Larry Ellison Wants to Put All America’s Data, Including DNA, in Giant Database for AI to Study
February 13th, 2025Tell us another one, Larry.
Via: Register:
If governments want AI to improve services and security for their citizens, then they need to put all their information in one place – even citizens’ genomic data – according to Larry Ellison, the Oracle database tycoon.
Ellison shared his take on what governments need to do to succeed with AI during a discussion with his buddy former UK prime minister Tony Blair at the World Governments Summit in Dubai today.
The world’s fourth-most-richest man – a good friend also of the world’s richest man Elon Musk – insisted artificial intelligence is soon going to change everyone’s lives “across the board.”
If governments want in, they’ll need to gather all their data – spatial information, economic data, electronic healthcare records including genomic data, and info about infrastructure. Whatever they’ve got, basically. And put it all in one place to be analyzed by algorithms. The American multi-billionaire used the United States as an example, if not a goal.
“I have to tell [the] AI model as much about my country as I can,” Ellison said. “We need to unify all the national data, put it into a database where it’s easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like,” he said. “That’s the missing link.”
Related: Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure Good Behavior, Says Larry Ellison
Trump Announces Upcoming Meetings with Putin
February 13th, 2025Via: The Hill:
President Trump said Wednesday he expects to meet in person with Russian President Vladimir Putin multiple times, suggesting they are likely to meet first in Saudi Arabia.
“We ultimately expect to meet,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “In fact, we expect that he’ll come here, and I’ll go there, and we’re going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia. The first time we’ll meet in Saudi Arabia.”
The timing of when the meetings would happen were not yet clear, but Trump said it would be “not in the too distant future.”
Trump’s comments came hours after he spoke with Putin on the phone and as his administration pressed forward with plans to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmed as HHS Secretary
February 13th, 2025Via: New York Post:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate as President Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services on Thursday, capping a contentious fight over his skepticism on vaccines that had divided Republicans.
Senators voted 52-48 to place Kennedy, 71, atop the nation’s health bureaucracy with oversight of a budget of roughly $1.7 trillion.
PassMark Sees First Yearly Drop In Average CPU Performance In Its 20 Years Of Benchmark Results
February 11th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware:
Benchmarking software developer PassMark publishes the average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks in a line graph. In line with what many enthusiasts might expect, the PassMark graph has always shown a consistent increase in processor performance year-on-year. However, for the first time since the company started keeping track in 2004, the average CPU mark score for desktop and laptop processors has dropped, with laptops dropping 3.4% year-over-year.
Anna Paulina Luna to Lead Task Force on Declassification of UFOs, JFK Assassination, 9/11, Epstein
February 11th, 2025Limited hangouts for all the things.
? LIVE: Chairman @RepJamesComer and Congresswoman Luna Hold Press Conference to Make Major Announcement https://t.co/hM315q7fWk
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) February 11, 2025
Via: Fox:
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., will lead a new task force focused on the declassification of federal secrets – including records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other documents in the public interest, Fox News Digital has learned.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., appointed Luna to chair the “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.”
Luna is expected to focus on examining the declassification of materials in the public interest, including the client list of Jeffrey Epstein, and files relating to Sept. 11, 2001, COVID-19 origins, UFOs and more.
Fox News Digital has learned that Comer and Luna are sending letters to necessary agencies to kick off the declassification investigations.
Trump Says No Right of Return for Palestinians Under His Gaza Proposal
February 10th, 2025Annexing Canada? Annexing Greenland? Those are somewhat easy to dismiss. (Right? Right!?!)
There is, however, some sort of X factor between Trump and Zionism, which means that we should take Trump much more seriously when it comes to the Gaza situation.
When I first heard Trump’s Gaza plan, my first thought was, “He’s having some sort of Biden moment.”
It isn’t that.
Despite his staff continuously trying to walk this back, Trump keeps reiterating it.
In trying to understand this, everything I’m finding is similar to this discussion below. Essentially, there’s a lot of bewilderment and a belief that Trump isn’t actually going to do it:
Via: Al Jazeera:
United States President Donald Trump has confirmed that his proposal for mass displacement in Gaza does not include a right of return for Palestinians in the enclave.
In an interview with Fox News, partially aired on Monday, Trump also reiterated his push to “own” Gaza.
Asked whether Palestinians would be allowed to return to their territory under his plan, Trump said, “No, they wouldn’t.”
The US president’s plan to empty Gaza of its population has been forcefully rejected across the Middle East – including by Egypt and Jordan, the main countries that Trump says he wants to host displaced Palestinians.
Rights groups have also condemned the push, saying that it would amount to ethnic cleansing.
Trump’s assertion that he is seeking the permanent displacement of people in Gaza appears to contradict recent comments by his aides who said that the enclave’s residents would be able to return after the area is rebuilt.
Last week, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said people in Gaza would be “temporarily relocated”.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said that the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza would be in the “interim”, and residents would be able to “move back in” after reconstruction.
“When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury’s payment system, they uncovered more than missing data. They found a mechanism.”
February 10th, 2025I’d be astonished if it’s only 50% fraud.
Via: EKO:
Simple things were left blank:
Payment categories
Payment rationales
Basic audit controls
The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week.
Here’s what Treasury didn’t want exposed:
Over $100 billion flowing annually to accounts without Social Security numbers. No temporary ID numbers. No verification. Nothing. When Musk asked Treasury officials how much was “unequivocal and obvious fraud,” the answer revealed decades of corruption: Half.
…
“Everything at Treasury was geared towards complaint minimization,” Musk revealed after meeting with officials. Not accuracy. Not accountability. Not protecting taxpayer dollars. Just keeping the machine quiet.
This wasn’t incompetence. This was design.
DOGE Technologist and Thiel Fellow Luke Farritor
February 10th, 2025And now, Department of Energy: …listed as an engineer in the DOE’s staff directory…
Hmm.
Via: R&D World:
Before he joined the White House’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), 23-year-old engineer and former SpaceX software intern Luke Farritor was already making waves in digital archaeology. In 2023, he helped lead the Grand Prize-winning team in the Vesuvius Challenge—netting a portion of a $700,000 payout—by using state-of-the-art “autosegmentation” algorithms to virtually unroll a fragile Herculaneum scroll without physically cracking its carbonized layers. The Musk Foundation is among the biggest financial backers of the Vesuvius Challenge, whose partners include the Getty and the Google data science subsidiary Kaggle.
According to a Wall Street Journal article published on Feb. 9, 2024, the contest was launched by investors and scholars hoping to spur breakthroughs in reading these carbonized scrolls. It ultimately drew more than 3,000 competitors, including college students, software engineers, and AI researchers—all aiming to unearth texts lost for nearly 2,000 years.
Two years after virtually unrolling a scorched Herculaneum scroll along with Youssef Nader and Julian Schilliger, 23-year-old software whiz and Thiel Fellow Luke Farritor is once again in the spotlight—this time for his involvement at DOGE, reportedly receiving access to the Department of Energy’s IT system and listed as an engineer in the DOE’s staff directory.
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Musk: FEMA Diverted Funds Meant for Natural Disasters to Pay for Luxury Hotels for Illegal Migrants
February 10th, 2025Under Biden, FEMA betrayed the American people by diverting funds meant for natural disasters to pay for luxury hotels for illegal migrants https://t.co/x135ryYM66
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 10, 2025
Trump Orders End of Penny Production
February 10th, 2025Via: USA Today:
A 233-year run could be over.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is telling the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies, after more than 200 years of the coin.
“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump said on Truth Social. “I have instructed my Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”
