Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Autonomous Food Delivery Robot Attempts to Navigate Homeless Camps in Los Angeles
October 3rd, 2024Californians: What’s the pay rate for the person who’s lucky enough to go around gathering up the disabled robots from the homeless camps? Via: Chasing Reality:
Sam Altman Just Pitched The Biden Administration On A Massive Build Out Of AI Data Centers
September 29th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: While most of the news this week about Sam Altman has been centered around the nearly $10 billion in equity he could be receiving in OpenAI, another headline slipped through the cracks mid-week: OpenAI has pitched the Biden administration on a build-out of massive data centers. OpenAI has urged the Biden administration to […]
Anduril Industries: Ghost-X
September 25th, 2024Better make that cabin in the woods… a cave. Via: Anduril Industries:
Satellite Images Show Massive Devastation At Russian Ammo Storage Sites Struck By Ukrainian Drones
September 24th, 2024Via: The War Zone: New satellite imagery shared with The War Zone shows just how badly three ammunition storage sites in Russia were damaged in recent Ukrainian drone attacks. The strikes, against the Toropets and Oktyabrsk facilities west of Moscow and Tikhoretsk in southern Russia, resulted in tens of thousands of tons of ammunition – […]
California Fast Food Chains Replacing Employees with Robots
September 23rd, 2024Via: Daily Mail: Chipotle has introduced two robots that can take over tasks normally done by its workers. The ‘autocado’ can peel, stone and cut an avocado for guacamole in 26 seconds. Meanwhile, a ‘digital makeline’ portions up salads and bowls based on orders on the app. The machines are part of an automation drive […]
Texas Man Gets in Shootout with a Police Robot, Loses
September 20th, 2024Via: KCBD: One person is in custody after Lubbock authorities responded to a barricaded subject Wednesday morning. Felix Delarosa, 39, is charged with aggravated assault against a public servant following a SWAT standoff that lasted nearly two hours. … Authorities used the Lubbock Regional Bomb Squad Robot to help take Delarosa into custody. When the […]
Microsoft Electricity Purchase Agreement Will Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant for AI Data Centers
September 20th, 2024Via: The Verge: Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs. Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement […]
Australia’s Biggest Medical Imaging Lab Is Training AI on Its Scan Data Without Patient Consent
September 19th, 2024Via: Crikey: Australia’s biggest radiology company has handed over the private medical scans of potentially hundreds of thousands of patients, without their knowledge, to a start-up company that will use the scans to train artificial intelligence, in what privacy experts say is a practice that the law should protect against.
Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure Good Behavior, Says Larry Ellison
September 17th, 2024In 2017, I wrote about where I thought mass surveillance was headed in the U.S.: I think the reality is that a dossier on every “citizen” is being automatically maintained. The dossier contains everything from purchases to Internet activity, audio from phone calls, to full contents of emails. Income. Library records. Travel records. etc. Additionally, […]
Ukrainian Drone Hunts Russians INSIDE Building
September 14th, 2024Maybe your last chance/holdout piece should be a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with bird shot. RT correspondent Andrei Filatov filmed an FPV drone attack that happened during his live report. from May 2024 in Krasnogorovka pic.twitter.com/nybySUYVTS — Tony (@Cyberspec1) September 12, 2024
