Israel’s Occupation Of Southern Syria To Be Permanent
August 27th, 2025Imagine my shock.
Via: ZeroHedge:
“The IDF will remain at the peak of Mount Hermon and in the security zone necessary to protect the Golan and Galilee settlements from threats looming from the Syrian side as the main lesson from the events of October 7,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Tuesday.
And so with that, Israel confirmed it will “remain” in the territory it has captured in southern Syria as a permanent occupation, which will likely lead to annexation. The Israeli army had moved swiftly beyond its Golan Heights occupation in the wake of the December 8 ouster of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It has kept expanding since then, citing new ‘threats’.
Hacker Used Anthropic AI to Automate an ‘Unprecedented’ Cybercrime Spree
August 27th, 2025Via: CNBC:
A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets to write ransom notes.
In a report published Tuesday, Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, said that an unnamed hacker “used AI to what we believe is an unprecedented degree” to research, hack and extort at least 17 companies.
Microsoft Word Will Autosave to Cloud by Default
August 27th, 2025At least there’s a built in way to change this stupid cloud autosave behavior in Word. For now, at least.
Most Word users won’t know or care about the totality of what they write being copied to Microsoft’s servers. Imagine the convenience!
If you use Microsoft Office, there’s a decent chance that Libre Office would work for you.
Maybe Microsoft should build a biofeedback device into Windows to help users better handle the unending innovations and improvements.
Via: ghacks:
Microsoft announced that it is changing the default save location for Word documents on Windows. “Anything new you create will be saved automatically to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination”, writes Raul Munoz, product manager at Microsoft on the Office Shared Services and Experiences team.
Munoz backs up the decision with half a dozen advantages for saving documents to the cloud. From never losing progress and access anywhere to easy collaboration and increased security and compliance.
While cloud saving is without doubt beneficial in some cases, Munoz fails to address the elephant in the room. Some users may not want that their documents are stored in the cloud. There are good reasons for that, including privacy.
Mystery: Piles of Cremated Human Remains Found Just Outside of Las Vegas
August 27th, 2025Via: Independent:
About 70 piles of cremated human remains mysteriously appeared on the side of a dirt road just outside Las Vegas, according to reports.
The disturbing discovery was made on Monday near the rural community of Searchlight, located about an hour south of the Las Vegas Valley off U.S. Route 95, 8 News Now reported.
A source told the news station they stumbled upon the piles and provided a photo of the grisly scene. The Bureau of Land Management has since opened an investigation into the mysterious finding.
An official confirmed to 8 News Now that the piles consist of human cremated remains. Though the “ashes” are actually pulverized bone left over after a person is cremated, according to the report.
SpaceX: Starship’s Tenth Flight Test
August 27th, 2025If you have any interest in this type of thing, it’s all extremely impressive.
Watch Starship's tenth flight test ? https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B https://t.co/BFrpQPQFUw
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 26, 2025
IBM, AMD Partnership on “Quantum-Centric Supercomputing”
August 26th, 2025Via: IBM:
Today, IBM and AMD announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating to develop scalable, open-source platforms that could redefine the future of computing, leveraging IBM’s leadership in developing the world’s most performant quantum computers and software, and AMD’s leadership in high-performance computing and AI accelerators.
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In a quantum-centric supercomputing architecture, quantum computers work in tandem with powerful high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, which are typically supported by CPUs, GPUs and other compute engines. In this hybrid approach, different components of a problem are tackled by the paradigm best suited to solve them. For example, in the future, quantum computers could simulate the behavior of atoms and molecules, while classical supercomputers powered by AI could handle massive data analysis. Together, these technologies could tackle real-world problems at unprecedented speed and scale.
AMD and IBM are exploring how to integrate AMD CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs with IBM quantum computers to efficiently accelerate a new class of emerging algorithms, which are outside the current reach of either paradigm working independently. The proposed effort could also help progress IBM’s vision to deliver fault-tolerant quantum computers by the end of this decade. AMD technologies offer promise for providing real-time error correction capabilities, a key element of fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Trump to Allow 600,000 Chinese Students Entry to U.S. for College
August 26th, 2025Via: New York Post:
President Trump said his administration will welcome more Chinese students than ever into the United States to enroll in higher education as trade talks press on with Beijing.
Trump announced Monday that he plans to open the floodgates to another 600,000 Chinese college students, though it’s unclear when. There are currently around 270,000 Chinese students enrolled in US universities.
Broke Americans Complaining on Social Media
August 25th, 2025I read a series of books called, The Borrowed World by Franklin Horton.
Spoiler Alert:
When the shit hits the fan in the U.S., the things desperate Americans tend to have in abundance are guns and ammo. Food? No. Fuel? No. Water? Not so much.
I wonder if the military deployments to U.S. cities are more about the economic collapse situation you see in the video below and less about whatever President Warp Speed says it’s for.
Via: HighImpactVlogs:
Why Are More And More Americans Becoming Disabled?
August 25th, 2025Gee, I wonder…
What could it be?
In other news, why are covid vaccinated Czech women having 1/3 fewer children than unvaccinated Czech women?
Hmm. Baffling.
Via: ZeroHedge:
Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals 1.1 million MORE Americans have become disabled in just the past 3 months.
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Prominent data analyst @DowdEdward reports that since February 2021, an additional 5.89 million Americans have answered “yes” to the Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey question on disability.
Burner Phones, Wiped Socials: People Trying to Avoid Being Detained When Visiting the U.S.
August 25th, 2025Don’t have too little data, because that’s also suspicious:
You might think the most protective options are to completely wipe your phone before traveling, use a burner or travel without a phone. But the EFF’s Cope said that could actually raise suspicions.
“People are damned if they do and damned if they don’t,” Cope said. “If you cross the border with no data on your device, that itself can be seen as suspicious.”
Instead, if you want to seem cooperative but do have data or texts stored on your phone that you wouldn’t want to be accessed, Cope suggests deleting that information selectively rather than wiping your whole device.
What happens if you turn up with no phone at all?
Via: Guardian:
More than a dozen countries have updated their travel guidance to the US. In Australia and Canada, government advisories were changed to specifically mention the potential for electronic device searches.
On the advice of various experts, people are locking down social media, deleting photos and private messages, removing facial recognition, or even traveling with “burner” phones to protect themselves.
In Canada, multiple public institutions have urged employees to avoid travel to the US, and at least one reportedly told staff to leave their usual devices at home and bring a second device with limited personal information instead.
“Everybody feels guilty, but they don’t know exactly what they’re guilty of,” said Heather Segal, founding partner of Segal Immigration Law in Toronto, describing the influx of concerns she’s been hearing.
“‘Did I do something wrong? Is there something on me? Did I say something that’s going to be a problem?’”
She advised travelers to assess their risk appetite by reviewing both the private data stored on their devices and any information about them that’s publicly accessible, and to consider what measures to take accordingly.
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