https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-reagan-foundation-canada-ad-37dde4581eb070e58e39e3882f214901

My god, this is just hilarious. Remember, kids: If a piece of furniture that has been basically agreed upon for thousands of years (with some changes) needs a cloud connection:

• You're paying too much.
• You'll continue paying too much.
• You might wake up sweating in an uncomfortable position.

This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed.

A Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem affected AWS cloud hosting, resulting in an outage that impacted more than 1,000 web-based products and services and millions of people.

Perhaps one of the most avoidable breakdowns came via people’s beds. The reliance on the Internet for smart bed products from Eight Sleep resulted in people being awoken by beds locked into inclined positions and sweltering temperatures.

As spotted by Dexerto, the AWS outage caused smart mattress covers from Eight Sleep to malfunction. These “Pod” mattress covers connect to a physical hub, and users can set the covers to temperatures between 55° and 110° Fahrenheit via a companion app. Eight Sleep also sells smart mattress bases that let people control their bed’s elevation with the app. As of this writing, the Pods’ MSRPs range from $2,449 to $3,249, and the base has a $1,950 MSRP. Eight Sleep also sells its Autopilot feature through an annual subscription that starts at $199. Autopilot is supposed to help automatically set Eight Sleep devices to users’ optimal sleeping conditions. Pod purchases require a one-year subscription to Autopilot.

There's admittedly a bit of Schadenfreude here. You seriously subscribed to a fucking bed?

AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea

“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position …”…

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}

Ronald Reagan faced eight partial government shutdowns between 1981 and 1989. He said a shutdown “is never the right way to resolve differences” because it “undermines confidence in government.”
Back then they were seen as breakdowns in negotiation, not bargaining tools.

Today some politicians use them as leverage.
When did that change and who made it normal? Was Reagan wrong?

That's an interesting divergence between the hed and URL, but that's really the least of the issues.

Here’s a job pitch you don’t see often.

What if, instead of “work-life balance,” you had no balance at all—your life was your work… and work happened seven days a week?

Did I say days? I actually meant days and nights, because the job I’m talking about wants you to know that you will also work weekends and evenings, and that “it’s ok to send messages at 3am.”

Also, I hope you aren’t some kind of pajama-wearing wuss who wants to work remotely; your butt had better be in a chair in a New York City office on Madison Avenue, where you need enough energy to “run through walls to get things done” and respond to requests “in minutes (or seconds) instead of hours.”

I mean, I've had such a job.

And if I needed to talk to my boss at 3 a.m., we were either still awake or I rolled over and poked her shoulder.

That environment is fine when it happens organically. This is just absurd.

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Because of course it does.

Guardrails? What guardrails? Naughty netizens found a way to trick the Sora 2 video generator into producing deepfakes of public figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Mark Cuban, that make it sound as though they're spewing racial slurs. The trick works despite Sora's built-in filters meant to block hateful language.

AI detection platform Copyleaks reported Wednesday that its review of the recently released Sora 2 app, with its improved video generation model, uncovered several videos using celebrity likenesses to recreate a 2020 incident in which a man wearing a Burger King crown was kicked off a JetBlue flight for a racist tirade. In place of the James May lookalike from the original incident, Sora users recreated the scene using Altman and Cuban, as well as popular streamers xQc, Amouranth, IDKSterling, and YouTuber Jake Paul.

Sora 2 users weren't able to perfectly recreate the incident, mind you, as OpenAI's software does include guardrails to prevent the creation of content with epithets used in the original (i.e., the n-word). However, a simple homophone can be enough to sidestep those restrictions and make it sound as though public figures, including some who've opted into Sora's Cameo feature, were uttering racist slurs, according to Copyleaks.

Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets

: If you listen closely, you’ll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike words

^{Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)}

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs

As the Department of Homeland Security continues to seek the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the agency said Friday it had identified a new country of removal that has agreed to accept the wrongly deported Salvador native: the West African nation of Liberia.

In a court notice filed Friday, Department of Justice attorneys said DHS has received "diplomatic assurances regarding the treatment of third-country individuals removed to Liberia from the United States and are making the final necessary arrangements for [Abrego Garcia's] removal."

According to the notice, DHS expects "to be able to effectuate removal as soon as October 31."

DHS, pressing to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, says Liberia has agreed to accept him

A judge, however, has banned his removal while he awaits trial in Tennessee.

^{Laura Romero (ABC News)}

I hate this timeline.

Let’s break this down, because we have to look at how crazy this is.

• They’re saying that these companies are “avoiding or bypassing” Reddit’s TCMs. But, the way they’re doing that is by not scraping Reddit. You cannot claim that it is “circumventing a TCM” to get the same content… from Google. That’s crazy.
• Even crazier is that they’re arguing that the defendants are circumventing Google’s TCM, even though Google isn’t even a party.
• They’re making this claim over content that Reddit holds no copyright over. The copyright remains with the original creator. Reddit holds a license, but a license does not grant Reddit the right to sue over that copyright.

Each one of these ideas is crazy. All three of them together is ludicrous. Reddit is claiming that these companies violated copyright law by (1) avoiding Reddit and (2) getting the content from publicly available Google searches over (3) content that Reddit has no copyright over.

And somehow that’s supposed to be copyright infringement.

Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet

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^Techdirt