June 24, 2026

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Media Scorn Protestors for Distrust of Corporate Reporters– www.truthdig.com

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An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them. The problem, pundits and reporters say, is that these encampments have designated media spokespeople, and other protesters often keep their mouths shut to the press.

Conservative pundit Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal, 5/2/24) said of her trip to the Columbia University encampment:

I was at Columbia hours before the police came in and liberated Hamilton Hall from its occupiers. Unlike protesters of the past, who were usually eager to share with others what they thought and why, these demonstrators would generally not speak or make eye contact with members of the press, or, as they say, “corporate media.”

I was on a bench taking notes as a group of young women, all in sunglasses, masks and kaffiyehs, walked by. “Friends, please come say hello and tell me what you think,” I called. They marched past, not making eye contact, save one, a beautiful girl of about 20. “I’m not trained,” she said. Which is what they’re instructed to say to corporate-media representatives who will twist your words. “I’m barely trained, you’re safe,” I called, and she laughed and half-halted. But her friends gave her a look and she conformed.

Being in two places at once could make a quantum battery charge faster– www.newscientist.com

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Quantum batteries could one day charge electronics much quicker than standard ones thanks to the odd quantum phenomenon of being able to be in two places at once.

Electrochemical batteries, including those that power remotes and cars, store energy from chemical reactions between metals. But quantum batteries would be built from quantum bits, or qubits, and extract energy from quantum processes, such as those involved in moving particles of light or atoms. Physicists expect that full-fledged…

CDC Scrambled to Cover Up Sudden Deaths of 2 Teens Shortly after Covid Shots, Emails Show– slaynews.com

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Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scrambled to cover up a study that revealed two teenage boys died suddenly shortly after receiving Covid mRNA shots.

In a study published on February 14, 2022, experts revealed that the two teens both suffered unexpected fatal heart failure after being injected with the experimental mRNA shots.

The study was the first to detail examinations of American children who died of heart failure after COVID-19 vaccination.

However, the study’s paper set off a firestorm within the CDC that led to attempts by agency officials to overrule the medical examiners who examined the boys, internal emails have revealed.

Within hours of the study being published, federal officials scrambled to respond.

Internal CDC emails show officials were worried the paper would harm their efforts to promote the Covid injections to the public.

Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation– arstechnica.com

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The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently evaluating a new generation of robotic “dogs” developed by Ghost Robotics, with the potential to be equipped with gun systems from defense tech company Onyx Industries, reports The War Zone.

While MARSOC is testing Ghost Robotics’ quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles (called “Q-UGVs” for short) for various applications, including reconnaissance and surveillance, it’s the possibility of arming them with weapons for remote engagement that may draw the most attention. But it’s not unprecedented: The US Marine Corps has also tested robotic dogs armed with rocket launchers in the past.

MARSOC is currently in possession of two armed Q-UGVs undergoing testing, as confirmed by Onyx Industries staff, and their gun systems are based on Onyx’s SENTRY remote weapon system (RWS), which features an AI-enabled digital imaging system and can automatically detect and track people, drones, or vehicles, reporting potential targets to a remote human operator that could be located anywhere in the world. The system maintains a human-in-the-loop control for fire decisions, and it cannot decide to fire autonomously.

Elon Musk Aims To Deploy Tesla Robotaxis In China: Report– news.abplive.com

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, aims to implement his company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology into robotaxi services in China, according to a report by staterun China Daily. Last month, the Tesla CEO made an unexpected trip to China, where he had a meeting with Premier Li Qiang, the country’s second-highest-ranking politician.

According to news agency Bloomberg, Musk, whose company is facing sluggish sales, received a significant boost when Chinese officials gave their initial approval for Tesla to introduce its FSD technology in the country. However, according to the report from China Daily, that wasn’t the sole topic of discussion.

The report, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported that the Chinese government also offered partial backing to Musk’s proposal to integrate Tesla’s FSD technology into the country’s taxi services.

Musk’s wager on fully autonomous vehicles isn’t particularly unexpected, given the recent shifts he’s made to reorient the automaker as a software company.

Facebook will now let your business create entire ad campaigns using AI– www.techradar.com

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In an effort to give businesses the best tools for success (but more importantly, to keep up with the likes of Google), Meta has unveiled new generative AI features for advertisers on its platforms.

The upgrades, which are set to roll out over the course of this year, will include full image and text generation capabilities.

Besides improving efficiency by automating certain parts of the ad creation process, Meta also says that its GenAI features will help to improve ad performance by offering up more creative variations.

The most eye-catching addition will be Meta’s image generation tool, which offers advertisers the ability to generate full image versions inspired by their original ad content. The tool includes text overlay capabilities and a handy image expansion feature to make adjusting the aspect ratio of an image easier.

DeepMind is experimenting with a nearly indestructible robot hand– www.newscientist.com

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A new robot hand provides extremely fast and flexible finger movements, while also being tough enough to survive intense damage. That durability helps the hand, which is already being used in Google DeepMind’s robotics experiments, during the trial-and-error learning required to train artificial intelligence.

This latest robotic hand developed by the UK-based Shadow Robot Company can go from fully open to closed within 500 milliseconds and perform a fingertip pinch with up to 10 newtons of force. It can also withstand repeated punishment such as pistons punching the fingers from multiple angles or a person smashing the device with a hammer.

‘I don’t see any evidence of aliens.’ SpaceX’s Elon Musk says Starlink satellites have never dodged UFOs– www.space.com

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Elon Musk isn’t convinced that aliens have ever visited Earth.

The SpaceX CEO and founder sat down for a panel titled “How to save the human race and other light topics” at the 2024 Milken Institute Global Conference held in Los Angeles on Tuesday (May 7). During the conversation, the institute’s chairman, financier Michael Milken, began by asking Musk how he feels about the well-known opening monologue to many “Star Trek” series, in which it is stated that the starship Enterprise’s mission is to “seek out new life forms and new civilizations.” Musk replied, “Yeah, that’s the idea.”

Musk elaborated, stating that if we send probes out into the universe, we might find “remains of long-dead alien civilizations.” He then launched into an explanation about why he doesn’t feel aliens have ever visited our planet.

Federal cyber leaders proceed with caution on AI as a defensive tool– fedscoop.com

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Three years ago, chief information security officers couldn’t go anywhere without hearing about zero trust. Today, artificial intelligence is the defensive measure du jour for those same government IT leaders.

With a healthy dose of skepticism formed through years of protecting digital infrastructure from advanced threats, many federal cybersecurity practitioners have significant concerns about AI, viewing it as a technology that needs corralling. That’s especially true for large language models and other data sources, they say.

“It’s garbage in, garbage out,” said Paul Blahusch, CISO for the Department of Labor. “If our adversary can poison that data, well, we’re going to start getting the wrong information back out from our artificial intelligence. It’s going to say, ‘Day is night, night is day. Black is white, white is black.’ And are we going to just take that and say, ‘Oh well, that must be what it says because the AI said so?’”

Speaking during an Advanced Technology Academic Research Center webinar last week, Blahusch and other government and industry cyber experts painted AI as a technology that’s not entirely new, having found itself in the cultural zeitgeist thanks to ChatGPT. But it’s one that can and will be put to better use.

Google DeepMind unveils next generation of drug discovery AI model– www.aol.com

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LONDON (Reuters) – Google Deepmind has unveiled the third major version of its “AlphaFold” artificial intelligence model, designed to help scientists design drugs and target disease more effectively.

In 2020, the company made a significant advance in molecular biology by using AI to successfully predict the behaviour of microscopic proteins.

With the latest incarnation of AlphaFold, researchers at DeepMind and sister company Isomorphic Labs – both overseen by cofounder Demis Hassabis – have mapped the behaviour for all of life’s molecules, including human DNA…

“With these new capabilities, we can design a molecule that will bind to a specific place on a protein, and we can predict how strongly it will bind,” Hassabis said in a press briefing on Tuesday.

“It’s a critical step if you want to design drugs and compounds that will help with disease.”

Renewable energy responsible for 30% of the world’s electricity supply in 2023– eandt.theiet.org

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A new report has found that for the first time 30% of electricity produced worldwide came from renewable energy sources, predominantly solar and wind.

UK climate think tank Ember has published a report – Global Electricity Review 2024 – that analysed electricity data from 215 countries, as well as examining data from the highest carbon emitting countries and regions of the world.

It finds that renewables generated a record 30% of global electricity in 2023. From the analysis, 2023 saw a 23% growth in solar generation, 10% growth in wind generation and only a 0.8% growth in fossil generation.

“The renewables future has arrived. Solar, in particular, is accelerating faster than anyone thought possible,” said Dave Jones, Ember’s director of global insights.

Apple’s iPad Ad Boasts Of Replacing The Real With The Fake– thefederalist.com

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If nothing else, Apple’s horrible ad announcing the new iPad Pro has the virtue of being brutally honest. The one-minute clip opens with an old vinyl playing Sonny and Cher’s “All I Ever Need Is You,” and then shows an industrial press slowly crushing an eclectic assortment of old musical instruments, paint and art supplies, and Gen X-era toys and tchotchkes.

In other words, it destroys a bunch of stuff that makes life fun, unique, interesting, and fully human.

After all that old stuff — the quirky objects and sentimental artifacts of the pre-digital era — has been flattened under the inexorable weight of machine technology, the press lifts up to reveal the new iPad Pro. The message is so obvious it hardly needs to be spelled out: This thin digital tablet is supposed to replace — and supersede — all these clunky, analog, obsolete things. All you need, we are made to understand, is this new piece of digital technology, this iPad. The rest, the detritus of the real world, can simply be destroyed.

Apple CEO Tim Cook posted the ad on X and commented, “Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.” (An odd comment, after just showing us all the things it’ll be used to destroy.)

Jury finds Activision Blizzard liable in $23.4M patent infringement case– arstechnica.com

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A jury has found Activision Blizzard liable for $23.4 million in damages in a patent infringement lawsuit first brought to court in 2015.

The case centers on patents first filed by Boeing in 2000, one that describes a “distributed game environment” across a host and multiple computers and another that describes a simple method for disconnecting from such a network. Those patents were acquired in 2015 by Acceleration Bay, which accused Activision Blizzard of using infringing technology to develop World of Warcraft and at least two Call of Duty titles.

Those accusations succeeded in court earlier this week, as a jury found a “preponderance of evidence” that the patents were infringed. The decision came following a one-week trial in which Activision Blizzard argued that its networking technology works differently from what is described in the patents, as reported by Reuters.

“While we are disappointed, we believe there is a strong basis for appeal,” an Activision Blizzard spokesperson said in a statement to the press. “We have never used the patented technologies at issue in our games.”

30,000 years of history reveals that hard times boost human societies’ resilience– www.livescience.com

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The old saying may be true: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. At least that’s the case for human civilizations across 30,000 years of history, according to a new analysis published May 1 in the journal Nature. The study found that, across the globe, ancient human societies that experienced more setbacks were also quicker to bounce back from future downturns.

“The more often a population experiences disturbances or downturns, the more likely it is to be able to recover faster the next time around,” study leader Philip Riris, an archaeologist at Bournemouth University in the U.K., told Live Science.

This seesaw between vulnerability and resilience was particularly strong among early farmers and herders, Riris and his colleagues found. Agricultural communities throughout history experienced more downturns overall than other societies, such as hunter-gatherer groups, but they also recovered from these downturns more quickly than other groups.

“It’s an important paper,” said Dagomar Degroot, an associate professor at Georgetown University who studies how climate change influenced human history and who was not involved in the research. “There is a lot of really influential work on the collapse of societies faced with climate change,” Degroot told Live Science, “but a focus on resilience and only resilience is significantly rarer.”

Researchers target spermidine production to combat emerging drug resistance in Salmonella– phys.org

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Food-borne diseases like typhoid, caused by Salmonella Typhimurium, are a severe threat to public health, especially in India. The indiscriminate use of antibiotics has allowed this bacterium to become resistant, posing a major hurdle in treating infections.

“Salmonella’s strategies to survive are par excellence. With an increase in antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella, it is just impossible to eradicate,” says Dipshikha Chakravortty, Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology (MCB), Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

In a recent study published in Redox Biology, she and her team have pinpointed how the bacterium uses a key molecule called spermidine to shield itself from the onslaught of the host’s defense machinery. They also find that an existing FDA-approved drug can reduce spermidine production, weakening the bacterium’s ability to cause infection.

Ozempic Face to Ozempic Breasts– people.com

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  • Ozempic — the diabetes drug that’s become a trendy weight-loss tool — works in the brain to impact satiety
  • Patients have reported side effects like sagging breasts and butt, decreased libido and increased fertility
  • Experts say that some of these side effects are the result of rapid weight loss and suggest losing weight more gradually to combat any negative effects

A Gay Couple Is Suing New York City Over IVF Denial – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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The city of New York is discriminating against its gay male employees by denying them the same health care benefits as women and straight men, a new lawsuit alleges. Under the city’s insurance, employees are entitled to coverage for up to three rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in their quest to have children—that is, unless they are gay men.

In a class action lawsuit filed Thursday, which appears to be the first federal case specifically about gay men’s access to IVF, a former city employee and his spouse claim that by denying them benefits available to all other employees, the city is engaging in discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation. Nothing else, they argue, explains why they were treated differently.

“There is no legitimate, non-discriminatory explanation for why the City’s healthcare plan would offer IVF benefits when the male plan participant’s partner is female but withhold IVF benefits when the male plan participant’s partner is male,” the complaint, filed in federal court in New York, states.

Catholic College Will Honor Abortion Advocate, Allow Him to Give Commencement Speech– www.lifenews.com

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A small Catholic college in northwest Indiana will honor the pro-LGBT U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

Ambassador Joe Donnelly will reportedly keynote Calumet College of St. Joseph’s graduation ceremony this weekend. Donnelly previously served as U.S. Senator from Indiana.

The school does not list Donnelly as a speaker on its website, but the Post-Tribune, a local newspaper, lists him as the speaker. The College Fix left a voicemail with a university official on Tuesday seeking confirmation Donnelly is still the planned speaker.

While senator, he sometimes voted pro-life, including for a 20-week federal limit on abortion. The Democrat regularly voted to protect taxpayer funding of abortion giant Planned Parenthood and supported the LGBT agenda, despite being Catholic.

“I support marriage equality because we are a stronger state and a stronger country when we support inclusion, respect, and equality for all Americans,” Donnelly said in 2018 while running for re-election.

Pastor of Church Vandalized With Pro-Abortion Slogans Prays for Vandal to Accept Jesus– www.lifenews.com

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In response to the discovery of explicit pro-abortion graffiti on the doors of a Catholic church in Portland, Oregon on Sunday morning, the church’s pastor prayed for the vandal at Mass and expressed hope during the homily that the vandal would one day become an usher.

Just before Sunday Mass on April 28, explicit pro-abortion graffiti was found sprayed on the sidewalk by St. Patrick’s Church and on the church’s wooden front doors.

Fr. Timothy Furlow, who has been the pastor at St. Patrick’s Church since 2018, asked those at Mass that day to pray for the vandal instead of wrathfully seek justice or harbor hatred.

“You probably saw the graffiti on the way in,” Fr. Furlow began in his homily. “Somebody said, ‘Oh we gotta cover this up.’ I’m like, ‘Nope, I want them to see that.’ And the reason is because it fits kind of perfectly with what the core message of the Gospel is.”

Pro-Life Group Will Target Arizona Republicans Who Voted to Repeal Pro-Life Law– www.lifenews.com

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Students for Life Action (SFLAction) will be on the ground in Arizona on Wednesday, beginning an effort to educate voters in the districts of multiple Republican lawmakers who voted to pass HB2677, which removed the recently upheld pro-life laws protecting life early in pregnancy.

SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins said, “When mothers and babies were betrayed by a few Republican leaders, we promised that there would be consequences – today in Arizona, we’re beginning that grassroots ground campaign to hold five Republicans accountable who joined forces with the pro-abortion Democrats and turned their backs on the preborn.”  

Beginning in four districts * (seen below) in the Phoenix area, SFLAction volunteers and staff will walk through the districts of the three House Republicans and two State Senate Republicans who threw their votes behind pro-abortion Democrats, ensuring passage of HB2677.  

The Left is Totally Obsessed With Race– lidblog.com

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Democrats are populated by subgroups with overlapping views: liberals, progressives, socialists, and Marxists. In their eyes, virtually any topic that you can address – the total eclipse in April, for example – has some underlying racial component embedded within it. Not all topics have a racial component, but that is what they propagate on a daily basis.

Leftists want to keep race at the forefront of all public discourse and are on the ever-present lookout for anything which they regard as a transgression when others are referring to minorities. They particularly are focused on anything that a Conservative says, at any time, even if it was 30 or 40 years ago, that to the Left some way represents a slight or lack of respect for minorities, particularly Black Americans.

For these ‘race police’ it’s like a game. They are delighted when they are able to find something, anything, that they can aggrandize to the hilt, have the mainstream media pick up, and whip into a social and cultural frenzy.

Cancel Culture Prevents The Best Researchers From Engaging With The Food Industry– www.science20.com

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After Chris Wild took over the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a UN-funded body in France that looks for statistical links between food/chemicals and cancer, they made a switch in their policies regarding participation; an epidemiologist who had ever consulted for industry could no longer vote on what to label a carcinogen.Even though it was hypocritical – epidemiologists working for trial lawyers or environmental groups were recruited – few inside IARC objected. Nor did anyone think they might. Environmental groups have manufactured an ethical halo so well that even their lawyers look like better people than other lawyers. They are, they assure us, poorly paid evangelists for health and safety against Evil Corporations.

Except none of that is true. For that ethical halo to be punctured even slightly, someone like Tom Girardi, who turned the “Erin Brockovich” case, trace levels of hexavalent chromium in Hinckley, California, into hundreds of millions of dollars for himself, has to engage in such spectacular fraud it gets attention. And even then his environmental shakedowns are minimized, though they were the same tactics he used against Pacific Gas  &  Electric.

University of Pennsylvania student says Jews are unsafe on campus– www.jpost.com

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Students are facing unsafe conditions at the University of Pennsylvania because of hostility and escalations by anti-Israel encampment activists and the failure of the administration to address them, UPenn student Eyal Yakoby told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.

“I know I’m unsafe,” said Yakoby, a senior studying political science and Middle East studies. “I know that they plan to escalate.”

Yakoby published on social media on Monday what he claimed was an internal encampment document in which activists were advised to “be prepared to escalate your actions” and to build defenses and barricades. Fox News reported on Friday that they had obtained multiple activist guides such as Flood the Gates: Escalate and Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide 2024 which explain how to create barriers and shields. Yakoby shared on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday that a protester had brought a slingshot and switchblade into the encampment.

“It has been frustrating to see the media report as though these encampments are peaceful,” said Yakoby. “How much more documentation and videos need to be released?”

New York’s Abortion Rights Amendment Removed from Ballot– slaynews.com

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A bill that would have added abortion rights and other left-wing issues to the New York constitution was removed from the ballot.

The news is a major blow for Democrats hoping to get voters to weigh in on the topic in November, as reported by Politico.

The initiative was defeated in a court ruling by a conservative judge in upstate Livingston County.

The judge questioned the constitutionality of the ballot question.

Six House districts up for grabs in New York that could decide chamber control next year.