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The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar)
February 23rd, 2024Via: Jesse Michels:
Mobile Phone Service Disruption Across U.S.
February 22nd, 2024UPDATE: Pharmacies Nationwide Report Outages in Wake of Cyberattack Via: Fox: Pharmacies across the country are reporting delays to prescription orders due to a cyberattack against one of the nation’s largest health-care technology companies. Change Healthcare, a company handling orders and patient payments throughout the U.S., first noticed the “cyber security issue” affecting its networks […]
Magic AI: “We’ve Raised $117 Million… to Build an AI Software Engineer”
February 21st, 2024We've raised $117M from @natfriedman and others to build an AI software engineer. Code generation is both a product and a path to AGI, requiring new algorithms, lots of CUDA, frontier-scale training, RL, and a new UI. We are hiring! pic.twitter.com/I3fOLmrKA8 — Magic.dev (@magicailabs) February 15, 2024 Via: BayAreaInno: A San Francisco startup using artificial […]
Tennessee Company Accused of Using Child Labor to Clean Slaughterhouses
February 21st, 2024What happens to the ones who aren’t cleaning the slaughterhouses? Biden Administration Facilitates Sex Trafficking and Rape of Immigrant Children, Florida Grand Jury Reports ‘Modern-Day Slave Traders’: Hawley Demands Probe Into 85,000 ‘Lost’ Migrant Children HHS Whistleblower Says Government Complicit in Trafficking; Child Admits Being ‘Pimped’ by Sponsor Biden Secretly Flying Underage Migrants Into NY […]
Feds Charge Japanese Yakuza Leader with Nuclear Materials Trafficking
February 21st, 2024Weapons-grade plutonium!? That’s a big deal, if true. Where did that come from? Via: CNBC: Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday said they had charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries. Prosecutors said the accused gangster Takeshi Ebisawa “and his confederates showed samples of nuclear […]
NYC Mayor To Give Migrants Debit Cards Worth Up To $10,000
February 21st, 2024Via: NY Post: It takes money to make money, as the old saying goes, and apparently, it also takes money — as much as $53 million — to give money away. Earlier this month, The Post broke the story that Mayor Eric Adams is giving out pre-paid cash cards to migrants. Unusually for the mayor, […]
Trident Missile Test Fails for Second Time in a Row
February 21st, 2024Via: BBC: The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row. The latest test of the UK’s nuclear deterrent was from HMS Vanguard and was witnessed by the defence secretary. The missile’s booster rockets failed and it landed in the sea close to […]
Albedo Space: Low Earth Orbit Satellites Will Have 10cm Resolution
February 20th, 2024Via: New York Times: Anyone living in the modern world has grown familiar with diminishing privacy amid a surge security cameras, trackers built into smartphones, facial recognition systems, drones and other forms of digital monitoring. But what makes the overhead surveillance potentially scary, experts say, is its ability to invade areas once seen as intrinsically […]
Achieve AGI By Just Scaling Compute?
February 20th, 2024Video Generation Models as World Simulators: We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is […]
WHO Chief’s Dire Warning: Disease X Outbreak ‘A Matter of When, not If’
February 18th, 2024Mmm hmm. Via: Fox: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has issued a new warning about the likelihood of Disease X breaking out, telling global world leaders it is “a matter of when, not if” a new pathogen and pandemic will strike. Tedros, who goes by his first name and is not a medical […]
