National Guard Shooting Suspect Worked With CIA
November 27th, 2025Via: Newsweek:
The Afghan national suspected of shooting two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday had worked with the CIA, the agency’s director said, according to Fox News Digital.
The comments come amid an investigation into the shooting near the White House, which officials described as a targeted ambush. The Guard members, who have not been identified, remain in critical condition.
Intelligence sources told Fox that the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, had ties with various entities in the U.S. government, including the CIA, due to his work as a member of a partner force in Kandahar before the U.S. withdrawal.
CIA director John Ratcliffe told Fox News Digital: “The Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA.”
Voyager 1 Is About One Light-Day from Earth
November 26th, 2025Via: Science Clock:
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours—a full light-day—to reach it. For context, a light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion km), so one light-day is just a tiny fraction of that.
San Francisco: Brownstone Shared Housing
November 26th, 2025Via: Nick Johnson:
Flashback 2017: “This is bum living with running water and wi-fi.”
Layoffs Accelerating
November 25th, 2025Via: CNBC:
The U.S. labor market is showing further signs of weakening as the pace of layoffs has picked up over the past four weeks, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Tuesday.
Private companies lost an average of 13,500 jobs a week over the past four weeks, ADP said as part of a running update it has been providing. That’s an acceleration from the 2,500 jobs a week lost in the last update a week ago.
Trump Orders Moonshot-Like ‘Genesis Mission’ Relying on AI to Merge Science Data Across the U.S.
November 25th, 2025I wonder if this will be used to launder technologies out of the black world…
Via: Independent:
That’s one giant leap for AI.
The Trump administration is unleashing thousands of massive data sets — compiled by agencies throughout the federal government — and the capabilities of America’s world-renowned national laboratories into a government-wide effort to supercharge and coalesce scientific research using Artificial Intelligence in the hope of developing new drugs and other major breakthroughs.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday establishing what the administration is calling the “Genesis Mission,” with top administration officials predicting that the new effort will go down in history as having equal importance to America’s Cold War-era space race that saw the US meet President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 vow to land a man on the Moon before that decade’s close.
Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, described the new Trump administration AI project as the “largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program” during a call with reporters earlier Monday.
He explained that the project’s “national AI for science effort” would leverage “the unmatched computing capabilities and resources of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories to unlock federal data sets, enable autonomous, closed loop experimentation and massively accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs,” such as the rate of new drug approvals that have “flatlined or declined” over the last few decades.
Related: Amazon Announces $50B Plan For Dedicated Government AI Supercomputing
Google Producing AI Processors, Negotiating Partnership with Meta
November 25th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware:
Meta may be on the cusp of spending billions on Google AI chips to power its future developments, as the social-media giant is reportedly in talks to both buy and rent Google compute power for its future AI endeavours, as reported by The Information, via Reuters. The ongoing negotiations reportedly involve Meta renting Google Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) in 2026, before purchasing them outright in 2027.
This news shows continuing collaboration between the companies, despite a recent pause on their undersea cable projects.
To date, Google has mostly leveraged its TPUs for its internal efforts, so this move, if it comes to fruition, would be a change of tactic that could help it capture a sizeable portion of the AI chip business. Considering that few, if any, companies have figured out how to turn a profit from developing AI just yet, Google may be looking to get in on Nvidia’s act. The long-time GPU maker has made untold billions since the start of the AI craze, propelling it to become the world’s most valuable company within a short timeframe.
Brain Rot: Short Form Video Use, “Associated with Poorer Cognition (Attention, Inhibitory Control, Language, Memory, and Working Memory)”
November 24th, 2025Via: Independent:
Excessive usage of TikTok and Instagram Reels is damaging cognitive performance, the American Psychological Association has said in a recent study.
Data from 98,299 participants across 71 studies found that the more short-form content a person watches, the poorer cognitive performances they had in terms of attention and inhibitory control – meaning the more complex they found it to focus.
Researchers found that “repeated exposure to highly stimulating, fast-paced content may contribute to habituation, in which users become desensitized to slower, more effortful cognitive tasks such as reading, problem solving, or deep learning.” In short, researchers said it can contribute to brain rot.
It concluded that short-form video use was “associated with poorer cognition (attention, inhibitory control, language, memory, and working memory) and most mental health indices except body image and self-esteem.”
Study: The Impact of Short-Form Video Use on Cognitive and Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review
Americans With Four-Year Degrees Now Comprise a Record 25% of Unemployed Workers
November 24th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
The widening mismatch between an oversupply of college-educated workers and a deepening shortage of talent for non-degree, hands-on jobs has grown even more pronounced.
Bloomberg reports that the latest delayed BLS data shows a sharp deterioration in white-collar jobs, especially those holding four-year degrees, now making up a record 25% of all unemployed – or about 1.9 million folks, the highest level since 1992.
DragonFire: High Power Laser Shoots Down Fast Moving Drones
November 24th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware:
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the high?power laser system DragonFire successfully shot down drones travelling at speeds up to 403 miles per hour (650?km/h) during recent trials at the Hebrides range in Scotland and has signed a $413 million (£316?million) contract with MBDA UK to begin deploying the system on the Royal Navy’s Type?45 destroyers from 2027, five years earlier than originally planned.
In the trials, the MoD reports that DragonFire achieved a UK first for the above-the-horizon tracking and interception of high-speed drones. The system is claimed to cost about £10 (~$13) per shot and can reportedly hit a £1 coin (slightly smaller than a US Quarter) from a kilometer (0.621 miles or ~1,093 yards) away. The contract links the program to the Strategic Defence Review and includes job creation across the country, with nearly 600 skilled roles supported in England and Scotland.
Tucker Carlson: “Who Is Thomas Crooks”
November 23rd, 2025Who is Thomas Crooks? pic.twitter.com/WwjvPGGRwS
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 14, 2025
