Las Vegas: Investigation Into Illegal Biolab
February 4th, 2026Via: USA Today:
Federal and local authorities are investigating a suspected biological laboratory found inside a Las Vegas residence that they said is owned by a person connected to a 2023 illegal biolaboratory probe in Central California.
A SWAT team with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department assisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation with serving a search warrant at a residence in northeast Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 31, according to police. During the search, police said investigators discovered “evidence of possible biological material to include refrigerators with vials containing unknown liquids.”
The search ended early on Monday, Feb. 2, and authorities said investigators recovered over 1,000 pieces of evidence from the residence.
“(Las Vegas police) utilized several technology platforms to safely enter and assess the location before investigators entered the home,” police said in a statement. “Some of that evidence included biological material and liquids that were meticulously collected and sent to FBI labs for testing.”
Further investigation revealed that the residence’s owner was tied to a 2023 illegal biolaboratory investigation in rural California, according to police. The owner, Jia Bei Zhu, has been in federal custody on charges related to the California investigation.
Another suspect, Ori Solomon, 55, was arrested in connection with the Las Vegas investigation and was booked into the Clark County Detention Center for disposing of and discharging hazardous waste, police said. Solomon was the property manager for the Las Vegas residence and a nearby home that was also searched, according to police.
Related: Owner Of Chinese Biolab Busted In California Linked To CCP Military Program: House Report
SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion Merger
February 3rd, 2026Via: Reuters:
Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI in a record-setting deal that unifies Musk’s AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok ?chatbot.
The deal, first reported by Reuters last week, represents one of the most ambitious tie-ups in the technology sector yet, combining a space-and-defense ?contractor with a fast-growing AI developer whose costs are largely driven by chips, data centers and energy. It could also bolster SpaceX’s data-center ambitions as Musk competes with rivals like Alphabet’s Google, ?Meta, Amazon-backed Anthropic and OpenAI in the AI sector.
The transaction values SpaceX at $1 trillion, and xAI at $250 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Vaccine mRNA, Plasmid DNA, and Spike Protein Can Persist in Humans More Than 3.5 Years After COVID-19 Vaccination
February 2nd, 2026Via: Focal Points:
For years, the public was told that mRNA vaccine materials would degrade within days to weeks — rapidly broken down, biologically transient, and incapable of long-term persistence. That assumption shaped regulatory assurances, public messaging, and safety expectations worldwide. Billions across the globe received these injections based on the claim that the genetic material would quickly disappear from the body.
Today, that narrative collapses — following a coordinated, multi-country investigative effort involving the McCullough Foundation, the INMODIA laboratory (Germany), the Municipal Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt (Germany), Neo7Bioscience, and collaborating independent laboratories.
The resulting paper, titled “Unprecedented Persistence of Vaccine mRNA, Plasmid DNA, Spike Protein, and Genomic Dysregulation Over 3.5 Years Post–COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination,” presents what is, to our knowledge, the most comprehensive COVID-19 vaccine injury case report to date — involving >40 emergency department visits, >200 specialist encounters across 18 medical disciplines, >100 laboratory investigations, >100 imaging studies, and serial blood and tissue sampling performed at multiple timepoints over more than 3.5 years.
The findings reveal longitudinal molecular evidence that vaccine-derived mRNA, plasmid DNA fragments, and spike protein can persist in human blood and tissue more than 3.5 years after vaccination — independently confirmed across multiple laboratories using diverse analytical methods.
Finally, Some Possibly Good News About Firefox: AI Off Switch
February 2nd, 2026With the growing hostility toward AI slop creeping into everything, Mozilla might see an opportunity here to claw back some market share after years of steady decline.
With Firefox, however, one must always be waiting for the other shoe to drop…
Via: Mozilla:
AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.
Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox. You can also review and manage individual AI features if you choose to use them. This lets you use Firefox without AI while we continue to build AI features for those who want them.
Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users
February 2nd, 2026Microsoft bad.
Think outside the box.
Turns out, there’s always another box.
Via: The Hacker News:
The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility’s update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead.
“The attack involved [an] infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org,” developer Don Ho said. “The compromise occurred at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself.”
The exact mechanism through which this was realized is currently being investigated, Ho added.
The development comes a little over a month after Notepad++ released version 8.8.9 to address an issue that resulted in traffic from WinGUp, the Notepad++ updater, being “occasionally” redirected to malicious domains, resulting in the download of poisoned executables.
Minneapolis Teachers Union Chief Admits Elected Officials in Anti-ICE Signal Chats
February 2nd, 2026Via: Fox:
The head of the Minneapolis teachers union said in a recent interview that elected officials are involved in anti-ICE agitation in the city.
“The notion that people that are actively engaged in ICE watch, in being vigilant in protecting our neighbors, in Signal chat groups, running plates, in their cars doing patrols — that somehow we’re ashamed of that activity, that somehow you can call our bosses and show our faces and then we would be shunned by our community…” Marcia Howard told Al Jazeera in an interview that aired last week.
Howard is the president of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators, and perhaps best known for her role in championing the 2020 riots in the city over the death of George Floyd. She was also an English teacher for 25 years, including during the riots. She has been described as a “steward” of George Floyd Square, a memorial area where Floyd was killed. She meets there with local activists every morning.
“Our bosses are in the Signal chats with us,” she said. “Our elected officials are in the chats with us.”
Ed Dowd: Never Seen Risk Like This Before in My Career
February 2nd, 2026Via: USA Watchdog:
Dowd says, “This is a big call, and what is going to happen does not happen that often. We will try to call the bottom in the future, but right now, I have never seen risk like this before in my career. This has been unfolding. . .. I have not been wrong in the 2025 call. The stock market did go up 17%, but the rest of the economy imploded. Real estate started rolling over. . .. Unfortunately, because this is such a bubble because they kicked the can down the road . . . the odds of this happening fast have increased exponentially since the beginning of 2025.”
Dowd goes on to explain, “The three fundamental risks that we see for the US economy for 2026. . .. There are two internal risks and one external risk. The first risk is US housing crisis/white swan event. Immigrants came in and filled the gap. That’s now stopped. . .. Deportations are going to continue over the next year to two years, and that is going to continue to put pressure on homes. Affordability is a disaster. Incomes do not allow people to buy homes at these prices. The only way to correct this is home prices dropping 25% to 30% over the next two years. That would set us up for a recovery.”
Dowd continues, “The second risk to the US economy is a stock market bubble. The valuations are as bad as the Dot Com bubble. This is driven by the AI bubble, and we see the cracks are starting there. We expect that to pop sometime this year. The third risk is China. It is entering into the acute phase of its economic crisis. This is going to be a global contagion. It will hurt Japan and South Korea, and this will spill over to the US. . .. It will be a liquidity crisis, and that is why we are bullish on the US dollar.” (Dowd has new cutting-edge analysis on China for institutional investors. It has shocking new and never before released details about how much trouble China is really in.)
Dowd goes on to point out, “We have a lot of headwinds coming at us in 2026. . .. We think the first problems will begin in the shadow banking system, which is private equity, private credit funds and all these non-depository financial institution loans commercial banks made over the last two years. (See BlackRock story above.) All their loan growth came from that source. There was no loan growth in commercial and industrial. It was all in the shadow banking system.”
Video of Lockheed RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Drones Captured at Creech Air Force Base
January 31st, 2026RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Drone Supported Maduro Capture Mission:
At least one, and possibly two, of the U.S. Air Force’s secretive RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drones appear to have taken part in last night’s operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Spotting an RQ-170 in the context of a real-world mission is very rare, but it would not be unexpected in this case. The RQ-170 was designed by Lockheed’s Skunk Works exactly for this application, to provide persistent surveillance of high-value targets deep inside contested environments, including in support of special operations missions just like the one overnight in Venezuela.
Via: Uncanny Expeditions:
The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
January 31st, 2026Via: The Atlantic:
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get film students—film students—to sit through movies. “I used to think, If homework is watching a movie, that is the best homework ever,” Craig Erpelding, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. “But students will not do it.”
I heard similar observations from 20 film-studies professors around the country. They told me that over the past decade, and particularly since the pandemic, students have struggled to pay attention to feature-length films. Malcolm Turvey, the founding director of Tufts University’s Film and Media Studies Program, officially bans electronics during film screenings. Enforcing the ban is another matter: About half the class ends up looking furtively at their phones.
DOJ Releases 3 Million Pages Of Epstein Files Including Hundreds Of Thousands Of Photos
January 31st, 2026U.S. Department of Justice Epstein Library
Via: ZeroHedge:
The Justice Department on Friday announced the ‘final’ release of 3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to deputy AG Todd Blanche.
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