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    Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in 'AI' Yet … this week a person on GitHub who goes by “terrafying” set up an “AI Torture Chamber” on three open-source LLMs that are running locally (Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2 3B, and Phi-4-mini,” and is streaming what the models are saying on a website called researchchamber.fun. “Each model gets the same prompt: a signal is being injected into its activations, and it may press a stop button by replying 1, at the co...

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    Fetterman Joins GOP to Block Effort to Expose Israeli Abuses in West Bank this guy again…

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    Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws Broadcasters should be ordered to stop running Trump commercials that appear to violate US laws, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said today in a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission. The ads appear to violate laws against using taxpayer funds for propaganda and a law that restricts political activity by federal government employees, the group said. “The most recent of t...

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    Yes, Zionism is racism … the Green Party’s resolution does not declare anything radical or extraordinary. Zionism was and continues to be a settler-colonial ideology, and settler colonialism is fundamentally racist. Zionism is centred on the belief that Jewish people from anywhere in the world have a right to a homeland in historic Palestine – a right that outweighs any other people’s. It is a conviction that is based on biblical claims to a land and an ahistorical understanding of history. C...

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    Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center Force majeure clauses, common in energy and commodities contracts, excuse a party from contractual obligations when events outside its control get in the way. Oracle is not seeking to exit as the campus’s main tenant, according to Bloomberg’s sources. Instead, the notice would allow the company to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online. … the notice follows a string of setbacks at the site...

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    New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators This week, New Jersey ordered the operator of one of the East Coast’s largest planned data centers to pay a $1.1 million fine for secretly installing and operating gas generators in violation of the state’s Air Pollution Control Act.

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    Eight New Gas Plants Will Power Amazon's Next Wave of Data Centers Last month, Cleanview broke the news that Amazon is planning to build a 7.65 GW natural gas power plant in West Texas to power a data center campus. In our latest report on Amazon’s power strategy, we identified seven more power plants linked to the company’s data centers. Altogether, utilities and independent power producers are building 17.5 GW of new gas generation to serve Amazon’s growing power needs. That’s roughly 1...

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    Microsoft's September updates fix a record 973 security flaws

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    Google Maps updated their Gaza images

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    Democrats Backed by Industry Super PACs Are Writing the Party’s "AI" Plan Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took to ABC’s Sunday morning show to assure the public that the Democratic Party is taking strong measures to combat the “AI Doomsday threat” roiling the country. His prime example: a Democratic House commission on artificial intelligence stacked with lawmakers who’ve received a bonanza in campaign funding from Big Tech.

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    Trump Claims the Only "AI Guardrail" Needed Is Himself “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump wrote. Trump claimed those who are pleading for a slowdown of AI advancement are part of “a SICK conspiracy” against U.S. interests, benefiting China. He then issued a warning to anyone who backed regulation of the technology. “Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!”...

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    [Genocidal] Football Association cites Nobel Prize winners in rant at Ireland coach Yet another problem with the “nobel prize”…

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    LLMs are real, "AI" is fake Once you understand that these are chatbots that were designed to complete challenges like this, using tactics like this, you can understand that the chatbots didn’t “go rogue.” They did what they were designed to do, and because OpenAI ran them with inadequate supervision (without a “human in the loop” that checked each iteration through the Python loop to ensure it hadn’t gone off the rails), they trashed a competitor’s servers. Designing autonomous, ma...

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    Ben Gvir supporters hand out gun-shaped keyrings to [Zionist] students

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    Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models “China-based artificial intelligence companies are conducting systematic extraction of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. AI companies’ models through industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns that form the core—not merely a supplement—of their AI development strategy,” the agencies wrote.

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    Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around Police scanned Flock cameras in a single town in Illinois more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

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    "AI" Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal The Intercept sued to obtain records that reveal an intimate relationship between the military and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI.

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    The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, exposing just how little the local fire department knew about what it was walking into. Firefighters reportedly found no working alarm, no suppression system, and three dead hydrants; the safety documents they’re legally entitled to see reportedly burned up in the blaze. Steve Matisz, chief of the Barker Fire Dep...

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    Ed Sheeran tour drops Macklemore after his onstage support for Palestine Rapper Macklemore is a vocal supporter of Palestine and Gaza residents. During a recent concert at MetLife Stadium, he yelled “Free Palestine!” onstage, projected images of devastation in the area, and performed protest song “Hind’s Hall.” Now, it seems that American venues are not willing to play ball with the Seattle artist, and he has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour. “After discussions with stakeholders, Ma...

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    Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA sponsored by [Zionist regime]-aligned outfit, leaked contract shows A leaked contract obtained by The Grayzone reveals that TPUSA entered into an agreement with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) to sponsor a series of ostensibly Christian faith-based summits between 2025 and 2027. Signed on May 16, 2025, the contract committed IFCJ to pay $700,000 to TPUSA over two years. In exchange, the group was to receive a series of promotional benefits includi...

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    Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars A group representing American automakers sent a letter (PDF) Thursday to congressional leaders asking for a “permanent ban” on Chinese-made cars in the U.S. John Bozzella, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation’s CEO and president, described in the letter China’s manufacturing industry as “rooted in a well-documented pattern of unfair trade, subsidies, intellectual property theft and surveillance.” Bozzella addressed his request to Senate Majorit...

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    33 Democrats Vote to Withhold Funding From Universities That Boycott Israel The House voted on Thursday to pass a bipartisan bill that would cut off federal funding for universities that participate in a boycott of Israel, with dozens of Democrats in favor. The bill passed 237 to 169, with almost all Republicans and 33 Democrats voting in favor. Democrats who voted “yes” included some of the most vocally pro-Israel and conservative lawmakers in the caucus. It now goes to the Senate for consid...

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    CERN Transitioning Industrial Computers To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution

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    The Republican Nominee for New York Governor Generated a Creepy Video of Mamdani and Hochul Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for New York governor, posted an “AI”-generated video imagining New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul hanging out, bizarrely gardening together, riding bikes, and vaguely colluding about making the state unaffordable.

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    "Material Support For Terror": Journalist Reveals How US Synagogues Fund Zio Settlers [Video][10mins]

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    OpenAI's Altman Says the Use of 'AI' is 'Non-Negotiable' Altman thinks the public won’t be talking as much about “AI” a decade from now – it’ll be expected everywhere. “A kid growing up today will never be smarter than AI, but he or she will also never have understood a world where every product and service that they interact with is not really smart and really capable and really helpful,” he said.

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    Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the "AI" Industry … as hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding into artificial intelligence, there are serious concerns that an AI bubble could trigger another bailout with taxpayer money. In the interview that follows, leading progressive economist Gerald Epstein, who initiated and directs the Game Changers project at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks about AI’s impact...

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    Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users The Settlement embeds age assurance technology and age-gates into Meta’s social media products and requires all users—minors and adults—to undergo a rights-threatening age estimation process The Settlement places severe restrictions on Teens that can only be modified by the Teens’ parents and only then in exchange for giving their parents a ton of information about their online community and usage; The Settleme...

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    Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

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    'Starwashing': The new space race has an environmental problem As Musk’s SpaceX, Bezos’ Blue Origin, and other companies expand into space, they risk causing more problems for Earth in the process: air pollution, climate effects, and light pollution. The practice of downplaying these negative consequences while trumpeting the message that space operations can make life better on Earth has a new name: “starwashing,” a term the space researcher Melissa E. Yingling helped popularize in an...