Meta's AI Stock Split, Tesla's Cybercab Promises, and Tor's SSH Hijack

▸ • Meta invents a new class of stock to pay for its insatiable AI hardware habit.

▸ • Tesla promises steering-wheel-less Cybercabs by year's end (regulators pending).

▸ • Over 300 Tor exit nodes get hijacked to snoop on SSH traffic.

📈 Meta's AI Stock Split

Meta is creating a new class of nonvoting stock via a 2-for-1 split to fund its massive AI infrastructure buildout. It's a clever way to raise capital for GPUs without diluting Mark Zuckerberg's voting control.

🚕 Tesla's Cybercab Timeline

Elon Musk says Tesla will start selling its steering-wheel-less Cybercabs by the end of the year, and allow customers to add their own vehicles to the robotaxi fleet next year. Federal regulators, who still have questions about safety standards, might have a different timeline.

🎮 Xbox's A La Carte Cloud Gaming

Xbox Insiders can now pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games they already own over the cloud. It's a new way to bypass the Game Pass subscription, assuming you don't mind feeding the meter while you game.

🛏️ Airbnb Bans the Chore Wheel

Airbnb is finally limiting the chores hosts can demand from guests, meaning you might not have to strip the beds and do a load of laundry before paying a $150 cleaning fee. Naturally, hosts are threatening to leave the platform in protest.

🤖 The Eiliko Robot Security Nightmare

The cute AI robot charm 'Eiliko' turned out to be a privacy disaster, storing unencrypted transcripts and photos of its users. The company claims it has closed external access and is hiring an independent security firm, but researchers say they still have active SSH access to the toys.

🏭 Data Centers vs. Air Quality

The generative AI boom is demanding so much electricity that new data centers in places like Texas could erase decades of air quality gains. It turns out that generating endless pictures of astronauts riding horses requires burning a lot of fossil fuels.

📉 The Unwanted Software Upgrade Epidemic

A survey of over 2,000 IT heads reveals that enterprises waste 28% of their software budgets on upgrades that IT departments actively believe will make things worse. It's a stark reminder that the people buying the software rarely have to use it.

🕵️ Tor Exit Nodes Hijacked for SSH Snooping

Attackers hijacked 333 Tor exit nodes over three days to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext emails. It's a potent reminder that anonymizing networks don't protect you if you're using unencrypted protocols.

🐙 GitHub's Agent-Scale Infrastructure

GitHub has moved a copy of 99.99999% of its repositories to Azure. By utilizing per-reference quorums and object storage, they're allowing read operations to scale independently to support the massive influx of AI agents.

🛡️ Cloudflare's Full Transaction WAF

Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall can now correlate HTTP requests with their responses. This full transaction detection catches successful exploits and data exposure that request-only inspection completely misses.

🌍 UN's Climate Reality Check

The UN admits we're going to blow past the 1.5ºC warming target, suggesting a best-case scenario of 1.8ºC with massive carbon removal. Time to invest in better air conditioning.

💼 Blackstone's AI Optimism

Blackstone's AI head says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown. Shockingly, the private equity giant heavily invested in AI infrastructure thinks everything is going to be just fine.