Archive for the 'Technology' Category
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 […]
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 […]
