random “splash tag” mode, aka “try to avoid getting hit by the water.” Pro tip: It’s impossible not to get hit.
Once configured, setup proceeds much like the Aiper and pricier Irrigreen apps: You create a…
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Most language-learning apps are really good at helping people feel productive for about six days before the notifications start getting ignored. Babbel feels different because the lessons were actually designed by professional linguists and educators with real-world conversations in mind.
On the flip side, Babbel takes a different approach. New U.S. users can get a Babbel Language Learning Lifetime Subscription for $159 (reg. $646.20) with StackSocial’s code LEARN, giving you permanent access to all 14 languages on the platform.
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And honestly, the biggest reason people stick with Babbel is that it feels built for real humans with jobs, schedules, and functioning attention spans. Lessons are short — usually around 10 to 15 minutes — and focus heavily on practical conversations. Topics include travel, dining, work, shopping, introductions, and everyday communication that actually matters.
You can learn on your phone, tablet, desktop, or laptop, and your progress syncs automatically across devices. There’s also offline access, which makes it easy to keep practicing during flights, commutes, or anywhere Wi-Fi becomes questionable.
The lifetime access angle is really what makes this deal stand out, though. Instead of paying another monthly subscription indefinitely, this is a one-time purchase that gives you ongoing access to all 14 languages for as long as you want to keep learning.
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Most language-learning apps are really good at helping people feel productive for about six days before the notifications start getting ignored. Babbel feels different because the lessons were actually designed by professional linguists and educators with real-world conversations in mind.
On the flip side, Babbel takes a different approach. New U.S. users can get a Babbel Language Learning Lifetime Subscription for $159 (reg. $646.20) with StackSocial’s code LEARN, giving you permanent access to all 14 languages on the platform.
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You can learn on your phone, tablet, desktop, or laptop, and your progress syncs automatically across devices. There’s also offline access, which makes it easy to keep practicing during flights, commutes, or anywhere Wi-Fi becomes questionable.
The lifetime access angle is really what makes this deal stand out, though. Instead of paying another monthly subscription indefinitely, this is a one-time purchase that gives you ongoing access to all 14 languages for as long as you want to keep learning.
For people who travel often, work internationally, love learning new skills, or simply want to stop saying “I should really learn Spanish someday,” Babbel feels like one of those purchases that you will be happy you made well into the future.
![‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form, for some unknown amount of time, according to a report from Krebs on Security. The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says. Surely the secret information was buried in some obscure folder with an inscrutable name, I hear you saying. The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.” But there’s no way the contents were that sensitive, you object. But the contents included passwords, keys, and tokens—and the passwords were plain text in a .CSV file. CISA gave a statement to Krebs, saying the following: “Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident[…] While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences.” Since the repository was created in November of last year, the duration of the vulnerability seems to have been about six months—but it could have been much shorter depending on what information as added when.
To refresh your memory, CISA is a relatively new branch of the Department of Homeland Security that has had an overall rough time during Trump 2.0, even though, by signing it into law in 2018, Trump actually midwifed CISA into existence during Administration 1.0, and sorry about the tangent, but Trump’s speech to mark the occasion was an exceptional example of Trump poetry, including excerpts like this one:
“The cyber battlespace evolves — and it is evolving, and unfortunately, faster than a lot of people want to talk about. But battlespace it is. So as the cyber battlespace evolves, this new agency will ensure that we confront the full range of threats from nation-states, cyber criminals, and other malicious actors, of which there are many.” Incontestably true, Mister President. Battlespace it is. Anyway, Trump was enraged by information provided by CISA leadership during the period between the 2020 election and January 6, 2021 when he was on a mission to have the election results overturned in his favor. He fired the CISA director he appointed, and since taking office again, his CISA has been a chaotic farce. Neither of the acting directors he’s appointed so far have been confirmed by the Senate, and Trump has recently sought to drastically cut CISA’s funding. Now, to add to CISA’s worries, it seems, according to one interpretation from the Krebs report on what was in the repository, an individual employee working for a government contractor called Nightwing was using Github to move material from a work device to a home device—sorta like emailing documents to yourself, but somehow even less secure than that.
I’m no expert on federal Cybersecurity, but this from Krebs sounds like stuff we as citizens don’t want our government leaking: “One of the exposed files, titled ‘importantAWStokens,’ included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — ‘AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv’ — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system[s] included one called ‘LZ-DSO,’ which appears short for ‘Landing Zone DevSecOps,’ the agency’s secure code development environment.” Kreb’s source about the information left out in the open was Guillaume Valadon of GitGuardian, a company that scans GitHub for secrets, meaning his business is finding situations like this one. Valadon told Krebs it was “the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career.” #Worst #Leak #Ive #Witnessed #U.S #Cybersecurity #Agency #Leaves #Digital #Keys #Public #GitHubCISA,Github,leaks](https://i3.wp.com/gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/11/DHS-homeland-security-sign-1280x853.jpg?ssl=1 "‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form, for some unknown amount of time, according to a report from Krebs on Security. The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says. Surely the secret information was buried in some obscure folder with an inscrutable name, I hear you saying. The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.” But there’s no way the contents were that sensitive, you object. But the contents included passwords, keys, and tokens—and the passwords were plain text in a .CSV file. CISA gave a statement to Krebs, saying the following: “Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident[…] While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences.” Since the repository was created in November of last year, the duration of the vulnerability seems to have been about six months—but it could have been much shorter depending on what information as added when.
To refresh your memory, CISA is a relatively new branch of the Department of Homeland Security that has had an overall rough time during Trump 2.0, even though, by signing it into law in 2018, Trump actually midwifed CISA into existence during Administration 1.0, and sorry about the tangent, but Trump’s speech to mark the occasion was an exceptional example of Trump poetry, including excerpts like this one:
“The cyber battlespace evolves — and it is evolving, and unfortunately, faster than a lot of people want to talk about. But battlespace it is. So as the cyber battlespace evolves, this new agency will ensure that we confront the full range of threats from nation-states, cyber criminals, and other malicious actors, of which there are many.” Incontestably true, Mister President. Battlespace it is. Anyway, Trump was enraged by information provided by CISA leadership during the period between the 2020 election and January 6, 2021 when he was on a mission to have the election results overturned in his favor. He fired the CISA director he appointed, and since taking office again, his CISA has been a chaotic farce. Neither of the acting directors he’s appointed so far have been confirmed by the Senate, and Trump has recently sought to drastically cut CISA’s funding. Now, to add to CISA’s worries, it seems, according to one interpretation from the Krebs report on what was in the repository, an individual employee working for a government contractor called Nightwing was using Github to move material from a work device to a home device—sorta like emailing documents to yourself, but somehow even less secure than that.
I’m no expert on federal Cybersecurity, but this from Krebs sounds like stuff we as citizens don’t want our government leaking: “One of the exposed files, titled ‘importantAWStokens,’ included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — ‘AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv’ — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system[s] included one called ‘LZ-DSO,’ which appears short for ‘Landing Zone DevSecOps,’ the agency’s secure code development environment.” Kreb’s source about the information left out in the open was Guillaume Valadon of GitGuardian, a company that scans GitHub for secrets, meaning his business is finding situations like this one. Valadon told Krebs it was “the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career.” #Worst #Leak #Ive #Witnessed #U.S #Cybersecurity #Agency #Leaves #Digital #Keys #Public #GitHubCISA,Github,leaks")
![‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form, for some unknown amount of time, according to a report from Krebs on Security. The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says. Surely the secret information was buried in some obscure folder with an inscrutable name, I hear you saying. The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.” But there’s no way the contents were that sensitive, you object. But the contents included passwords, keys, and tokens—and the passwords were plain text in a .CSV file. CISA gave a statement to Krebs, saying the following: “Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident[…] While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences.” Since the repository was created in November of last year, the duration of the vulnerability seems to have been about six months—but it could have been much shorter depending on what information as added when.
To refresh your memory, CISA is a relatively new branch of the Department of Homeland Security that has had an overall rough time during Trump 2.0, even though, by signing it into law in 2018, Trump actually midwifed CISA into existence during Administration 1.0, and sorry about the tangent, but Trump’s speech to mark the occasion was an exceptional example of Trump poetry, including excerpts like this one:
“The cyber battlespace evolves — and it is evolving, and unfortunately, faster than a lot of people want to talk about. But battlespace it is. So as the cyber battlespace evolves, this new agency will ensure that we confront the full range of threats from nation-states, cyber criminals, and other malicious actors, of which there are many.” Incontestably true, Mister President. Battlespace it is. Anyway, Trump was enraged by information provided by CISA leadership during the period between the 2020 election and January 6, 2021 when he was on a mission to have the election results overturned in his favor. He fired the CISA director he appointed, and since taking office again, his CISA has been a chaotic farce. Neither of the acting directors he’s appointed so far have been confirmed by the Senate, and Trump has recently sought to drastically cut CISA’s funding. Now, to add to CISA’s worries, it seems, according to one interpretation from the Krebs report on what was in the repository, an individual employee working for a government contractor called Nightwing was using Github to move material from a work device to a home device—sorta like emailing documents to yourself, but somehow even less secure than that.
I’m no expert on federal Cybersecurity, but this from Krebs sounds like stuff we as citizens don’t want our government leaking: “One of the exposed files, titled ‘importantAWStokens,’ included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — ‘AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv’ — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system[s] included one called ‘LZ-DSO,’ which appears short for ‘Landing Zone DevSecOps,’ the agency’s secure code development environment.” Kreb’s source about the information left out in the open was Guillaume Valadon of GitGuardian, a company that scans GitHub for secrets, meaning his business is finding situations like this one. Valadon told Krebs it was “the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career.” #Worst #Leak #Ive #Witnessed #U.S #Cybersecurity #Agency #Leaves #Digital #Keys #Public #GitHubCISA,Github,leaks](https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/11/DHS-homeland-security-sign-1280x853.jpg "‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form, for some unknown amount of time, according to a report from Krebs on Security. The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says. Surely the secret information was buried in some obscure folder with an inscrutable name, I hear you saying. The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.” But there’s no way the contents were that sensitive, you object. But the contents included passwords, keys, and tokens—and the passwords were plain text in a .CSV file. CISA gave a statement to Krebs, saying the following: “Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident[…] While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences.” Since the repository was created in November of last year, the duration of the vulnerability seems to have been about six months—but it could have been much shorter depending on what information as added when.
To refresh your memory, CISA is a relatively new branch of the Department of Homeland Security that has had an overall rough time during Trump 2.0, even though, by signing it into law in 2018, Trump actually midwifed CISA into existence during Administration 1.0, and sorry about the tangent, but Trump’s speech to mark the occasion was an exceptional example of Trump poetry, including excerpts like this one:
“The cyber battlespace evolves — and it is evolving, and unfortunately, faster than a lot of people want to talk about. But battlespace it is. So as the cyber battlespace evolves, this new agency will ensure that we confront the full range of threats from nation-states, cyber criminals, and other malicious actors, of which there are many.” Incontestably true, Mister President. Battlespace it is. Anyway, Trump was enraged by information provided by CISA leadership during the period between the 2020 election and January 6, 2021 when he was on a mission to have the election results overturned in his favor. He fired the CISA director he appointed, and since taking office again, his CISA has been a chaotic farce. Neither of the acting directors he’s appointed so far have been confirmed by the Senate, and Trump has recently sought to drastically cut CISA’s funding. Now, to add to CISA’s worries, it seems, according to one interpretation from the Krebs report on what was in the repository, an individual employee working for a government contractor called Nightwing was using Github to move material from a work device to a home device—sorta like emailing documents to yourself, but somehow even less secure than that.
I’m no expert on federal Cybersecurity, but this from Krebs sounds like stuff we as citizens don’t want our government leaking: “One of the exposed files, titled ‘importantAWStokens,’ included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — ‘AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv’ — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system[s] included one called ‘LZ-DSO,’ which appears short for ‘Landing Zone DevSecOps,’ the agency’s secure code development environment.” Kreb’s source about the information left out in the open was Guillaume Valadon of GitGuardian, a company that scans GitHub for secrets, meaning his business is finding situations like this one. Valadon told Krebs it was “the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career.” #Worst #Leak #Ive #Witnessed #U.S #Cybersecurity #Agency #Leaves #Digital #Keys #Public #GitHubCISA,Github,leaks")
![‘Bluey’ has an unexpected Dropout connection beyond the ‘Game Changer’ shock
Watching Bluey, the beloved Australian cartoon show for kids, you might not think of Dropout, a streaming platform that revels in adult humor. But thanks to Game Changer‘s provocative Season 8 premiere episode, “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Dropout CEO and host Sam Reich has revealed an incredible connection between the comedy streamer and the hit cartoon. To answer burning questions we had about Game Changer‘s “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko spoke with Reich about the ins and outs of the “legally spicy” episode. When asked about Lou Wilson’s Bluey rant — during which a parody of the adorable pup appeared onscreen — Reich revealed that he’d previously worked with Bluey creator Joe Brumm. “I don’t think that most people know this,” Reich said. “It’s the tiniest little diatribe, but we did an animated series really early on for Dropbox called What the Fuck 101, which was like a messed-up Magic School Bus.”
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“At the time,” Reich explained, “The chief animator of that [show] was like, ‘I’m gonna have to pull double duty on this and another project that’s been green-lit, because it’s really personal to me.’ And so, simultaneously, this guy, Joe Brumm, was doing What the Fuck 101 and the first season of Bluey. And before that, he did a huge number of College Humor shorts. I mean, all over his resume, the biggest thing on his resume was College Humor before it was Bluey.” Reich clearly relished his time working with Brumm, both at College Humor and its spinoff streamer Dropout. And of Bluey, he said, “I’ve watched a fair amount of it. It’s fantastic. It’s so heartfelt and distinct and original, and it’s a work of art. And you would never guess the other things that Studio Joho was doing for us.”WTF 101 is now streaming on Dropout. Bluey is now streaming on Disney+.
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Watching Bluey, the beloved Australian cartoon show for kids, you might not think of Dropout, a streaming platform that revels in adult humor. But thanks to Game Changer‘s provocative Season 8 premiere episode, “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Dropout CEO and host Sam Reich has revealed an incredible connection between the comedy streamer and the hit cartoon. To answer burning questions we had about Game Changer‘s “Don’t Wake Standards and Practices,” Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko spoke with Reich about the ins and outs of the “legally spicy” episode. When asked about Lou Wilson’s Bluey rant — during which a parody of the adorable pup appeared onscreen — Reich revealed that he’d previously worked with Bluey creator Joe Brumm. “I don’t think that most people know this,” Reich said. “It’s the tiniest little diatribe, but we did an animated series really early on for Dropbox called What the Fuck 101, which was like a messed-up Magic School Bus.”
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“At the time,” Reich explained, “The chief animator of that [show] was like, ‘I’m gonna have to pull double duty on this and another project that’s been green-lit, because it’s really personal to me.’ And so, simultaneously, this guy, Joe Brumm, was doing What the Fuck 101 and the first season of Bluey. And before that, he did a huge number of College Humor shorts. I mean, all over his resume, the biggest thing on his resume was College Humor before it was Bluey.” Reich clearly relished his time working with Brumm, both at College Humor and its spinoff streamer Dropout. And of Bluey, he said, “I’ve watched a fair amount of it. It’s fantastic. It’s so heartfelt and distinct and original, and it’s a work of art. And you would never guess the other things that Studio Joho was doing for us.”WTF 101 is now streaming on Dropout. Bluey is now streaming on Disney+.
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