Prometheus

A fugitive known as "Prometheus", listed among the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, is alleged to have engineered malware that "jackpotted" ATMs across the United States, taking roughly $40 million. Analysts say the transnational criminal group Tren de Aragua then laundered the proceeds through cryptocurrencies, with blockchain analysis firms detailing the flow of funds.

Meta has unveiled the Muse Wonder series, two AI models called Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, marking a concerted push into autonomous personal and professional agents. The models were trained at Meta's gigawatt-scale Prometheus data centre after an overhaul of its foundational AI infrastructure.

The Wellcome Collection has made publicly available the 1831 frontispiece to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, drawn by Theodor von Holst and engraved by William Chevalier. The image comes from the Wellcome Collection via the PD Image Archive, an openly licensed repository of public-domain artworks. Von Holst's illustration, created during Shelley's lifetime, is widely regarded as the first visual interpretation of the novel, showing the Creature collapsed in despair while Victor flees the laboratory.

Richmond Shakespeare has opened a production of Frankenstein: The Post-Modern Prometheus, and a new review from RVA Mag is drawing attention to the show. The staging reimagines Mary Shelley's classic monster tale through a post-modern lens, and local theatre-goers are discussing the company's take on the familiar story and how the production brings the gothic material to the Richmond stage.

A new guide walks through installing and configuring Node Exporter on a Debian VPS. Node Exporter is a Prometheus exporter that collects and exposes hardware and OS-level metrics from a server. The article explains what the tool does and how to get it running, aimed at administrators who want to monitor server performance using Prometheus.

A new book review of 'American Prometheus', the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, is circulating online. It highlights how pride drove scientists to crack the hardest puzzles of their era, only for politics to take over the Manhattan Project and ultimately Oppenheimer's life. Readers are discussing the summary as interest in Oppenheimer's story remains high.

Theatre Prometheus is presenting its new production WHERE DEAD WOMEN GO TO DANCE, and a review has now been published on BroadwayWorld. The write-up is drawing attention to the company's latest staging, though the available coverage gives no further detail on the plot, cast or reception. Theatre audiences following the company's work are checking in on the verdict.

Parseable, an open-source observability platform, is presenting itself as a datalake capable of ingesting 100 million time-series data points per minute. The launch is drawing attention from developers and infrastructure engineers comparing it to established observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. Early discussion centers on whether object-storage-based log and metrics pipelines can scale cost-effectively for large production workloads.

The deployment tool Zuke has added canary releases, letting teams stage a candidate version at 0% traffic, gradually step up exposure, and monitor it via probes and Prometheus queries before promoting it or aborting with a single rollback. It runs on Kubernetes, Helm, Cloud Run and Docker, with release definitions written in type-checked TypeScript. Developers are sharing the update as a notable workflow improvement.

A developer describes reworking the Meshtastic metrics exporter so that eight separate Prometheus queries are combined into a single query using Tiger Data. The write-up walks through the technical change and what it simplifies for monitoring mesh network data. It is being shared in technology circles as a practical example of query optimization for open-source infrastructure projects.