Five Countries to Test European Vaccination Card
August 3rd, 2024Via: Children’s Health Defense:
Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia and Portugal will test the new vaccination card in a variety of formats, including printed cards, mailed copies and digital versions for smartphones. Critics called it a “direct threat to freedom.”
Warren Buffett Raises Berkshire Cash Level to Record $277 Billion After Slashing Stock Holdings
August 3rd, 2024He has been selling for, “Seven quarters straight.” He knows something big is coming down.
Via: CNBC:
Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile swelled to a record $276.9 billion last quarter as Warren Buffett sold big chunks in stock holdings including Apple.
The Omaha-based conglomerate’s cash hoard jumped significantly higher from the previous record of $189 billion, set in the first quarter of 2024. The increase came after the Oracle of Omaha sold nearly half of his stake in Tim Cook-led tech giant in the second quarter.
Berkshire has been a seller of stocks for seven quarters straight, but that selling accelerated in the last period with Buffett shedding more than $75 billion in equities in the second quarter. That brings the total of stocks sold in the first half of 2024 to more than $90 billion. The selling by Buffett has continued in the third quarter in some areas with Berkshire trimming its second biggest stake, Bank of America, for 12 consecutive days, filing this week showed.
The Patsy Profile: Assassination Deep Events
August 3rd, 2024Via: Dark Journalist:
Riots in Britain: “Enough Is Enough”
August 3rd, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
Riots have broken out across the UK amid ‘anti-immigration’ protests linked to the far right with officers firing tear gas into crowds and battling thugs as they are pelted with bricks and rocks.
Simmering tensions in the wake of the Southport stabbings have erupted into protests around the country, with mayhem breaking out in Leeds, Stoke and Liverpool, where multiple officers have been injured tackling the disorder.
Children of Freed Sleeper Agents Learned They Were Russians on the Flight, Kremlin Says
August 2nd, 2024Via: Reuters:
A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were Russians only after the flight took off, the Kremlin said on Friday.
“Before that, they didn’t know that they were Russian and that they had anything to do with our country,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“And you probably saw that when the children came down the plane’s steps that they don’t speak Russian and that Putin greeted them in Spanish. He said ‘buenas noches’.”
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Among those released were the so-called “illegal” sleeper agents – the Dultsevs, a husband and wife convicted by a court in Slovenia of pretending to be Argentinians in order to spy, who were flown back to Russia with their two children.
Peskov said that while the couple were being held in jail they were given only restricted access to their children, and feared they could lose their parental rights.
“The children asked their parents yesterday who it was that was meeting them (in Moscow). They didn’t even know who Putin was. This is how the ‘illegals’ work. They make such sacrifices out of dedication to their work,” Peskov said.
Ukraine War: First Successful One Way Drone Attack On In-Flight Helicopter
August 2nd, 2024Via: The Warzone:
This morning, a Russian Mi-8AMTSh Hip helicopter crashed near Donetsk City. Russian sources report it was downed by a Ukrainian one-way attack drone.
“Yesterday we wrote about the enemy’s attempts to operate drones against our army aviation,” wrote the Voivode Broadcasts Telegram channel, which first reported the incident. “Unfortunately… today they succeeded.”
The helicopter was hit “at the moment of takeoff,” Voivode Broadcasts wrote.
More: A Two-Pound Ukrainian Drone Just Shot Down A 12-Ton Russian Helicopter
Related: Long-Range Kamikaze Drones Offer ‘Cheap’ Strike Opportunities For U.S., Allies
New York Times Claims Hamas Leader Killed by Bomb Placed Months in Advance
August 2nd, 2024Via: The Warzone:
In the hours after Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran on Wednesday, speculation emerged that an Israeli airstrike, missile, or drone attack, among other possibilities, caused the fatal explosion. However, Haniyeh was killed by a bomb smuggled into the guesthouse where he was staying, The New York Times reported.
“The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse,” the publication reported, citing five Middle Eastern officials. “The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps [IRGC] and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in an upscale neighborhood of northern Tehran.”
Japan: Nikkei Declines Most Since Black Monday in 1987
August 2nd, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei Stock Average on Friday recorded the second biggest daily drop in its history, as stocks extended losses following a sell-off in New York overnight.
The index plunged to 35,909.70, down 2,216.63 points, or 5.81%, marking its lowest close since Jan. 26.
Friday’s decline was the second largest in the index’s history after the Black Monday crash of October 1987, when global markets sank and the index cratered by 3,836.48 points.
Fully-Automatic Robot Dentist Performs World’s First Human Procedure
August 2nd, 2024Via: New Atlas:
Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.
The system, built by Boston company Perceptive, uses a hand-held 3D volumetric scanner, which builds a detailed 3D model of the mouth, including the teeth, gums and even nerves under the tooth surface, using optical coherence tomography, or OCT.
Intel Is Laying Off Over 15,000 Employees
August 1st, 2024Update: Intel’s, “Worst Day Ever”
Wrecked.
Via: USA Today:
Intel shares sank nearly 28% on Friday and were set for their worst day ever after the company suspended dividend and slashed workforce to fund a costly turnaround for its chip-making business.
The company was set to lose about $35 billion in market value as its disappointing forecast and planned 15% job cuts raised worries about its ability to catch up with Taiwan’s TSMC and other chipmakers.
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Keep in mind, the events leading up to this are in the past. It’s much worse now.
Intel has recently admitted that two generations of CPUs are prone to a power instability issue that can permanently damage the chips:
Intel has announced that it has found the root cause of the crashing issues plaguing its CPUs. The company will issue a microcode update to address the issues by mid-August, ostensibly ending the long-running saga that began when the first sporadic reports of CPU crashing errors surfaced in December 2022 and grew to a crescendo by the end of 2023. Intel’s response comes after complaints about the issue, which causes PCs to inexplicably crash/BSOD during gaming and other workloads, reached a fever pitch in recent weeks. However, the microcode update will not repair impacted processors.
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The bug causes irreversible degradation of the impacted processors. We’re told that the microcode patch will not repair processors already experiencing crashes, but it is expected to prevent issues on processors that aren’t currently impacted by the issue. For now, it is unclear if CPUs exposed to excessive voltage have suffered from invisible degradation or damage that hasn’t resulted in crashes yet but could lead to errors or crashes in the future.
Intel advises all customers having issues to seek help from its customer support. Because the microcode update will not repair impacted processors, the company will continue to replace them. Intel has pledged to grant RMAs to all impacted customers.
As the PR disaster snowballs: Intel announces two extra years of warranty amid chip crashing and instability issues — longer warranty applies to 13th- and 14th-Gen Core processors:
Intel told us today that it will extend the warranty on its boxed Intel Core 13th- and 14th-Gen processors by two additional years. Intel’s warranty extension comes as a result of the crashing and instability issues that have plagued its 13th- and 14th-Gen chips for months. Those issues impact all 65W and higher models, meaning the crashes have a widespread impact ranging from the flagship models down to even the pedestrian mid-range chips. Intel’s processors typically come with a three-year warranty period, so the extension will bring the warranty for most boxed processors to five years.
Via: The Verge:
Intel’s on a long, long road to recovery, and over 15,000 workers will no longer be coming along for the ride. The chipmaker just announced it’s downsizing its workforce by over 15 percent as part of a new $10 billion cost savings plan for 2025, which will mean a headcount reduction of greater than 15,000 roles, Intel tells The Verge. The company currently employs over 125,000 workers, so layoffs could be as many as 19,000 people.
Intel will reduce its R&D and marketing spend by billions each year through 2026; it will reduce capital expenditures by more than 20 percent this year; it will restructure to “stop non-essential work,” and it’ll review “all active projects and equipment” to make sure it’s not spending too much.
