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Tragically simple private keys used by a certification authority based in India have been compromised, meaning the 60-million-plus certs it has issued can’t be trusted and necessitating a massive clean-up job.

The CA of concern in this case is called eMudhra, which boasts of having issued over 60 million digital certificates to help usher in a world of digital trust.

The company has instead panicked the world.

News of the company’s errors appeared on Tuesday in a post by Dennis Jackson, a member of Mozilla’s cryptography engineering team.

“On Saturday, October 17, at 20:06 UTC, Mozilla received a report from a community member that private keys associated with eight eMudhra intermediate certificates had been compromised,” he wrote. “These keys could allow attackers to issue fraudulent HTTPS certificates for websites they do not control.”

Or as Cloudflare put it, “an attacker can create a forged certificate for any domain and use it to impersonate servers to intercept or modify traffic.”

Jackson has since elaborated on the incident and the response, which has thankfully seen Mozilla, Chrome, and Apple remediate the issue so their browsers won’t rely on the certificates – at least after users install an update. He also reports that eMudhra has revoked the certs, and lists many FOSS projects that have issued updates that mean they won’t recognize certs from eMudhra.

That’s welcome, but sadly certs signed with these private keys are still out there and many services rely on them. Browser makers are set up to detect and reject bad certs. Others who relied on them may not be, and will likely need to dig into their environments to see if they rely on certs signed by eMudhra. Developer Geoffrey Huntley has offered some advice on automating that process.

At the time of writing, eMudhra has not responded to The Register’s inquiries about the incident and its security practices.

The latter question is of great interest because security researcher Scott Helme analyzed eMudhra’s certs and found one the private keys it used “is the number 4.”

“Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and another is 115. I know, because I recovered all of them from their public certificates on my laptop just now, and it took less than a second,” Helme wrote.

Other researchers have found private keys including the numbers 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237.

Those are vastly inadequate keys, because they’re easy to guess, making all certs issued by eMudhra susceptible to brute force attacks.

As Helme put it: “A P-384 private key should be a random 384-bit number, which gives you 2³⁸⁴ possibilities (or roughly 10¹¹⁵), so nobody is ever going to search that.”

This is a developing story and The Register will update it as more information becomes available. ®

President Donald Trump needs to stop trying to make renaming U.S. landmarks happen. It’s not going to happen, and even Republicans are souring to it. On Monday, the president decided to renew his call for New Mexico to be renamed “New America,” writing that it might help make the state’s “crooked” elections more “honest.” “We are not Mexico, we are the United States of America!

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Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.

An automotive tech startup claims that its IT systems were attacked by individuals trying to steal its driving model, and that those attacks came from an IP address associated with a rival in the space.

The tech startup, IQ.Lvbs, described the alleged security incident in a recent blog post.

On October 3, IQ.Lvbs introduced the private beta of NovaSpark, the first model for the company's IQ.Pilot app, in the Comma.ai Discord channel. They put it in that channel because the model requires the use of Comma.ai's camera hardware, which is built for self-driving vehicles.

From there, things got weird.

"From October 7 to 14, we faced repeated attempts to steal NovaSpark, access users’ devices and private driving files, and exploit our sign-in system," the IQ.Lvbs blog post claims. "The first requests came from an IP assigned to Comma.ai Inc."

In addition, on October 8 – shortly after the alleged attacks began – somebody banned IQ.Lvbs' team from the Comma.ai Discord channel. Posts on the IQ.Pilot Discord channel indicate that individuals doing private beta testing for IQ.Lvbs have also been banned from that channel.

One of the three people involved in IQ.Lvbs, a UI/UX designer who asked to be identified only as "Cat," speculated to The Register about the reasons for the alleged hack and Discord ban.

"Our model, NovaSpark, is a good deal ahead of Comma's latest small and large models, which directly threatens their core business of making AI models good enough to sell their hardware," he said. "Comma for the most part has been stagnant in their models' improvement and that was a main driver for us making NovaSpark."

An October 7, 2026 Discord message from user Torq_boi, said to be Harald Schäfer, Comma.ai’s CTO, implies NovaSpark was distilled from Comma.ai's Rebellious Hope model.

“I’m glad people are training models and experimenting with this stuff," the post starts. "But don’t lie to people about what you’re doing, and saying it’s not a finetune of existing comma models when it is. That’s not cool.”

IQ.Lvbs disputes that assertion and says it did the work on its own. "The claim that NovaSpark is Rebellious Hope with a short fine-tune and an unchanged policy does not survive scrutiny, and we’re not sure how Comma came to that conclusion, especially considering that they do not possess NovaSpark’s model weights or ONNX," the biz said.

In the log data IQ.Lvbs published to support its claims, the company flags the username haraschax as one of those associated with Comma.ai IP addresses. Schäfer uses that username on GitHub.

Comma.ai and Schäfer did not respond to requests for comment sent to several different addresses. The Discord user Torq_boi in the Comma.ai channel did not respond to a DM seeking comment.

Comma.ai is currently being investigated [PDF] by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to assess whether its driving automation tech contributed to five crashes and three deaths.

IQ.Lvbs says it's considering legal action over the alleged hack. "We are currently reviewing our legal options and looking into involving the authorities," said Cat. ®

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The economy is getting worse and worse and worse, and while the ultrarich supporters of President Donald Trump are doing just fine, what about the average Trump superfan? You know, the racist used-car dealership owner in Florida who lives quite comfortably after not paying their employees a living wage? How are those stellar folks doing? They probably aren’t at the “clipping coupons” stage…

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Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

President Donald Trump held another bogus waste-and-fraud press conference in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Flanked by flunkies like Vice President JD Vance, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, the always ghoulish White House aide Stephen Miller, and dunderheaded YouTuber Nick Shirley, Trump focused on slandering Minnesota. “I’m pleased to welcome to the White…

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Texas’s five biggest counties smashed voter turnout records on the state’s first day of early voting in the midterm elections.

Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Travis, and Tarrant counties all eclipsed early voting records for at least two of the last three elections, Sawyer Hackett, a political strategist, posted on X Tuesday. Some of those records were set during President Donald Trump’s last midterm elections, in 2018.

Voter turnout was high in the few counties won by former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election. In Harris County, the state’s most populous county, more than 104,600 people cast their ballots on Monday. That breaks the previous midterm record set in 2018, when 63,188 votes were cast and Democrats went on to recapture the House.

In Dallas County, home to more than two million people, 76,079 voters cast their ballots, eclipsing the 2018 midterm record of 59,389, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins reported.

In Bexar County, 42,776 voters cast their ballots on the first day of early voting—the highest first-day turnout for a midterm election or non-presidential election in the county’s history.

In Travis County, 40,777 voters cast their ballots, surpassing records from 2022 and 2018, according to the county clerk’s office.

Turnout was also high in some counties where Trump was more popular—but that doesn’t mean Republicans have sealed the deal. In Tarrant County, 50,149 voters cast ballots, a 20 percent increase in voter turnout from 2018. Trump previously won Tarrant county by five points in 2024, after President Joe Biden flipped the county in 2020.

President Trump bizarrely spoke about being in his third term as president at a White House event on Tuesday.

Trump was speaking to reporters at the White House about a new anti-fraud program at the Department of Justice, and as usual, he went off-topic. 

“So we have now a border that’s as strong as we’ve ever had by far. It’s been that way since the very beginning of my second term, or third term, depending on the way you want to define it, and I don’t want the results of this; I’d like the third term but I don’t want the results of the second term,” Trump said, alluding to the false idea that he should have won the 2020 presidential election but was thwarted by election fraud. 

Trump went on to brag more about border security and make false claims about the economy going well, but his mention of a third term is sure to invite speculation about whether he plans to flout the Constitution and try to run for president again. There’s also the fact that he’s repeating false election conspiracies as a pretext to interfere in November’s midterms.  

Federal officials are seizing voting machines and ballots, trying to grab voter rolls without legal justification, and bringing Democratic states to court based on flimsy evidence. Are all of these attempts at averting massive Republican losses in two weeks Trump’s way of ensuring he can do what he wants as president? 

So far, Trump’s agenda has only been limited by the courts, with Republicans in Congress reluctant to rein him in on any of his bad decisions, from the Iran war to his whimsical tariffs. He probably sees a GOP-controlled Congress as the only way to keep acting with impunity and avoid any kind of checks on his power, including violating the Constitution. 

SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

More than 11 percent of the GPUs at Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, are either dead or sitting idle waiting to step in when the next drops out, Zuckercorp revealed this week.

The massive pool of redundant GPUs is just one of several measures the hyperscaler has taken to keep its AI training runs on track.

Prometheus is among Meta's largest compute deployments to date. Powered by Nvidia's Grace Blackwell and (soon) Vera Rubin rack systems, Meta says the supercluster will eventually scale to a gigawatt of capacity spanning about a million accelerators.

But as anyone who has worked on a large scale compute cluster understands, whether for LLM training or traditional HPC workloads, more chips inevitably means more problems.

In an eight-GPU node, the chance of having a GPU fail is relatively low. In a 100,000-GPU cluster, failures are unavoidable. Meta is building something that's 10x larger and requires distributed training runs across multiple datacenters. Keeping the entire thing humming long enough to reach the next checkpoint becomes a major headache.

In a blog post published this week, Meta offered a unique look at the work it's done to keep failures from derailing the development of models like Muse Spark or its most recent release Muse Wonder.

Idle GPUs are the cost of continuity

When Meta began the first phase of its Prometheus deployment in New Albany, the company says, it was experiencing roughly 1,000 interruptions per day for every 8,000 GPUs.

Interruptions don't mean GPU failure. They simply mean something crashed, failed, or timed out, forcing the training run to stop and roll back to the last known good checkpoint.

Meta claims in the year since it's been able to cut down the number of interruptions by 99 percent, to about 11 per day per 8,000 GPUs.

One of the ways it's done this is by keeping some of Prometheus' GPUs in reserve. The cluster is currently powered by a combination of GB200 and GB300 systems, each with 72 GPUs per NVLink domain. However, only 64 of them are ever in use at any given moment. The other eight are essentially hot spares.

Meta did this because a single failed GPU would take out an entire rack and interrupt the training run. Now, when a GPU fails, one of the spares can slot in and take its place. While this saves time — Meta doesn't have to drop the entire rack from the cluster or wait for someone to swap the faulty component to start training again — a failed GPU would still result in an interruption, albeit a shorter one.

Parallel resiliency

To mitigate this, Meta took advantage of the fact that large scale training jobs usually use data parallelism, where multiple copies of the model are resident within the cluster.

"When a fault can be isolated to a data-parallel model replica, we reduce the impact of a hardware failure by allowing a single faulty replica to be taken offline, while the remaining cluster repeats that step and continues productive training," Meta explained. "The compromised slice simply restarts on available spare hosts and resynchronizes, converting a potential total system halt into a minor, temporary reduction in aggregate throughput."

In other words, Meta's training runs only get interrupted if the fault exceeds the data parallel domain. When this happens, the company has implemented a comprehensive checkpointing scheme, which you can think of a bit like auto-save or a revision history. That way if something does fail, Meta doesn't have to start over from scratch.

"Our distributed checkpointing architecture asynchronously saves the model state — including gradients and optimizer data — to multi-tier storage," the company wrote.

NVLink growing pains

Meta says one of the most difficult challenges was making the NVLink fabrics used to connect 72 GPUs behave like one great big accelerator. Earlier H100 and H200-based systems featured just eight GPUs per NVLink domain, which meant the links were far shorter and less numerous. But this functionality was expanded nine-fold with Nvidia's Blackwell generation.

"With over 600,000 NVLink connections, even marginal signal degradation triggers frequent NVLink recovery cycles," the company wrote.

To overcome this, Meta had to implement a continuous telemetry system and conduct L11 diagnostic burns to isolate weak links before the systems were put into production.

Power was another challenge. Ramping up and down tens of thousands of GPUs for a training run can introduce massive spikes in power consumption called transients, which can overwhelm power supply equipment.

According to Meta, by focusing on the stability and reliability of its cluster, it was able to achieve more than 85 percent "goodput" — a measure of useful throughput — for pretraining and more than 90 percent for reinforcement learning on its latest model Muse Wonder.

The company's ambitions don't stop here. As it works its way toward a million GPUs, Meta hopes to get its interruption rate down to just two per day for every 8,000 GPUs, or about 100,000 GPU-hours mean time between interrupts. ®

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.

America’s 80-year-old president is going to get tough on crime, as soon as he finishes his nap.

As soon as Donald Trump stopped talking during a White House press conference Tuesday, he dropped his head, fluttered his eyelids, and seemed to power down. The sudden siesta came on the heels of an announcement in which Trump advertised an unprecedented $25 million program that he believed would entice the public to report suspected fraud.

“Today I’m thrilled to announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. Fraud. Whistleblower. Incentive. Program,” Trump said. “All Americans will now be able to go to the Fraud.gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities.

“Here’s what we’re going to be doing: Anybody that can prove that he turned somebody in, in other words he or she, if you turn somebody in and you let’s say report, and you find a billion dollars, we are giving a commission to that person of one percent. That’s a lot of money.

“And if it’s $10 billion, $200 billion, $400 billion, we’re giving a one percent commission to that person. You have to prove that you were the one and prove that it was you, and I don’t know if you can do this, but subject to the laws of our nation, which I feel very strongly about—if a reporter turns somebody in, you have to get approval. Perhaps from your wonderful newspaper. But if you turn somebody in, you get a one percent commission. You may turn it down, or you may say, ‘I’m not going to be a reporter any longer, this is too easy,’” Trump said.

The pitch was, apparently, not enticing enough to keep Trump alert and aware, however. Within minutes, the president appeared to be snoozing, taking a break at the Resolute Desk while Vice President JD Vance spoke in his stead.

The first person to receive the president’s award was conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley, who joined Trump and Vance in the Oval Office.

Shirley gained national notoriety last year after he published a video that inspired the conservative caucus to politically scapegoat Somali immigrants. In his widely circulated “investigation,” Shirley door-knocked several Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota, arguing that sites that did not respond or allow him—an unannounced, unknown white man—entrance into a center filled with children must have fraudulently accepted federal funding.

It would later emerge that elements of Shirley’s piece were incorrect or inadequately reported: At least two of the centers featured in his video had been closed for several years, according to Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth and Families. The government had also already investigated federal fraud in Minnesota during the Biden administration. More than 90 Minnesotans were charged at the time, and at least 60 were convicted.

Nonetheless, Shirley will receive $10,000 from the Trump administration, according to Fox News.

House Democrats are proposing a roster of investigations targeting bigoted multibillionaire Elon Musk, the most prominent donor to the Republican Party. Democrats from multiple congressional committees are signaling serious problems with Musk’s outsized influence over American politics, particularly thanks to President Donald Trump, while Musk has also been able to build a fortune based on…

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Quick Take

• Unsolved Mysteries, the long-running series that explored many ongoing questions and conundrums, returns once again, this time as a YouTube podcast.
• New episodes of Unsolved Mysteries will drop on YouTube every Thursday, starting on October 29.
• Following in the giant footsteps of iconic host Robert Stack, the new Unsolved Mysteries host is Jordan Murphy of Tool Academy.
• Nerdist’s Take: Unsolved Mysteries remains a rock-solid hook for a series, and can survive in any format. Hopefully, they keep the iconic theme music.

Before spooky podcasts were all the rage, or the term “creepypasta” was coined, folks with a taste for the unexplained and true crime were hooked on the TV series Unsolved Mysteries. Running for over 500 episodes on various networks from 1987 to 2010, Unsolved Mysteries‘ theme song still gives several generations all the creepy feels. Now we’ve learned (via Deadline) that Unsolved Mysteries is coming back yet again as a podcast on YouTube, made in conjunction with Audacy. Jordan Murphy, formerly of NBC’s Tool Academy, will serve as the new Unsolved Mysteries host.

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The new version of Unsolved Mysteries launches on YouTube on October 29, just in time for Halloween. In a statement, Unsolved Media’s Terry Dunn Meurer had this to say about the show’s return in a new format:

We’re thrilled to be expanding the Unsolved Mysteries brand in this pivot to the video podcast world. There are still so many mysteries that need to be solved and we know we can reach a wide audience on YouTube and through Audacy’s distribution. And we hope our audience can help solve these mysteries, as they have for decades.

Following the October 29 premiere, new episodes of Unsolved Mysteries will drop on YouTube every Thursday. This is hardly the first comeback for the brand. Netflix actually brought back Unsolved Mysteries as a series after a long hiatus in 2020. And it made for addictive binge-watching material during the height of the pandemic. But like many shows on Netflix, it only lasted a handful of seasons. There was also an audio podcast version, which ran for 80 episodes.

Nerdist’s Take: As Long as It’s Got that Great Theme Song, Unsolved Mysteries Is an Unbreakable Brand and Concept

Among the new mysteries in this new iteration are the disappearance of Amelia Earhart (an oldie but a goodie), the vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the unsolved heist at the Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Hopefully, we get some good UFO episodes in there. Is it really even Unsolved Mysteries without a proper UFO sighting episode? Hey, as long as they keep that theme music, we’re always on board for more.

Eric Diaz is a staff writer at Nerdist and a Swiss Army knife of fandoms. Eric loves DC, Marvel, horror movies, and even Star Wars and Star Trek equally.

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Quick Take

• Walt Disney Studios is bringing The Prestige back to theaters for a re-release, and it will be in 70mm and IMAX for the first time.
• This release is to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary.
• The Prestige stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, David Bowie, and many others.

Somehow, it has been 20 years since Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige first came to theaters. The film starred Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier, a showman with a lot of charisma, and Christian Bale as illusionist Alfred Borden. And, of course, we cannot forget the late David Bowie as Nikola Tesla. To celebrate this milestone anniversary, Walt Disney Studios is bringing The Prestige back to theaters for a re-release, and it will be in 70mm and IMAX for the first time. 

You can check out the above trailer for The Prestige anniversary release in theaters. “I’m very excited to bring The Prestige back to the big screen,” said Nolan in a press statement that we saw on Deadline. “and particularly thrilled to offer audiences the chance to see it on 70mm film, and on IMAX for the first time.” 

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It is kind of wild to think that Hugh Jackman had already been portraying Wolverine for six years prior to this film’s release and he was still playing him in recent years. And, this film was shortly after Bale’s first turn as Batman in Batman Begins. Heroes abound in this movie.

Here’s a synopsis for the film in case you aren’t familiar or need to refresh your memory: 

“Robert Angier (Jackman), a charismatic showman, and Alfred Borden (Bale), a gifted illusionist, are two young, passionate magicians – friends and partners until one fateful night when their biggest trick goes terribly wrong. Now the bitterest of enemies, they will stop at nothing to learn each other’s secrets. As their rivalry escalates into a total obsession full of deceit and sabotage, they risk everything to become the greatest magician of all time. But nothing is as it seems, so watch closely.” 

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The Prestige will bring its 20th anniversary re-release to theaters on January 29.

Tai Gooden is the Features Editor for Nerdist, a fictional villain apologist, and a horror aficionado who is forever waiting for her trip in the TARDIS.

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President Trump verbally rebuked multiple reporters during his anti-fraud website announcement in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon.

“Wait! Shh! No, no no!” he shouted at a female reporter during the question period of his announcement. “Wait. Wait. Wait!” He then took a male reporter’s question instead.

Next, Trump snapped at The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg. Feinberg first asked Trump a question about why his 1 percent commission on anti-fraud tips would be significantly less than the 10 percent–25 percent going rate that whistleblowers can receive as part of the False Claims Act of 1863—a question that both Trump and Vice President JD Vance bristled at, asking Feinberg where he was from. He answered.

But when Feinberg asked Trump another question five minutes later, Trump appeared not to recognize him, and even threatened him.

“I don’t know who the hell you are, but you better be careful,” he said, pointing a finger at Feinberg.

“I had told him exactly who I was not five minutes before this exchange,” Feinberg commented online shortly after the press conference.

Trump then snapped at Feinberg for a third time a few minutes later. “Quiet. Quiet! What’s wrong with you? Are you a sick person?” he asked.

“Not that I know of, sir,” Feinberg responded quietly.

“I actually think there’s something wrong with you,” Trump replied.

Vance later shared the exchange online, calling Feinberg an “imbecile journalist.”

“Mr. Vice President, if you’re going to insult me, at least have the guts to tag my account,” Feinberg responded.

Mr. Vice President, if you’re going to insult me at least have the guts to tag my account.

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) October 20, 2026

The president’s childlike outburst is the most recent in the long, acrimonious relationship he’s had with anyone who dares to ask him a real question. It also makes him look ornery and unwell.

“The US President literally snarls at a journalist and calls him a ‘sick person’ for asking a question, and then someone from his administration shows up in Europe and gives a lecture on free speech,” Polish journalist Jakub Wiech commented.

Vivek Ramaswamy won’t take credit for a vile campaign advertisement featuring his opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother—but he’s more than happy to defend it.

The Ohio GOP gubernatorial nominee’s team released a statement Tuesday championing an ugly attack ad featuring Donna Arthur, who lost custody of Acton after years of documented issues, including homelessness and sexual abuse by a stepfather.

“We don’t know what happened between Amy and her mother, who spoke out about Amy in 2020, but we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor,” said Connie Luck, a spokesperson for Ramaswamy.

In a video first obtained by The Rooster, a local political blog in Ohio, Arthur accused her daughter of lying about her upbringing, specifically that her family had been homeless.

“She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true. She’s lied her entire life,” Arthur said, adding: “Don’t vote for people who lie. Don’t let her become your governor. If you think she’ll make your life better, you’re fooling yourself. It will only get worse.”

In 1978, Arthur’s husband, Cledith “Bud” Arthur, was charged and indicted for rape. Court documents indicate he’d engaged in sexual contact with Acton when she was less than 13 years old. In a 2019 interview, Acton said that she’d been sexually abused between the ages of nine and 12. After her stepfather pleaded guilty, he skipped bail, and Arthur left town with him, Acton said.

The advertisement doesn’t include the typical political disclosures, isn’t running on television, and isn’t being pushed on social media or search engines. Rather, it is being solely championed by right-wing influencers who are foaming at the mouth for the chance to smear Acton’s character.

It’s still not clear who produced the video, but Acton appeared certain that she knows who’s really behind it.

“I won’t normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is something I’m just complaining about, who today just released an ad using my birth mother who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect, sexual abuse,” she said in an television interview Tuesday, referring to Ramaswamy. “The words our leaders use matter and I think it’s going to take courage right now, from all of us, to stop normalizing this sort of rhetoric.”

Ramaswamy previously blasted Acton for discussing the abuse, claiming Ohio needs someone with “a positive vision for our state versus a governor who has none at all other than to complain about what someone else did to her.”

Acton’s brother Philip Stearns also condemned the ad. “It’s not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point,” Stearns said in a statement.

“After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core—a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants.”

Google is bringing Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature to cars, allowing its AI assistant to draw on information from Gmail, Calendar, Maps, YouTube, and other Google services to deliver more personalized responses while driving.