Homeless Camps Around Downtown Los Angeles
March 31st, 2024Via: HoodTime:
First U.S. Army Unit Just Received Long Awaited M4 And M249 Replacements
March 31st, 2024Garand Thumb goes over the new SIGs. This is big departure from the the M-16/M-4 and M249 variants used for decades:
Via: The Warzone:
Troops from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell have become the first to get the Army’s next-generation rifles and light machine guns chambered in the new 6.8mm round. This marks the first time in some six decades that any Army unit has gotten all-new small arms, with a completely new caliber of ammunition.
The Army announced yesterday that soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, “accepted Next Generation Rifles and Automatic Rifles [on March 28] in preparation for New Equipment Training (NET) in April.”
In April 2022, Sig Sauer was chosen by the Army over competitors including General Dynamics and Textron Systems to deliver the Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) system. The NGSW family consists of Sig’s M7 rifle, previously known as the XM5, as well as the company’s belt-fed M250 light machine gun based on the same platform. Both come with matching suppressors.
“7-Eleven, Inc. Announces the Arrival of New Big Bite® Hot Dog Sparkling Water”
March 30th, 2024Via: 7-Eleven:
7-Eleven, Inc., the world’s largest convenience retailer, today announced a collection of new 7-SelectTM sparkling waters in a variety of bold and cutting-edge flavors. The retailer teamed up with art-inspired beverage brand Miracle Seltzer to create a lineup of sparkling waters with flavors including: Lemon Lime, Green Apple, Sweet Orange and Hot Dog, a twist on one of 7-Eleven’s most beloved snacks, the Big Bite® Hot Dog.
The Big Bite Hot Dog Sparkling Water combines the delicious and mouthwatering experience of 7-Eleven’s iconic Big Bite Hot Dog into one refreshing beverage – ketchup and mustard included. Gone are the days of alternating bites of a hot dog with sips of a beverage, now those on the go can swap the bun for bubbles.
Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Container Ship “Potentially Atop High-Pressure Underwater Gas Line”
March 30th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
The salvage operation may not begin as seamlessly as government officials hoped. As Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, a website specializing in tracking the shipping industry, states, the 984-foot Singapore-flagged container ship Dali is apparently “sitting atop a high-pressure underwater gas line.”
OpenAI Can Re-Create Human Voices from 15 Second Samples
March 30th, 2024Fifteen seconds? *pfft*
Google AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds
Microsoft’s New AI Can Simulate Anyone’s Voice with 3 Seconds of Audio
Via: Ars Technica:
Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art ability to read words aloud using an electronic voice. Now, using deep-learning AI models, software can create not only realistic-sounding voices, but also convincingly imitate existing voices using small samples of audio.
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Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio
Along those lines, OpenAI just announced Voice Engine, a text-to-speech AI model for creating synthetic voices based on a 15-second segment of recorded audio. It has provided audio samples of the Voice Engine in action on its website.
Once a voice is cloned, a user can input text into the Voice Engine and get an AI-generated voice result. But OpenAI is not ready to widely release its technology yet. The company initially planned to launch a pilot program for developers to sign up for the Voice Engine API earlier this month. But after more consideration about ethical implications, the company decided to scale back its ambitions for now.
Open AI: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices
“Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker”
March 30th, 2024The title of the article should be, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors’ Phones Exposed by Data Broker.”
Via: Wired:
Nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious “pedophile island” in the years prior to his death left an invisible trail of data pointing back to their own homes and offices. Maps of these visitations generated by a troubled international data broker with defense industry ties, discovered last week by WIRED, document the numerous trips of wealthy and influential individuals seemingly undeterred by Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender.
The data amassed by Near Intelligence, a location data broker roiled by allegations of mismanagement and fraud, reveals with high precision the residences of many guests of Little Saint James, a United States Virgin Islands property where Epstein is accused of having groomed, assaulted, and trafficked countless women and girls.
FBI Agent Says He Hassles People ‘Every Day, All Day Long’ Over Facebook Posts
March 30th, 2024Via: Reason:
The FBI spends “every day, all day long” interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that’s what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity.
Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad’s house and said that they had been given “screenshots” of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.
Abdeljawad told agents that she didn’t want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents.
“Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account,” one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.
“So we no longer live in a free country and we can’t say what we want?” replied Abdeljawad.
“No, we totally do. That’s why we’re not here to arrest you or anything,” a second agent in a red shirt added. “We do this every day, all day long. It’s just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will.”
Joe Biden Declares Easter Sunday, “Transgender Day of Visibility”
March 30th, 2024Please help me understand this unbelievable situation.
Why would President Biden (or whoever is controlling him) flagrantly mock Christians, the largest religious group in the U.S.?
What is this meant to accomplish?
March 29, 2024
A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024
Via: Gateway Pundit:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility.
Two Of The Fastest U.S. Sealift Ships Trapped By Baltimore Bridge Collapse
March 29th, 2024Via: The War Zone:
Two of the most capable military cargo ships in U.S. inventory are among the vessels now stuck in Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge yesterday. The two members of the Algol class, which are also some of the fastest cargo vessels of their general size anywhere in the world, and two other reserve sealift ships were in port in Baltimore when the incident occurred.
NYC Is Forcing Families To Leave… Permanently
March 29th, 2024Via: Cash Jordan:
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