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GUN N' ROSES GUITARIST GETS A SNAKE NAMED AFTER HIM
Field Museum scientists have formally described a new snake from Papua New Guinea and named it Lielaphis slashi, Slash's groundsnake, after the Guns N' Roses guitarist. It's reddish-brown, roughly 28 inches, completely nonvenomous, and it works the night shift at the base of big trees, using big rear teeth to deal with small lizards and reptile eggs. Top hat not included. The name isn't a marketing stunt. Sara Ruane, the museum's associate curator of herpetology and the paper's senior author, has been a Guns N' Roses fan since first grade and told her fifth-grade teacher she was going to be a herpetologist. At 12 she got a Reptiles Magazine with Slash on the cover holding his pet reticulated python, kept it, and reread the interview years later as an actual snake scientist. She also asked his blessing first, which is the etiquette when your honoree is still alive and touring. Slash called himself 'a long-time herpephile' and said he never imagined this moment would arrive. On a side note this is the first time I've ever typed the word Herprphile. The animal waited two decades for the paperwork. Chris Austin of LSU first found it in July 2006 in Sandaun Province, hunting at night, where several highly venomous species look almost exactly like the harmless ones. Genetics finally confirmed it as the 20th species in its genus.
AMD IS NOW WORTH A TRILLION DOLLARS BECAUSE PEOPLE DOWNLOADED A META APP
The Nasdaq closed Monday at 27,122.09, up 2.26%, its first record close since June. The S&P 500 rose 1.49% to 7,764.70 for its best day since early August, and the Dow tacked on 366 points. Everybody made money. Almost nobody can explain it with a straight face. Here is the official reason. Meta's new AI assistant, Muse, took the top spot on the free downloads chart in Apple's App Store, and Wall Street concluded that humanity is about to need a terrifying number of server CPUs. Intel popped 12%. Meta jumped about 11%. Arm ripped 17%. AMD added roughly 10%, touched an all-time high above $610, and crossed a $1 trillion market cap for the first time, the fourth American chipmaker to pull it off. That stock is up more than 180% this year on OpenAI orders, Oracle orders, and now download rankings. The boring stuff did the actual heavy lifting. Oil fell about 4.5% and the 10-year Treasury yield slipped back under 5%, which is what loosens wallets. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson spent the same afternoon telling clients the S&P could slide roughly 7% to 7,100 if financial conditions tighten or energy gets expensive again. Record close on one screen, correction warning on the other.
CONNECTICUT MAN PUNCHES A 4 YEAR OLD AT TARGET OVER POKEMON CARDS
A Target in Lisbon, Connecticut ran a Pokemon card restock and it ended with a fist fight. Per a September 5 post from the TCG account PokeStreetz, the incident happened around noon on August 28, and the woman who submitted the video said she and her boyfriend were fourth or fifth in line when two shoppers ahead of them filled baskets with the remaining Pokemon product, then moved it to a cart hidden in the store's men's clothing section to get around a two-item-per-SKU limit. Solid plan, nobody has ever wandered into the men's section of a Target. Then somebody started filming. The account says the guy in white punched the submitter's boyfriend in the face, his phone blocked part of the blow, and he fell into a 4-year-old girl and hurt her elbow. He got up immediately to check on the kid. The alleged puncher ran out of the store and left his wallet behind, and the girl's father called police. Leaving your ID at the scene is one way to skip the investigation. Here's the part the repost accounts keep dropping: no suspect has been publicly identified and no charges or arrest report have been located. The arrest is a social media claim, not a police statement. Meanwhile The Pokemon Company has restricted hyped 30th Anniversary product to Japanese buyers to fight scalpers, and Pokemon Center recently cancelled orders during a bot crackdown.
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- ign.com - Pokémon Scalper Reportedly Arrested After Punching Man in the Face Over 30th Anniversary Target Drop
- dexerto.com - Pokemon scalper reportedly arrested after assaulting man during trading card restock
- pokequery.com - Logan Paul Launches 150‐Hour Shiny‐Hunting Stream to Promote ModRetro's Chromatic Handheld
LEGACY MEDIA ALL DECIDE TO FADE THE WHITE HOUSE
Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House on Friday, effective immediately, citing their constant reporting of what he called fake news. By Saturday morning the badges were being collected at the gate. MS NOW's Akayla Gardner said an officer told her the badge was disabled and that the reason was above him. Then Monday happened. CNN was up in the rotation to run the TV pool camera for Trump's trip to the UN General Assembly. The White House schedule that went out late Sunday listed no network at all, and ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox all declined to take the shift. Fox's Washington bureau chief, who currently chairs the TV pool, sent the email saying there would be no replacement pool. So the president cut the ribbon on his new White House helipad with no pool camera there, and the only feed, the White House's own livestream, had his remarks completely buried under helicopter noise. The three outlets sued Monday in DC federal court, alleging First Amendment and due process violations and asking for a temporary restraining order. The case went to Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee who restored Jim Acosta's press pass in 2018, and Trump posted that the outlets had drawn a great judge, for them. The White House says nobody is banned, arguing access is a privilege and not a right, and Vance says the rule is simply no special access for propaganda.
TWO WEEKS IN, META'S AI BUTLER CAN BE HIJACKED BY A TERMINAL COMMAND
Meta shipped Muse on September 8, a personal AI agent that acts on your email, payment and calendar accounts, with Zuckerberg hyping it as "built from the ground up for privacy and security." Thirteen days later, macOS researcher Patrick Wardle pointed out that any locally installed app or executed code, whatever macOS permissions it has, can change a long list of undocumented Muse settings. Most are harmless, like dark mode. One of them controls where your transcription gets sent. Point that somewhere else and you now hold the token that gives complete control over the Muse account. Wardle's framing is the ugly part. Instead of writing a comprehensive Mac malware stealer, an attacker can "just leverage the AI assistant itself." Muse already asked for disk writes, mic, camera, location and calendars, the exact permissions Apple spent years building defenses around. Muse undoes them. Meta's launch pitch was a Secure VM per agent gated by a watchdog process called Sentinel plus a bounty paying up to $300,000 for a valid vulnerability. Implicator reported Meta launched anyway while its own employees were still reporting security failures. Amazon blocked Muse from shopping on its platform on September 21, citing unauthorized access and no way to identify the agent. Wardle is saving the full technical breakdown for a November conference, which is either a patch window or a countdown.
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