Chinese Robot Runs 100m Sprint Quicker than Usain Bolt’s World Record
August 22nd, 2026Why run them into a padded barrier instead of slowing them down??? haha
Via: Guardian:
A ?robot named Lightning ?has run ?the 100m in 9.32 seconds, ?beating the human world ?record, China’s ?state broadcaster ?has reported.
The humanoid, developed by the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor, ?reached a peak speed of 14.5 metres per second during ?a test event for ?the second World Humanoid Robot Games, which ?began on Saturday. The ?performance surpassed ?the ?9.58sec men’s ?100m world record ?set ?by Usain Bolt 17 years ago at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
Turkey Issues Arrest Warrant For Netanyahu
August 22nd, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
Turkey has escalated its anti-Israel actions, after months of denunciations connected to its Gaza, Syria, and Iran policies – and is once again taking things to new levels.
The Erdogan government has just issued an international arrest warrant for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an investigation into Israel’s interception of an aid flotilla for Gaza, which happened in mid-May and involved over 50 vessels and nearly 500 international activists.
Justice Minister Akin Gurlek announced Friday on X that Netanyahu and another top official are wanted for “genocide” related to military actions in Gaza.
“We categorically reject the notion that the Netanyahu administration, which is implementing a genocide policy in Gaza, is untouchable and unaccountable,” Gurlek said.
“We will not allow the crimes committed in Gaza to be covered up or the perpetrators to be shielded by impunity. We will resolutely utilize all possibilities of national and international law,” the Justice Minister added.
Former Acting U.S. Attorney Found Dead Inside Federal Building in San Diego
August 21st, 2026Via: Los Angeles Times:
Assistant U.S. Atty. Andrew Haden was found dead in an office inside the Edward J. Schwartz federal building in San Diego on Wednesday, shortly after being reported missing. There were no signs of foul play involved, authorities said.
Haden, 48, had worked for the U.S. attorney’s office since 2010 and twice served as acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California during transitions of leadership — once for around two months in 2023 and then again for another two-month stint in 2025.
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Haden was a veteran prosecutor who held several leadership roles during his career, including that of first assistant attorney general for the Southern District, which is the second-in-command role. He also served as chief of the Violent Crimes & Human Trafficking Section and of the Criminal Division.
Haden was raised in San Diego and graduated from University City High before obtaining his bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University.
He then served five years in the Navy and completed two overseas deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Joint Task Force Liberia.
How Much More Toxic Crap Can They Put on Our Food?
August 20th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Related: “Things that sit under heat lamps in gas stations and drop out of vending machines…”
The Hidden Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA
August 20th, 2026Via: Wall Street Journal:
Without CIA funding that helped keep NeXT afloat in the ’80s, Steve Jobs might not have made a triumphant return to Apple—and the iPhone might not have its foundational operating code.
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“How many units are you prepared to deliver on an annual basis?” Romello asked.
“That’s privileged information,” Jobs shot back.
“Is it more than 20,000? That’s what I want to buy: 20,000 units,” Romello said. “And I want ’em this year, but I want ’em with two modifications.”
The customization Romello had in mind wouldn’t be handled by Jobs or NeXT. The intelligence customer wanted a faster chip, supplied by Motorola, and a special graphics card, from Intel. “We never told him what we were really after,” Romello said. “We didn’t give him a copy of the chip. They were done aftermarket by us, by our proxies.”
He may not have known exactly what the CIA was planning to do with his computers, but Jobs was eventually granted a top-secret security clearance so he could visit classified facilities.
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Publicly, NeXT said it had a contract with the federal government as part of a partnership with ESL. Even inside the government, the CIA’s involvement was shielded; the National Security Agency was the official buyer, according to Dain Ehring, who worked with Romello on the NeXT contract.
Book: Valley of Death: How Big Tech is Fueling the Future of War by Sharon Weinberger
Current State of Battlefield Robots in Ukraine War
August 19th, 2026Mostly Chinese-made components + 3D printing + Starlink…
Related: U.S. and Ukrainian Forces Went Head-to-Head in an Exercise. Ukraine’s Drones Won.
U.S. National Debt Hits $40 Trillion
August 19th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
It took the US 200 years to reach its first $1 trillion in debt. It took 95 days to add its last.
After several weeks of build up, today the Treasury announced that total public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, after jumping by over $60 billion in one day, and has now surged by $1 trillion in just over three months, and by a third of the total in less than five years, as US lawmakers continue to ignore calls to contend with historically wide fiscal deficits.
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As buyers demand higher yields, that in turn drives up the Treasury’s borrowing needs. With two months left to go in the fiscal year, the government’s tally for interest costs so far for 2026 is $1.37 trillion – a 20% increase on the same period a year before. That in turn adds to the debt, potentially fueling further investor calls for higher rates, in a pattern known as a “doom loop.”
Comcast Offers to Turn Customers’ Wi-Fi Routers Into Motion Detectors
August 19th, 2026Via: Engadget:
Comcast has unveiled a new home security platform it’s calling Xfinity Shield. The company says this combines home, family and cybersecurity protection in a single app and it puts Wi-Fi at the center.
It’s offering a service called Wi-Fi Shield to Xfinity Internet users at no extra cost. This includes a few features, including one called Wi-Fi Motion. Comcast says that a typical Xfinity customer has 36 devices connected to Wi-Fi. This particular feature, which is opt-in, can detect movement inside the home by picking up on changes in the radio frequency signal between the Xfinity Gateway and a connected device. If the system detects any unexpected changes, you can receive immediate notification via the Xfinity app.
Comcast says Wi-Fi Motion, which uses Xfinity Gateway intelligence, “provides an added layer of awareness without recording video, capturing images or identifying individuals.” This kind of technology isn’t exactly new, but it’s interesting to see a notable internet provider integrate it into a home security platform.
“AI Native,” College Graduates, “Essentially Illiterate”
August 19th, 2026Via: Futurism:
There’s a silent epidemic building in colleges and universities throughout the United States — and as you might imagine, it has everything to do with AI.
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Over the past few years, a veritable tidal wave of op eds, studies, and think pieces have flooded the internet with horror stories about the decline in literacy rates, social skills, and critical thinking abilities of the country’s college students. While there’s a kernel of truth that these factors had already been slowly dwindling prior to the widespread adoption of AI, the tech only seems to be accelerating the drop-off in real-life abilities, particularly among young people for whom it can serve as a cognitive crutch.
The state of higher education has rapidly deteriorated over the past few years, as many of today’s college students regularly offload their coursework to AI assistants like ChatGPT — a shortcut, educators say, that’s even impacting their ability to participate in face-to-face discussions.
And though universities have many purposes beyond simply preparing students for the workplace, that is one major function that they do undoubtedly serve. The results could be rocky: as Cal State Chico ethics professor Troy Jollimore told the New Yorker in 2025, “massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate.”
Related: Silicon Valley Elite Brag About How Little Screen Time Their Children Are Allowed
Former Fauci Associate David Morens Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy
August 19th, 2026? BREAKING: Anthony Fauci’s former senior advisor David Morens just pled GUILTY to conspiracy to defraud the US
It’s time for Morens to expose EVERYTHING about Fauci, as he pushes to get a lighter sentence ?
Morens was one of the key figures in burying COVID records to avoid… pic.twitter.com/O0OjPUNnii
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 18, 2026
Via: The Hill:
Dr. David Morens, former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and once an associate to Dr. Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty Thursday to a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. in relation to efforts to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the guilty plea Tuesday.
In April, the DOJ brought charges against Morens, 78, alleging conspiracy against the U.S., and he was indicted.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic had uncovered evidence in 2024 that Morens had used his personal email, outside the scope of FOIA requests, to discuss National Institutes of Health grants with the infectious disease group EcoHealth Alliance.
In communications released by the House committee, Morens wrote to EcoHealth President Peter Daszak, “I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
In a 2021 email, Morens wrote, “i learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia’d but before the search starts, so i think we are all safe,” Morens wrote in a separate email. “Plus i deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail.”
He faces up to five years in prison for conspiracy.
