The Queens: 4 Legends, 1 Stage - Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan & Stephanie Mills

The Queens: 4 Legends, 1 Stage - Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan & Stephanie Mills Washington Tickets - Friday, Oct 3, 2025:

As seen online:

“Washington DC Events" is an independent guide, to all upcoming events in the city, not a venue or show. We sell primary, discount, and resale tickets, all 100% guaranteed and they may be priced above or below face value.”

— from The Queens: 4 Legends, 1 Stage - Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan & Stephanie Mills Washington Tickets - Friday, Oct 3, 2025 as of 31 May 2025

AI now making podcasts?

Back in 2016 I wrote a paper about the cyber security skills gap. In 2025 somebody told an AI to make a podcast about that paper. I didn't ask anybody to do that and the results were appalling, as you can hear here in this copy of the recording.

In short, the words are delivered in a casual, chatty style with a seemingly random use of colloquialisms.

AI model collapse is not what we paid for

Coming to a reality near you.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/

Cryptocurrency is making lots of noise, literally - CBS News

Cryptocurrency is making lots of noise, literally - CBS News:

As seen online:

“But all those computers burn staggering amounts of power—and make a lot of noise. Last year, Arkansas passed what's become known as the "Right to Mine" bill. It prevents local communities from regulating these operations.”

— from Cryptocurrency is making lots of noise, literally - CBS News as of 29 May 2025

Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt

AI AI Claude!
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-prompt/

Why the record-breaking number of cyberattacks could be a prelude to the ‘big one’

Quote, press
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/cyber-attacks-big-one-aisuru-botnet-b2755263.html

Contempo Theme - Display Full Post Body Texts at Homepage or Index Pages - Irsah inDesigns Blog

Contempo Theme - Display Full Post Body Texts at Homepage or Index Pages - Irsah inDesigns Blog:

Excerpt: ″In this article we will share with you on how to display the full post body text at home page & index pages for Contempo Blogger responsive themes.″

Source: blog.irsah.com

Deye deactivates solar inverters in USA, UK and PakistanBorn's Tech and Windows World

Deye deactivates solar inverters in USA, UK and PakistanBorn's Tech and Windows World: 

Excerpt: ″The conclusion at the time was that the manufacturer Deye has access to the inverters and can change them. I did not make this up out of thin air, but Deye indirectly confirmed this to me as an aid for users with the following instructions: 

Please have your inverter online so that Deye can perform remote diagnostics. 

 I wrote in the blog post "This was the first (unsurprising but) official confirmation that the manufacturer Deye can access the inverters via the cloud connection and manipulate their firmware and the parameters stored there (see also this German comment by Karsten H.). It is also possible to shut down the inverter. ″

Source: borncity.com

EcoFlow | Power a New World | About Us | EcoFlow UK

EcoFlow | Power a New World | About Us | EcoFlow UK: 

Excerpt: ″Our vision is to power a new world. It's a call to the future—an aspirational, technology-driven, eco-friendly future shared by everyone.″

Source: ecoflow.com

EcoFlow STREAM Plug & Play Solar System | EcoFlow UK - EcoFlow UK

EcoFlow STREAM Plug & Play Solar System | EcoFlow UK - EcoFlow UK: 

Excerpt: ″Capture sunlight and instantly transform it into usable electricity for your home. Starting from ￡399″

Source: uk.ecoflow.com

The Google sites are here...

 Google Sites: Excerpt: 

″This is where the sites are.″

Source: sites.google.com

Change Your Story, Change Your World | David Sloly | TEDxBristol - YouTube

Change Your Story, Change Your World | David Sloly | TEDxBristol - YouTube: 

Excerpt: ″We all experience life’s highs and lows, and so we all have a great story inside us, bursting to get out. In this lively talk for TEDxBristol, David Sloy helps us unlock our inner storyteller.″

Source: youtube.com

How Does a Hovercraft Work? | Science Project

How Does a Hovercraft Work? | Science Project: 

Excerpt: ″This image on the left shows a modern style hovercraft which carries passengers over the surface of the water, while the diagram on the left shows how the air vents moving through the hovercraft create the air cushion below the craft for movement using the following labels: 1) propellers, 2) air currents, 3) fan, and 4) flexible skirt. (Wikipedia, 2007)″

Source: sciencebuddies.org

“13 Times More Power From Space”: UK Company Achieves Historic Solar Breakthrough Beaming Massive Energy Back to Earth

Where does the 13 come from?
https://www.sustainability-times.com/energy/13-times-more-power-from-space-uk-company-achieves-historic-solar-breakthrough-beaming-massive-energy-back-to-earth/

Women in Parenthesis | In Parenthesis

Women in Parenthesis | In Parenthesis: 

Excerpt: ″In Parenthesis is a Research Centre that supports scholarly work, philosophical engagement and projects on the Wartime Quartet of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch″

Source: womeninparenthesis.co.uk

Designrr and Ebook via ChatGPT

Designrr Special Offer: 

Excerpt: ″Transform Your Knowledge And Experience Into Profitable eBooks |  For more Sales, Leads And Customer Engagement | Become an Author | Establish Yourself As An Expert | Create Information Products You Can Sell For Passive Profits | All done quickly and easily. | No Design or Technical skills necessary.″

✅ To convert to EPUB:

1. Upload the DOCX file to:

   • Calibre (free desktop tool)

   • Zamzar EPUB Converter (online tool)

   • Convertio

2. Choose EPUB as the output format and download your e-book.

Source: go2.designrr.io

teaching and learning

So, last week I completed my AI and cybersecurity training project, a three hour class delivered online, and as with any teaching experience it was also a learning experience. Just putting into words the concepts you're trying to convey to students can, in and of itself lead you to new ideas, new insights into the subject matter. So I'll be working on some of those new ideas and insights in the weeks ahead. I'm looking forward to doing more teaching and learning and sharing it with you.

Bruce Springsteen Vote for Change tour, Orlando on October 8, 2004

Bruce Springsteen Concert Setlist at TD Waterhouse Centre, Orlando on October 8, 2004 | setlist.fm:

Excerpt: ″at TD Waterhouse Centre, Orlando, FL, USA ″ We were there!

Source: setlist.fm

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use and other vital stuff

Trump Halts Data Collection on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change, More — 

The war on facts rages on…
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality

Ada – check your health on the App Store

Ada – check your health on the App Store: 

Excerpt: ″Get a health check for yourself and your relatives. You can check your symptoms online 24/7 and find out possible causes. Whatever's bothering you, from pain, headache, or anxiety to allergy or food intolerance, the free Ada app (symptom checker) could help you find answers from the comfort of your home.″

Source: apps.apple.com

Climate Milestone: Earth's CO2 Level Passes 400 ppm

Climate Milestone: Earth's CO2 Level Passes 400 ppm: Excerpt: ″The last time the concentration of Earth's main greenhouse gas reached this mark, horses and camels lived in the high Arctic. Seas were at least 9.1 meters (30 feet higher)—at a level that today would inundate major cities around the world.″

Source: education.nationalgeographic.org

OpenAI Just Released a Coding Tool to 'Help' Programmers (Replace Their Jobs, Probably)

OpenAI Just Released a Coding Tool to 'Help' Programmers (Replace Their Jobs, Probably): 

Excerpt: ″that Codex was engineered to somehow “identify and precisely refuse requests aimed at development of malicious software, while clearly distinguishing and supporting legitimate tasks.” It’s not exactly clear what those safeguards are.″

Source: gizmodo.com

Georeferenced Maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

Georeferenced Maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland: 

Excerpt: ″Very cool maps overlays - past and present″

Source: maps.nls.uk

FND: What if your body unravels, but no doctor can name the disease? | Aeon Essays

What if your body unravels, but no doctor can name the disease? | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-your-body-unravels-but-no-doctor-can-name-the-disease
https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-your-body-unravels-but-no-doctor-can-name-the-disease?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3582203325-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-947a0f3c79-72356536

New study shows Fibromyalgia likely the result of autoimmune problems | King's College London

New study shows Fibromyalgia likely the result of autoimmune problems | King's College London:

Excerpt: ″The King's-led study, in collaboration with University of Liverpool and the Karolinska Institute, shows that many of the symptoms in fibromyalgia syndrome are caused by antibodies increasing the activity of pain-sensing nerves″

Source: kcl.ac.uk

BlueGriffon

BlueGriffon: 

Excerpt: ″The next-gen Web and EPUB Editor based on the rendering engine of Firefox″

Source: bluegriffon-epubedition.com

Here’s How Much Trump’s “Free” Qatar Private Jet Will Cost Americans

Here's How Much Trump's "Free" Qatar Private Jet Will Cost Americans | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/195172/donald-trump-qatar-private-jet-cost-americans

Inside the Verizon 2025 DBIR: Five Trends That Signal a Shift in the Cyber Threat Economy - SecurityWeek

Inside the Verizon 2025 DBIR: Five Trends That Signal a Shift in the Cyber Threat Economy - SecurityWeek: 

Excerpt: ″Infostealers and ransomware now operate as part of a coordinated threat supply chain, increasingly enabled by traffic distribution systems and malicious adtech infrastructure.″

Source: securityweek.com

Verizon's 2025 DBIR: Threats Are Faster, Smarter, and More Personal

Verizon's 2025 DBIR: Threats Are Faster, Smarter, and More Personal: 

Excerpt: ″Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. More concerning: Verizon found that 50% of users who open phishing emails do so within the first hour. "The median time to click was just 21 minutes. That's how fast your detection and response needs to be."″

Source: secureworld.io

AI-Powered Voice Spoofing for Next-Gen Vishing Attacks | Google Cloud Blog

AI-Powered Voice Spoofing for Next-Gen Vishing Attacks | Google Cloud Blog: 

Excerpt: ″AI-powered voice cloning can now mimic human speech with uncanny precision, creating for more realistic phishing schemes.  According to news reports, scammers have leveraged voice cloning and deepfakes to steal over HK$200 million from an organization. ″

Source: cloud.google.com

Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Law | The Colleges of Law

Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Law | The Colleges of Law: Excerpt: ″In this edition of Legal Currents and Futures, The Colleges of Law continues sharing a series of thought pieces about artificial intelligence and the law.″

Source: collegesoflaw.edu

Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022

Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022: 

Excerpt: ″An Act to make provision about the security of internet-connectable products and products capable of connecting to such products; to make provision about electronic communications infrastructure; and for connected purposes.″

Source: legislation.gov.uk

The Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018

The Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018: 

Excerpt: ″The strategic objectives and priorities set out in the NIS national strategy must be aimed at achieving and maintaining a high level of security of network and information systems″

Source: legislation.gov.uk

Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots: RoboPair Promo Video | Penn Engineering - YouTube

Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots: RoboPair Promo Video | Penn Engineering - YouTube: 

Excerpt: ″Researchers at Penn Engineering have discovered that certain features of AI-governed robots carry security vulnerabilities and weaknesses that were previously unidentified and unknown. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Laboratory, the research aims to address the emerging vulnerability for ensuring the safe deployment of large language models (LLMs) in robotics. … ...more ″

Source: youtube.com

World's first Star Wars-style hoverbike can hit 124mph and DOESN'T need propellors to fly

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14696057/Star-Wars-hoverbike-propellors-fly.html 

NatWest facing 100 million cyber attacks each month as experts reveal ‘staggering’ scale... - LBC

https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/natwest-100-million-cyber-attacks-month-digital-crime/ 

New Spectre bugs

Intel CPUs and A.I. implications 
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/8go6eq/eight_new_spectre_bugs_found_in_intel_cpus/

UK Regulatory Science and Innovation Networks – Innovate UK Business Connect

UK Regulatory Science and Innovation Networks – Discovery phase - Innovate UK Business Connect: 

Excerpt: ″virtual networks of expertise in regulatory science that generate research-based evidence and insights. 

 We define ‘regulatory science’ as the science of developing new tools and approaches that enhance regulatory decision making across product lifecycles (such as approvals, ongoing safety and performance monitoring), and support policymaking that enables agile and proportionate regulation in response to innovation. 

 This investment will help unlock its potential by giving organisations the capacity to collaborate in developing new tools, data sets and approaches that lead to the development of policies that best promote innovation.″

Source: iuk-business-connect.org.uk

(1) Will Trump's Corruption Be the Fatal Flaw That Even MAGA Can’t Defend?

(1) Will Trump's Corruption Be the Fatal Flaw That Even MAGA Can’t Defend?: 

Excerpt: ″“Vietnam, which has a surplus of more than $120 billion with the U.S. and saw tariffs on its goods rise to 46% on ‘Liberation Day,’ shows how anxious countries are to stave off the duties. … It pushed through the authorization of Starlink, the satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk, a close Trump adviser. And it accelerated the approvals for a $1.5 billion Trump resort.”″

Source: hartmannreport.com

Scientists Just Found Who's Causing Global Warming

Scientists Just Found Who's Causing Global Warming: 

Excerpt: ″the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for an astonishing two-thirds of observable climate warming since 1990. Basically, that small minority of the wealthiest among us contribute nearly seven times as much to extreme climate change as the entire lower-earning 90 percent of the planet. If that's not enough to have you reaching for your pitchfork, the top 1 percent contribute 20 times as much to climate disasters as the bottom 99 percent. Since 2019, the research article notes, the "wealthiest 10 percent of the global population accounted for nearly half of global emissions" through "private consumption and investments, whereas the poorest 50 percent accounted for only one-tenth of global emissions."″

Source: futurism.com

AI - Tug of War

AI - Tug of War: 

Excerpt: ″The discussion will cover real-world case studies observed in the wild, debunking myths and revealing the true value of AI in cyber resilience. Learn about the strategies and tools employed by both defenders and attackers, illustrating the ongoing game of cat and mouse in the cybersecurity realm.″

Source: csis.com

Instructors

Instructors: Excerpt: ″If you're interested in becoming an instructor, please apply on this form. You'll see a field for a sample movie, and you can review our sample movie guidelines to understand what we're looking for. After you submit the form, we will reach out to you if there's a good fit. Please note that we can't respond to every application, but we do keep all submissions for future consideration.″

Source: learning.linkedin.com

Researchers jailbreak AI robots to run over pedestrians, place bombs for maximum damage, and covertly spy | Tom's Hardware

Researchers jailbreak AI robots to run over pedestrians, place bombs for maximum damage, and covertly spy | Tom's Hardware: 

Excerpt: ″Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that a range of AI-enhanced robotics systems are dangerously vulnerable to jailbreaks and hacks. While jailbreaking LLMs on computers might have undesirable consequences, the same kind of hack affecting a robot or self-driving vehicle can quickly have catastrophic and/or deathly consequences. A report shared by IEEE Spectrum cites chilling examples of jailbroken robot dogs turning flamethrowers on their human masters, guiding bombs to the most devastating locations, and self-driving cars purposefully running over pedestrians.″

Source: tomshardware.com

Norbert Wiener's Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation

Norbert Wiener's Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation: 

Excerpt: ″Norbert Wiener, the founder of Cybernetics, famously highlighted this in his 1960 paper, called “Some Moral Technical Consequences of Automation”, which brought forth the alignment problem, which is still unresolved as of writing. The problem can be boiled down to how do we get AI systems to do what we want to them do. This concept is largely derived from the economics concept of the principal-agent problem, except we are talking about two foreign agents which complicates the matter.″

Source: dmantena.substack.com

How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It

How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It - The New York Times: 

Excerpt: ″This underworld peeks out in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, home to a global clearinghouse for money launderers. It can be glimpsed, too, in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, a notorious refuge for fraudsters. Scammers ply their trade from call centers, operating in fortified compounds or on the upper floors of unfinished high-rises. Seaside restaurants are packed with money launderers and other criminals doing business over spicy Chinese food.″

Source: nytimes.com

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-google.html

Human Extinction: A Brief Guided Tour of the Book | by Dr. Émile P. Torres | Medium

Human Extinction: A Brief Guided Tour of the Book | by Dr. Émile P. Torres | Medium: 

Excerpt: ″It is remarkable to see that, prior to the 1850s, almost no one fretted about or even considered the possibility of human extinction. After this decade, anxieties about the long-term fate of humanity in an atheistic universe governed by the Second Law were common.[5]″

Source: xriskology.medium.com

Cyber crime | West Midlands Police

Cyber crime | West Midlands Police: 

Excerpt: ″Several million cases of fraud and of computer misuse are reported to the police every year. It's staggering, but even more staggering is that so many of those crimes could have been prevented by making a few small changes in online behaviour.″

Source: westmidlands.police.uk

You & your family - NCSC.GOV.UK

You & your family - NCSC.GOV.UK: 

Excerpt: ″Don’t become another statistic – take action to secure your online accounts; from banking and shopping, to email and social media. It’s more important than ever to make your cyber security a priority. ″

Source: ncsc.gov.uk

Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works

Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works: 

Excerpt: ″"This lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology."″

Source: futurism.com

Dual Use: When Technology Both Helps and Hurts - Public Books

Dual Use: When Technology Both Helps and Hurts - Public Books: 

Excerpt: ″Originally, dual use technology would have applied only to a dichotomy between military and civilian uses. But in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, the term evolved to refer to research like that of pathogens, yielding new insights that can both help and hinder, regardless of the military/civilian nature of application. Now, the question of the age might be whether there are dual use ideas. Can innovations in mathematics enable both beauty and harm? Can computational algorithms speed ranking of resumes, yet simultaneously amplify historical biases in hiring?″

Source: publicbooks.org

Bitcoin Mining's Big Impact on U.S. Electricity (and pollution)

Bitcoin Mining's Big Impact on U.S. Electricity - IEEE Spectrum: 

Excerpt: ″Now, researchers from Harvard University have shown that Bitcoin mining has added more energy production to the U.S. grid than the amount required by the city of Los Angeles, and brought the accompanying air pollution and environmental concerns as well.″

Source: spectrum.ieee.org

Critical 9.8 Langflow RCE bug added to CISA vulnerability list | SC Media

Critical 9.8 Langflow RCE bug added to CISA vulnerability list | SC Media: 

Excerpt: ″“Attackers have already exploited this flaw, deploying reverse shells and crypto-miners,” said Saeed Abbasi, manager of vulnerability research at the Qualys Threat Research Unit. “Even on isolated development VMs, a breached Langflow instance can serve as a launchpad for infiltrating corporate networks. This flaw transforms a single point of failure into a silent amplifier of chaos.”″

Source: scworld.com

Thai authorities order to stop telecom services to alleged online scam centers along border with Cambodia

Thai authorities order to stop telecom services to alleged online scam centers along border with Cambodia - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: 

Excerpt: ″"Thai Police Cut Telecom to Suspected Scam Centers in Cambodia, Officials Dismiss Move", 12 February 2025 Thai officials have halted cross-border telecommunication services to suspected scam centers in Poipet, Cambodia, sparking a dispute with Cambodian counterparts who denounced the move.″

Source: business-humanrights.org

Cambodia: Govt. warn of increasing human trafficking cases and tech-based scams - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Cambodia: Govt. warn of increasing human trafficking cases and tech-based scams - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: 

Excerpt: ″people from inside and outside the region have flowed into the Kingdom, both legally and illegally, establishing covert bases to commit crimes related to tech-based scams and associated offenses. Among those entering are both perpetrators and victims…″

Source: business-humanrights.org

Cambodia: Prince Holding Group denies allegations of cyber scam operations and maintains its business values - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Cambodia: Prince Holding Group denies allegations of cyber scam operations and maintains its business values - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: 

Excerpt: ″The United States Institute of Peace reckons “pig butchering” scams could be generating the equivalent of 40 percent of each of the formal economies of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos. In Cambodia alone, the industry is believed to be worth around $12.5 billion annually. The USAID’s latest Counter-Trafficking in Persons report estimates there could be 150,000 people coerced into the industry’s labor force in Cambodia alone…″

Source: business-humanrights.org

Heuristic - Wikipedia

Heuristic - Wikipedia: Excerpt:

 ″A heuristic is a strategy that ignores part of the information, with the goal of making decisions more quickly, frugally, and/or accurately than more complex methods (Gigerenzer and Gaissmaier [2011], p. 454; see also Todd et al. [2012], p. 7).[15]″

Source: en.wikipedia.org

The Next Level: Typo DGAs Used in Malicious Redirection Chains

The Next Level: Typo DGAs Used in Malicious Redirection Chains: 

Excerpt: ″Our analysis revealed a campaign using typo DGAs, which is a novel dictionary DGA variant designed to evade detection. This campaign highlights the need for advanced detection capabilities″

Source: unit42.paloaltonetworks.com

The life-or-death case for self-driving cars

Classic case of it's not the technology, it's the humans.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/411522/self-driving-car-artificial-intelligence-autonomous-vehicle-safety-waymo-google

Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works

Pretty serious admission when you come to think about it, imagine selling people a vehicle to get them from a to B but not knowing how it does that.

https://futurism.com/anthropic-ceo-admits-ai-ignorance

CompTIA’s spinoff leaves TechGirlz curriculum in limbo

CompTIA’s spinoff leaves TechGirlz curriculum in limbo: 

Excerpt: ″“It’s a setback,” Welson-Rossman said. “But that doesn’t mean that we’re not going to be out there working for a more equitable future.” ″

Source: technical.ly

Brian Grier's Page

Brian Grier's Page: 

Excerpt: ″Hello! I'm Brian Grier, a passionate cybersecurity enthusiast and software developer. ″

Source: briangrier.net

Ali Alkhatib: AI Kremlinology

Ali Alkhatib: AI Kremlinology: Excerpt: ″I digress; the point is that people with real experience pressed up against police, bureaucratic violence, etc… know administrative violence in a lot of the same ways that minoritized people know AI systems and their harms. Which is to say that there’s a community of technical people who know about AI professionally, and then there are people who actually know these systems because not knowing could have existential consequences.″

https://youtu.be/ClGIosevT0Y?si=x4uMlvmUdqeHi2Cn

Source: ali-alkhatib.com

Michael J. Masucci at Los Angeles Breakfast Club (2025) on Vimeo

Michael J. Masucci at Los Angeles Breakfast Club (2025) on Vimeo: 

Excerpt: ″As part of the 100 year of the legendary Los Angeles Breakfast Club, and as the opening to a 10-part, 6-venue series on the 45 years of EZTV, curated by Elizabeth Purcell and Hollywood Entertainment, EZTV founding member Michael J. Masucci gave a presentation on the history and evolution of this seminal microcinema, production company and digital art outpost. #labc #Los Angeles Breakfast Club #EZTV #Michael J. Masucci #video art. #digital art. # art history #Elizabeth Purcell #Hollywood Entertainment″

Source: vimeo.com

Reimagining the Arts and Media as a Public Service

Reimagining the Arts and Media as a Public Service | Mobilized News Network: Excerpt: ″Re-imagining media and the arts as a public service: Michael Masucci, co-director of the pioneering media arts collective EZTV, offers an extraordinary chance to explore the evolution of independent video art, the birth of digital culture, and how media can be a vehicle for radical transformation, equity, and experimental collaboration.″

Source: mobilizednews.com

Rethink X: The Stellar World | Mobilized News Network

Rethink X: The Stellar World | Mobilized News Network: 

Excerpt: ″Rethink X has spent over a decade diving into the biggest questions shaping our world today. If you’ve ever wondered why everything feels so chaotic right now, or what comes next for humanity, the new book titled “Stellar” is for you.″

Source: mobilizednews.com

AI critique from 2021: creating its own idea of how we should be

Check out this from Ali Alkhatib: 

Read the paper at https://ali-alkhatib.com/utopia If you'd like to just read the script, you can find it at https://ali-alkhatib.com/papers/prese...

Dennis Habbassis, DeepMind CEO on the implications of Artificial General Intelligence

Needed: New Great Philosophers.

What for? To understand the implications of Artificial General Intelligence.

Who says? Sir Demis Habbasis, DeepMind CEO: "...I think we need new great philosophers to come about hopefully in the next five or 10 years to understand the implications of this.” 

60 Minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XF-NG_35NE&t=817s

Seismicity Risks in West Texas: Drill baby drill, until the caves cave in

The Carlsbad Caverns National Park, located in southeastern New Mexico near the Texas border, faces potential risks from increased seismicity in West Texas, primarily due to human-induced earthquakes linked to oil and gas activities in the Permian Basin. Below is a detailed assessment of the risks based on available information:

Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude

Definitely use this…
https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-countering-malicious-uses-of-claude-march-2025

US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument: 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'

PC Gamer is on it:
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/us-federal-judge-on-metas-ai-copyright-fair-use-argument-you-are-dramatically-changing-you-might-even-say-obliterating-the-market-for-that-persons-work/

Education research takes another hit in latest DOGE attack — The Hechinger Report

Grants terminated by DOGE fall heavily upon STEM education - The Hechinger Report

Compare and contrast with Musk "Americans can't cut it."

https://stocks.apple.com/AwjpTuGfHTQiEBATVuf-54Q

The Brewing Controversy Over The Proposition That AI Is Nothing More Than Just Normal Technology

The Brewing Controversy Over The Proposition That AI Is Nothing More Than Just Normal Technology: 

Excerpt: ″“We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception.”″

Source: forbes.com

Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy – The White House

Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy – The White House: 

Excerpt: ″A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law.  This principle guarantees equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes.  It promises that people are treated as individuals, not components of a particular race or group.  It encourages meritocracy and a colorblind society, not race- or sex-based favoritism.  Adherence to this principle is essential to creating opportunity, encouraging achievement, and sustaining the American Dream.″

Source: whitehouse.gov

Interlock group claims major ransomware attack on renal care provider DaVita

teiss - News - Interlock group claims major ransomware attack on renal care provider DaVita:

https://www.teiss.co.uk/news/interlock-group-claims-major-ransomware-attack-on-renal-care-provider-davita-15706