Archive for February, 2024
Magic AI: “We’ve Raised $117 Million… to Build an AI Software Engineer”
February 21st, 2024We've raised $117M from @natfriedman and others to build an AI software engineer. Code generation is both a product and a path to AGI, requiring new algorithms, lots of CUDA, frontier-scale training, RL, and a new UI. We are hiring! pic.twitter.com/I3fOLmrKA8 — Magic.dev (@magicailabs) February 15, 2024 Via: BayAreaInno: A San Francisco startup using artificial […]
Google Apologizes After Gemini AI Refuses to Show Pictures, Achievements of White People
February 21st, 2024Go for the Chinese American Revolutionary War soldiers. Stay for the African Vikings. Comedy Gold while it lasts: Google’s Gemini AI Blasted For Eliminating White People From Image Searches And these criminals are planning to get all of us (and our children) to outsource our brains to these things. haha Our AI dystopian hell is […]
Tennessee Company Accused of Using Child Labor to Clean Slaughterhouses
February 21st, 2024What happens to the ones who aren’t cleaning the slaughterhouses? Biden Administration Facilitates Sex Trafficking and Rape of Immigrant Children, Florida Grand Jury Reports ‘Modern-Day Slave Traders’: Hawley Demands Probe Into 85,000 ‘Lost’ Migrant Children HHS Whistleblower Says Government Complicit in Trafficking; Child Admits Being ‘Pimped’ by Sponsor Biden Secretly Flying Underage Migrants Into NY […]
Feds Charge Japanese Yakuza Leader with Nuclear Materials Trafficking
February 21st, 2024Weapons-grade plutonium!? That’s a big deal, if true. Where did that come from? Via: CNBC: Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday said they had charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries. Prosecutors said the accused gangster Takeshi Ebisawa “and his confederates showed samples of nuclear […]
NYC Mayor To Give Migrants Debit Cards Worth Up To $10,000
February 21st, 2024Via: NY Post: It takes money to make money, as the old saying goes, and apparently, it also takes money — as much as $53 million — to give money away. Earlier this month, The Post broke the story that Mayor Eric Adams is giving out pre-paid cash cards to migrants. Unusually for the mayor, […]
New Zealand Green Party MP Efeso Collins Dies After Charity Run
February 21st, 20242021, “Get Vaccinated”: A message from Manukau ward councillor Efeso Collins to stay strong, stick together and look out for each other and to get vaccinated this Super Saturday. This is to keep your whanau, your neighbours and our community safe. And now… Via: Guardian: New Zealanders, including leaders from across the political spectrum, have […]
Japan Bets $67 Billion to Become a Global Chip Powerhouse Once Again
February 21st, 2024Via: Bloomberg: Deep in the snowy northern island of Hokkaido, Japan is pouring billions of dollars into a long-shot bet to revive its chip-making prowess and insulate its economy from growing US-China tensions. … A freshly created homegrown venture, Rapidus Corp., is looking to mass produce state-of-the art 2 nanometer logic chips in 2027 from […]
Trident Missile Test Fails for Second Time in a Row
February 21st, 2024Via: BBC: The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row. The latest test of the UK’s nuclear deterrent was from HMS Vanguard and was witnessed by the defence secretary. The missile’s booster rockets failed and it landed in the sea close to […]
Albedo Space: Low Earth Orbit Satellites Will Have 10cm Resolution
February 20th, 2024Via: New York Times: Anyone living in the modern world has grown familiar with diminishing privacy amid a surge security cameras, trackers built into smartphones, facial recognition systems, drones and other forms of digital monitoring. But what makes the overhead surveillance potentially scary, experts say, is its ability to invade areas once seen as intrinsically […]
The War On Children
February 20th, 2024Via: The War On Children: Worth watching, especially for parents pic.twitter.com/k6gb2CMVqU — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2024