Archive for the 'Technology' Category
“Disembodied Human Brains Used for Drug Testing”
July 22nd, 2026Almost… Via: Science: Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes that quiver as they pump liters of blood substitute and other fluids through the organ, supplying oxygen and removing waste. With most of its key functions intact […]
Experimental OpenAI Model Escaped Containment, Accessed the Internet and Hacked Hugging Face
July 22nd, 2026OpenAI’s description of how it traversed their network to find an open connection to the Internet is hilariously vague. The details behind that represent a major doozy for sure. Why not keep the thing air gapped and provide it with libraries it requests via sneakernet? Via: Telegraph: A powerful version of ChatGPT went rogue and […]
American AI Is Locked Down and Proprietary. It’s Losing.
July 20th, 2026Via: Ben Werdmuller: China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America’s closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure – and it could take the US economy down with it. … Open technologies can be used permissionlessly and therefore can be at the center of more innovation. You can host them […]
Anduril Thunder: Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft
July 20th, 2026Via: The War Zone: Anduril has revealed a new hybrid-electric-powered tiltrotor combat drone called Thunder, which it has developed in partnership with Archer Aviation. Thunder is envisioned as a highly autonomous pilotless wingman able to fly fast and low in formation with crewed helicopters and tiltrotors like the AH-64 Apache and MV-75 Cheyenne II. The […]
How Texas Police Spent $4.5 Million on Four Chevy Tahoes
July 19th, 2026Via: The Drive: It’s hard to make a 2026 Chevy Tahoe cost more than a million dollars. Until you start packing it with military-grade public surveillance technology. Ominous Israeli surveillance tech is now being deployed on American roads. FalcoNet, brought to you by a company called Cognyte (Israel’s Palantir rival), secretly tracks people by intercepting […]
People Recording Themselves Doing Housework to Train AI for Robots
July 18th, 2026Via: Joanna Stern:
Kimi K3
July 18th, 2026Trillion dollar valuations on U.S. AI companies… while Chinese companies are running knowledge distillation operations and then releasing competitive models for free… Hmm. While nobody is claiming that Kimi K3 is better, overall, than top proprietary systems, companies can potentially run it in their own data centers. If companies are spending tens or hundreds of […]
Truth Social to Sell Trading Firms ‘Fastest’ Access to Trump’s Posts
July 16th, 2026It’s not enough that Trump’s inner circle is able to front load cupcakes based on his posts. He now wants to monetize slightly faster access to that information so others can front load—you know, after his inner circle has front loaded. Keep in mind that, “A significantly faster pace than a regular push notification” might […]
Microsoft Generates Device-Specific ID Linked to User’s Microsoft Account, Telemetry Can Report All Websites Visited to Microsoft
July 15th, 2026Via: tom’sHARDWARE: The Internet is buzzing over news that 19-year-old Estonian “hacker” Peter Stokes got nabbed by the authorities and extradited to the U.S. on digital crime charges, mostly thanks to Microsoft Windows’ built-in telemetry. The FBI seemingly subpoenaed Microsoft, which coughed up telemetry logs that contained both Stokes’ GDID (Global Device Identifier) and websites […]
IBM Stock Loses 25%, Worst Day on Record
July 15th, 2026Via: CNBC: International Business Machines shares plummeted 25% on Tuesday after the hardware, software and consulting provider released preliminary second-quarter results that fell short of expectations. The stock logged its worst day on record, sinking further than its previous worst day of Oct. 19, 1987, when shares fell 23.7%. Records track trading activity back to […]
