8-Second AI Videos: The Environmental Cost We’re Not Ready For
Stuart Glover
One 8-second AI video = 90 minutes microwave use = 466g CO2 = 6-8 miles driven = 150 smartphone charges. At global scale, this threatens energy grids, water supplies, and…
February 2026
The Dead Internet & The Dying Planet: The Cost of the Click
The year 2025 went down in history as the year the “Dead Internet Theory” stopped being a fringe conspiracy and became a measurable reality. We are witnessing a digital and…
The 2025 Technical Hall of Fame: Top 10 Blog Posts
1. “The Carbon Debt of Intelligence: Why 2025 is AI’s Environmental Reckoning” Summary: This post went viral in early 2025, providing a harrowing technical breakdown of the water and electricity…
The Great British Balancing Act: How the UK is Engineering a “Green AI” Future
As we progress through 2026, the United Kingdom finds itself at a unique crossroads. On one hand, the government has doubled down on its ambition to make the UK the…
The Green Dilemma: When Environmental Stewardship Meets the AI Revolution
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December 2025: Coupang and SoundCloud Finish the Year
The year ended with two massive consumer data breaches. South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang reported that a former employee had leaked the personal information of 34 million customers. Meanwhile, SoundCloud…
November 2025: Gainsight and the Oracle EBS Breach
November saw a wave of attacks exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). Auto parts maker LKQ and the University of Pennsylvania were among the victims of the…
October 2025: Red Hat GitLab and the 570GB Leak
The Crimson Collective threat group claimed a major victory in October by exfiltrating 570GB of data from Red Hat-managed GitLab servers. The breach affected numerous high-profile customers, including Nissan, whose…
September 2025: Asahi Brewing Global System Failure
Japanese brewing giant Asahi reported a total “system failure” across its global operations in September. The cause was quickly confirmed as a coordinated ransomware attack that had infiltrated industrial control…
August 2025: Jaguar Land Rover Production Paralyzed
In one of the most economically damaging attacks of the year, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) was forced to shut down global production lines for five weeks in August. A ransomware…
July 2025: The SalesLoft-Salesforce SaaS Domino Effect
July was defined by the “SolarWinds moment for SaaS.” A breach at the sales-engagement platform SalesLoft allowed ShinyHunters to exploit OAuth integrations with Salesforce. This granted attackers access to the…
June 2025: The 16 Billion Credential “Mega-Leak”
In June, researchers uncovered a staggering dataset of over 16 billion login credentials hosted openly online. While not a single breach of one company, it was an aggregation of data…
May 2025: The Insider Threat at Coinbase and Coca-Cola
May shifted the focus toward internal vulnerabilities. Coinbase revealed that hackers had bribed overseas support agents to facilitate account takeovers, highlighting a disturbing trend of “Recruitment as a Service” by…
April 2025: Marks & Spencer and the UK Retail Wave
Retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) was the face of a coordinated ransomware campaign in April. The Scattered Spider group exploited Active Directory credentials to paralyze M&S online ordering and…
March 2025: Aviation Grounded by Collins Aerospace Breach
March saw the aviation industry thrown into chaos after a ransomware attack targeted Collins Aerospace’s vMUSE platform. This software is essential for passenger check-in and boarding at airports worldwide. The…
February 2025: Bybit and the $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist
In mid-February, the Bybit cryptocurrency exchange fell victim to what is now cited as the largest crypto theft in history. Hackers, believed to be the Lazarus Group, exploited a third-party…
January 2025: The VPN Zero-Day Crisis Hits Nominet
The year began with a massive exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti and SonicWall VPN products. One of the most high-profile victims was Nominet, the UK’s domain registry. Attackers linked…
2025: The Year of Vibe Coding – From Intent to Implementation
As we close out December 2025, the tech world is reflecting on a paradigm shift that many didn’t see coming at the start of the year: the rise of Vibe…
December 2025: Charity Scams and Holiday “Gift” Fraud
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November 2025: Black Friday Package Delivery Scams
During the Black Friday shopping frenzy, “package delivery” scams peaked. Victims received SMS messages claiming their “Amazon” or “FedEx” package was delayed and required a $1 redelivery fee. Clicking the…
October 2025: Real Estate and Closing Cost Wire Fraud
October brought a surge in “Escrow Phishing.” Scammers monitored public property records to identify homes nearing closing. They then sent perfectly timed emails to the buyers, impersonating their title company…
September 2025: Job Search and Recruitment Fraud
September saw a rise in “Ghost Jobs.” Scammers posted fake remote-work roles on major job boards to harvest resumes and personal data. Some took it further, conducting “interviews” over Telegram…
August 2025: Student Loan and Education Scams
With the “Back to School” rush in August, student loan “forgiveness” scams flooded the market. Fraudsters targeted recent graduates with urgent emails claiming they were eligible for immediate debt erasure—for…
July 2025: The “Verification” 2FA Bypass Scam
July saw a spike in “2FA Fatigue” and interception scams. Scammers used automated bot services to call victims, posing as their bank’s fraud department. They told the victim they were…
June 2025: Travel and Vacation Rental Fraud
As summer travel kicked off in June, vacation rental scams hit record levels. Fraudsters used AI to generate professional-looking listings for luxury villas at “too good to be true” prices…
May 2025: The “Help Desk” Remote Access Scam
In May, the tech support scam evolved. Using AI-driven search engine manipulation, scammers ensured their fake “Help Desk” numbers appeared at the top of Google results for popular software. Victims…
April 2025: QR Code “Quishing” in Public Spaces
April saw the explosion of “Quishing” (QR Phishing). Scammers placed stickers over legitimate QR codes on parking meters, restaurant menus, and public charging stations. When scanned, these codes directed users…
March 2025: Tax Season Phishing and AI Document Fraud
As tax deadlines approached in March, a new wave of highly sophisticated IRS impersonation scams emerged. Fraudsters used AI to generate perfect replicas of tax forms and official correspondence, bypassing…
February 2025: Romance Scams 2.0 and Deepfake Dating
Around Valentine’s Day, romance scams took a high-tech turn. Fraudsters utilized real-time deepfake video filters during video calls to maintain their fake personas, making the “catfishing” nearly impossible to detect.…
January 2025: The Rise of the AI “Grandparent” Voice Scam
January saw a terrifying peak in AI voice cloning. Scammers began using three-second clips from social media to replicate a family member’s voice, calling elderly victims to claim they were…
December 2025: AGI Dreams and Year-End Realities
The year ended with OpenAI teasing a model they claimed showed “glimmers of AGI,” a massive hype high. But 2025 finished on a sobering low: a global consensus that AI-driven…
November 2025: NVIDIA Blackwell 2 and the GPU Glut
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October 2025: Hollywood vs. The Generative Wave
October saw a high for Meta and Lionsgate, who signed a landmark deal to train video models on cinematic archives legally. This was the first major peace treaty between Big…
September 2025: Reasoning Models and the O1 Successor
OpenAI released “Strawberry 2” (o1-successor) in September, a massive high for scientific research. The model successfully solved several unsolved chemistry problems. However, the month hit a low for the workforce…
August 2025: Apple’s AI Ecosystem Domination
Apple Intelligence reached its final form in August with the iPhone 17 preview, marking a high for consumer adoption. By processing almost all AI tasks locally, Apple bypassed the privacy…
July 2025: The Nuclear AI Summer
July was defined by energy. In a historic high, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a multi-billion dollar investment in modular nuclear reactors to power their next-gen data centers. The low point…
June 2025: Regulatory Reality and Robot Rights
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May 2025: Google I/O and the Hardware Arms Race
Google I/O 2025 was a massive high, with the unveiling of the first fully integrated AI operating system. The “Gemini OS” concept promised a world without standalone apps. However, NVIDIA…
April 2025: Llama 4 and the Open Source Surge
Meta disrupted the ecosystem in April with the release of Llama 4. It was an incredible high for the open-source community, as the model reached parity with GPT-4o for free.…
March 2025: Claude 4 and the Privacy Debate
Anthropic stole the spotlight in March with the release of Claude 4, setting a new high for reasoning and coding benchmarks. The company’s focus on “Constitutional AI” helped it win…
February 2025: Sora’s Public Debut and GPU Scarcity
OpenAI’s Sora video generator finally exited its restricted beta, marking a creative high. However, the month was marred by a “low” in the supply chain. NVIDIA faced extreme scrutiny as…
January 2025: The Agentic Awakening
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AI News Roundup: January 2026 Highlights
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