James Altucher:

FBI Says ShinyHunters Leader Arrested As Pokemon-Themed Hacking Group Faces Probe

A 24-year-old Dutch man has been arrested in an investigation into ShinyHunters, the hacking group that recently claimed it breached the FBI's jobs website and has previously been linked to an April attack on Rockstar Games.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the Dutch High-Tech Crime Unit worked with FBI investigators to make the arrest. Dutch police said the man was also suspected of attempting to arrange two murders, but that investigation is unrelated to the ShinyHunters case. Authorities have not publicly named the suspect.

On September 22, ShinyHunters defaced the FBI's jobs website and claimed it stole between 2 and 3 terabytes of data involving FBI employees and job applicants. The group provided samples that included names, addresses, phone numbers, assignments and family information.

The FBI has not confirmed the full scope or source of the alleged breach. The agency said it was investigating whether the intrusion began within its own systems or through a third-party provider.

ShinyHunters said the attack was not financially motivated and demanded that the FBI retract or remove a May advisory describing the group as a cybercriminal organization. The FBI's public advisory remains online.

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Ray Blanco:

New Saltwater Sensor Mimics Human Touch, Could Help People With Artificial Limbs

Researchers at Aarhus University have developed a soft, saltwater-based sensor that converts touch into electrical signals using a mechanism inspired by the body's sensory cells, potentially paving the way for prosthetic limbs that can communicate directly with the nervous system.

The sensor, roughly the size of a small lentil, uses electrically charged particles moving through salt water to generate a signal when touched. The research, published in Advanced Functional Materials, aims to replicate how human skin converts mechanical pressure into electrical activity that the nervous system can interpret.

Led by Rassoul Tabassian, an assistant professor in Aarhus University's Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, the team hopes the technology could eventually allow people with prosthetic limbs to experience a sense of touch.

Achieving that goal will require further laboratory development and experiments, first in animals and later in humans, Tabassian said. The researchers estimate that several more years of work will be necessary before the technology could become part of a prosthesis capable of sensing and responding naturally to its surroundings.

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Davis Wilson:

OpenAI Debuts Dots AI Agents in Challenge to Meta's Popular Muse Agent

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched the company's newest product during its OpenAI DevDay on Tuesday: Dots. A high-powered AI agent, Dots is designed to perform tasks for you over long periods via connections to 4,000 apps via ChatGPT.

For instance, you can tell your Dot to keep you updated on projects you're working on, add items to your schedule, and more.

Powered by OpenAI's Astra model, Dots can do things like recognize when an alert about a software bug comes in via Slack and begin digging into it. In another example, OpenAI says an early tester's Dot saw that they didn't submit an invoice for a publication. The Dot then set up the invoice and submitted it after getting the tester's approval.

You'll also be able to hand off tasks in Slack to your Dot, helping to cut down on the ever-growing number of pings and distractions you receive each day.

OpenAI's Dots comes weeks after Meta debuted its popular Muse AI agent. Muse quickly shot to the top of both Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store, becoming a major win for the company, as it continues to spend billions on its AI buildout.

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