Archive for May, 2024
OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
May 18th, 2024Via: Wired: In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and one of the company’s cofounders, was named as the colead of this new team. OpenAI said the […]
What Are The Privacy Risks Of ChatGPT-4o? “They Stress that the Training Information Is not Used to Profile People, or to Learn About Them”
May 18th, 2024Via: Forbes: The privacy implications of ChatGPT are two-pronged, says Oliver Willis, partner at BDB Pitmans. “From a user’s perspective, how does ChatGPT collect and use data about you when you are using it? From everyone else’s perspective, was ChatGPT trained on information about you and what will it tell users about you?” In its […]
UK Says Proposed Pandemic Treaty ‘Not Acceptable’
May 18th, 2024Mmm hmm. The sane move would be to pull out of the WHO and arrest the perpetrators of the Covid scam. Via: AFP: A proposed World Health Organization treaty on preparing for future pandemics is currently “not acceptable” to Britain, a UK health minister said on Tuesday. The WHO’s 194 member states have spent two […]
Remember The One About A Tesla Cybertruck Towing A Porsche 911 Appearing To Beat A Porsche 911 In A Drag Race?
May 18th, 2024Via: Motortrend: We ran six quarter-mile drag races, and each one had the same outcome: The Porsche 911 Carrera T wins and the Tesla Cybertruck Beast loses. In the world of drag racing, it’s not a particularly close race, either.
DNA Contamination in Pfizer COVID Vaccine Exceeded 500 Times Allowable Levels
May 17th, 2024Via: The Defender: A new peer-reviewed study raises concerns about the methods used to test for potential DNA impurities in the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. In the study published this month in Methods and Protocols, German researchers Brigitte König and Jürgen O. Kirchner questioned the reliability of the quantitative PCR […]
NATO Considers Sending Trainers to Ukraine
May 17th, 2024Ok, New York Times. We’ll pretend that special forces from NATO countries haven’t been there the entire time… Via: ZeroHedge: The continued inevitable and disastrous slide into a WW3 nuclear-armed confrontation between Russian and the West continues as The New York Times reports NATO appears to actually be seriously mulling sending troops to Ukraine to […]
HHS Suspends Government Funding for EcoHealth Alliance
May 16th, 2024Nothing we haven’t known about for years. Nobody involved is in prison. Via: The Defender: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today suspended all funding for EcoHealth Alliance and proposed barring the organization from future government contracts or funding. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded nonprofit was performing gain-of-function research at the […]
Chicken Owners Must Register in UK
May 16th, 2024Via: Alison Morrow: Research Credit: cgroove
Lithium from Shale Gas Well Waste Water
May 15th, 2024Via: University of Pittsburgh: Most batteries used in technology like smart watches and electric cars are made with lithium that travels across the world before even getting to manufacturers. But what if nearly half of the lithium used in the U.S. could come from Pennsylvania wastewater? A new analysis using compliance data from the Pennsylvania […]
Attempted Assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico
May 15th, 2024In other news: Slovakia Will Not Support New Pandemic Treaty: Peter Kotlár, the Slovak Government Plenipotentiary for the COVID-19 pandemic, informed that Slovakia would not support the current version of the new pandemic treaty or the draft amendment to the International Health Regulations. The Health Ministry noted that it would not support any documents weakening […]
