Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Apple Increases Prices Due to Memory Shortage
June 25th, 2026Via: Mac Rumors: Apple today raised prices on many of its products, including all Macs and iPads, as well as the Apple TV, HomePod, HomePod mini, and Vision Pro. We shared a list of the price increases, which range from $30 for the HomePod mini to up to $1,300 for the Mac Studio. iPhone, Apple […]
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Massive Knowledge Distillation “Attack”
June 24th, 2026From, U.S. GOVERNMENT FORCES ANTHROPIC DISABLE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS 5 CITING NATIONAL SECURITY: I wonder if people had enough time to run knowledge distillation operations against Fable 5 and Mythos 5 before access was cut off? In the olden days, I got an alert from my company’s firewall indicating that it was under attack. […]
Digital Euro Moves Ahead
June 23rd, 2026Via: Reuters: The European Central Bank secured key parliamentary backing on Tuesday for the launch of a digital euro, an electronic means of payments aimed at making the euro zone less reliant on U.S. credit cards at a ?time of fraying transatlantic relationships. The digital euro, essentially an electronic wallet guaranteed by the central bank […]
Trump Signs Orders Calling for Powerful Quantum Computer, Targeting 2028
June 23rd, 2026Via: Reuters: U.S. ?President ?Donald Trump on Monday ordered ?a push to build a powerful quantum computer for scientific research and ?speed efforts to protect government systems from related cyber threats, bolstering U.S. efforts in its race with ?China for a technology that could ?upend science and cybersecurity. “We believe this can happen by 2028,” […]
SpaceX Launches Starfall Cargo Delivery Capsule
June 23rd, 2026Via: Ars Technica: Most of what we know about Starfall comes from the FAA’s environmental assessment. In that document, the FAA writes that Starfall will “enable point-to-point delivery of critical cargo through space on rapid timelines” and provide access to space for commercial in-space manufacturing, a nascent market that, so far, is largely geared toward […]
Never Give Them Your Face
June 22nd, 2026Via: Never Give Them Your Face: They want your face. It will be called safety. Verification. Age assurance. A small step to protect children. But strip the language away and the demand is plain: before you may speak, post, or read, you must first prove who you are. And the only way they’ve figured out […]
Identity Verification on Claude
June 21st, 2026About a week ago, I complained about being asked for my mobile phone number to use Claude. And now… Via: Claude: Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations. We are rolling out identity verification for […]
General Joshua Rudd, Director of National Security Agency and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, Told Senator Mark Warner that Mythos, “Broke Into Almost All of Our Classified Systems, Not in Weeks, But in Hours”
June 21st, 2026It would be very fascinating to get a bit more precision on what, “Almost ll of our classified systems” means! Does this include any systems that are not physically connected to the Internet? Via: Economist / Backup: On June 11th Mark Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that General Joshua Rudd, who […]
We’re Already Living in an Alien Invasion Movie
June 20th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Norway Imposes Near Ban on AI in Elementary School
June 19th, 2026Via: Reuters: Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ?use in the education of older children to prevent a ?negative impact on learning, the country’s prime minister said on Friday. Facing a broad decline in education test scores, the government in […]
