Archive for the 'Technology' Category
DARPA Funded Research Into Customized Casimir Cavities Produced ‘MicroSparc’ Device That Allegedly Draws Power from Quantum Vacuum
May 13th, 2026tldr: Output is picoamps at the moment, but it seems real. Via: The Debrief: Casimir Inc, a company founded and led by former DARPA-funded NASA warp drive pioneer and founder of the EagleWorks Lab, Harold G. “Sonny” White, has exited stealth mode to announce the pending 2028 commercialization of MicroSparc, a chip that the company […]
Google Chrome Downloading 4GB AI Model to Your Device Without Asking, Re-Downloads When You Delete It
May 5th, 2026Firefox has a single kill switch for all AI features. Go to Settings – AI Controls – Toggle on, “Block AI enhancements.” Via: Techspot: Google started turning Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser, into an AI browser last year in response to threats from popular AI-native rivals such as OpenAI. Recent reports have uncovered […]
The Car That Watches You Back
May 5th, 2026Via: Nobody Asked For This: This is a story about how a machine most people still think of as property became something else: a platform with monetized inventory and a data feed pointed back at the manufacturer. It is also about the sequence of technical decisions that made that transformation possible. The story starts, depending […]
“I’m Scared About Biological Computing”
May 5th, 2026Via: Mind Dump: So… are the neurons on that chip seeing? We all desperately want to say no. We want to say it’s just a science experiment, that 200,000 neurons isn’t enough to be a “person.” But 200,000 is already more neurons than a jellyfish or a worm. Where do we draw the line?
The Manhattan Project 2.0 – The Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs
May 2nd, 2026Via: UAP Gerb:
Israel Tries Cope Cages Against Hezbollah’s Drones
April 30th, 2026Via: The War Zone: Over the course of a nearly two-month old war with Israel, Hezbollah has been increasing its use of fiber-optic controlled first-person view (FPV) drones against Israeli troops and vehicles, something we were among the first to note. Now, it appears that Israel is resorting to the use of anti-drone netting on […]
More Than Two Thirds of Children Under Two Use Screens
April 29th, 2026Via: Sky: More than two-thirds of children under the age of two use screens – some watching devices for up to eight hours a day, researchers warned. Despite recent government guidelines that parents should avoid screen time for kids under two, new research found that one in 10 babies now regularly fall asleep with a […]
Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree on Deal for ‘Any Lawful’ Use of AI
April 28th, 2026Via: The Verge: Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for “any lawful government purpose,” The Information reports. The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using its AI amid concerns that it […]
OpenAI Misses Revenue, User Targets As CFO Fears $1.5 Trillion In Commitments Can’t Be Paid
April 28th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: Earlier today, when previewing this week’s earnings by the Mag 7 which account for over $10 trillion in market cap set to report Q1 results after the close on Wednesday, Goldman’s Delta-One head Rich Privorotsky said that “Equities are being driven by one thing…AI spend”, and warned that “it’s hard not to respect […]
“An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.”
April 26th, 2026Via: Jer: Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider. It took 9 seconds. The agent then, when asked to explain itself, produced a written confession enumerating the specific safety […]
