Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Microsoft Wants Fusion Energy for AI
June 21st, 2024Via: Washington Post: Microsoft is betting on an effort to generate power from atomic fusion — the collision of atoms that powers the sun — a breakthrough that has eluded scientists for the past century. Physicists predict it will elude Microsoft, too. The tech giant and its partners say they expect to harness fusion by […]
Starlink Mini
June 21st, 2024SpaceX is rolling out the Starlink Mini; a portable Starlink groundstation roughly the size of a laptop computer. Musk said, “This product will change the world.” I can see how that could be true in some ways, in theory. But here’s the unpleasant part: This will enable the fielding of a wide variety of autonomous […]
Migration 5: Five Eyes Biometric Data Sharing, “Known to One, Known to All”
June 20th, 2024“They are locking this place down, and it’s going to be for everyone.” Via: Radio New Zealand: What started as a scheme to check the identities of a few thousand asylum seekers has spiraled into a vast network of data about everyone who comes and goes from the ‘Five Eyes’ nations. … Instead of keeping […]
Not A Single American Has Received Biden’s High-Speed Internet Despite $42.5 Billion Funding In 2021: FCC Commissioner
June 19th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr slammed the Biden administration on Friday – writing on X that President Joe Biden has yet to connect a single American with high-speed internet. “In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans. Years later, it has not connected even […]
Surgeon General Calls for Health Warnings on Social Media for Younger Users
June 17th, 2024If you have children, I hope you understand that you can ban the toxic social media nonsense: On your router. On the devices your children use (parental controls). On DNS. Via: ABC: The U.S. surgeon general called on Monday for social media platforms to include health warnings for younger users. “One of the most important […]
TDK: Solid-State Battery with an Energy Density of 1,000 Wh/L, Approximately 100X Greater than Conventional Solid-State Battery
June 17th, 2024Via: TDK: TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) successfully developed a material for CeraCharge, a next-generation solid-state battery with an energy density of 1,000 Wh/L, approximately 100 times greater than the energy density of TDK’s conventional solid-state battery. TDK’s technology is aimed at a solution that can be utilized in various wearable devices, such as wireless earphones, hearing […]
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
June 15th, 2024Via: situational-awareness.ai: The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace many college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. … Before long, the world […]
Former NSA Director Joins OpenAI; Will Serve On Board And “Security” Committee
June 14th, 2024Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model: This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review […]
Microsoft Delays Recall AI Feature on Security Concerns
June 13th, 2024Via: Reuters: Microsoft will not roll out “Recall”, an AI-powered feature that tracks computer usage, with its new computers next week and will instead preview it with a smaller group later, the tech giant said on Thursday, amid concerns of privacy risks. The Recall feature tracks web browsing to voice chats, creating a history stored […]
U.S. Spending More Money On Chip Manufacturing Construction This Year Than In Previous 28 Years Combined
June 12th, 2024Via: Tom’s Hardware: The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act is pumping money into chip manufacturing construction at an historic rate. According to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the growth of computer and electrical manufacturing construction funding is so great that the U.S. government will add as much funding to the sector in 2024 […]
