Australia: Whistleblower David McBride Sentenced to Five Years, Eight Months in Prison After Leaking Afghanistan War Documents to ABC
May 15th, 2024Via: Sky:
Former army officer and whistleblower David McBride has been sentenced to five years and eight months jail -with a non-parole period of 27 months – for leaking classified military documents to ABC journalists in 2016.
ACT Supreme Court Justice David Mossop delivered the sentence on Tuesday morning where he found the ex-army officer committed a “gross breach of trust”.
McBride pleaded guilty to theft and sharing documents classified as secrets with members of the press due to leaking material used in the 2017 ABC documentary The Afghan Files, which revealed allegations against Australian soldiers involved in illegal killings.
King Charles: First Official Portrait Since Coronation Is Unveiled
May 15th, 2024This one is better:
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Via: BBC:
The first official painted portrait of King Charles III since his coronation has been unveiled at Buckingham Palace.
The vast oil on canvas shows a larger-than-life King Charles in the uniform of the Welsh Guards.
The vivid red work, measuring about 8ft 6in by 6ft 6in, is by Jonathan Yeo, who has also painted Tony Blair, Sir David Attenborough and Malala Yousafzai.
Queen Camilla is said to have looked at the painting and told Yeo: “Yes, you’ve got him.”
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American Woman Left Permanently Disabled After AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Trial
May 14th, 2024Via: Telegraph:
An American woman who took part in the US clinical trial of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is suing the company, claiming it left her “permanently disabled”.
Brianne Dressen, a 42-year-old former teacher from Utah, says she developed a severe neurological condition after taking part in a vaccine trial in 2020.
She is suing AstraZeneca for an alleged breach of contract, after she said it failed to provide medical care for her side effects.
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Her condition was classified as “post-vaccine neuropathy” because of its link to the jab.
U.S. Orders Chinese-Backed Crypto Miner to Sell Land Near Nuclear Missile Base
May 14th, 2024Via: CNBC:
President Joe Biden issued an order on Monday forcing a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining company to sell land near a Wyoming nuclear missile base, citing national security concerns.
The company, MineOne, acquired the real estate in June 2022, placing its operations within a mile of Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, a “strategic missile base and key element of America’s nuclear triad,” according to the White House.
The company’s site contained “specialized and foreign-sourced equipment potentially capable of facilitating surveillance and espionage activities,” the presidential order said.
Biden said there was “credible evidence” to believe that the company, a British Virgin Islands firm that is majority-owned by Chinese nationals, “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States.”
Police Issued QR Codes to Enter Parts of Paris This Summer
May 14th, 2024Via: Metro:
The capital of France– Paris – will be split into zones this summer, with anyone wanting to enter certain areas required to show a pass on their phone.
Special measures will be in place throughout the city as part of increased security around the Olympic Games, which start in July.
Anyone wishing to enter certain zones, including residents, will have to apply for a special Pass Jeux (games pass) on a platform run by police.
It mostly applies to people driving, but even pedestrians will need to show a QR code to enter an area called the ‘grey zone’ around the River Seine in the centre, where the opening ceremony will take place.
The codes will be checked at access points along the entrance to each zone, manned by officers.
U.S. Spy Satellites
May 14th, 2024Via: Covert Cabal:
Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry
May 14th, 2024Murder.
Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model
May 13th, 2024A few initial thoughts…
This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial.
OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible.
OpenAI is probably able to review each of these sessions in order to make changes to how the system behaves. This means that the sessions could be made available to government and law enforcement agencies.
Workers who are about to be outsourced are often asked to train the people who will replace them. That’s the role of users here, except the replacement workers won’t be human.
Via: OpenAI:
More: Introducing GPT-4o and Making More Capabilities Available for Free in ChatGPT
Cubic Millimetre of Brain Mapped in Spectacular Detail
May 13th, 2024Via: Nature:
Researchers have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in astonishing detail. The resulting cell atlas, which was described today in Science1 and is available online, reveals new patterns of connections between brain cells called neurons, as well as cells that wrap around themselves to form knots, and pairs of neurons that are almost mirror images of each other.
The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons. It incorporates a colossal 1.4 petabytes of data. “It’s a little bit humbling,” says Viren Jain, a neuroscientist at Google in Mountain View, California, and a co-author of the paper. “How are we ever going to really come to terms with all this complexity?”
Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief
May 13th, 2024Via: The National Interest:
The future loyal wingmen of the United States Air Force are inching closer to becoming a reality, and more importantly, the artificial intelligence (AI) controlled aircraft could be on track to be as good as any human pilot. That was the assessment from Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who recently took flight in an autonomously-controlled X62A VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft), a modified F-16 Fighting Falcon.
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Kendall’s flight at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California, on May 2 came just weeks after the air service announced that an autonomously piloted F-16 Fighting Falcon had taken part in a series of simulated dogfights with a manned fighter. According to Kendall, during his time in the cockpit of the autonomous aircraft, the AI was able to maneuver the fighter and could simulate an “engagement” against a manned F-16, piloted by an aviator with 2,000 to 3,000 hours of experience.
Speaking at the Ash Carter Exchange conference in Washington, DC, the air secretary suggested, “It was roughly an even fight. But against a less experienced pilot, the AI, the automation would have performed better.”
