Archive for the 'Technology' Category
The One About the New Jersey Drone Mystery Being “Solved”
October 20th, 2025The aircraft in the New York Post article below looks a lot like the Black Fly, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft made by Pivotal: The flight time of that aircraft is about 20 minutes. Reports from 2024 indicated that the mystery drones would be operating for, “Six to seven hours per night.” Additionally, this […]
‘Wetware’: Scientists Use Human Mini-Brains to Power Computers
October 17th, 2025Via: AFP: Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich fluid they need to stay alive. It is vital these mini-brains remain healthy, because they are serving as rudimentary computer processors — and unlike your laptop, once they die, they cannot be […]
AI Has a Cargo Cult Problem
October 17th, 2025Via: Financial Times: Is it just a Ponzi scheme? That is the question that currently haunts American tech — and wider markets — as the valuation of artificial intelligence-linked groups soars to evermore eye-popping heights. Indeed, calculations by the FT suggests that ten lossmaking AI start-ups — such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI […]
Starshield: Classified Network of SpaceX Satellites Emitting Mysterious Signal
October 17th, 2025Via: NPR: A constellation of classified defense satellites built by the commercial company SpaceX is emitting a mysterious signal that may violate international standards, NPR has learned. Satellites associated with the Starshield satellite network appear to be transmitting to the Earth’s surface on frequencies normally used for doing the exact opposite: sending commands from Earth […]
Mass Production of CATL’s New ‘Naxtra’ Sodium Battery Begins in December
October 16th, 2025Via: Ben Alexxander: More: CATL’s Naxtra Battery Sets New Safety and Performance Standards
New Zealand: Secret Notes Related to Five Eyes Countries Preparations for War with China Found at Op Shop
October 16th, 2025Even more hilarious than the circumstances related to this story is the fact that New Zealand plays any role at all in planning for a military conflict with China. Anyway, enjoy the Comedy Gold… Via: Newsroom: Last year, on May 13-16, New Zealand military staff attended a “Five Eyes community Combined Digital Leaders Forum” at […]
Generals and Chatbots
October 15th, 2025Via: Business Insider: It’s not just the civilian corporate executives and white-collar workers who are leaning into the generative AI boom at work. Military leaders are diving in too. The top US Army commander in South Korea shared that he is experimenting with generative AI chatbots to sharpen his decision-making, not in the field, but […]
Dark Money British Political Operatives Interfering in American Elections
October 14th, 2025Via: The Disinformation Chronicle: A few years back, I kept tripping across one of the many “disinformation experts” who popped up during the COVID pandemic like mushrooms on a rotten log after a hard night’s rain. I had no clue who Imran Ahmed was, nor his Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), but the Biden […]
Jason Jorjani Interviewed by Jesse Michels: Aliens, Religions, Simulation Hypothesis, Physics, Mind Control
October 8th, 2025Unless you’ve been wading out in the deep end for at least a couple of decades, you might want to skip this. I wouldn’t normally post something like this, but I was three quarters of the way through a re-read of Passport to Magonia when I saw this at the top of my YouTube feed. […]
Germany: Draft Law Would Allow Police to Take Down Drones
October 8th, 2025Via: France24: German federal police will soon be allowed to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Wednesday, after a spate of drone sightings believed to be Russian efforts to spy and intimidate. Unveiling a draft law, Dobrindt said police would be authorised “to take state-of-the-art technical action against drone threats, for […]
