WIRED: Australian company Apate has built an army of 350,000 AI bots that pose as scam victims to waste fraudsters' time. The bots answer scam calls, reply to texts and infiltrate scam chat groups using different personalities and languages. Some scammers reportedly spend over TWO HOURS talking to them. Banks are already using the system, which Apate says has collected over 250,000 pieces of fraud intelligence, including scam URLs, money mule accounts, bank details and information about criminal operations.

WIRED: "There are plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned about Bioweapons Development." And now add this: There's been a pneumonic plague outbreak at a BSL-3 lab in Siberia, Russia. Nearly 200 people under quarantine as of Oct 1st, according to the Moscow Times.

Wired just published a story about a legit tech company coming out of stealth that was optimistically framed about the positive impact it could have on the world. Yes, I said @WIRED. Credit where credit is due! Good work, @LaurenGoode! And congrats to @keplercompute.

WIRED spoke with an engineer who was interviewed by Edward “Big Balls” Coristine for a government engineering role at the NDS, the White House agency staffed by other DOGE veterans.

WIRED, citing an upcoming book by NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, reports that Trump privately mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos after they tried to build ties with him following the 2024 election. The book says Trump showed associates messages from tech executives, including texts from Zuckerberg, while Bezos reportedly criticized The Washington Post during a Mar-a-Lago dinner with Trump. It also says Bezos later asked Trump for help pushing “contractor diversity” in government space contracts as Blue Origin competed with SpaceX, but the request did not move forward.

Wired up a trackpoint module to my keyboard. Took a bit to get it working nicely but barely having to move my hand to move the pointer is nice. I'll put it in the right spot whenever I do my own pcb. Still have to add pointer acceleration to my firmware though.