Wuhan Institute of Virology: New Coronavirus With Pandemic Potential Discovered
February 22nd, 2025Mmm hmm.
Via: Daily Mail:
Another coronavirus feared to be powerful enough to spread through humans has been discovered in China. In scenes eerily reminiscent of the beginnings of Covid, researchers at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology detected the new strain living within bats.
U.S. Space Force Releases Image from X-37B Spaceplane
February 22nd, 2025First image from X-37B Spaceplanehttps://t.co/I5f3KzevxF pic.twitter.com/yDYkbDZ091
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) February 22, 2025
Via: The War Zone:
For the first time, the U.S. Space Force has released a photo of Earth taken by one of its secretive X-37B mini-shuttles. The image appears to be the first in-orbit shot from the craft of any kind to be officially released by the Pentagon.
Trump Fires Chairman Of Joint Chiefs, Navy Chief And Other Top Brass
February 22nd, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
Making good on a campaign pledge to shake up the senior military ranks to ensure a focus on his policy priorities, President Trump on Friday night took the extraordinary step of firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and five more senior Pentagon officers. The fired chair, Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., had only served two-and-a-half years of his four-year term.
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Brown was just one of six casualties on Friday night. After Trump’s announcement, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a statement indicating that Chief of Naval Operations Adm Lisa Franchetti, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff James Slife have also been removed, along with the judge advocates general of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Cops in Germany Are Raiding People’s Homes for Insulting Politicians
February 22nd, 2025Via: Truthstream Media:
Apple Disabling End-to-End Encryption for iCloud Users in Britain
February 21st, 2025Via: Forbes:
One of Apple’s optional features is Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, which offers the company’s highest level of cloud data security. Apple has just announced that this is no longer available to new users in the United Kingdom. This is much more than a question of security, not just because it affects so many people but because of what may have caused it, and what it means for your data.
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In the U.K., if you haven’t opted to turn it on already, you will see an explainer of the service when you click, and a banner that reads, “Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users.”
Those who have already enabled it will be given a period of time to disable the feature themselves to keep using their iCloud account.
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There have been reports recently that the U.K. government had instructed Apple to create a back door to allow it to access data, for security reasons, something which, if true, Apple would not be permitted to acknowledge.
Donald Trump Introduced Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, at White House Reception, “One of the Great People, One of the Great Businessmen”: Crowd, “BOO!”
February 20th, 2025Donald Trump Introduced Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, at White House Reception, "One of the Great People, One of the Great Businessmen": Crowd, "BOO!" pic.twitter.com/oXG4wzy5rN
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) February 21, 2025
Microsoft Claims New Majorana 1 Quantum Computing Chip Can Scale To A Million Qubits — So Far, It Has Eight
February 20th, 2025Via: The Register:
Microsoft says it has developed a quantum-computing chip made with novel materials that is expected to enable the development of quantum computers for meaningful, real-world applications within – you guessed it – years rather than decades.
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Redmond’s boffins on Wednesday announced Majorana 1, a quantum computing chip based on a Topological Core architecture that can – eventually, it is claimed – scale to support millions of quantum bits (qubits) on a single chip.
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Commercially useful quantum computers are expected to require millions of physical qubits. We’re not there yet. Google’s Willow chip, introduced last December, boasts 105 physical qubits. While qubit counts across devices that rely on different techniques aren’t directly comparable – IBM’s Osprey from 2022 featured a 433-qubit processor – they’re still orders of magnitude shy of millions.
But that’s what Microsoft claims is now plausible, within a few years.
“Whatever you’re doing in the quantum space needs to have a path to a million qubits,” said Chetan Nayak, Microsoft technical fellow in a statement. “If it doesn’t, you’re going to hit a wall before you get to the scale at which you can solve the really important problems that motivate us. We have actually worked out a path to a million.”
Currently, Microsoft has eight – that’s how many topological qubits reside on its breakthrough chip. But there’s room for scaling to millions.
Globalist Media, Neocons Melt Down Over Trump’s ‘Jaw-Dropping Pivot In U.S. Foreign Policy’ on Ukraine and ‘Dictator’ Zelensky
February 19th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
As expected the reaction from mainstream pundits and Ukraine’s backers to Trump’s Wednesday post decrying Zelensky as a “dictator” who “better move fast” on striking a peace deal and holding elections or else “he won’t have a country left” has been swift and fierce.
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And the reaction from the neocons has been predictably loud: “Trump’s characterizations of Zelensky and Ukraine are some of the most shameful remarks ever made by a US President. Our support of Ukraine has never been about charity, our way of life at home depends on our strength abroad,” John Bolton wrote.
Related: Zelensky: About $100 Billion Missing, “Does Not Know Where All The Money Is”
AI Helping to Solve Fusion Energy
February 19th, 2025Via: MIT News:
In a recent open-access paper titled “Prediction of Performance and Turbulence in ITER Burning Plasmas via Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Profile Prediction,” published in the January issue of Nuclear Fusion, Howard explains how he used high-resolution simulations of the swirling structures present in plasma, called turbulence, to confirm that the world’s largest experimental fusion device, currently under construction in Southern France, will perform as expected when switched on. He also demonstrates how a different operating setup could produce nearly the same amount of energy output but with less energy input, a discovery that could positively affect the efficiency of fusion devices in general.
U.S. Treasury Sent $4.7 Trillion in Payments Without Budget Codes, “Making Traceability Almost Impossible”
February 17th, 2025Again, from my recent post:
They’re going to quickly stumble on to payments for black world projects and operations and potentially not realize what they’re looking at. It’s hard to imagine that the actual deep state would allow anyone to start pulling on those threads…
As for tracing the money: Are the recipients’ bank routing and account numbers present on the payments?
If so, the money should be traceable.
If not… Hmm. Turn it up to 11, I guess.
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025
