Archive for September, 2026
China’s Oil Scramble Sends African, Canadian, Latin American Crude Prices Soaring
September 9th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: China, the world’s largest oil importer, is bidding up crude prices across Africa, Canada, and Latin American markets as disruptions in the Hormuz chokepoint and limited Iranian supplies intensify competition for alternatives. The scramble is squeezing smaller Chinese refineries that once relied on heavily discounted Iranian barrels, according to a new Bloomberg report.
Anthropic Researcher: “The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All By The End Of The Decade”
September 9th, 2026I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below. — Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026 Via: TechCrunch: An Anthropic researcher has resigned over fears […]
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
September 9th, 2026Via: The American Prospect: Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence. In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on […]
U.S. Destroys Iranian Oil Tankers Near Kharg Island
September 8th, 2026Via: New York Post: American forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and Jask on Tuesday as the US added military might to its economic squeeze of the Islamic Republic. US Central Command said in a statement that it carried out the strikes that downed five Iranian crude oil carriers in response to […]
Saudi’s Remaining Energy Lifeline To The World Under Threat After Successful Houthi Strikes
September 8th, 2026Via: The War Zone: Just hours ago, the Saudi Aramco refinery at Jazan on the Red Sea was engulfed in flames after a Houthi missile and drone attack. Strikes at the heart of the Saudi’s energy infrastructure on the Red Sea, which acts as the remaining primary lifeline of energy exports out of the region, […]
UAE Warned Netanyahu Hamas Was Planning ‘Terrifying Operation’ 10 Days Before Oct. 7
September 8th, 2026Via: Media ITE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally and explicitly warned that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major attack roughly 10 days before the October 7 massacre, but dismissed the threat and did not alert his security chiefs, according to a shocking new Haaretz report. The revelations come from research for […]
What REALLY Happened With the Missing Trillions?
September 7th, 2026Via: Corbett Report:
LG TVs Run a Network and Audio Surveillance Dragnet Against Users
September 7th, 2026Via: Gamers Nexus: Here’s a brief article about the video above (if you don’t have 2+ hours to spend on this and want a basic summary: LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices More: LG Isn’t the Only TV Company Spying on You
“Is There Alien Debris on the Moon? Some Scientists Plan to Find Out.”
September 5th, 2026If you liked the one about Satam al-Suqami’s passport, you’ll love this! Via: New York Times (backup): Imagine an alien civilization that runs on dazzling technologies far more advanced than our own. Picture city-size starships, planet-wide mines or swarms of solar panels that harvest energy directly from a star. As these aliens go about their […]
Alejandro Betancourt: Venezuelan Billionaire the U.S. Investigated for Money Laundering Now Has a Pentagon Oil Deal
September 5th, 2026Via: Reuters: The billionaire who helped broker the Trump administration’s sweeping long-term oil deal with Venezuela was until recently a target of U.S. money-laundering investigations involving funds embezzled from the state-owned oil company PDVSA. Now, after assisting U.S. authorities ahead of the capture ?of authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, Alejandro Betancourt is Washington’s key partner in […]
