Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Belgium Closed Airspace Due to Drone Incursions
November 5th, 2025Via: Express: Belgium closed its airspace after drone sightings on Tuesday evening, sparking travel chaos at major airports, including the capital Brussels. Drone sightings were also reported over military bases in Belgium, according to local media. Air traffic at Brussels Airport was suspended as a security measure following the sighting shortly before 8pm local time […]
Scion Asset Management Bought a Billion Dollars in Put Options on Nvidia and Palantir
November 4th, 2025Via: Fortune: Storied investor Michael Burry has talked the AI-bubble talk, and now he’s walking the walk. Burry, made famous in the 2015 film The Big Short for his prescience on the 2008 housing market collapse, disclosed some cynical bets against tech giants Nvidia and Palantir amid concerns of AI company valuations swelling beyond their […]
Data Centers in Orbit?
October 31st, 2025Via: Ars Technica: As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as Starcloud, have begun to address this problem, the idea has also attracted the interest of tech barons. In May, it emerged that former Google chief […]
Bill Gates Admits Climate Change Won’t End World
October 31st, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: In the late 1970s, after ‘global cooling’ armageddon science fell out of fashion, a well-oiled machine comprised of billionaire-funded NGOs, the MSM, Hollywood, woke Wall Street, and a robust fact-checking / censorship cartel – started pushing a cult narrative about the planet’s imminent demise in a hellish inferno of global warming. They’ve blamed […]
1X Neo Humanoid Robot for Housework vs Reality
October 29th, 20251X is trying to summon the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field… It’s not going well.
Iain Davis: The Coming Global Technocratic Dark State
October 28th, 2025Via: Geopolitics and Empire:
Trump Jr-Backed Drone Firm Lands Pentagon Contract
October 25th, 202510% for the big guy? Via: Mint: A drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr has landed its biggest Pentagon deal yet. Unusual Machines, a very little-known Florida-based drone company, will supply 3,500 drone motors and other components to the Army as the latter expands its drone capabilities. Donald Trump Jr joined the company as […]
Robby Starbuck Suing Google, “Anti Conservative Defamation Machine”
October 25th, 2025“What you’re about to see is insane.” ? HUGE NEWS: I’m suing @Google today. What you’re about to see is insane. Since 2023, @GoogleAI (Bard, Gemini & Gemma), has been defaming me with fake criminal allegations including sexual assault, child rape, abuse, fraud, stalking, drug charges, and even saying I was in… pic.twitter.com/TZ3M5dqHLy — Robby […]
‘Wetware’: Scientists Use Human Mini-Brains to Power Computers
October 17th, 2025Via: AFP: Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich fluid they need to stay alive. It is vital these mini-brains remain healthy, because they are serving as rudimentary computer processors — and unlike your laptop, once they die, they cannot be […]
AI Has a Cargo Cult Problem
October 17th, 2025Via: Financial Times: Is it just a Ponzi scheme? That is the question that currently haunts American tech — and wider markets — as the valuation of artificial intelligence-linked groups soars to evermore eye-popping heights. Indeed, calculations by the FT suggests that ten lossmaking AI start-ups — such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI […]
