Archive for October, 2026
Robot-Dog Walkers Wanted, $20 an Hour
October 27th, 2026Via: Digital Trends: San Francisco startup Dimensional advertised for people to walk robot dogs through city streets. The New York Times reported that the job could include carrying a roughly 33-pound robot back to the office if it overheated. A lift home is an awkward requirement for a labor-saving machine. … The now-deleted ad described […]
BBC Caught Pushing Extreme Open Borders Propaganda To Kids
October 26th, 2026I’m shocked. Via: Modernity: The BBC has been forced to strip large sections of its Bitesize education website after an investigation revealed it was feeding extreme left-wing views on mass migration and Net Zero to 1.7 million schoolchildren every week. The platform, recommended by nearly every state school in the UK and used by almost […]
The FORTRESS Initiative: “The Pentagon’s Doomsday Plan to Keep America Fighting if Global War Erupts”
October 25th, 2026Via: Fox: The Pentagon is preparing U.S. military bases to keep operating for at least 90 days without outside support as it prepares for the possibility of a major war that could cripple power grids, disrupt supply chains and threaten critical infrastructure on American soil. The new requirement is part of FORTRESS, a broader military […]
SpaceX Attempting to Solve Shortage of Gas Turbine Components
October 25th, 2026Via: Farzad: Related: Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Worth of AI Data Center Hardware Sitting in Warehouses… Depreciating…
Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Worth of AI Data Center Hardware Sitting in Warehouses… Depreciating…
October 22nd, 2026Via: The Tech Report: More: Jays Two Cents: Related: Where’re All The AI Chips? “The artificial intelligence (AI) boom represents one of the largest speculative frenzies in history.”
Finland to Produce a Million Land Mines
October 21st, 2026Via: The War Zone: NATO member Finland is preparing to reintroduce anti-personnel landmines into its military arsenal, with a contract for around one million examples due to be signed soon, following the country’s withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention that aims to eliminate these weapons. The move comes as Helsinki looks to strengthen its territorial defenses […]
Alaska’s HAARP Site Now Being Used To Test New Air Force Over-The-Horizon Radar Tech
October 21st, 2026Via: The War Zone: The U.S. military has successfully demonstrated a new lower-cost receiver that could form part of a future over-the-horizon (OTH) radar. The testing also raises the question of whether the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) research site in Alaska, which the U.S. Air Force transferred away more than a decade […]
Claim that Russian Satellite Came Within 85 Feet of Commercial Imaging Satellite
October 20th, 2026Via: The War Zone: A Russian satellite, Kosmos 2612, may have passed within approximately 85 feet (26 meters) of a U.S.-registered satellite belonging to commercial imagery provider ICEYE. This would be an extraordinarily close and potentially dangerous pass-by for two objects in space traveling at thousands of miles per hour. For weeks beforehand, ICEYE-X36, which […]
Scientists Built a Computer Using Living Human Brain Cells—Now It Can Decode Braille
October 20th, 2026Via: The Debrief: Biohybrid computers made of organoids—tiny human brain models using real cells—have reached an important new benchmark by reading braille for the first time, even under challenging conditions. … Although biohybrid computers could eventually offer advantages in energy efficiency, demonstrating that they can reliably process and transmit meaningful information remains a work in […]
“How to Deal with Shipping AI-Written Code You Don’t Understand?”
October 20th, 2026Via: Hacker News: I’m an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I’m writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This new standard of shipping with AI is moving so fast that if we’re going to spend our time checking each line of code, it’s […]
