Category: Tech

Shirley You Can’t Be Serious

I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.

Armstrong Economics- Pilotless Air Taxis Have Arrived

EHang’s EH216-S is a two-seat electric drone that can travel at a top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h) over a range of 18.6 miles (30 km). Heyi Aviation has a similar model as well that is meant for “low-altitude economy” flights. Initial operations will be restricted to closed-loop routes that land and takeoff at the same location.

My Data Is Your Data, Comrades

New York Post- Whistleblower claims Meta helped China develop advanced AI to ‘outcompete American companies’: bombshell testimony

During her opening statement, Wynn-William, Facebook’s former director of global public policy, told lawmakers that Meta began providing briefings to the Chinese Communist Party “as early as 2015” while pursuing “Project Aldrin” – a top-secret effort to gain access to China’s lucrative market.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Roverlords

“I’m shocked — shocked — to find that China is asshole!

Security researchers have uncovered a pre-installed, undocumented remote access tunnel in 🇨🇳 Unitree Go1 robot dogs.

Each Unitree Go1 robot dog is shipped with a preconfigured tunnel client that initiates a connection to 🇨🇳 CloudSail — a remote access platform developed by 🇨🇳 Zhexi Technology, based in China.

“Anybody with access to the API key can freely access all robot dogs on the tunnel network, remotely control them, use the vision cameras to see through their eyes, or even hop on the RPI via SSH.” […]

The discovery raises serious concerns about supply chain trust, especially as these robots are widely used in academic, corporate, and even defense-related environments.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

From Climategate to Covid, Google neutered their once powerful search engine in service of a political narrative.

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene 2½ years ago, Wall Street has wondered whether it was a major threat to Google’s search business. And with Alphabet Inc.’s stock now 25% off its highs, a Melius Research analyst is exploring that question with a bit more intensity.

Melius’s Ben Reitzes asked Monday whether Google is the next Kodak.

To Infinity And Beyond

Fox- Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches crew to rescue stuck NASA astronauts from ISS

SpaceX launched its Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket just after 7 p.m. from the U.S. space agency’s Kennedy Space Center, in collaboration with NASA.

Space.com- Watch SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronaut mission arrive at the ISS tonight

You can watch the arrival live via NASA, starting at 9:45 p.m. EDT (0145 GMT). Space.com will carry the feed as well, if the agency makes it available.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords

The cost to use SuperGrok Plan is rumoured to be $300 a year.

47: Twitter 2.0

The firings will continue until morale impoves;

• Musk aides restrict access to federal employee data systems
• Musk’s team works around the clock, installs sofa beds at OPM
• Concerns include cybersecurity and lack of oversight

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.


We think they’re building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.”

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Best and brightest.

US Defense Department employees connected their work computers to Chinese servers to access DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot for at least two days before the Pentagon moved to shut off access, according to a defense official familiar with the matter.

The Defense Information Systems Agency, which is responsible for the Pentagon’s IT networks, moved to block access to the Chinese startup’s website late Tuesday, the official and another person familiar with the matter said. Both asked not to be named because the information isn’t public.

Obligation To Serve

Six Things to Know About Your Electric Utility

Many years ago, a comedy group posted a video featuring actors as average Americans in a slick faux commercial satirizing coal energy. Turns out the coincident target of this mockery was the rest of us and how little we understand about what powers our lives.

“What if the power to sustain your world was right inside a mountain?” asks the narrator. He continues, “What if you could power an entire city for a hundred dollars?” A man in a hard hat says, “Cheap power is clean power. The future is later.” A woman looks soberly at the camera, “Electricity comes from the walls in my home where I live.”

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