Archive for February, 2025
Physical Audit of Fort Knox Gold?
February 17th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: One of the biggest questions over the past 50 years is whether the gold at Fort Knox, Kentucky is really there, or if it’s been plundered. What we do know is that the last ‘audit’ of America’s gold stash was conducted on Sept. 23, 1974, when the US Treasury opened just one of […]
Social Security Scams: “This Might Be The Biggest Fraud In History”
February 17th, 2025Biggest fraud in history? haha G. Edward Griffin, hold my beer: The Creature from Jekyll Island Back on February 1st, I wrote: My guess is that we’ll hear more about things like Social Security fraud and less about whatever it is that LockheedMartin actually did with over $61 billion just in 2023. But, by all […]
Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
February 15th, 2025Via: Gizmodo: Artificial intelligence may one day make humans obsolete—just not in the way that you’re thinking. Instead of AI getting so good at completing tasks that it takes the place of a person, we may just become so reliant on imperfect tools that our own abilities atrophy. A new study published by researchers at […]
U.S. Aircraft Carrier Collides with Cargo Ship in Mediterranean Sea
February 14th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: How is that two massive ships, one a US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, crash into each other on the open waters of the Mediterranean? That’s what Pentagon investigators will be looking at in the wake of Wednesday’s incident off Egypt. The USS Harry S. Truman and the Panamanian-flagged merchant vessel Besiktas-M collided at […]
AI Delaying New Tech Adoption?
February 14th, 2025Via: Vale: Large language models, especially those on the scale of many of the most accessible, popular hosted options, take humongous datasets and long periods to train. By the time everything has been scraped and a dataset has been built, the set is on some level already obsolete. Then, before a model can reach the […]
Hole Blasted By Drone In Chernobyl’s Radiation Shield
February 14th, 2025Via: The War Zone: While the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there was no immediate radiation release, the massive, complexly designed New Safe Containment (NSC) structure was compromised and could suffer further damage, the experts told us. In addition, one expert expressed concern that in a worst-case scenario, the ensuing repair work could require […]
Our World Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Spike in Electricity Demand
February 14th, 2025Via: The Register: The world is going to need a lot of new electricity generation in the next three years to keep up with an “unprecedented” spike in demand, says the International Energy Agency (IEA) – and it’s going to be a tough goal to meet. The IEA’s report examines the current state of the […]
World’s First Hybrid Quantum Supercomputer Reimei Activated in Japan
February 14th, 2025Via: Interesting Engineering: Engineers in Japan have activated Reimei, the world’s first hybrid quantum supercomputer. The 20-qubit quantum machine has been integrated into Fugaku, the world’s sixth-fastest supercomputer. The hybrid system is designed to solve problems that classical supercomputers take much longer to process. The machine is housed at the Riken scientific institute in Saitama, […]
Ron Paul: Trump’s Good Ideas and Bad Ideas
February 14th, 2025“If you really want to know what’s behind this whole mess, you have to audit the Fed.” President Trump likes to keep everyone on their toes. He has proven to say things that (in the end) were perhaps never meant to be taken seriously in the first place. Sometimes the president's statements are bad ideas, […]
HHS Spent More Than $22B on Grants for Migrants — Including Cash for Cars, Home Loans and Startups
February 13th, 2025Via: New York Post: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ramped up grants for migrants from 2020 to 2024 — which included cash assistance to buy cars, homes and even build credit for startup businesses, according to a shocking watchdog report that found taxpayers were left on the hook for $22.6 billion. HHS’ […]
