Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Leak: OpenAI $38.5 Billion Net Loss [???]
June 16th, 2026Via: Runtime Wire: Sam Altman (@sama)’s OpenAI lost $38.53 billion attributable to the company in 2025, according to audited financial documents viewed by Ed Zitron and independently verified by the Financial Times, a set of figures that an Ars Technica story pushed into broader circulation Tuesday. The documents themselves are not public. But the reported […]
SpaceX to Acquire Cursor for $60B
June 16th, 2026Via: TechCrunch: SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60 billion stock deal, just a few days after the space company’s historic IPO and less than two months after announcing a tie-up between the two. The deal is meant to help SpaceX’s AI division — built around Elon Musk’s AI company […]
For the Children: Britain Forces Age Verification to Access Social Media
June 16th, 2026What’s next? Identity checks to use VPNs? Via: Reason: Regardless of how the ban will be enforced, one thing is certain: It will come at the expense of the privacy of all British internet users. The government cannot ban children from social media without asking everyone else to prove they are not children. Ofcom, Britain’s […]
Richard Dolan on Latest U.S. Government Limited Hangout UFO Information Release
June 13th, 2026Someone asked if I’d lost interest in UFOs because I didn’t seem to be posting much about it. I’m still interested in the topic and follow news closely, but what I’m not interested in is the absurd limited hangout wrapper that the U.S. Government is placing around the topic. Read books like, Incident at Devils […]
Cryptocurrency Miners Go Back to GPUs… for AI
June 13th, 2026AI companies buy up nearly all the GPUs, RAM and SSDs: Check Crypto miners turn to renting rigs for AI, buying up what remains of “consumer” grade equipment: Check People who mostly hate AI, and try to avoid it, pay a lot more for a lot less when trying to purchase a computer: Check Six […]
U.S. GOVERNMENT FORCES ANTHROPIC DISABLE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS 5 CITING NATIONAL SECURITY
June 13th, 2026Update: Amazon Tipped U.S. Government on Jailbreak Via: Matthew Berman: — Ahh, ye olde oh shit moment? Or, does this have more to do with the friction between Anthropic and the U.S. Government? Anthropic has said it will not back down in a fight with the US Department of Defense (DoD) over how its artificial […]
And Now… U.S. Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
June 12th, 2026Via: Wired: In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists. More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, […]
Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire with SpaceX’s IPO
June 12th, 2026Via: CBS: Elon Musk has become the first person to cross the trillionaire threshold, at least on paper, after SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share and its stock soared in its stock market debut.
macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux
June 11th, 2026Via: Phoronix: Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 “Golden Gate” beta released this week by Apple. With macOS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your Apple Silicon Linux installation. Whether it’s an accidental bug by Apple or an […]
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
June 11th, 2026Via: DroneXL: Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and […]
