Episode 274 - Terminator Cage Fights, AI Toilet Scams, $388M Security Tool Backdoor, Happy Hour With the Boss

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California's athletic commission slaps a robot fight league with a cease and desist after a Terminator-inspired humanoid push-kicked an influencer into the cage wall.

• https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/california-sends-cease-desist-fight-125530914.html
• https://x.com/intcyberdigest/status/2105795226103058621

 

An Airbnb host demanded $1,700 for an overflowing toilet with an AI-generated photo, and Google's own SynthID watermark ratted them out.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/comments/1wt6sb0/photo_of_a_toilet_airbnb_sent_in_justification/

 

Bitget lost $388M after attackers used a zero-day in a third-party security product to inject fake withdrawal commands straight into its wallet backend.

• https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-09-28-bitget-attacker-tested-risk-controls-small-transfers-388-million-theft-ceo-says-417045
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bitget-hacked-via-zero-day-in-third-party-security-products/

 

Managers are trying to figure out where the line is on team happy hours when every joke can end up timestamped in Slack and in front of HR.

• https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/happy-hour-office-after-work-drinks-over-0daf6b60

 

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