A "Rubbish, Knee-Jerk Reaction": UK Treasury Pushes Food Price Caps As Inflation Re-Accelerates

Treasury Rushes To Access Anthropic 'Mythos' AI After Warning It Can Hack "Every Major Operating System" The US Treasury Department’s technology team is actively seeking access to Anthropic PBC’s highly restricted Mythos AI model so it can begin hunting for software vulnerabilities, according to a person familiar with the situation cited by Bloomberg.  Illustration via WIRED Treasury Chief Information Officer Sam Corcos briefed the department’s cybersecurity team on the technology last week and has directed efforts to gain access to the model "as soon as this week." The request comes days after Treasury Secretary...

Flesh-Eating Screwworm Cases Rise To 15 After New Detections In Texas: USDA Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on June 21 that three more cases of the flesh-eating New World screwworm have been detected in Texas, bringing the total in the United States to 15. The latest cases involved a lamb in Crockett County and two calves in Edwards County, Texas. The USDA said in a post on X that it would immediately begin releasing sterile flies outside the affected areas in Crockett...