OnlyFans has tapped the founder of a lingerie company and former nude model to launch business classes on the platform.

Rachael McCrary, a longtime lingerie designer and founder of the company Spice Rack, is launching four videos on OnlyFans Wednesday. The videos are quite different from the usual OnlyFans fare. They’ll focus on pitching investors, building a brand, and navigating being an entrepreneur as a woman, McCrary tells WIRED. More videos will follow. She’s also creating a Spice Rack x OnlyFans clothing line that will launch on the site later this year.

The move is OnlyFans’ first foray into making content focused solely on building a business. It’s part of the platform’s continued push into safe-for-work content that’s meant to complement the adult content it’s known for.

“OnlyFans is a community of over 4 million creator businesses, so it makes sense that we are the perfect platform to share tips on entrepreneurship,” Keily Blair, CEO of OnlyFans, tells WIRED in a statement. “As we’ve seen in other genres like comedy and sport, it takes just one creator to recognize the opportunity and others will follow suit.”

McCrary, 48, said she met Blair at the tech conference Summit Baja last November, when they came up with the idea.

As a former SuicideGirl—a community of alt pin-up girls founded in the early 2000s—she says she felt stigmatized by her past when working in corporate fashion. At one of her jobs, she says her colleagues looked at her SuicideGirls photos while she was at work.

“I just wanted to start crying,” she says.

Then she decided to launch her own businesses, but “pitching underwear to tech VCs, I already felt like I had to prove myself more,” McCrary says. According to Inc., only 1 percent of VC-funded companies were wholly led by women in 2024. Spice Rack, which McCrary says is backed by Sequoia Partners China and Mucker Capital, is among them.

“Being naked on the internet and raising venture capital from the largest funds in the world is a very rare Venn diagram,” McCrary says, adding that OnlyFans was already looking to expand into more non-adult content. “We decided to do a masterclass format of business classes.” The first two classes will be free, while the others will require a subscription to McCrary’s page.

Over the years, McCrary says, she’s been approached by many young women, including sex workers, seeking advice on how to start their own businesses or pivot away from adult content. After she revealed her past as a SuicideGirl on a panel in 2022, she says an adult content creator came up to her and said, “I didn’t know that you were naked on the internet, and that makes me feel like I can have a career after this.”

Australian police are working on an AI prototype that will help them decipher Gen Z slang and emoji-laden messages written by online predators, a top official said Wednesday.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said social media had become a breeding ground for bullying, sexual exploitation and radicalization.

Police were working with software giant Microsoft to develop a tool that would unravel sinister messages hidden by seemingly innocuous emojis and slang, she said.

“Clever AFP members, with Microsoft, are developing a prototype AI tool that will interpret emojis and Gen Z-and-Alpha slang in encrypted communications.

“This prototype aims to make it quicker for our teams to save children from harm much earlier.”

Barrett also warned about the rise of so-called “crimefluencers”—online predators who used their social media savvy to target young and vulnerable users.

“They are crimefluencers, and they are motivated by anarchy and hurting others, with most of their victims pre-teen or teenage girls,” she said.

Australia will from December 10 force social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok to remove users under the age of 16.

There is keen interest in whether Australia’s sweeping restrictions can work, as regulators around the globe wrestle with the dangers of social media.

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Cisco has announced advancements to accelerate secure, scalable artificial intelligence (AI) across market segments, in particular striking a partnership with AI leader Nvidia.

Cisco says back-end and front-end Ethernet-based networks must be flexible enough to keep pace with rapid AI innovation, integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure, and be simple to deploy and manage.

Heading the AI-based service set is the Cisco N9100, said to be the first Nvidia partner-developed datacentre switch based on Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet switch silicon. With this switch, Cisco says it’s offering an Nvidia Cloud Partner-compliant reference architecture for neocloud and sovereign cloud deployments.

Available to order before the end of the year, the Cisco N9100 series switches offer a choice of Cisco NX-OS or Sonic operating systems, supporting Ethernet for AI networks, and providing greater flexibility in how neocloud and sovereign cloud customers build their AI infrastructure. Additionally, for neocloud and sovereign cloud customers, the Cisco Cloud Reference Architecture is based on the design tenets of Nvidia’s Cloud Partner reference architecture, and uses Cisco’s Silicon One and Cloud-scale ASIC offerings.

For enterprise customers, Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia claims to offer strengthened protection and visibility across AI deployments with new security and observability integrations.

Unveiled in March 2025, the Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia is designed to offer enterprises an architecture for AI infrastructure that puts security and observability at the forefront without sacrificing performance. With Cisco AI PODs and Cisco Silicon One-powered Nexus switching as a foundation, Cisco says it’s now delivering new capabilities and features across security and observability; core AI infrastructure; ecosystem expansion; and government readiness.

In what the companies say is an attempt to pave the way for next-generation connectivity in the telecoms industry for the AI era, Cisco, Nvidia and additional partners unveiled what they described as the industry’s first AI-native wireless stack for 6G.

Explaining the rationale for activity in this area, Cisco said that as AI moves from smartphones to more connected things – such as augmented reality glasses, connected cars and robotics – wireless networks face mounting demands to support billions of connections at unprecedented scale and efficiency. To address these issues, Cisco and Nvidia say they have developed the first American AI-RAN stack for mobile networks that integrates sensing and communication, with multiple pre-6G applications.

When combined, Cisco believes the offerings can present to neocloud, enterprise and telecom customers the flexibility and interoperability to efficiently build, manage and secure AI infrastructure at scale.

“We’re at the beginning of the largest datacentre build-out in history,” said Cisco president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel. “The infrastructure that will power the agentic AI applications and innovation of the future requires new architectures designed to overcome today’s constraints in power, computing and network performance.

“Together, Cisco and Nvidia are leading the way in defining the technologies that will power these AI-ready datacentres in all their varieties, from emerging neoclouds, to global service providers, to enterprises and beyond.”