Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Australians to Face Age Checks from Search Engines
July 1st, 2025“Age checks,” means, identity checks. Via: Information Age: Australians using search engines while logged in to accounts from the likes of Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025, under a new online safety code co-developed by technology companies and registered by the eSafety Commissioner. Search engines operating in Australia […]
Google Offers to Buy Half the Output from Upcoming Fusion Power Plant
July 1st, 2025Via: CNBC: Google on Monday announced a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which marks the tech giant?s first commercial commitment to fusion. The company unveiled plans to buy 200 megawatts of clean fusion power from what CFS describes as the world’s first […]
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $10 Billion
July 1st, 2025Via: CNBC: XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, has raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was clinched through secured notes and term loans, while a separate $5 billion was secured through strategic equity investment, the bank said Monday. The funding gives xAI […]
Dyson: “We’ve Got Wonderful Land, and We Should be Able to Grow Everything We Eat” – In Greenhouses?
June 29th, 2025Don’t forget the protein: Via: Dyson:
“Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain”
June 28th, 2025Via: Futurism: Indiana’s newest cash crop isn’t soybeans or corn; it’s AI data centers — lots and lots of AI data centers. The New York Times reports that Amazon is building a vast complex of AI infrastructure facilities on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland, all meant for startup Anthropic’s project to build an […]
“ChatGPT Psychosis”
June 28th, 2025If you haven’t read, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson recently, now might be the time to dust that one off. —Spoiler Warning— Recall that Snow Crash is a mind virus that is spread both online and as an addictive drug through Reverend Wayne’s Pearly Gates franchises. The “faithful” are addicted, brainwashed and suffer from glossolalia […]
Facebook Is Starting to Feed Its AI with Private, Unpublished Photos
June 28th, 2025Via: The Verge: For years, Meta trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. Now, it’s also hoping to access the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. Meta tells The Verge that it’s not currently training its AI models on those […]
RFK Jr’s: Health Trackers for All?
June 26th, 2025No thanks, Bobby. Via: Daily Mail: Robert F Kennedy Jr wants to fit all Americans with a tracking device within the next four years. The Health and Human Services secretary revealed his plans during a House hearing yesterday, saying the devices — like Apple Watch, Fitbit, Whoop and Oura ring — were ‘key to the […]
Building a New Computer – Few Updates
June 26th, 2025I’m in the middle of my once-a-decade computer build. New hardware is burned-in and working fine. I’m moving everything I need over to the new system and getting it set up. I felt a huge rant coming on, but there’s no point. Anyway, back to normal posting soon.
Executives from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir Join U.S. Army
June 24th, 2025Via: Business Insider: Four top tech execs from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir have just joined the US Army — no obstacle courses, shouted orders, or grueling marches required. The Army Reserve has commissioned these senior tech leaders to serve as midlevel officers, skipping tradition to pursue transformation. The newcomers won’t attend any current version of […]
