Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
NIH/NIAID-Funded Hantavirus Gain-of-Function Mutations Created ‘Highly Infectious’ Chimera in 2018
May 16th, 2026Via: Jon Fleetwood: A peer-reviewed study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in 2019 says researchers intentionally mutated hantavirus glycoproteins and used serial passage to create what the study itself called “highly infectious” recombinant viral systems. The revelation comes amid an alleged hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, […]
“An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.”
April 26th, 2026Via: Jer: Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider. It took 9 seconds. The agent then, when asked to explain itself, produced a written confession enumerating the specific safety […]
Sony Autonomous Robot Defeats Elite Table Tennis Players
April 22nd, 2026Elite Table Tennis players perform at the outer limits of what’s possible in terms of human reaction time and dexterity. Sony developed a robot that exceeds those limits in the real world. Ping Pong? Who cares? Let your imagination run wild with how these “innovations” will be incorporated into battlefield robotic systems… Have a nice […]
Murders and Disappearances of People Associated with Black World and Space Research
April 22nd, 2026Via: Daily Mail: The White House has vowed to leave ‘no stone unturned’ in its effort to uncover the truth behind the string of missing scientists. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday on X that President Donald Trump has brought the FBI into the investigation. ‘In light of the recent and legitimate questions about these […]
With Iran Now In Control of Strait of Hormuz, Trump Tells Allies: Go Get Your Own Oil
March 31st, 2026At the same time, the U.S. is continuing to send additional military assets to the region. Via: Independent: Donald Trump has lashed out at Britain, saying the US “won’t be there to help you any more, just like you weren’t there for us” in an extraordinary rant against his allies over the Iran war. The […]
Beware The Energy Shock
March 21st, 2026Via: Peak Prosperity:
Pentagon to Adopt Palantir AI as Core U.S. Military System
March 20th, 2026Via: Reuters: Palantir’s Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg said in a letter to Pentagon leaders, a move that locks in long-term use of Palantir’s weapons-targeting ?technology across the U.S. military. In the March 9 letter to senior Pentagon leaders and U.S. military commanders, […]
People Getting Paid to Wear Cameras As They Do Chores, Videos Will Be Used To Train AI In Robots
March 13th, 2026Via: Los Angeles Times: The hottest new gig-economy job in Los Angeles is performing at home to help artificial intelligence understand how humans move. Hundreds of people from Santa Monica to Los Feliz are strapping cameras on their heads and hands as they do chores at home so bots can watch how they make coffee, […]
And Now… U.S. Asks Ukraine’s Help To Shoot Down Iran’s Shahed Drones In Gulf
March 7th, 2026I don’t even know where to start… Via: ZeroHedge: In the ultimate irony of ironies, Financial Times is reporting US officials are discussing the purchase of Ukrainian-made drone interceptors to counter Iranian drones, which some analysts say have proven harder to stop than expected. Patriot missile interceptors used by US allies cost more than $4 […]
Anthropic Refusing to Let U.S. Government Use AI for Mass Domestic Surveillance and Fully Autonomous Weapons
February 27th, 2026Via: Anthropic: The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label […]
