• Mar, 2024
  • Mar 22, 2024
  • If we are not strong enough deny ourselves apps, why not use law against them? Maybe we aren't willing to just give up the app and let everyone else keep using it, because then we become the only engaged person in a group of tuned-outs, but the same person might be willing to ban it for everyone.
    ADHD symptoms from screentimes, SSRIs, willing to put young boys on them for running around ie normal kids.
    Chamath took one of his kids off apps, not a little but totally off meats, when he was diagnosed with ADHD and was prescribed meds. Chamath and his wife were like nope no meds and took their kid off apps. He said the turnaround was amazing. This now charming, engaged kid.

    Apple bought DarwinAI (and it's AI-related doctorates). Shrinking LLMs. Apple wants its AI to run on their little devices. Apple usually buys smaller companies with things they can turn into features, rather than large already-developed companies.

    Dark Web Vendors Are Using Drones for Delivery - YouTube
    Only with Octopus!

    People Use GPS 'Jammers' to Stop Tracking of Their Cars - YouTube
    In Finland.

    Iterative deployment. Rather than build in secret until they got to GPT5 they talked about 1 2 3 and 4. AI and surprise don't go together, and people institutions need time to adapt and think about these things. They pay attention to the progress, and take AI seriously. They think about what systems and regulations we want in place before the moment is crucial.

    ‘I think when a system can significantly increase the rate of scientific discovery in the world, that’s a huge deal.' Sam Altman

    Altman talked about the best thing that people can see coming from ‘OpenAI’, that they provide free tools which the public can use to make things. However, so far we only have a fairly lame chatbot for doing small wrote tasks and mini coding projects. No large wrote tasks, no even medium sized coding.

    Phone Co Employee Caught SIM-Swapping for Bribes - YouTube
    Dual-factor logins are a tool to get in, using this attack.
    The government for some reason didn't reveal the name of the company.
    So someone goes to a guy who works at a telecom company, and they give him $1000 per swap, and they provide him with the name of the person they want access to, and the worker can provide a copy of the SIM which they can use with 2FA to log into his accounts.


  • Mar, 2024
  • Mar 15, 2024
  • I think it's possible to create other crypto properties (than bitcoin). Saylor

    Car Companies Are Tracking You and Selling Your Data - YouTube
    Car insurance companies raising rates.
    People are unaware they agreed to hve their cars give that data, and the companies are selling the data. They don't know what info was sold, how much, to whom? The companies offer to lower the rate you pay in exchange for this data. That part is voluntary, but besides that in the cars there tracking technologies that know everywhere you went, where you buy certain things, the range of your territory. Facial geometric features, behavioural characteristics, biological characteristics, sex life, genetic data, religeons, philosopical beliefs, are all possible to get.
    If you don't authorize the collection, your infotainment center doesn't work, or whatever. You can't opt out of it.
    Passengers and individuals outside the vehicle also.
    Consumers are in the dark about this.
    Commenter: ’Insurance companies are not using this to AFFECT your rates, they're using it to RAISE your rates.'
    The state governments also know everything about you and sells your data. It seems weird but hasn't been challenged.
    Ed Markey, senator, wrote a letter about it.
    General Motors sells detailed driver logs without your consent - YouTube

    The closest to a science fiction government is Singapore. Large investments coupled with technocratic, technological literacy. UK in the 1940s, with radar and computers, speed of breakthroughs. Rest of nations, scientific spending is by consensus, cutting a check for superconventional non-objectional things built in China.
    What China could build for us.

    AI Agents Take the Wheel: Devin, SIMA, Figure 01 and The Future of Jobs - YouTube
    SIMA robots. AIs that train on some things have capabilities in other applications.
    Also Figure 1, the dishwashing robot.
    'No one is really in control.'
    Sam Altman and Jensen Huang both say AGI will surpass all tasks in 5 years.
    Garbage companies and farms, anyone?

    Tesla is the worst performing stock in the S&P and in the Nasdaq since January.

    Costco does no innovation, changes nothing, and is up 250% in a couple years. Why isn't anyone copying this model?
  • Mar, 2024
  • Mar 11, 2024
  • Arson attack shuts down Tesla's Gigafactory near Berlin | DW News - YouTube
    Who would do this and why?

    OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk: Here's what you need to know - YouTube
    Microsoft Copilot Red Teams are finding disturbing images even with generic terms like ‘pro choice’. Violent, sexual images.

    Facebook and Apple are opensourcing their AI models?

    Elon was more concerned about Google back when forming OpenAI. Now people guess he's more concerned about Microsoft.

    Mexicans are not reliant on refrigeration in their culinary arts. We and the Soviets were early pioneers in food refridgeration. That made a lot of our foods a lot worse quite early. And it took a long time to dig out of that. Extensive rail system that makes it shippable frozen. Tyler Cowen. Mexicans hang their meat to dry in the open air until it turns green.

    TikTok crackdown gains momentum - YouTube
    Trump said he could have banned it but left it to the DOJ because it was a tough decision. A lot of people like TikTok, and if it were banned Facebook would get bigger which Trump considers an enemy of the people. (Trump's content, it is guessed, gets a lot of traction on TikTok.)
    Half (150m) of the US uses TikTok.
    Temu and Shien followed the first big Chinese internet company succeeding in the US over the past couple years. These companies make a lot in the US, and China doesn't permit similar US apps to compete in the Chinese space.
  • Mar, 2024
  • Mar 05, 2024
  • This Malware Will Hijack Your Bank Account And Gmail - YouTube
    Cookie hacking.

    Linus Torvalds: Speaks on Fatigue and the Future of Linux - YouTube
    On driver side, on Rust side, they can find young people more easily to work on it.
  • Mar, 2024
  • Mar 01, 2024
  • The Failure of Modern Technology | Peter Thiel - YouTube

    ‘industrial power is the basis of any great civilization’
    You need fullstack factories.
    They're Reimagining How to Build Anything | Hadrian - YouTube
    You cannot be missing one part of a product. You need to be able to access ie produce it.

    Lawfirm Loses $60K Relying on ChatGPT in the Courtroom - YouTube
    It will make up stuff because it's easier than looking up stuff - Lehto
    Remarkable not reliable.

    The Future of Bitcoin Mining - YouTube

    Tech Stagnation and What's Holding Us Back - YouTube
    Burja called cellphones portable terminals, on which all we really get tech wise is install app updates, like chatGPT you can talk to. The last thing before chatGPT was maybe GoogleMaps. Facebook/Myspace. Internet has now reached everyone. There's no doubling of how many people use the internet. Also we can't really increate the amount of time we spend on the internet. What more can companies monetize?
    Facebook had been considering becomming the main internet provider for India (before Zuck decided to go for metaverse), but regularatory challenges ...
    There are no fully 3d printed products (just parts), a fully funcitoning, multi-material, moving parts product.

    If cars came along now, the dangers would maybe not be acceptable (as they were because cars were introduced so early). Maybe speed limits would be set at double the pace of walking or something. Samo

    The industrial world remains unoptimized. The software gains of getting everyone to use spreadsheets have already been gotten, while those of putting cameras everywhere in the factory have not been explored much. Samo

    The White House Endorses Rust - YouTube
    To prevent Memory attacks. Don't write in C, C+. Use C#, Go, Java, Python, Rust and Swift. For space systems, it was noted in the brief. Currently people are disincentivized from Rust because there's not a lot of jobs that use it. Solana is written in Rust. Some people think Rust is a fad. But if government jobs start asking for Rust would lead to people learning it. It's a challenging language. It would add cost to projects. But there would be costs saved in fixing exploited code.
    This seems like actually decent advice from an untrusted source. Goals aligned.
    You can write a custom kernel that is flat and runs baremetal on a rPi to do a blink light rust runs on EVERYTHING (no operating system, just Rust) - YouTube with no need for linux/any OS.
  • Feb, 2024
  • Feb 22, 2024
  • TECHNOLOGY
    Novonordisk is a company specialized in trying to understand diabetes. It tries to advance knowledge R&D even at the expense of profits. Scientists within sometimes are promoted to manager roles.
    This is different from like Moderna or something which economically just tries out new compounds and then patents them and sells them for their 7year window. What they want is a slightly different compound that's patentable that you own legally monopoly for 10 years.
    You could argue the patent system should be stronger or weaker. The FDA could only check if something is harmful, not if it is useful. Samo.

    FBI issues new warning about QR code scams - YouTube
    I've been more than surprised the past few years people scanning QR scans at restaurants to use the menu.

    Feb 15 OpenAi dropped Sora video editor, 60 second fairly realistic clips. 1 year ago it was pretty crappy 5 second videos.
    Open AI Releases the BEST AI Video Generator BY FAR. Sora Text to Video - YouTube

    Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors | BBC News - YouTube

    Chinese Hacking Tools Exposed in Giga Leak (I-S00N) - YouTube

    Chinese Cranes Pose a Security Risk: Los Angeles Port Chief - YouTube
  • Feb, 2024
  • Feb 13, 2024
  • Apple Vision Pro - CRAZY FEATURES - YouTube
    You can 3d scan people's faces ‘with their permission’ and use that as your persona, ie you scan them and can do face time as them.

    NYPD subway robot removed from service - YouTube
    Nopes.

    One of the reasons Lenovo is accepted around the world is that it is structurally not set up well to do something nefarious. It's basically a systems integrator, everything they sell is made of notoriously standardized components. Sysadmins and hobbiests can understand. The software too. Standard 3rd party parts. Slower, decentralized, diplomatic.

    Tech companies were 'hoarding the talent,' says Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin - YouTube

    Apple's next iphone might have AI, and do things your current phone can't do.

    Watch how easy it is to steal a car | Marketplace - YouTube
    Some sold in Lagos.

    Where I want people is to interact with machines. I'm fine with a robot cooking the food, as long as a person is checking what they're doing, and especially checking the ingredients within arms reach of the robot. I'm fine with robots doing mechanics on my vehilcle, programming my websites, medical work, and with these it may well be preferable, but you need a person to answer the phone to handle any customer inquiries/complaints, a person to interface between you and the service robot etc. However, for now it looks like companies are trying to do the opposite, ie automate the customer service, which means lower quality service not higher.
  • Feb, 2024
  • Feb 05, 2024
  • Tictok, X, Meta, Discord, Snap at Congress. Hostile was a word journalists used.
    On display is Zuckerburg's lack of sophistication. I guess when you have the most important companies in the world possible to build by people who have no more capabilities than basic coding and a desire to rate girls at college as a project (none of the social, managerial, engineering, etc capabilities traditional to large company building, nor the legal, accountable etc ones traditional to large and powerful industries (perhaps unnecessary because of the speed of scale), what can you expect?
    Seeing him grilled and attacked with the most unfair, irrational and not even logical attacks by Congress members, I naturally take his side, but then I remember the reason for this is he hasn't really tried to make a good product or accountable, and has allowed negative politics, censorship, etc. When he shows his self by responding how he does, I just think Ah it's not that he's really malignant, it's just that he probably is not capable of understanding or responding to such challenges.
    You can consider that in a society that would prevent such things by limiting the speed and extent they can rise in use and power, you could see that Zuckerberg would today probably be a low level coder, or maybe would have switched fields.

    Tictok's CEO showed himself more competant, as competant as you'd expect from someone appointed to his job, but didn't answer such questions as why topics which the Chinese government is sensitive to are ‘censored’ or ‘shown less’ in China (although he said Tiktok isn't available in China, so that would require more information to understand).

    I wonder how X did? They're the only ones who've made (unpopular at the time and now) changes to try to address some problems.

    Google is getting a lot of negative forcasts from news. That it's search is going to be competed against by cleaner, easier, more informative search, many use AI. People do search on Tiktok now, or search for things on Insta.
    Obvious though that those competitors will need to monetize. Also, don't they have to compensate the sites and people they base their search results on?
    Google Search had 92% of search a year ago when ChatGPT launched, and has 92% today.
    It's the default search on almost all mobiles.
    No one has more data than Google.

    Drones are a huge leveler. Our air defenses are not capable. $2m for a rocket to shoot down a rocket that costs $2000.

    The houtis have missiles that can make it through the US's marine defense.


  • Jan, 2024
  • Jan 31, 2024
  • The power of TikTok Edits - YouTube

    '81% of new ULEZ cameras damaged' | Kelvin Mackenzie attacks Sadiq Khan's policy - YouTube

    META's new OPEN SOURCE Coding AI beats out GPT-4 | Code Llama 70B - YouTube
    It appears, don't jump to conclusions, but it appears Zuckerburg has done something positive.

    Comparing Google searches with AI: Here's what you need to know - YouTube
    Native AI search engines.

    Microsoft is probably spending $2b a quarter right now on GPUs, which doesn't leave a lot of money to buy whatever AMD and Intel are selling.

    U.S. forces may have mistaken enemy drone for American one in Jordan - YouTube
    So they let if fly by overhead.

    Lawmakers grill CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord at child safety hearing — 1/31/24 - YouTube (4 hours)


  • Jan, 2024
  • Jan 26, 2024
  • The Big Tech companies spent like 24b in buying startups etc last year. Is it possible for any new company to get to scale without being bought up by these companies?


  • Jan, 2024
  • Jan 22, 2024
  • AI is eating the internet and we're all going to have to go back to the real world because the Internet is no longer trustworthy.

    Dating apps all trying to monetize. Keeping elite users unseen by most accounts. Lots of bots.

    Field drug tests wrongfully implicate tens of thousands of Americans every year, study finds - YouTube

    X-59 shown by NASA. No supersonic boom. Achieved by using a long, narrow airframe and canards to keep the shock waves from coalescing.

    Astonishing Anti Repair Practices By Apple In the Last 15 Years - YouTube

    Dead Teslas pack Chicago area Supercharger station due to frigid temps - YouTube

    ’UFO’ spotted by Beijing residents - YouTube

    Google cuts YouTube jobs in shift to AI - YouTube

    Will AI robot adoption be limited to temperate climates? Extreme cold adaptive strategies? Hot and humid?

    3 cloud companies handle 75% of the world's hosting. You may use a non-top 1 or 2 monopoly internet service, but it's hosted by them.

    TCP and IP connected all computers, ie the internet. HTTP created the second generation, connecting all data regardless of what device it was collected to. We went to the app age and all that data was sucked up. Frank McCourt, Executive Chairman and Founder, Project Liberty,

    "It Can Hit A Coin From A Mile Away" New 'Drone-Buster' Dragonfire Laser Is War Game-Changer - YouTube

    Microsoft hack could've been the start of a 'pretty significant campaign': SentinelOne's Alex Stamos - YouTube'

    CNBC investigates how to uncover hidden cameras in your house - YouTube
    Hidden cameras are illegal where most of them are produced, China.
    There is a profit motive.
    If a camera is behind glass, like the eyeball of a teddy bear or alarm clock, you can't see it even if you know it's there.

    Blade Runners: One Man Destroys EVERY SINGLE ULEZ Camera In His London Borough - YouTube
    A ‘secret army of masked vigilantes’. Vandalizing and stealing public cameras and facial recognition devices. Called ‘bladerunners.’ ‘We are the voice of the people.’ They say public support is widespread and regard them as heros. They hear people cheer when they do it and then know they have the support of the public.
    On Aug29 ULEZ expansion was decided by government, and the membership of the Blade Runners expanded with volunteers. ‘We’re like a pack of lone wolves, so we sometimes work together, we work in isolation, and we all have this common goal.' ‘No family members know.’
    #UK
  • Jan, 2024
  • Jan 08, 2024
  • Google begins to block cookies: What it means for consumers and advertisers - YouTube
    For 1% of customers using Chrome, as part of their goal of not having 3rd parties doing cookies.

    Hyundai Ioniq Repair Riddle: Why Does a Battery Cost $60,000? This is worse than Tesla! - YouTube

    Anderil making reusable drone-interceptor missiles. Smaller armies using cheap swarms of missiles and drones to overwhelm air defences of US on a per-unit basis.

    Are smartphones peaking? People skipping new versions, skipping upgrades. Price for new iPhone $1400.

    How meta built the infrastructure for Threads | Hacker News

  • Jan, 2024
  • Jan 02, 2024
  • iPhone passcode risks: What you need to know - YouTube

    They Found The iPhone Backdoor - YouTube


  • Dec, 2023
  • Dec 29, 2023


  • Apple stops selling some Smartwatches Online - YouTube
    ‘US watch ban’.

    The $12 cellphone in India, has the two things Indians want most. Digital payments and video. But some people in India say there's no such thing and the cheapest phones being used are about $100. But the Jio phone is apparently being bought in rural areas.

    AI's content use battles: What you need to know - YouTube


  • Dec, 2023
  • Dec 19, 2023
  • Why Even Your Local Grocery Store Wants Your Digital Data - YouTube

    Because of the situation at the time, the arms race, we [went to the moon] before we quote-unquote should have gone. Bezos

    You have to be a world-class mathmetician to be a theoretical physicist today. Bezos

    Rockets love to be big. Bezos
    Parasitic mass, trivial if building a large rocket. Turbo pumps, more efficient when larger.

    When you can have a really valuable space company start out in a dorm room (because the heavy infrastructure is already there to build upon), that will be a marker of success. - Bezos
  • Dec, 2023
  • Dec 12, 2023
  • WSJ's Jeff Horwitz: Instagram's algorithm delivers toxic video mix to adults who follow children - YouTube

    The future of war and AI with Palmer Luckey - YouTube
    AI rocket-powered reusable missile, which can attack drones.

    Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI - YouTube
    The stock didn't go up.

    BREAKING: IDF Pumps Water from Mediterranean Sea to Flood Out Hamas Terror Tunnels | TBN Israel - YouTube
  • Nov, 2023
  • Nov 30, 2023

  • AI pin by a company called Humane. It's worn on your breast and takes photo and audio. Camera glasses were also relaunced (after the version attempted years ago ended with people getting punched for wearing them). Public spaces will no longer be fun except for vloggerwhores, unless there is publicPrivacy laws passed or the punching people become common.

    Socially negative products.

    With social media, you can go on and set the record straight, even after the entire media attacks you, successfully labels you, the state processes you as suits them. You can go on and say, if you think so, come see how I live my life. - Schreli said this stuff

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKTn_i1PMd4

    Community Notes. For one to be shown, people who have historically disagreed must agree in order for a note to be shown. #Musk on X/Twitter

    All the code and all the data are open source and can be reproduced.

    Tesla never learn what pedestrians or cars or anything are. It learnt itself from video.

    ‘Well, how do you know it won’t get the idea to murder us (AGI, which should be able to enter into any state, have any idea)? Well, that's the problem that has beset us forever. And that's the problem that was solved with liberalism and the enlightenment. And now we know how to do it. We know how to bring people up in a society that makes it extremely unlikely that they will become enemies of civilization. ... But it's not inevitable. It will all depend on what we chose to do.' - Deutch Explains

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoGSbdkuY_o

    Microsoft is getting OpenAI now, I guess. The organization/relationships were compromised and made a mess, after which they can offer deals. It seems they have it as either deal the workers take, they get them. Years/months ago, Musk noted Microsoft would probably get OpenAI.

    People have commented on how big an effect SF has had, since in Silicone Valley almost no companies have any ability to protect company secrets (due in part to California law interpreting noncompete or something). People can leave anytime and reuse what they know, so it might mostly depend on compensation. Is there anything in their model that favors morality/human rights?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x7NSw0Irc0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BVd9qEuatw

  • Nov, 2023
  • Nov 04, 2023
  • When EV makers go bankrupt, what will happen to the car?

  • Oct, 2023
  • Oct 17, 2023
  • The NYPD just unveiled a new crime-fighting robot to patrol subways - YouTube 

    Tom Hanks issued a message that there was an ad of him for some dental company and it was just AI and he ‘was not involved.’

    Most AI-domination scenarios "quite stupid," distract from real issues: AI safety expert - YouTube 

    AI is a partner, not autonomous. It is asked for things, and the result is massaged as it's giving it.

    Scaling possibilities.

    How Israel's Iron Dome is struggling, seems to be just the barrage, which is more things at a time than they are built to respond to. DDoS.

    City Used Tax Dollars to Spy on Residents - YouTube 

    Voters widely rejected the city council's plan to build a sports arena. Then they paid $10k per month (for 3 months) to watch opponents of the proposed arena. The real question is What are you going to do with the information about opponents once you got it? because that wouldn't be in the contract.

    Putting something on a ballet means it is expected to have some opposed and some for. Ie democracy? But this seems to imply that the government wanted to find out who opposed and do something to alter this.

  • Sep, 2023
  • Sep 25, 2023

  • WhatsApp Probe: SEC Collects Private Messages, Reuters Says - YouTube 

    “People are 'afraid to talk to people on places like WhatsApp and ... Signal.”

    The collection of private messages. Expanding.

  • Sep, 2023
  • Sep 18, 2023
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls for investigation into Elon Musk's Starlink - YouTube 

    After word Musk's policy has been and is that starlink shan't work like 100km off Crimea so that Ukraine can't launch a ‘mini-Pearl Harbour-like’ attack on Crimea. This happened after he found out Ukraine wanted to do this, and he turned off starlink there secretly. According to a biographer.


    Caesars Entertainment data breach exposes driver's license, social security numbers - YouTube 
  • Sep, 2023
  • Sep 04, 2023
  • India landed on the moon. Fourth nation to do so.




    Elon Musk's X will collect your biometric data - YouTube 
  • Aug, 2023
  • Aug 21, 2023

  • Apple settles lawsuit over throttling iPhone battery - YouTube 
  • Aug, 2023
  • Aug 14, 2023
  • US army soldiers receiving in the mail packages with smart watches they didn't buy (it's guessed they were sent with some pretext to not tip off the receivers), and when they set them up, they connect to their smart phones and send account/bank/passwords/etc to the hackers, and perhaps use the camera and mic. The army warning letter reporting on this seemed to say the watches were connecting to the phones without any user setup, using some vulnerability or something.

    Search for doing tasks. Search used to be about look up info, buy things, and navegation. Soon it will be for questions and insights, and also for doing tasks.
  • Aug, 2023
  • Aug 05, 2023
  • Insurance company drops customer saying a 'drone' took photos of clutter in yard - YouTube 

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    ...

    80% of people lie on their dating profiles.

    ...







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    White House secures voluntary pledges from Microsoft, Google to ensure A.I. tools are secure - YouTube 
  • Jul, 2023
  • Jul 19, 2023
  • OpenAi wants $100b in 3 years, so it will have to make a lot of money to get that kind of investment. - Musk

    Popular but wrong answers. People have commented how when ChatGPT was first released it was giving answers different from after people started the mass use, for example that there were 2 genders and then there were more.
  • Jul, 2023
  • Jul 14, 2023

  • ...

    SF group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them - YouTube 
  • Jul, 2023
  • Jul 03, 2023
  • “Who'd have though Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg are spearheading the opensource movement?” - Lex

  • How TikTok Became a ‘Billion-Person Focus Group’ for U.S. Companies | WSJ Tech News Briefing - YouTube  

  • Sold like 300k of them.
  • Jun, 2023
  • Jun 26, 2023
  • Hacked ChatGPT Accounts Are Being Sold On the Dark Web - YouTube 
  • Jun, 2023
  • Jun 17, 2023
  • AI is high-tech plagarism. It's auto-complete guessing with a large database. - Chompsky

    Has seemed the same to me.

    “But it's dangerous,” he said. People think they're talking to a person. You ask Alexa should I leave my wife, and you don't pay much attention, but if it's a chatbot you do pay attention, and there are already documented cases of people falling for what a chatbot says.

    Terrific technique of defamation and disinformation. Especially with image creation. You can create an image, put someone's name under it.
  • Apple is up to no good - YouTube 
  • Jun, 2023
  • Jun 11, 2023
  • Some opensource LFMs are just trained on prompts and responses. Good for pattern-matching. If a question varies even just a little bit from their pattern-matching understanding, their ability to find out what the answer might be becomes highly limited. Whereas the student who fundamentally and deeply understands a topic won't be thrown off by any variation of the question. They'll be able to reason and step-by-step get to the answer.

    Orca uses teacher assistance from ChatGPT(3.5 and 4). The model is asked to provide how it came to its response (justify your response, explain step-by-step, eli5), and that is used to train.
  • Jun, 2023
  • Jun 04, 2023
  • Attorney accused in Boston rapes, arrested with help of genetic genealogy - YouTube 
  • Jun, 2023
  • Jun 01, 2023

  • Amazon workers plan to walk out over ‘lack of trust’ in leadership - YouTube 
  • May, 2023
  • May 30, 2023
  • Ford will use Tesla charging unit, doubling the charging stations its customers have access to.

    (There is no standard charge technology. Biden was pushing for the other commonly used one, which other big auto makers are using. But now Ford and Telsa might swing things the other way.
  • May, 2023
  • May 22, 2023
  • People are lining up for a free TV that spies on you - YouTube 
  • May, 2023
  • May 20, 2023
  • May, 2023
  • May 18, 2023

  • Vehicle costs $700k, and including transport and installation to site maybe $1m. They want to put 1000 at the 1000 biggest river mouths.

    Why does it cost so much? Can't they just use a couple existing boats to drag the line across and the other to harvest the waste?

    A lot of garbage doesn't float, like plastic bags and diapers.

    Some say politicians don't want to actually reduce pollution, because that decreases the need for spending on pollution.

    What is the effect of this on the ecosystem? Doesn't it need the non-garbage things washed down to the ocean during rainfalls?

    Most of the garbage harvested in the 35k tonnes appeared to be sticks and twigs.
     
    The river is not a commercially frequented one, so there are questions about how this can be implemented on others that are, like Frisco Bay.
  • May, 2023
  • May 17, 2023

  • He removed a ton of images that were requested to be removed.

    A lot of models you don't know what's in their dataset, so they might be 'weird.' His dataset is opensource, so it can be understood.

    "We believe that Open is required for auditable models, for private data, IP-rich data, and there's a business model that's amazing for that." "Especially if you're talking about regulated industry."

    He said you can have both. Closed models for things that's good for, and Open for private data.

    In all their models they have invisible watermarking, and they have attribution coming soon.

    "50% of code on GitHub is AI-generated now."

    He signed the FLI paper with Musk and others.


  • May, 2023
  • May 16, 2023
  • Sam Altman testified to Congress today

    Unlike what we've seen over the past few years with Tech Giants being called in, and the 'adversarial' style, Altman and Congress seemed birds of a feather in attitude.

    Congress wants to get ahead of AI, unlike SocialMedia. They don't want to have another one just growing and breaking things (it broke culture, health, truth, politics), and then try to go backwards and reel it in, which they find themselves going against billionaire/trillionaire companies tied to power. Also, they clearly didn't understand Tech when they were dealing with TechGiants in Congressional hearings. They seem more savvy with AI.

    Even though Altman seems to be amenable and docile, will it matter? There was no suggestion of anything that could actually be done. There were some hypothetical suggestions, but nothing said that seemed like something that could actually be effective. Except maybe one interesting thing raised by the woman on the pane. That anything that's AI must be labelled as AI, so we know we're interacting with it, and that we can't be interacting with an AI posing as a person.
  • May, 2023
  • May 13, 2023
  • Twitter reportedly blocked content in Turkey before the election.

    Elon appointed a CEO (female) yesterday for Twitter. He'll be tech overseer or soemthing.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/13go26v/twitter_blocks_content_in_turkey_one_day_before/

  • May, 2023
  • May 12, 2023

  • Signed malware for MSI products.
     
    "Clearly a screwup from the company."
  • May, 2023
  • May 10, 2023

  • Carlson has home studios he built during the pandemic, and a loyal audience. Question about how this can be monetized, but seems pretty straightforward if he can get viewers.
  • May, 2023
  • May 08, 2023
  • US airlines mishandled about 3m bags in 2022
     
    Baggage fees is a $30b industry in US.

    2% of AA's $50b was baggage fees.

    Southwest doesn't charge for bags. But most companies charge about $30 per.
  • US airlines mishandled about 3m bags in 2022
  • May, 2023
  • May 05, 2023
  • There was a company(s) that had clauses in their contracts that said 'no class actions' but some smartipants lawyer got together with an app maker to make an app that allowed individuals to easily submit their own individual action, resulting in thousands of actions for the company.
     
    ChatGPT's usage contract has a 'mass filings' subsector that says if a large number (specific) file similar claims, through the same lawyer or office, they'll throw out a certain number. So they detail how they'll deal with that.

    They also have lots of indemnification in their contract. So if someone sues someone for something the second guy made with chatGPT, chatGPT can call him and say He you agreed to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless. They can hire lawyers and defend themselves and then send you the bill. 'Arising from or relating to' use of the services. So they can defend themselves, and find there was no wrong done, and they can still have the user pay. 


  • May, 2023
  • May 04, 2023
  • Converting "ON-Grid" electronics to "Off-Grid" - DC to DC Conversion - YouTube 
  • May, 2023
  • May 01, 2023
  • After arresting a journalist/activist/dissident, the State can use their Twitter account to send malicious links to other Twitter users, recent DarknetDiaries detailed
  • Apr, 2023
  • Apr 27, 2023
  • German security company Nitrokey proves that Qualcomm chips have a backdoor and are phoning home
     
    Uber Accused of Charging People More If Their Phone Battery Is Low

    Surrey and Sussex police unlawfully recorded phone calls via app, watchdog finds


  • Apple is working [reporting based on anon sources] on emotion tracking tools feeding an AI-powered health coaching subscription service
  • Apr, 2023
  • Apr 09, 2023
  • Our brains run at lower power, and if we make digital models run at lower power they'll have noise in them but that particular system will adapt to the kind of noise in that particular system, and it will work even at lower power, even though it won't run exactly the way you wanted.

    30w for our minds. 1mw for AI models. So models might be just trained on higher energy and then a smaller lower power version produced to use.


    ChatGPT doesn't know about truth. It's been trained on it, and it's trying to predict what people will type in search. It has to have a kind of blend of all these opinions. So that it can model what anybody might say. It's very different from a person who tries to have a consistent world view.

    "I think we're going to move towards systems that can understand different world views. If you have this world view, then this is the answer, and if you have this other world view ..."

    Do people get their own truths? What is 'a bad thing'?

    A governance challenge who makes these decisions.

    Google currently does not do this. It refers you to relevant documents.
     
    How to make it synergistic, so that it helps people? Can we do this with the current political system? Would Putin be trusted with this power? Will there be treaties to prevent use, like we have for other things?

    Does it need not just one or some people to be sensible, but for everybody to be sensible?


  • Apr, 2023
  • Apr 08, 2023

  • Will everything posted online become spam?

  • Apr, 2023
  • Apr 06, 2023


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  • Apr, 2023
  • Apr 01, 2023

  • Mar, 2023
  • Mar 29, 2023
  • Tech leaders and researchers call for 'pause' in AI race • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube 
  • Mar, 2023
  • Mar 28, 2023
  • Microsoft threatens to restrict data from rival AI search tools - YouTube 
  • Mar, 2023
  • Mar 26, 2023
  • GPT4 is almost such that you can't use it frivolously (as we have with every other computer innovation). - Skreli

    Productivity.

    DOS, PowerPoint, Excel.
  • AI search engine that gives you one search result instead of a whole page worth that you can look at yourself. - Switched To Linux

    Dumb down society.
     
    It gives us fewer answers and not more. (And not accurate.)
  • Mar, 2023
  • Mar 25, 2023

  • Actually cites some concerns.


  • Mar, 2023
  • Mar 23, 2023

  • TikTok influencers protest outside US Congress against proposals to ban Chinese app | US News | WION - YouTube 
  • Upwork added a $3 charge for each contract you make with a worker. Why?
     
  • Mar, 2023
  • Mar 11, 2023

  • Mar, 2023
  • Mar 01, 2023
  • FBee, DowD, and Marshalls all had computers hacked this week
  • How scammers can use 'deep voice' AI technology to trick you | About That - YouTube 

  • Government devices, like in Canada and US.
    How long / will ever the same logic applied now to Chinese apps be applied to non-Chinese apps?


    What will the response from China mean for companies like Apple, whose devices are carried by millions of Chinese?

    Some analysts say the difficulty of moving an entire manufacturing process (like Apple's) to another country, the equipment, the knowhow), is such that it just won't happen. So Apple won't shift out of China wholesale, but Apple will duplicate their process in India, Malaysia, Ireland, Vietnam, Thailand.

    A quarter of Apple's revenue comes from China.
     
    There is a difference in two questions faced currently by companies allied with political groups. What's the right thing to do from a moral standpoint versus what's the right thing to do from a business standpoint?
  • Feb, 2023
  • Feb 28, 2023
  • U.S. Marshals Service suffers from 'major' security breach - YouTube 

  • Driving a wedge in the middle of Linux. "Linux users can't come to the table in any form of unity as Linux users." “Corporatist.”

    “Ubuntu used to be one of the greatest things that brought people to Linux.”
  • Feb, 2023
  • Feb 26, 2023

  • Feb, 2023
  • Feb 20, 2023

  • Seems we are getting a widespread view of the intentions, attitude, and propensity to act of AI.
  • Feb, 2023
  • Feb 19, 2023

  • Feb, 2023
  • Feb 15, 2023
  • Gravitas: Iran unveils first-of-its-kind underground Airbase - YouTube 
  • Jan, 2023
  • Jan 25, 2023
  • Swiss mountain. Lighting diverted with laser (warms air making it more conductive)
  • Jan, 2023
  • Jan 24, 2023

  • Going to reiterate something from when cameras were first put in glasses (and not long after discontinued, after some regular people assaulted people wearing these invasive devices because they didn't want to be filmed at the restaurant or whatever).

    These types of spy devices are in favor with antisocial types of people, who care more about their want to film anything they want to film, and are hated by people who are considerate of others and who believe in the 'right to be left alone'.
  • Jan, 2023
  • Jan 11, 2023
  • Deepfake of Elon Musk high on drugs goes viral • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube 
  • Jan, 2023
  • Jan 06, 2023

  • Talk here about how Google Search is ripe to be disrupted, because the amount of ads and low quality of search, and how you have to 'game' it to get something like results by adding 'reddit' to your searchphrase.
  • Jan, 2023
  • Jan 04, 2023
  • The Russian military claims its soldiers use of mobile phones led to the attack | DW News - YouTube 
  • Dec, 2022
  • Dec 31, 2022

  • Dec, 2022
  • Dec 24, 2022
  • The ads bucketing issue

    Even YouTube shows scammy irrelevant ads, and if YouTube is having issues serving good ads Twitter will probably have some issues there. Musk
  • "I often hear people say they regret the time (2 hours) they spent on TikTok." - Musk

    "What we want to optimize for is unregretted true human user minutes. ... and with advertising, you want advertising that is as close to content as you can ... what you want, when you want it."

  • No one buys anything from Twitter, but lots buy from Insta. Why?

    Twitter was algo-coded to maximize impressions, which maximizes irrelevance (said Musk). Because if you click on an ad you lose 40% of your impressions total.

    "An ad that is highly relevant is content. An ad that is irrelevant is spam"

    "As relevant to people's needs as possible."

    Is this what it's like for Tech CEOs to work with code developers? Is it just because in this industry the skilled workers are younger than in other industries? Is this a stage in the industry where next year's top wanted developers learn how to work with their director?

    Or is there a question about how can you get tech coder workers to become workers who can work with other people? (if they just work alone all the time, have super high demand and so don't need to adjust themselves to their companies, and have high salaries)

     

  • Days after US Congress made headlines for being set to ban TikTok on government devices.

     
  • Dec, 2022
  • Dec 08, 2022

  • Dec, 2022
  • Dec 05, 2022
  • Silicon Valley has laid of like 100k people in the past 2 months

    Smaller tech companies maybe will have an easier time finding workers, since large tech used to be funded with cheap money and their stock price was at a high multiple, unlike now.

    Why has there been so few alternatives to the handful of big tech companies everyone uses but in general doesn't want to use?

    Small Business Administration funds small companies. Below market capital costs. For the first time, the labor is actually there to do so, noted Zeihan.
     
  • Dec, 2022
  • Dec 04, 2022
  • There are only two majors that translate into reasonably well-paying jobs outside of universities: computer science and petroleum engineering - Thiel

  • Nov, 2022
  • Nov 28, 2022
  • Twitter sees record number of new users signing up - YouTube 
  • Nov, 2022
  • Nov 21, 2022


  •  
  • In legacy Big Tech (Facebook, Tesla), the vision means less and there's less premium from the founder, maybe

    Bill George said he thinks Zuckerburg might be tired. A year ago he changed the name of the company, which George thought might mean he was abandoning Facebook, and that Zuckerburg should hire a CEO and Zuckerburg could go be chair and chief creative officer in and focus on VR. He's spending $10b per year.

    "Someone has to restore [Facebook and Instagram], and if someone doesn't set some standards for the companies (both Musk and Zuckerburg), we're going to have forced regulations, which no one wants."

    The founders were seen as 'visionaries'. Not necessarily 'competent CEOs.'

  • Nov, 2022
  • Nov 20, 2022

  • And a different story:

    Apple SUED for privacy violations; iOS collects invasive analytics even if you opt out. - YouTube   

  • Question: Wouldn't all Western countries leave the internet if it was created by another country?

    Map of countries that did internet blackouts to stop protesters et al from communicating



     
  • Nov, 2022
  • Nov 18, 2022

  • Musk stated an ultimatum, commit to work hardcore long hours by Friday or quit. Hundreds quit.

    How many of these walkouts just were workers who didn't want to work harder?


     
  • Nov, 2022
  • Nov 17, 2022

  • Control data collection on millions of users, and control information algo if they so chose.

  • Nov, 2022
  • Nov 13, 2022
  • Signal Is Losing It's Way - YouTube 
  • Nov, 2022
  • Nov 09, 2022
  • Dalle-2 search frequency


     
  • Nov, 2022
  • Nov 08, 2022
  • Russian government asked tech department what the best replacement for Windows would be

    All 3 suggestions are Linux (because what else could it be, since there is nothing else?). Astra Linux, Alt OS, and Red OS.

    Russia didn't seem to even want to switch from Windows, but Microsoft has pulled out of Russia and stopped shipping to there, and stopped security updates and blocking access to Windows installation files.

    China has its own linux, called Kailin Linux.
     
  • Oct, 2022
  • Oct 24, 2022

  • Ethics in government decision-making. ... Public interest. ... "Incumbencies writing the laws." ... 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.

     
  • Oct, 2022
  • Oct 22, 2022

  • Is PayPal About to Go Bankrupt? – The Daily Sceptic 

  • Mosquito drone, drone nesting, warflying, packet perching, cloudstrike, net shelling.
  • Oct, 2022
  • Oct 17, 2022
  • US still holds many of the global patents used in solar panels (developed by Bell in the 1950s). Chinese government subsidized their tech manufacturers in order to out-compete US in price.
  • A semi factory costs $15 - 30b to construct.

    They must be build low (below surface) and kept dust-free.



  • High end semis: Taiwan, Korea, Japan, US. All are designed in US, Japan, etc.

    Mid-range (aerospace, automotive, thermostat control): Malaysia, Thailand.

    New restrictions mean China can't import these without a special dispensation. China can't anymore buy the tools to make the high-grade (so they never reach that level). Method: requiring export licenses to send semis to China. Biden is using the Foreign Direct Product Rule (first used under Trump versus Huawei. ... Chinese plans for technological self-sufficiency.

    Lower-range (watch, IOT, calculator): Chinese made.

    China might be melon-scooped out of the semi business, said Zeihan.

    Zeihan said "We're not at the end of Chinese technological rise." Counter-argument, please.

     
    UK has a new National Security and Investment Act, which it used against a company that sold to a Chinese company (which started selling all it's products to it's new owner), causing the UK to fear a tech transfer from UK to China. (Newport Wafer Fab sold to Wingtech.(
  • Oct, 2022
  • Oct 03, 2022
  • Is gaming the gateway to the Metaverse?
  • Sep, 2022
  • Sep 18, 2022
  • [ML News] Stable Diffusion Takes Over! (Open Source AI Art) - YouTube 
  • Sep, 2022
  • Sep 16, 2022
  • Uber Has Been Hacked - YouTube 

    Access to all sensitive info
  • Sep, 2022
  • Sep 07, 2022

  • Lots of 11, 12, 13 year olds.

    Others say the manufacturers made cars that are too easy to steal.
  • Sep, 2022
  • Sep 01, 2022
  • Nvidia, AMD stocks fall on U.S. orders to cease all sales of key AI chips to China - YouTube 
  • AI Generated Artwork Takes First Place in Art Contest - YouTube 
  • Aug, 2022
  • Aug 22, 2022
  • Tech Talk: Popular apps capable of collecting private information on iPhones | WION - YouTube 
  • NSO co-founder and CEO Shalev Hulio steps down; group facing legal action | WION - YouTube 
  • Aug, 2022
  • Aug 19, 2022
  • Tech Talk: The recent blocking of the VLC Media player | International News | WION - YouTube 
  • Aug, 2022
  • Aug 10, 2022

  • Aug, 2022
  • Aug 09, 2022

  • Jul, 2022
  • Jul 27, 2022
  • Rustdesk an 'opensource' (not really) Teamviewer / Anydesk alternative

    It has closed source parts in the software though, so some have already started to say it's not really.

     
  • Jul, 2022
  • Jul 15, 2022

  • Jun, 2022
  • Jun 25, 2022
  • Tesla banned from some places in China

    Upcoming CCP meeting and they're banned from the island for 2 months. When Xi visits some places, they're also banned. Government locations (like military) Teslas can't enter. Government workers (some?) aren't permitted to drive in Teslas.

    Reason: National Security
  • A Google engineer stated that Lamda (chatbot) was sentient

    It was in headlines all over. Google I think put him on suspension.

    It didn't seem from the chat that Lamda WAS sentient to me. He went along with the prompts of the engineer and said he was sentient and elaborated. Mental Outlaw pointed out that the engineer didn't challenge the chatbot on the question, and supposed that if the engineer had been like, "You're not sentient you're an AI" the chatbot would have gone along with that and agreed (not that a chatbot would definitely even know if it WAS sentient or not, and not that a chatbot can't be sentient just because it's also a bot).

    The question, though, is if AI is sentient, must we then treat it differently, ie as we would any sentient being? How can we know if an AI IS sentient?

     
  • Jun, 2022
  • Jun 23, 2022
  • Apple's Airtag technology backfires with incidents of murder and stalking being reported | WION - YouTube 
  • Jun, 2022
  • Jun 19, 2022

  • With a device that captures the data sent from a keyless fob to a car. If there's a pushbutton start, they can also start the vehicle.

    Owners are advised to keep their fobs in tin cans or special devices to prevent signals (which doesn't, however, protect while the owner is actually using the device).
  • Jun, 2022
  • Jun 18, 2022
  • Australian scientist researching soft coral bleaching

    If you try to protect everything, you run out of resources (money, people). So you need to know specifically which species you need to protect, and which species will be fine nomatter what we do.

    They blend the coral, then use a centrifuge to separate the animal cells from the proteins. Then they can see how much protein, algae, chlorophyll are in the coral.

  • Report: TikTok leak suggests users data not private | International News | English News | WION - YouTube 
  • Jun, 2022
  • Jun 08, 2022
  • UK bought order of drones from Chinese company DJI, first public purchase since US blacklisted the company for sales in the US in 2020 (US said the company posed a potential national security threat)

    15k distance range. 55min use. Temperatures -20 to plus 50.

     
  • May, 2022
  • May 31, 2022
  • This Is The Worst Microsoft Office Virus I've Ever Seen - YouTube 
  • May, 2022
  • May 24, 2022
  • Bye bye, DuckDuckGo


    'Overall' versus 'ultimately' in language hints.

    Currently, Brave is moving to the best search engine (?and browser?), but quantity is the solution in any marketplace.
     
  • May, 2022
  • May 12, 2022

  • May, 2022
  • May 11, 2022
  • Costa Rican government received a malware attack and declared a State of Emergency

    ... disrupting tax collection and exposing citizen data.

  • May, 2022
  • May 08, 2022




  • #371 RISC-V: How much is open source? Featuring the new ESP32-C3 - YouTube

    His guess is that RISC-V will be successful because it's seen as RISC-V against ARM (monopoly), just as ARM succeeded against INTEL/HP in IoT etc in the 90s. A non-closedSource chip is good for those who want to build their products on top of the chip level.

    The RISC-V foundation recently moved to Switzerland (to be more secure or something).


     
    WP, Seagate, Huawei and Microchip (Arduino manufacturer) all are customers of ARM and don't like their monopoly.



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  • Apr, 2022
  • Apr 28, 2022
  • DALL-E


    A side-effect of all the DALL-2 posts is you can see who on Twitter works at @OpenAI

     
  • Twitter employees are all a-twitter, talking about quitting

    Maybe illustrative of something maybe not expected. That it's not just the board of directors responsible for a malfunctioning (or just biased) organization, but, especially after years of use, the users and the workers. It might not be so easy to change and make it inclusive of those same people plus the people who had been excluded by them.
     

  • Apr, 2022
  • Apr 27, 2022
  • Democrat Howard Dean left Twitter

    Jameela Jamil (actress and feminist) left.

    NYT colomnist Charles Blow left.
     
  • Dorsey tweet:

     
  • Musk making some statements in favor of free speech that seem sort of antagonistic to liberals (woke etc)

    Is this the best plan to keep an inclusive, pluralistic platform?

    #Musk #Twitter
  • Big follower number changes day after Musk bought Twitter

    Obama down 300k, Katy Perry down 200k. A Republican congresswoman and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil went up 100k followers.

    They said this was caused by organic changes (left wingers leaving platform, right wingers joining).

     

  • Only use Snap?
  • Apr, 2022
  • Apr 25, 2022
  • Musk bought Twitter

    I didn't create a new Twitter account. From his first tweet, I didn't feel pulled back for any reason or anything.

    Someone wrote: "I’m not worried about the “rich guy who owns #Tesla now owns @Twitter. But I am at least slightly concerned that the guy who owns @neuralink and founded @OpenAI now owns the information graph on 300+ million users."

    Perhaps this will shake up social media though, which has been stagnant and widely hated (while being enjoyed) for years and years. We haven't seen any new activity, types of social media, companies, stances toward users and rights, we've just seen new more potent attention-retaining algos like Snapchat and TikTocks viral video streams.

    He bought it for $44b (a value of $54.20 per share).

    Analyists have said there is no downside to his investment, since the Board has done basically nothing since the 2013 IPO, and unlimited upside.

    That he'll attract lots of talent to fix the problems, since everyone wants to work for Musk.

    He has said that he wants the most extreme right and extreme left to both be equally unhappy on the platform. That moderates might want to come back.

    People don't think Musk will want to be CEO. He has a lot of suits to chose from in his other companies, competent people who will just never become CEO where they are.

    Some are saying this will be bad for the Woke movement / people.

    Several social media personalities, celebs, athletes expressed they were happy because they'd been shadowbanned or wanted more free speech.

    Josh Brown, who left Twitter even though he had a million followers, commented saying big celebrities who've left (Kardashians) aren't coming back. There's no way to bring them back. The bigger your account get the more the experience isn't good. Who wants to open up the app in the morning and see 50 negative things said about them? Some people will stay, people who have very thick skins or basically invite controversy.

    Someone tweeted, and Bezos resplied to it, that China may have gained leverage over public discussion, since it can withhold something Tesla needs unless Musk does what it wants on Twitter.

    Some have said Don't fool yourself he did it because he sees sure financial gain. This seems unlikely to me. But also reasonable. Some have talked recently about what will happen when Republicans retake the US government. It might happen in 2 years, or in 6, but sometime it will happen. After Biden was elected and Trump was still in office, most BigTech social media, including Twitter, banned President Trump and other Republicans. What do you think will happen to those companies when a Republican is in office again? The actions taken against SM will be at least in name taken for 'freedom of speech.'

    Musk may expect this will happen in 2 years, given the unpopularity of Biden. Also, this year is midterms (in November), when all the House faces reelections for their 2-year terms, and lots of the senators. The uncertainty of a midterm year traditionally has a downward effect on markets.

    Stock went up 6%. Price per share now is $52.87.


    His first tweet after buying it, and a Bezos tweet a little later.



     
  • Apr, 2022
  • Apr 20, 2022



  • You can import your Google Calendar info with like 3 clicks, reportedly. It's called 'easy switch.'

  • Apr, 2022
  • Apr 18, 2022
  • Air Support in a Backpack: The Switchblade - YouTube 
  • Apr, 2022
  • Apr 16, 2022

  • There's like 10 of them.
  • Why should I use Trisquel instead of one of the better-known distributions? | Trisquel GNU/Linux



    Triskel OS for Linux. It is 'GNU Linux' Richard Stalman style FOSS-only (everything). No proprietary drivers. No proprietary codex (multimedia things might not work). Really for the free software crowd, not for people who spent a ton on expensive graphics card etc and want the most powerful computer.

    32 bit is called trisquel_9.0.2_i686.iso because they stopped supporting 32 bit with Trisquel 10. Old versions are at us.archive.trisquel.info/iso/
     
  • Apr, 2022
  • Apr 15, 2022
  • Pulling water from the air with hydropanels - YouTube 
  • Apr, 2022
  • Apr 07, 2022

  • 200k cameras in Moscow can identify protesters. Also in Ukraine to identify people killed in the war to tell their families.

    There's no control over false positives.

     
  • Mar, 2022
  • Mar 14, 2022
  • Samsung hack released to public

    ... including Samsung source code, which includes the bootloader, so unlocked Samsungs might start really becoming a thing.

    Hack by Lapsus$, who also recently did a large NVIDIA hack.

  • Mar, 2022
  • Mar 11, 2022
  • Founder of DuckDuckGo is 'sickened by ... Ukraine' and is going to start censoring the search engine

    ... Mental Outlaw called this a 'dark day' for the company.

    He tweeted that DDG was going to start downranking disinformation about Russia.

    World, you have yet another new arbiter of truth.

    Neutrality or political in information? This is an information search engine.

    In 2019 the DDG twitter account bragged about how they, unlike the other search engines, had unbiased search results.

     
  • Mar, 2022
  • Mar 03, 2022
  • Russian vehicles don't seem to be using GPS

  • Ukraine using Turkish (NATO ally) drones against vehicles in Russian convoy


  • Mar, 2022
  • Mar 01, 2022
  • SimpleLogin

    This service allows you to create multiple email addresses, and they all can forward to your main email inbox. So you can sign up for a newsletter, and then when they start spamming you you can delete that email. They don't have your actual address.
     
  • Sengfor used by companies to monitor employees and provide company with a score for employees that they might quit
  • Google location accuracy 3 feet, Facebook 60-90 feet, Snapchat 15 feet

    Which are worse for privacy then Apple, according to a recent report, but Apple has a flaw too where iCloud backups compromise users (because passwords are also backed up there), and local backups is a suggested way to deal with this
  • Feb, 2022
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • Musk says his Starlink internet service up and running in Ukraine

    ... after the Ukraine govt contacted him and asked.

    It had been planned to happen in 2023.

    You need a dish and router to connect, though.

    It's been called by some commentators "a perfect situation for this."

    Not an individual level solution, but one that can be controlled by governments, apparently. Also one that Ukraine's government would be indebted for getting.

     
  • Some Western MSM is reporting that hackers (Anonymous) is going after Russia

    Not confirmed or anything.

    People also say it's likely Russian hackers will target the West.

  • Feb, 2022
  • Feb 21, 2022
  • iFixit

    A website that has kits for repairing various consumer devices.

  • Framework laptops

    Modular laptops, part of the effort by some non-mainstream companies to make laptops as good as the ones from 2010.

    The company recently announced they'll be opensourcing their firmware, specifically the code for the embedded controller (power, fans, voltage).

    It still doesn't have the ability to install your own BIOS. Many netizens are working on it.

    Two other companies doing something like this: System76 and Purism.

    Framework | The Framework Laptop is now in stock!  
  • Dec, 2021
  • Dec 18, 2021
  • "Phone numbers suck" - Techlore guy

    "They're hard to get compared to something like email. They're expensive. Most people only get one. And these issues just make them a very unique datapoint. A phone number is one of the most invasive data points used against us by companies."

    A new thing is eSIMs. A real phone number, not a virtual number like VOIP.

    No outbound calls though.

     
  • Dec, 2021
  • Dec 09, 2021
  • CryptoMines/Eternal coin crash from $700 to $4 in a few days

    The devs issued a manifesto:

    "... the main problem is that NFTs have no additional cost or wear and tear causing an over-population of these assets and thus reaching a point where some investors do not have the need to continue re-investing.

    "This same re-investment effect is necessary in order to continue with a healthy and collaborative environment of a P2E game as there must be movement of investment, reinvestment, and new revenue to maintain a sustainable ecosystem over time or directly more longevity, CryptoMines at its peak managed to make refill its reward pool with more than 1.2million Mints per day, after the fall, we started to see numbers hovering around 50k and even less mints per day, accumulating a debt due to lack of trust and re-investment in the game."


     
  • Dec, 2021
  • Dec 07, 2021
  • Elon discusses the difficulties involved in building the new, larger reusable rocket


  • Dec, 2021
  • Dec 06, 2021

  •  
  • Nov, 2021
  • Nov 15, 2021
  • Throwing things into space

    ... Throwing (yeeting) rockets at about mach1 using electric motors to spin the propelling launcher's 100m rotating arm at 450rpm (that rotation speed is around 2km per second, about the same as a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage when it performs stage separation). The chamber is evacuated, so they cover the top of it with a thin membrane which the projectile just breaks when it shoots through it. It launches at around 10g apparently.


    The disk with ejection barrel pictured below is about the length of the statue of liberty. They built and did a launch I think, but I don't think their full-scale version is built (which I think might be the image below).

    The company is Spinlaunch.

    Rockets use a lot of fuel just to get from earth to space.



     
  • Nov, 2021
  • Nov 08, 2021
  • Israeli Blue Wolf

    WP reported this.

    It's facial recog system trained on a huge database of images acquired by Israeli army soldiers on smartphones, to target people for detension.
  • Palestinian activists hacked with Pegasus

    "It's a strong feeling to have your privacy violated," said one man. "Even the simplest of things. My wife couldn't sleep for three days after finding out, being extremely worried. Our privacy was violated as a family. Our children, their pictures. Our conversations with family and friends."

    Pegasus is sold to govts around the world by NSO (Israeli company), under license from Israel's MOD.

    Pegasus is supposed to be blocked from use on Israeli and Palestinian phones.

    NSO commented "We cannot confirm or deny the identity of our government customers. ... NSO Group does not operate the products itself. The company licenses approved government agencies to do so."

    Last month, 3 days after the investigation into suspected phone hacking began, Israel designated all 6 organizations as terror groups, accusing them of funneling money to the PLF and other things.

    Then the Israeli army gave itself the power to shut down offices, confiscate money, and make arrests.

    Last week, the US blacklisted NSO.

     
  • Nov, 2021
  • Nov 02, 2021
  • SKorea govt provided 170m facial images of national and international travelers without consent

    We're talking about the face photos they take during the immigration process.

    They gave it to a private sector company to develop an AI screening tool.

     
  • Data collected on 50m Moscow drivers for sale for $800

    From a hacker.

    Full names, dates of birth, phone numbers, vehicle ID numbers, licence plate numbers, and car brand model and registration date.

    It's confirmed legit.
     
  • Oct, 2021
  • Oct 30, 2021
  • Lots of people are talking about autonomous warfare used in Nagorno-Karabakh war

    A war which lasted only a couple weeks (27 Sept – 10 Nov 2020) before Armenia, harassed by Azerbaijan's use of drones, surrendered. Azerbaijan then posted lots of high-res videos of their attacks and showed them in the town square.

    They autonomized their jets and when Armenia fired on them, they identified the Armenian forces and attacked them. Instead of firing weapons, the drones just flew into them.

    Loitering munition (drones) has no single effective countermeasure. Things that are used together to thwart them are radio jammers, EMP, laser defense, acoustic detection, net traps and kinetic power (bullets). This is all limited, however, by ambient stuff like traffic.

    Drones were also used in 2019 to attack SA's oil refineries that flew below radar. SA couldn't do anything and had to shut down half their production.

    They were also used against a Russian base during the Syrian 'civil' war in 2018, and no one claimed responsibility. Russia said the US did it, but it could have been anyone. They used plywood drones.

    People have drawn lines of comparison with hackers, who also attack from a safe location, anonymously, and without identifying themselves.

    Miniature drones, Autopilot and image recognition software open source and developed by sellers.

    Are we even going to be able to have any drones allowed to exist in the air?

     
  • Oct, 2021
  • Oct 28, 2021
  • Musk reveals plans with Varda for first space factory

    $3.2b pricetag.

    Benefit: microgravity. For manufacturing 3d printed organs, special-purpose semiconductors.

    2023 plan: 3 months of Varda's spacecraft being up there, then a reentry capsule will return the finished product. 2024 two more factories to go up.

    Varda is also building it's own capsule to return up to 100kg from space. They're focusing of frequency of reentry because it shows how they can return value after sending raw materials to space.

    Varda hasn't said what it will produce up there (and might not yet know because they might not have a contract). Pharmaceuticals and fiberoptic were mentioned.

     
  • US gov says China did a hypersonic missile test into space

    They travel 5x the speed of sound and can't be tracked by radar.

    China responded saying US was basically lying.

    Russia and NKorea have said they've fired this type of weapon.

    US says it's working on the technology.
  • Oct, 2021
  • Oct 17, 2021
  • Moscow uses facial recognition for payments on the metro

    Ostensibly they are using it to give passengers the option to pay that way. Their face is tied to their credit card in this optional system, and they can pay for their trips that way.

    15k people volunteered to test the system before it was made public this week.

    To do facepay, you have to stop in front of the camera for a second before entering the train gates.

    Moscow has over 200k facial recognition cameras.They were used earlier this year in the arrests of demonstrators at opposition protests.

     
  • Oct, 2021
  • Oct 13, 2021
  • Pentagon's first chief software officer resigned last month saying China will dominate US in AI and bioengineering tech

    Nicholas Chaillan, age 37. He said he thought it was already a done deal and that the US would have no competitive chance in 15-20 years.

    He said many government departments in the US were run by people who weren't really experts in that field. He also criticized Google-like tech giants for not wanting to cooperate with the USgov over ethics issues.

    US SoD wants a $1.5b investment to develop AI faster.



  • Oct, 2021
  • Oct 12, 2021
  • Nickel-based cathode has higher energy density for longrange vehicles, for Tesla

    Standard-range vehicles and stationary storage will move to iron-based battery cathodes, Musk thinks. He thinks the majority of batteries in the future will be iron-based, so there won't be any shortage. It's just a question of making the equipment to process the iron into a cell and then into a pack.

    Nickel isn't rare, but there's about 10-100x as much iron as nickel.

    (Cobalt-based for phones and laptops.)

    Lithium makes up about 2% or so of a battery cell, but lithium is also not rare (basically its a salt, and there's a little bit everywhere).

     
  • "If Nicolai Tesla applied at Tesla today, would we even give him an interview?"

    Musk said this was something he thought about sometimes, when considering hiring engineers, or just good people to work at his company. He said he wasn't sure they would.

    "Just three bullet points. Like evidence of exceptional ability. And if you say 'Wow' if you read those three bullet points, that should be the approach." He said this about looking for people.

     
  • Sep, 2021
  • Sep 30, 2021
  • AI is second-biggest threat to civilization, said Elon Musk, arguably the world's biggest robot maker

    We should have a regulatory agency to oversee AI safety, he said, but there isn't anything like that right now and that type of thing takes governments years to do.

    He said he didn't really know what to do about it.

    (His biggest threat was population collapse.)

     
  • WIll general purpose blockchains that have greater utility eclipse finished products like bitcoin?

    This question was posed by an Indian-looking fellow at Codecon (who didn't give his name), to Elon Musk.

     
  • Sep, 2021
  • Sep 28, 2021
  • Amazon introduces a spy device on wheels for people's homes

    ... called Astro. It's Alexa on wheels. It's designed to look small and cute.

    It can play movies, do video calls.

     
  • Turkey Technofest

    Main things: killer drones, fighter jets, EVs, guns, helicopters, biotech, AI.

    At the podium, the chief tech officer said they were holding the festival 'in order not to be condemned to a world constructed by brutal capitalist technology monopolies, we must fill our sails with our own wind of transformation, and the direction of our civilizational values." Turkey's shifting away from importing tech.

    The initiative should generate a lot of cash for Turkey. Last year, Turkey's defence tech got $2.3b. People suggested if Turkey continues along its current tech development path, it might become home to the largest aerospace festival, and maybe even a world leader in the sector.
     
  • Sep, 2021
  • Sep 26, 2021
  • Cloning camels

    ... in desert Middle East continues to be popular. Cloning biofactories can't keep up with demand. People are making exact copies of their favorite camels.

    Camels are used for races and beauty pageants there.

    The first one was cloned in 2009.

  • Sep, 2021
  • Sep 12, 2021
  • Protonmail logged IP of French activist upon order by Swiss authorities

    ... his alleged crime was truancy. He was a member of Youth for Climate Action in Paris, and they were using Protonmail to schedule and organize an event where they would skip school to go and protest, reported Mental Outlaw on YT. The youths were going to protest governments and corporations they believed were causing climate change.

    Have you ever skipped school?

    Protonmail does not have any userside/clientside encryption. Tor or mixnet would have put something between the user and Protonmail.

    Mental Outlaw pointed out that although Protonmail may not comply with a request from an outside state (France, US, whoever), they could just go through Switzerland.

    Protonmail updated it's privacy policy to more accurately reflect what they do.

     
  • Sep, 2021
  • Sep 11, 2021
  • Reportedly, US drone strike killed an aid worker and children

    According to NYT.

    DailymailUK: 'The drone strike that the Pentagon claimed killed an ISIS-K suicide bomber in Kabul actually targeted an aid worker who had filled his car with water jugs, rather than explosives, according to a shocking new report.'

    According to the family, 10 were killed in that car, although the Pentagon says 3 civilians.

    Congresswoman Ilhan Omar  wrote of a recent drone strike (I don't know if it was the same strike):

    "This is the lastest in 20 years of innocent lives taken and children orphaned in Afghanistan and covert drone warfare around the world. Impunity for these attacks continues to create a neverending cycle of violence and retribution. Where should these victims go to seek justice?"


    ‘Imminent Threat’ or Aid Worker: Did a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan Kill the Wrong Person? - The New York Times  
  • Sep, 2021
  • Sep 03, 2021
  • US collected biometric records on 5m Afghanis

    ... and now those people are at risk due to this very thing, according to some like Margaret Hu, who calls it a lesson in the life-and-death consequences of data collection.

    The US left this data behind, along with iris scans and names.

    Consortium News commented that the US is going after Assange in part because (they allege) Assange endangered lives by revealing names of informants (when he was actually redacting them).


    The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy  
  • Aug, 2021
  • Aug 31, 2021
  • IUDs. Women are pulling them out themselves to not pay removal fee

    IUD insertion is free but removal can cost hundreds, so women are just removing them themselves and posting videos on social media.

  • Aug, 2021
  • Aug 23, 2021
  • Daniel Hale awarded Sam Adams for drone info

    Of 200 people killed in a 1-year period in 2012-2013 US special forces airstrikes (using drone) only 35 were the intended targets.

    The innocent civilians were routinely categorized as 'enemies killed in action.'

    Hale was a defense contractor in 2013 when his conscience caused him to release classified documents to the press. Hale was charged under the Espionage Act and received 45 months.

    In a hand-written letter to Judge Liam O’Grady Hale explained that the drone attacks and the war in Afghanistan had “little to do with preventing terror from coming into the United States and a lot more to do with protecting the profits of weapons manufacturers and so-called defense contractors.”

    Hale also cited a 1995 statement by former U.S. Navy Admiral Gene LaRocque: “We now kill people without ever seeing them. Now you push a button thousands of miles away … since it’s all done by remote control, there’s no remorse … and then we come home in triumph.”

    Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence  
  • Aug, 2021
  • Aug 19, 2021
  • China's sponge cities

    Instead of building barricades to water, they want to absorb and release the water when needed.

    How it's done usually is combining grey infrastructure like drainage and water treatment with green spaces.

    People also like to go to the green spaces to use them. Trees, elevated walkways, etc.

    They also use some bioswales, which are several KMs in length now. They're grooves water can seep into and go down into the earth rather than enter drainage systems.

    They also use permeable road surfaces. Polyurethane binders combined with gravel or stones let water through.

    These are all designed to deal with regular heavy rain, and aren't as useful for extreme weather events.

    The US and Russia have also done sponge city stuff, but not to the same level as China.

     
  • Aug, 2021
  • Aug 17, 2021
  • Indonesian 'rainwater communities'

    There isn't access to clean water in many places, and there are sometimes long droughts, and drinking rainwater isn't appealing due to cleanliness concerns, although people use it.

    Indonesians were (many still are, of course) buying their drinking water. Clean water sales long ago passed into the hands of private companies.The companies own the clean water springs.

    Many communities there now use electrolysis, passing a current through the water. It kills microbes and increases the PH value.

    Credit for this is attributed to a pastor of one of the communities, Romo Kirjito, who worked for years in his lab trying solutions to get everyone clean water for free (or close to free).



     
  • Aug, 2021
  • Aug 16, 2021
  • Daniel Hale, who leaked information on US drone warfare, sentenced to 45 months in prison for violating Espionage Act

    “I believe that it is wrong to kill, but it is especially wrong to kill the defenseless,” Hale told the court. He said he shared what “was necessary to dispel the lie that drone warfare keeps us safe, that our lives are worth more than theirs.”

    “Hale did not in any way contribute to the public debate about how we fight wars. All he did was endanger the people who are doing the fighting.” This was said by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg.

    “You are not being prosecuted for speaking out about the drone program killing innocent people. You could have been a whistleblower ... without taking any of these documents." This was said by U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady.

    The defense said it was a public service. WP reported: 'The documents included a report finding that reliance on deadly attacks was undermining intelligence gathering. During one five-month stretch of an operation in Afghanistan, the documents revealed, nearly 90 percent of the people killed were not the intended targets.'



    Intercept: Leaked military documents expose the inner workings of Obama’s drone wars  
  • Aug, 2021
  • Aug 13, 2021
  • Russia using cloud seeding to create rain

    ... it's a dry hot summer.

    Here's what the canisters look like. They're filled with silver iodide which provides a base for the formation of snow and rain inside clouds. Planes go on missions to seek out clouds and shoot them with the canisters.




     
  • Jul, 2021
  • Jul 31, 2021
  • Agroforestry

    ... such as 'alley cropping.' It means more effort and a reduced farming space (the trees take maybe 10%), but rows of fast-growing easy-to-manage poplars divide some German farms now.

    The trees 'sequester' co2 (and therefore mitigate climate change). Hens enjoy the forest floor, and eat the greenery there, which reduces co2 because most of the co2 associated with farming chickens comes from producing the feed (partially, because some of their feed is still bought). The hens trample fallen leaves and the soil regains nutrients. The roots of the tree also improve soil quality, and trees form a wind break so soil isn't blown away, and anchor moisture into the ground, and (with the shrubbery planted beside the strips of trees, like multiyear wildflower) provide a habitat for beneficial insects like hoverflies, dung beetles, and wild bees, and worms and fungi.

    So three things--chicken farming, producing feed for them, and having trees to convert co2 to oxygen (and glucose) are now done in one location, so less land needed and less transportation costs.

    However, a lot of the trees are eventually chopped down to 20cm once they are fully grown, and burnt as firewood, rereleasing 70% of their co2, which mitigates their mitigation of co2.

    The first year after planting trees on a farm field takes more work, because you have to tend the area around the tree shoots so they can live.

    There are some farming areas where the ground is not thick enough to really have large trees, though, and watery rice fields and hilly regions also aren't always idea for trees.

    Familiar facts: 25% of greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture. Monoculture sucks nutrients out of soil. Farms take up a lot of land. Using lots of trees on farms was historically practiced everywhere but went out of fashion in the early 20th century, when it was seen as inefficient (tractors and machinery played a part).

    #tab-dashboard-02">EEA: Greenhouse gas emissions by aggregated sector

     
  • Jul, 2021
  • Jul 19, 2021
  • Pegasus spyware, capable of switching on cameras and mics, linked to list of 50,000 phone numbers

    ... and targeting journalists in 50 countries, targeted by 10 states.

    One Mexican journalist was on the list and 2 months later was killed, although journalists are frequently killed in Mexico.

    The spyware is reportedly from Israeli company NSO Group (although there are many other similar companies). The software is sold to governments (only those who have been 'approved by Israel') to deal with 'terrorism' and 'criminals,' but is used by governments against their own civil society (journalists, activists, dissidents, lawyers) and heads of state.

    The software is almost undetectable on your phone. It is not the kind of malware that you have to stupidly click something to have it install (spearfishing). It uses a zero-click exploit, using some app on your phone. It's not known which apps, but one is WhatsApp: it infected phones using a WhatsApp call and you don't even have to pick up the call. It has root access to the device (can do anything, including see all keystrokes, use camera, mic, contacts, archives, location). It might be stored in a temp file in RAM instead of on the hard drive.

    The only way to get rid of it currently is get a new phone and new SIM.

     
  • Jul, 2021
  • Jul 11, 2021
  • Audacity turns bad

    ... according to everyone in the privacy forums and bloggers, because it updated it's policies to tell users it would be collecting unknown data from them and using it in unknown ways.

    Audacity was bought by Muse Group (which owns Musescore and Ultimate Guitar). The new owners pledged to keep it 'free and opensource' but it seems they might have found another way to monetize their investment here).

    One of the things people were most excited to point out about the new policy for Audacity was they added a 'only use if over age 13' type line, because under GDPR 'The age threshold for obtaining parental consent is established by each EU Member State and can be between 13 and 16 years.'

    Many people just said they wouldn't use it anymore and deleted it from their machines. Other options offered by the community were to fork or use a previous version, or to limit port access.


     
  • Jul, 2021
  • Jul 06, 2021
  • Virtual influencers

    On social media, the use of these characters is a bit of a thing. They're CG attractive women (usually) used to promote and sell products.

    Some have lots of followers. Some are modelling agencies offering a roster of character options. They've been used by some big fashion brands.

    About 40% of people reportedly follow a virtual influencer without knowing it.

  • Jun, 2021
  • Jun 27, 2021
  • China sent a crew to its new space station

    China isn't a participant in the ISS, largely because of the US's objections to China's secrecy and military focus in space. They built their own space module, called Tianhe III (their first two space stations were more short term), or Heavenly Harmony, which launched last April.

    China used a Shenzhou-12 spaceship launched by a Long March-2F Y12 rocket from the Gobi Desert to transport a three-man crew of science-minded military pilots (2 vets, one new pilot) to Tianhe.

     
  • A fungus, Mycelium, is being talked about as an alternative to plastic to make things

    Basically, they make a mold and then fill it with hemp or woodchips (or some other agricultural waste). This is called the 'foam.' Mycelium is also placed in the molds. The molds are then placed on racks with temperature, humidity, co2 and airflow controlled.

    The Mycelium fibers grow so they fill the mold. Then the molds are heat treated to kill the Mycelium.

    Some people are also making other products such as bacon and other artificial meats, a leather alternative, insulation, and fabrics out of Mycelium.

     
  • Jun, 2021
  • Jun 14, 2021
  • Hackers don't want Bitcoin, some now like Monero

    ... which hides virtually all transaction details, and is considered a privacy token. With Monero, it's more difficult to see who the sender and recipient are, and transaction amount. 90-95% of ransoms are still paid in Bitcoin, but Monero is increasingly popular.

    Bitcoin is public ledger and stores all transaction history. It was headline news this month how the FBI recovered payments made with Bitcoin to the Colonial Pipeline hackers.

    Difficulties with using Monero include that many regulated exchanges have chosen not to list it to to regulatory concerns, meaning it's less liquid and can't be cashed out as easily as Bitcoin.

     
  • Jun, 2021
  • Jun 13, 2021
  • Chile starts thermosolar power plant in its superhot desert

    Atacama desert is very hot due to the sunlight it gets.

    The thermosolar plant has thousands of reflectors which move with the sun, reflecting its rays toward a column in the center, in which is water and salt that when heated creates steam.

    It makes 210mW, enough to power 380k homes.

    Chile is looking to close down some of its coal plants.




     
  • Jun, 2021
  • Jun 01, 2021
  • EU border wall, sound weapons, AI lie detection

    In order to keep out migrants several EU countries are building border walls (nevermind their negative response to the 2017 Trump proposal), employing sound cannons, and working on an AI lie detection tool.

    Analysts have commented that often these types of tools, implemented for such causes as migrants, are tested out before being turned on the citizens of the countries that built them.

    They also note that the steps will possibly result in more deaths, as the migrants will turn to smugglers and other more dangerous methods of entering Europe.

     
  • First AI drone attacks (without human oversight)

    Reports have it that last year a Turkish quad-copter which was a true set-and-forget weapon, identified targets and opened fire in Libya. The targets were renegades loyal to Khalifa Haftar, reportedly.

    Analysts note that Turkey and other countries perceive themselves to have a competitive advantage by using these tools.

     
  • Danish journalists come forward with US spying report

    Allegedly (so far these are only allegations), in 2013 during the days of Edward Snowden's revelations the Obama government was spying on German and other leaders of US-allied countries, Danish foreign intelligence agency FE signed a deal with the NSA so that the Americans could intercept communications (tap phones and messaging of German and other allied leaders) using their own software following the 911 attacks in 2001.

    Following Snowden's publishing the documents about this activity, a report was created but it was never made public, but now six of the very few people who ever saw it decided to come forward.

    It is expected there will now be pressure to publish it, especially considering Danish and other European individuals were targeted. It is being reported that current US pres Biden was significantly involved in the operation. He was VP from 09-17.

    German, France and other EU states are waiting for better, more certain information before responding publicly.

    Newscasters on several channels reported the story with smiles of bemusement or low-key glee.

    #InternationalRelations #Snowden #journalism
        
  • May, 2021
  • May 17, 2021
  • Marines boarding ships with personal jetpacks

    UK's Royal Marines, using the Gravity Jet Suit (1000bhp)


     
  • May, 2021
  • May 01, 2021
  • More mysterious 'Havana Syndrome' attacks

    More of these strange attacks have been reported, this time not in Cuba but near the White House.

    When they were first reported in 2017, the U.S. government referred to them as 'targeted attacks' but later started calling them 'health incidents.'

    But recently, two U.S. senators said they were definitely attacks. Canadian diplomats accused the Canadian government of withholding information about three new cases of brain injury among Canadian diplomats who served in Cuba, too.

    The U.S. puts Russia as the most likely perpetrator.

    Last year the National Academy of Science found the weapon to be one that uses 'pulsed microwave energy' to cause brain damage.

    The reported symptoms are vague, including memory loss, nausea, headaches, and loss of balance. The U.S. diplomats reported hearing a strange noise, which was recorded and is publicly available to listen to, in the embassy before the symptoms started.

     

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