Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Worth of AI Data Center Hardware Sitting in Warehouses… Depreciating…
October 22nd, 2026Via: The Tech Report: More: Jays Two Cents: Related: Where’re All The AI Chips? “The artificial intelligence (AI) boom represents one of the largest speculative frenzies in history.”
Alaska’s HAARP Site Now Being Used To Test New Air Force Over-The-Horizon Radar Tech
October 21st, 2026Via: The War Zone: The U.S. military has successfully demonstrated a new lower-cost receiver that could form part of a future over-the-horizon (OTH) radar. The testing also raises the question of whether the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) research site in Alaska, which the U.S. Air Force transferred away more than a decade […]
Scientists Built a Computer Using Living Human Brain Cells—Now It Can Decode Braille
October 20th, 2026Via: The Debrief: Biohybrid computers made of organoids—tiny human brain models using real cells—have reached an important new benchmark by reading braille for the first time, even under challenging conditions. … Although biohybrid computers could eventually offer advantages in energy efficiency, demonstrating that they can reliably process and transmit meaningful information remains a work in […]
Ukraine Claims First Battlefield Evacuation of Wounded Soldier by Drone
October 19th, 2026I assumed this was fake the first few times I came across it. Maybe it’s real. I don’t know. Via: The War Zone: The Ukrainian Armed Forces say they have carried out the world’s first frontline evacuation of a wounded soldier by aerial drone. The soldier, from the 30th Mechanized Brigade, is said to have […]
Russia’s New Jet Drone Contains Over 75% U.S.-Made Components
October 18th, 2026Via: Militarnyi: More than three-quarters of the Geran-4’s onboard computer consists of electronic components manufactured by American companies. Products from Texas Instruments account for the largest share, along with components from its acquired subsidiary National Semiconductor — together accounting for more than half of all identified components. This information was revealed in a report analyzing […]
Banks Now Trying to Offload AI Data Center Debt They Just Underwrote
October 14th, 2026Via: Startup Fortune: JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SMBC and MUFG are quietly shopping pieces of the AI debt pile they helped build, a sign the lenders closest to the money have started hedging their own bet. Six months ago, banks were racing each other to underwrite data center loans tied to Oracle, Meta and the rest […]
Mexican Cartel’s Crypto Farm Seized in Mountain Raid
October 12th, 2026Just another day at the office. Via: Tom’s Hardware: There is increasing evidence that Mexican drug cartels are diversifying into cryptocurrency mining and are using crypto platforms to diversify their income and, at the same time, launder their ill-gotten gains and fund other illegal activities. Reuters reports that local Mexican police uncovered a clandestine cryptocurrency […]
California Bans Human vs. Robot Cage Fights
October 11th, 2026Via: USA Today: A company that stages human-versus-robot fights is still advertising a San Francisco event this week despite receiving a cease-and-desist order from California regulators over a recent match between a humanoid robot and a social media influencer. Robot Entertainment Kombat received the Sept. 30 order after organizing a Sept. 18 fight between its […]
Planning For Pitchforks: AI Labs Are War-Gaming A Catastrophe, Public Revolt, And The Crackdown That Follows
October 9th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: The AI industry has been war gaming not only how it might destroy humanity, but is also considering what an angry public could do to the industry. Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt, […]
Spacex to Build Starlink Mobile Phone Network
October 9th, 2026Via: Basenor: SpaceX has struck a deal to acquire a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio, a move Elon Musk is calling the ‘last critical piece’ needed for Starlink Mobile to provide complete phone coverage across America. The announcement, made public on October 8, 2026, sent shares of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile tumbling roughly 7% in […]
