Something Is Briefly But Regularly Jamming GPS Over Europe

June 5th, 2026

Via: Veritasium:

Paper: Chasing Lightning: Detecting, Characterizing, and Identifying a Powerful Space-Based GNSS Interference Source


Failing Grades Soar as Professors See Greater AI Usage, Dwindling Math Skills in UC Berkeley Computer Science Classes

June 4th, 2026

Via: The Daily Californian:

UC Berkeley teaching professor Dan Garcia taught both CS 10, “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” and CS 61A, “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,” in spring 2026. Garcia believes the “primary driver” of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a “vast increase in academic dishonesty” due to students’ usage of large language models, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

“Some of the numbers that you saw from the number of students who receive failing grades were because we caught them (cheating) and prosecuted them and are sending their cases to the center for student conduct,” Garcia said. “But in other cases, it’s students who are leaning a little too hard on LLMs to do their work for them, and then at exam time just really aren’t ready.”

According to Garcia, nearly 30 students in CS 10 were caught cheating on take-home exams in spring 2026.


Senior NIH Scientist, Research Fellow Charged with Bringing Deactivated Monkey Pox Virus Into U.S.

June 3rd, 2026

Via: AP:

Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it during interviews with investigators at a Michigan airport, authorities said Tuesday.

A criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in Detroit against Vincent Munster, who is chief of the virus ecology section at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, and Claude Kwe, who works with him as a research fellow.

Munster and Kwe were stopped at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in January after a flight from Paris and nine days in the Republic of Congo.

Munster “adamantly denied” returning to the U.S. with biological materials or samples, the FBI said in a court filing. But tests subsequently revealed that Munster and Kwe were traveling with vials of deactivated mpox, the FBI said, yet they had failed to declare them or obtain the necessary permission.

“Any deliberate effort to conceal and smuggle biological materials into the United States without proper authorization is a breach of the public’s trust and could have placed the public at risk,” said Marcus Sykes of the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services.


Groups of Men Seen Climbing In and Out of Manholes in Brooklyn for Unknown Reason

June 3rd, 2026

Via: USA Today:

Groups of people have been caught mysteriously sneaking in and out of manholes around Brooklyn, stoking fear in locals as an investigation remains ongoing.

Police say that there is no threat to the public, and that the sewer systems have been investigated after the unknown individuals spent hours in the underground tunnels.

In two separate incidents, surveillance footage has caught groups of people leaving, or entering, manholes in the middle of the night.

The two incidents were reported last week, both in Brooklyn, after police were called for individuals seen going into the manholes. The first group was reported Thursday night, while the other was called in Friday at around 1 a.m.

The Thursday night group was seen leaving about three hours afterward, according to the NYPD, while the second odd circumstance ended after individuals were seen crawling out and leaving in a vehicle more than two and a half hours after.

A law enforcement official said that the NYPD’s main theory is that the trespassers were looking for valuables, according to NBC New York.

But locals expressed concern as the individuals are still unknown, with fears stoked online.

No arrests have been made in both of the incidents, and their investigations remain ongoing, police told USA TODAY.


Christine Cotton – Suicide After Covid Vaccine Injury

June 3rd, 2026

Her work: christinecotton.com (English)


Peer-Reviewed Paper: Ticks That Cause People to Have Allergic Reactions to Meat Are Good

June 2nd, 2026


And Now… Trump Kushner Island

June 2nd, 2026

Via: Realtor.com:

Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are set to invest a staggering $1.4 billion into turning an abandoned Soviet weapons base into a luxury island resort—as the former first daughter prepares to follow in her father’s footsteps as a real estate developer.

Ivanka, 43, and Kushner, 44, who recently finished work on their family mansion in Miami, have spent the past year working on plans to transform the Albanian island of Sazan—one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean—into a must-visit destination for the wealthy and privileged.

The couple, who both served as senior advisors in President Donald Trump’s first administration but opted not to rejoin his cabinet after his 2024 election win, took a massive step toward their dream of creating the “extraordinary” retreat in January, when their plans received preliminary approval from the Albanian government, according to the New York Times.


Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate U.S. and Israeli Militaries

June 2nd, 2026

Via: Responsible Statecraft:

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before.

Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948.

Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. The U.S. and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.” In other words, the U.S. military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data.

If fully enacted, this proposal would provide a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. has with any other country in the world.


The Cost Of The Grain That Feeds Half The World Just Posted Biggest Monthly Surge Since 2008

June 2nd, 2026

Via: ZeroHedge:

Asian rice prices logged their biggest monthly gain in nearly two decades in May, as a Gulf energy shock collides with an expected El Niño event later this year. The spike adds to the mounting risks of a broader food price shock that could emerge as soon as six months from now.

Any time rice prices spike, it is a major concern because the grain feeds more than half the world’s population, estimated at 3.5 to 4 billion people.

Thailand white rice, a regional Asian benchmark, surged 20% in May, the largest monthly increase in data going back to 2008, according to Bloomberg. Chicago rice futures rose 15% last month.


Epstein: A Scientific Espionage Story

June 2nd, 2026

Via: Shark Rat Labs:


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