WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions. Security researcher Joseph Tartaro demonstrates how he can insert a hacking device into a USB on the back of the shuffler that alters its code, then transmits the deck's order via Bluetooth to a phone app. The Deckmate 2 automatic card shufflers used in casinos, cardhouses, and high-end private poker games around the world are designed to shuffle a deck in seconds with perfect, computer-generated randomness, vastly speeding up play. They're also, amazingly, sold with a camera inside that can observe every card in the deck before it's dealt--a fact that's become very convenient for poker-cheating hackers and, allegedly, members of the Cosa Nostra mafia.

The algorithms that Big Tech designed – and the genocide they assisted. The Listening Post explores how Israel's killing campaign of Palestinians has relied on artificial intelligence to choose its targets. A dystopian nightmare serves as a marketing campaign for technology flawed by design, and deepens the global digital divide. Nicaragua put Germany in the dock at the International Court of Justice, accusing it of facilitating genocide in Gaza. Germany is the second largest weapons supplier to Israel.

Years ago, my mother worked for a major airline company in reservations. Her job included booking and cancelling reservations, checking fares and re-booking passengers. She was also responsible for printing tickets to be mailed to the traveler(s). Her office in suburban Chicago occupied several floors of a large office building with enough wires, I was told as a child, to circle the globe seven times to carry out those functions as well as printing tickets. This system, of course, meant you had to book your ticket far enough in advance to actually get your ticket in the mail.

Tesla on Wednesday said it has no evidence that one of its cars was in autopilot mode when it hit a guardrail and flipped on the Pennsylvania Turnpike about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh on July 1. Police in Pennsylvania said the driver of a Tesla Model X told them he'd activated autopilot before the accident, but the car maker has been unable to asses the allegations first reported by The Detroit Free Press. Tesla says it has been unable to reach the motorist, a suburban Detroit art dealer, and also hasn't received digital crash data, perhaps because the car's antenna was damaged. "We have no data at this point to indicate that Autopilot was engaged or not engaged," a company spokeswoman said in a statement. "As we do with all crash events, we immediately reached out to the customer to confirm they were ok and offer support, but were unable to reach him. We have since attempted to contact the customer three times by phone without success. It is not possible to learn more without access to the vehicle's onboard logs."