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A former accountant has built an AI tool called Tabby with a pointed goal — replace the profession he came from. Tabby works as a real-time bookkeeping interface, processing paperwork on the fly and giving business owners live profit and loss data. It's a familiar pattern: the insider who knows exactly where the inefficiencies are, and decides to automate them away.
Meanwhile, in the skies over the continental United States, Joby Aviation has quietly crossed a significant threshold. The company completed the first fully autonomous flight across the country, with no human at the controls. It's the kind of milestone that tends to get underplayed at the time and overreferenced later, once the industry catches up to what it actually means.
And in the darker corners of the internet, there's something almost cinematic unfolding. The cybercriminal gang ShinyHunters has reportedly hacked rival ransomware group Cl0p, stealing source code, logs, and encryption keys, then defacing their site with taunts. It echoes the collapse of Conti back in two thousand twenty two, and raises a real question about what escalating warfare between criminal organizations means for everyone caught in the crossfire.
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