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September 30, 2026

Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet — 404media.co

One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of

Ex-NCA officer who worked on Silk Road operation ordered to repay £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin — theregister.com

A former National Crime Agency (NCA) officer who stole Bitcoin seized during an investigation into Silk Road 2.0 has been ordered to hand over more than £1.8 million ($2.4 million). Paul Chowles, 44, stole 50 of the 97 Bitcoin recovered from convicted Silk

Treasury exposes terror network Tren de Aragua's $40M US ATM 'jackpotting' plot — foxbusiness.com

FIRST ON FOX: The Treasury Department is dropping the hammer on a Tren de Aragua (TdA) $40-plus million fraud scheme accused of using U.S. automated teller machines as a narco-terror piggybank, stealing Americans' cash to fund its transnational terror

Filing Taxes Will Cost Americans $544 Billion This Year — reason.com

The process of paying taxes manages to add insult to injury by making it burdensome to comply as you cough up the money the government steals from you. The time lost keeping up on tax rules, filing paperwork, and calculating our own mugging is stolen from

The Five Trump Scandals That Deserve Thorough Investigation — newrepublic.com

“We’re going to hold the crooks accountable,” House Democratic leader Hakim Jeffries told the Associated Press last week in anticipation of the Democrats’ likely retaking the House on November 3. (The political forecaster Charlie Cook says a Democratic

Democrats flex filibuster muscle ahead of election — semafor.com

The News Many Democrats supported the bipartisan bill overhauling college sports, but they don’t want to give Republicans any other wins before the midterms. That’s likely to become obvious in two key votes Wednesday. Senate Democrats increasingly oppose a

The most vulnerable senators of 2026, about a month out from Election Day — rollcall.com

The once unlikely prospect of Democrats scoring a net gain of four seats to win the Senate majority now looks more plausible less than five weeks out from the midterm elections. Still, that would require the party to win in red states that haven’t elected