That headline might seem like it’s ripped out of science fiction. Unfortunately, El Jefe says fortunately, it’s not. Yesterday, NASA scientists reported discovering 13 strains of a new, drug-resistant bacteria aboard the International Space Station. The bacteria has proven resistant to multiple drugs. Enterobacter Bugandensis NASA scientists are calling the bug, enterobacter bugandensis. This is...
(Image credit, Associated Press) Nvidia surpassed Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company this week. At $135 per share, Nvidia closed yesterday’s trading day with a $3.34 trillion valuation. Microsoft closed the trading day at $3.32 trillion. Nvidia is being pushed by the mania surrounding the AI marketplace. June has been a wild month for...
After Wendy’s ended its demand pricing scheme and tested its own AI ordering systems, McDonald’s has decided to pull the plug on its agent based ordering experience. The system was a collaboration between Mickey D’s and IBM. One hundred restaurants originally signed on to pilot the project. McDonald’s customers would roll up to the drive...
Hackers infected a popular tool used for making AI-generated art for Stable Diffusion this week. The exploit targeted the ComfyUI tool which provides an easier way for users to prompt Stable Diffusion’s AI. AI-generated artwork is detrimental to the creative industry and should be discouraged NULLBULGE GROUP ComfyUI is freely available via GitHub. This also...
I don’t know who will play Elon Musk in a biopic documenting his successes and failures in life as an industrialist and family man. Whoever plays him will hopefully nail the irrationalism that once made him an admired ‘Howard Hughes of Gen X’, to whining poster boy of social derelict nerds. Musk’s latest tantrum was...
You may not have known this, but if you drive specific cars from GM and other automakers your driving data may have been sold to insurance companies. Say What? Yesterday, Verisk, a company that sold drivers’ performance data to GM, Honda, and Hyundai has stopped receiving driving data from automakers. Verisk collected driving analytics from...
Yesterday, ye olde American Telephone and Telegraph; Ma Bell, reported resolving an issue that left many AT&T customers unable to call their friends on rival networks. The problem wasn’t a complete AT&T network outage, but specifically affected switching services between AT&T and rival networks. So, What Happened? We don’t know, and AT&T isn’t exactly telling....
On Sunday, Santander Bank announced it was hacked by a group attempting sell customer and employee data on the dark web. Santander is reporting all of its staff information has been leaked, and millions of customer account and personal details are compromised. Santander is reporting NO TRANSACTIONAL DATA including credentials, passwords, and other information that...
There are two things that turn push me beyond being purely patriotic, and into jingoistic territory. One is the US Space Program, especially NASA’s run up to the Space Shuttle Program. The US Space Program impact has given commercial space flight companies, a tax payer funded edge in bringing about consumer space travel. The second...
The US Department of Justice arrested brothers, Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, and James Peraire-Bueno, 28 on charges of money laundering and fraud. A First of Its Kind Heist The Bueno Brothers were arrested because they stole $25 million of Ethereum crypto currency in 12 seconds. That’s 12 whole seconds. DOJ reported the brothers plotted their scheme...