Archive for December, 2023
EU Automakers Have Secured Less Than a Fifth of the Battery Metals They’ll Need by 2030
December 6th, 2023Via: Electrek: European automakers have secured less than a fifth of the cobalt, lithium, and nickel they’ll need to meet targets by 2030, according to a new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). Exceptions are Tesla and China’s BYD, but Tesla and certainly BYD fall a bit short on responsible practices compared to other automakers. […]
Gemini: Google Launches New AI Model
December 6th, 2023Via: Forbes: Google’s most anticipated large language model, Gemini, has been officially announced today. During a virtual press conference, the leaders from Google DeepMind and Google Cloud showcased the capabilities of the new LLM while also sharing the roadmap. Initially announced at Google I/O 2023 by Sundar Pichai, Gemini is the most capable LLM that […]
Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications
December 6th, 2023What can I say? If you’re even mildly surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention for the past couple of decades. Via: Reuters: Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials […]
Billionaire Palmer Luckey Unveils Jet-Powered VTOL Kamikaze Drone
December 6th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Introducing: Roadrunner, a compact VTOL drone powered by twin thrust-vectored turbojet engines with extraordinary speed, range, and payload capacity. & Roadrunner-M, a radical new low-cost weapon that allows for unprecedented tactics against powerful threats. pic.twitter.com/2C7Ga0h1Hf — Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) December 1, 2023 Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, is positioning Anduril Industries, his […]
Ex-DEA Informant Pleads Guilty to Role in Killing Haitian President
December 5th, 2023Via: Reuters: Joseph Vincent, a former informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), on Tuesday became the fourth person to plead guilty in a U.S. court for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president that left a destabilizing power vacuum. A Haitian-American national, Vincent is among 11 defendants, including include Colombian ex-soldiers […]
San Francisco Now at 35% Office Vacancy Rate, Highest Ever Recorded
December 5th, 2023Via: ABC7: The skyline of San Francisco’s Financial District is about as picturesque as it gets. An area that was bustling with people several years ago, but one that according to the numbers, is now more vacant than ever. “Right now in downtown San Francisco, we have a vacancy rate of a little over 35% […]
The American Dream Has Been Downsized into a Tiny Box
December 5th, 2023Via: Truthstream Media: Flashback: L.A. Coliving: PodShare
Israeli AI ‘Assassination Factory’ Plays Central Role in the Gaza War
December 4th, 2023Via: Antiwar: Tel Aviv has been relying on an AI Program dubbed the Gospel to select targets in Gaza at a rapid pace. In past operations in Gaza, the IDF ran out of targets to strike in the besieged enclave. A statement on the IDF website says the Israeli military is using the Gospel to […]
Microsoft Inked Deals With Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Outlets
December 4th, 2023Via: Washington Free Beacon: Microsoft helped Chinese state-run media outlets disseminate propaganda as part of previously unreported partnership agreements, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The nation’s second largest corporation signed collaboration deals with state-run Chinese media outlets including China Daily and People’s Daily, the latter of which is the official newspaper of […]
California: Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) Delivers Brutal Fact Check Following The Newsom And DeSantis Debate
December 4th, 2023Via: Forbes:
