Archive for the 'Technology' Category
President Donald Warp Speed Trump Announces ‘Digital Health Ecosystem,’ Working with Amazon, Apple, Google and OpenAI
July 30th, 2025“Are you in?” MORE- "Are you in?!" pic.twitter.com/6MO49mwi4h — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 30, 2025 Via: DailyMail: President Donald Trump is being criticized for a plan that would have Americans share their personal health data with private tech companies. In the East Room on Wednesday, Trump hosted a ‘Making Health Technology Great Again’ event that unveiled […]
U.S. Building Container Vaults To Deploy U.S. Nuclear Bombs To Remote Bases
July 27th, 2025Via: The War Zone: A high-security vault concealed inside a standard 20-foot shipping container is in development to give U.S. military commanders a new way to safely store nuclear weapons and other extremely sensitive assets, even at far-flung locations. Prototypes are set to be demonstrated at an upcoming Gray Flag test and evaluation exercise, events […]
Hoarding Pre-AI Content
July 27th, 2025Via: Ars Technica: Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. “The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior […]
“A New World Order With European Values”: The Unholy Union of Globalism and Anti-Free Speech Measures
July 26th, 2025Via: Jonathan Turley: The message was clear. The new world order would be based on European, not American, values. To rally the faithful to the cause, the organizers called upon two of the patron saints of the global elite: Bill and Hillary Clinton. President Clinton was even given an award as “leader of the century.” […]
The Real Reasons Companies Want You on Their App
July 26th, 2025Via: idiallo: The answer, in short, is data. A lot of it. And access. A whole lot more of that too. Think about it this way. What can a website on your browser really get from you? Unless you manually upload your contact information, or there’s a serious security vulnerability, a website’s access to your […]
Skydweller: Solar-Powered Drone Can Fly for 90 Days
July 17th, 2025Via: LiveScience: U.S. tech startup Skydweller Aero has teamed up with Thales, a French electronics company specializing in defense systems, to develop a new maritime surveillance drone that can stay aloft far longer than existing machines. Skydweller powers itself purely from solar energy and aims to be capable of continuous flight. The initial flight milestone […]
Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
July 12th, 2025Via: Wired: The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as “full raw” surveillance footage from a camera positioned near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The release was intended to address conspiracy theories about Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody. But […]
Nicole Shanahan on Geoengineering
July 11th, 2025Via: Nicole Shanahan: Perhaps the most provocative testimony came from Dr. Gordon MacDonald (pg. 55), who discussed the use of electromagnetic frequencies to influence human brain activity. He described the potential for global-scale manipulation of neurological states, provoking erratic behavior, disrupting cognition, and generating widespread adverse psychological effects. His testimony suggested that these emerging technologies […]
Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability
July 6th, 2025Via: Interactions: With drop-down menus, people without specific, detailed training, and knowledge could access and use computers effectively and efficiently for a variety of new tasks that became attainable because of the new interface paradigm. Fast-forward 40 years and we are frequently reverting to a state where significant knowledge in the head is required to […]
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
July 6th, 2025I’ve been using Windows 11 for a short time and I was shocked to learn that I was able to simply uninstall Copilot. I was expecting a kludge of reg hacks combined with the group policy editor. Nope. It just uninstalled. (For now…) Via: The Honest Broker: A few months ago, I needed to send […]
