A Florida Best Buy employee was charged with fraud after allegedly using his manager's code to discount nearly 150 items, including MacBooks, by as much as 99 percent, according to an ABC News affiliate in West Palm Beach. The employee, Matthew Lettera, is accused of conducting 97 discounted purchases for himself and 52 additional transactions for others, resulting in a loss of over $118,000 for the company, a local CW affiliate reported.
The manager first became suspicious of unusual sales figures in December 2024, prompting an investigation. Private investigators traced the fraudulent activity back to Lettera, 36, who is now facing charges. The investigation revealed the extent of the discount abuse, with some MacBooks being sold at a fraction of their original price.
In other news, a recent report highlighted the growing gap between ransomware threats and the defenses meant to stop them. The Ivantis 2026 State of Cybersecurity Report found that the preparedness gap widened by an average of 10 points year over year across every threat category the firm tracks. Ransomware was identified as a high or critical threat by 63% of security professionals, but only 30% felt very prepared to defend against it, creating a 33-point gap, up from 29 points a year ago, according to VentureBeat. CyberArk's 2025 Identity Security Landscape further revealed that organizations worldwide have 82 machine identities for every human, with 42% of those machine identities having privileged or sensitive access.
In the realm of technology, the race for real-time AI is heating up, with companies like Nvidia and Groq vying for dominance. As Andrew Filev from Zencoder noted in VentureBeat, the concept of exponential growth, often associated with Moore's Law, can be misleading. "Remember this the next time you hear futurists talking about exponential growth," he wrote, highlighting the complexities of technological advancement.
Meanwhile, in the world of management, the influence of Peter Drucker has proven to be more significant in the United States than W. Edwards Deming, despite Deming's greater impact in Japan. Lorin Hochstein wrote on Hacker News that "management in the U.S. [is] Deming in exile." Drucker's legacy is evident in the widespread use of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) in many organizations.
Finally, in a different arena, a social app called Batemates allows men to masturbate with other men. One user, Jaxon Roman, described his experiences on the app, stating, "When bros praise me and say they're enjoying me, I get to that edge point so fast." He added that he sometimes asks for permission before climaxing, and when granted, his body "shakes for 10 seconds."
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