Archive for the 'Technology' Category
The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
December 5th, 2025Via: Gamers Nexus: More: The DDR5 issue just got INFINITELY worse…
Trump Administration Encouraging Development of Humanoid Robots
December 5th, 2025Running… https://t.co/tPmp2Hq1mw pic.twitter.com/VChAa8p7j9 — Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) December 4, 2025 Just set a new PR in the lab pic.twitter.com/8kJ2om7uV7 — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 2, 2025 Via: ZeroHedge: President Trump’s national industrial strategy centers on expanding U.S. dominance in semiconductors, AI, rare earth production, clean technology, space, and other emerging technologies expected to dominate the […]
WHO–Gates Blueprint for Global Digital ID, AI-Driven Surveillance, and Life-Long Vaccine Tracking for Every Person
December 5th, 2025Via: Jon Fleetwood: In a document published in the October Bulletin of the World Health Organization and funded by the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO) is proposing a globally interoperable digital-identity infrastructure that permanently tracks every individual’s vaccination status from birth. The dystopian proposal raises far more than privacy and autonomy concerns: it […]
Pentagon Launches $1B Program To Rapidly Buy Hundreds Of Thousands Of Kamikaze Drones
December 4th, 2025Via: The War Zone: The Pentagon has created a new program to spend $1 billion over the next two years to buy hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones for the military. Dubbed the Drone Dominance Program (DDP), it is an implementation of War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s July memo authorizing major changes to how the […]
Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs
December 4th, 2025Via: arXiv: In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historically, elites could shape support only through limited instruments like schooling and mass media; advances in AI-driven persuasion sharply reduce the cost and increase the precision of shaping public opinion, making the […]
Micron Will Stop Selling RAM to Consumers
December 4th, 2025Update: — Via: Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Micron Technology announced it will exit the consumer RAM business in 2026, ending 29 years of selling RAM and SSDs to PC builders and enthusiasts under the Crucial brand. The company cited heavy demand from AI data centers as the reason for abandoning its consumer brand, a move […]
IBM CEO Says There’s ‘No Way’ Spending Trillions on AI Data Centers Will Pay Off
December 2nd, 2025Via: Business Insider: AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets. Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta’s recent earnings call, words like “capacity” and AI “infrastructure” were frequently used. Google just announced that it […]
Trump Orders Moonshot-Like ‘Genesis Mission’ Relying on AI to Merge Science Data Across the U.S.
November 25th, 2025I wonder if this will be used to launder technologies out of the black world… Via: Independent: That’s one giant leap for AI. The Trump administration is unleashing thousands of massive data sets — compiled by agencies throughout the federal government — and the capabilities of America’s world-renowned national laboratories into a government-wide effort to […]
Google Producing AI Processors, Negotiating Partnership with Meta
November 25th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware: Meta may be on the cusp of spending billions on Google AI chips to power its future developments, as the social-media giant is reportedly in talks to both buy and rent Google compute power for its future AI endeavours, as reported by The Information, via Reuters. The ongoing negotiations reportedly involve Meta […]
Brain Rot: Short Form Video Use, “Associated with Poorer Cognition (Attention, Inhibitory Control, Language, Memory, and Working Memory)”
November 24th, 2025Via: Independent: Excessive usage of TikTok and Instagram Reels is damaging cognitive performance, the American Psychological Association has said in a recent study. Data from 98,299 participants across 71 studies found that the more short-form content a person watches, the poorer cognitive performances they had in terms of attention and inhibitory control – meaning the […]
