Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
“AI Boom Risks Global Financial Crash, Warn Central Bankers”
June 28th, 2026Via: Telegraph: Substantial debt-fuelled spending on AI is driving up the risk of a global financial crisis, central bankers have warned. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said on Sunday that “excessive” spending on new AI data centres and opaque, debt-fuelled transactions risked a financial meltdown similar to the global credit crunch nearly two decades […]
The One About Space Based Data Centers
June 27th, 2026Via: Real Engineering: Related: SpaceX AI Satellites
Ukraine Launches Attack Against Russia with 660 Drones
June 27th, 2026Via: Daily Mail: Ukraine has unleashed a huge barrage of 660 drones in a major nighttime attack across Russia in the latest humiliation for Vladimir Putin. It appeared to be one of the biggest drone attacks on Russia and the illegally annexed Crimea since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago. The […]
Apple Increases Prices Due to Memory Shortage
June 25th, 2026Via: Mac Rumors: Apple today raised prices on many of its products, including all Macs and iPads, as well as the Apple TV, HomePod, HomePod mini, and Vision Pro. We shared a list of the price increases, which range from $30 for the HomePod mini to up to $1,300 for the Mac Studio. iPhone, Apple […]
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Massive Knowledge Distillation “Attack”
June 24th, 2026From, U.S. GOVERNMENT FORCES ANTHROPIC DISABLE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS 5 CITING NATIONAL SECURITY: I wonder if people had enough time to run knowledge distillation operations against Fable 5 and Mythos 5 before access was cut off? In the olden days, I got an alert from my company’s firewall indicating that it was under attack. […]
Identity Verification on Claude
June 21st, 2026About a week ago, I complained about being asked for my mobile phone number to use Claude. And now… Via: Claude: Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations. We are rolling out identity verification for […]
General Joshua Rudd, Director of National Security Agency and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, Told Senator Mark Warner that Mythos, “Broke Into Almost All of Our Classified Systems, Not in Weeks, But in Hours”
June 21st, 2026It would be very fascinating to get a bit more precision on what, “Almost ll of our classified systems” means! Does this include any systems that are not physically connected to the Internet? Via: Economist / Backup: On June 11th Mark Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that General Joshua Rudd, who […]
We’re Already Living in an Alien Invasion Movie
June 20th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Norway Imposes Near Ban on AI in Elementary School
June 19th, 2026Via: Reuters: Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ?use in the education of older children to prevent a ?negative impact on learning, the country’s prime minister said on Friday. Facing a broad decline in education test scores, the government in […]
Leak: OpenAI $38.5 Billion Net Loss [???]
June 16th, 2026Via: Runtime Wire: Sam Altman (@sama)’s OpenAI lost $38.53 billion attributable to the company in 2025, according to audited financial documents viewed by Ed Zitron and independently verified by the Financial Times, a set of figures that an Ars Technica story pushed into broader circulation Tuesday. The documents themselves are not public. But the reported […]
