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Drones, Surveillance, and Facial Recognition: Startup Named 'Sauron' Pitches Military-Style Home Security
The Washington Post details a vision of home security "pitched by Sauron, a Silicon Valley start-up boasting a waiting list of tech CEOs and venture capitalists."
In the future, your home will feel as safe from intruders as a state-of-the-art military base. Cameras and sensors surveil the perimeter...
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Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top US Official Says
China-linked spies may still be lurking in U.S. telecommunications networks — but the breach could be much, much wider. In fact, a "couple dozen" countries were hit by the attack, the Wall Street Journal reported this week, citing a top U.S. national security adviser. "Chinese government hacke...
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Grant: The US is full of shit.
From Atomic to Nuclear Clocks - and a Leap in Timekeeping Accuracy?
"In September 2024, U.S. scientists made key advances towards building a nuclear clock — a step beyond an atomic clock," according to ScienceAlert:
In contrast to the atomic clock, the transition measured by this new device happens in the nucleus, or core, of the atom (hence the name), which ...
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OpenAI Partners with Anduril, Leaving Some Employees Concerned Over Militarization of AI
"OpenAI is partnering with defense tech company Anduril," wrote the Verge this week, noting that OpenAI "used to describe its mission as saving the world."
It was Anduril founder Palmer Luckey who advocated for a "warrior class" and autonomous weapons during a talk at Pepperdine University, saying ...
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Wuhan Lab Researcher Fully Sequences Genomes of Coronavirus Samples From 2004 to 2021, Finds No Close Relatives to SARS-CoV-2
60-year-old Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli led the Wuhan Institute of Virology's group studying bat coronaviruses (prompting Science magazine to call her "Bat Woman"). In June of 2020 Scientific American described Zhengli as "distressed because stories from the Internet and major media have repeated...
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