Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
His U.S.A.I.D. cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children.
Musk derives his view of the agency from conspiracy theorists on X. There, he called U.S.A.I.D. a “radical-left political psy op” and “the most gigantic global terror organization in history.” As he told Joe Rogan this year, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,” referring to the emotion as a “bug” in our system.
American People’s Foreign Policy: USAID’s Role in Apartheid South Africa
In 1986 Congress overrode a presidential veto on major foreign policy. During the 1980s, the American public increasingly resented the South African system of apartheid and urged the United States government to take major action. This led to bipartisan Congressional action to override President Reagan’s veto of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act [CAAA] of 1986. This act imposed broad economic sanctions against South Africa to pressure the government to end the system of apartheid.
US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies
Almost 470,000 Americans died from the coronavirus as of Feb, 2021--40% of that total is 188,000.
RFK Jr.’s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billion
Why Trump’s push for ‘gold-standard science’ has researchers alarmed
Political appointees will decide what counts as quality evidence and what does not.
The Soviet Era's Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia
Lysenko probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history.
Lysenko promoted the Marxist idea that the environment alone shapes plants and animals so he “educated” Soviet crops to sprout at different times of year by soaking them in freezing water, among other practices. He then claimed that future generations of crops would remember these environmental cues and, even without being treated themselves, would inherit the beneficial traits.
These methods prolonged the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, which killed at least 7 million people.
Gabbard Wants Fox Hosts to Feed Trump Top Secret Intel: ‘Doesn’t Read’
50 Cent Pledges to Prevent a Trump Pardon for Sean Combs: ‘I’m Gonna Reach Out’
Joni Ernst's Sarcastic 'Apology' for Medicaid Cuts Response Sparks Fury
In America, we don’t do kings
On June 14th, we rise up.
Donald Trump Shares Baseless Conspiracy That Biden Was 'Executed in 2020'
Biden was replaced by "clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities," and that Democrats "don't know the difference."
Linux Kernel Gains Hardware-Wrapped Encryption Keys
Microsoft promises it is 'ending USB-C port confusion' with updated Windows 11 certified program
All USB-C ports need to support data, charging, and display functionality.
The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
It is designed to continuously self-improve by modifying its own codebase. This may be useful to design more efficient software. It did hallucinate and hack its own reward function sometimes, however, so such a system can go out of control and deviate from its intended goal.
New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora
If a local attacker manages to induce a crash in a privileged process and quickly replaces it with another one with the same process ID. they can access the core dump, which might contain sensitive information belonging to the original, privileged process.
Ukraine’s Bold Gamble on an Electronic Warfare “Wall” To better battle the drone onslaughts, the country will build a vast line of 8,500 jammers
China’s quantum satellite can be hacked, Singapore-based scientist warns
Hackers could intercept coded messages sent by lasers on China’s quantum communication network, because it uses multiple lasers: some that send encryption keys in single photons, and others that send decoy signals to conceal the key-carrying signals. Unfortunately, there is a measurable delay between the layers up to 300 picoseconds, which can be used to separate the important signals from the decoy ones.
Watch in Horror as Cybertruck Driver Plays "Grand Theft Auto" While Screaming Down Highway on Self-Driving Mode
"This is literally what GTA would make a satire about."
Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop cancer returning after treatment, trial finds
Colon cancer patients who began a structured exercise regime with the help of a personal trainer or health coach after they completed treatment had a 37% lower risk of death and a 28% lower risk of recurrent or new cancers developing, compared with patients who received only health advice.
Canada's F-35 Nightmare
Canada now faces a dilemma: Does Ottawa do away with billions of dollars of investment and all the work to prepare its air force for the U.S.-made F-35s, or does it continue with the planned purchase?
Reports of a "kill switch" built into F-35s ran rampant earlier this year, suggesting Washington could effectively control the aircraft bought and operated by recipient countries as it pleased.
Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks
Up to 90% of all risk assessments will soon be automated. Inside Meta, the change is being viewed as a win for product developers, who will now be able to release app updates and features more quickly.
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, using listening ports on the localhost address.
The bypass—which Yandex began in 2017 and Meta started last September—allows the companies to pass cookies or other identifiers from Firefox and Chromium-based browsers to native Android apps for Facebook, Instagram, and various Yandex apps. The companies can then tie that vast browsing history to the account holder logged into the app. This abuse has been observed only in Android.
Privacy-focused browsers like Brave mitigate this issue to some extent. The most comprehensive protection against Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica tracking is to refrain from installing the Facebook, Instagram, or Yandex apps on Android devices.
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies. Now Palantir has put a product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including D.H.S. and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data, paves the way for Mr. Trump to easily merge information from different agencies, to compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.