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“When he posts a five-minute video in Hebrew, in the first 60 seconds, most of the shares are from abroad, and [those] posts happen within about five seconds,” Jonathan Hasidim, of the Scooper research group, told Channel 12. “The strongest [bot-farmers] in the world are the Russians, and the Qataris after that. We’re kids compared to the Russian world, and the Qataris, in terms of changing and shaping consciousness,” an expert in the field, Tal Klinger, told the network.

LinkedIn listed the top 25 jobs on the rise for 2026, and AI is a hot trend. But can you guess which role is the hottest?ZDNET's key takeaways: AI's a hot trend among the 25 fastest-growing jobs in the US. Top jobs include AI engineer, AI consultant, and AI/ML researcher. LinkedIn also revealed the best industries and cities for these jobs. With generative AI being all the buzz these days, it's no surprise that employers are looking for professionals with the right AI skills. That can mean people in sales, marketing, and other business areas who need to work with...

Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, people’s shadows stretch up the wall of a natural overhang of stone. They’re lit by a ferocious fire that’s been burning for hours, visible even to people miles away. The wind carries the smell of burning. This fire will linger in community memory for generations − and in the archaeological record for far longer. We are a team of bioarchaeologists, archaeologists and forensic anthropologists who, with our colleagues,...

An AI-powered program used by a police department in Utah drafted a preliminary report indicating that a police officer had transformed into a frog. It appears it picked up the concept from a movie running in the background of the scene.

Part 1 of "The Man with the Midas Touch" Donald Trump receives a tip from a suspicious informant (Bill Clinton) that the evil supervillain Porge Poros is plotting a sinister scheme.

She is a star of American science. A Stanford chair. A NASA collaborator. A role model for a generation of young researchers. But a chilling congressional investigation has found that celebrated geologist Wendy Mao quietly helped advance China's nuclear and hypersonic weapons programs – while working inside the heart of America's taxpayer funded research system. Mao, 49, is one of the most influential figures in materials science. She serves as Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford University, one of the most prestigious science posts in the country. Her pioneering work on how diamonds behave under...

(I just did what I hope are complete corrections to the YouTube transcript as reformatted by that AI I use, but much of this was too much for the YouTube transcriber to handle) I Am the Very Model of a Biblical Philologist | 3:44 Josh Tyra | 4.54K subscribers | 299,975 views | December 11, 2014

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While Maduro played dictator and CNN ran humanitarian crisis segments, American money was flowing into Caracas. The objective was acquisition. US foundations were buying Venezuelan bonds, debt, equity, gold, and oil. Pennies on the dollar while the country collapsed into starvation. Members of Congress with financial stakes through careful proxies. Through humanitarian language. Through the same laundering networks that have operated for 50 years. Two months earlier, President Trump had signed an executive order prohibiting transactions with Venezuela’s oil sector. Standard sanctions on the surface. Financial guillotine underneath. The order severed Congressional money. Cut foundation stakes. Killed portfolios belonging to...

musk26.com is a recently registered website with a low trust score, flagged as suspicious due to several red flags identified by online security evaluators. The domain was registered on January 3, 2026, making it very new as of January 4, 2026. It claims to be associated with Elon Musk and Tesla, promoting a cryptocurrency giveaway under the title "Elon Musk & Tesla: Giveaway". The site uses a valid SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services, indicating encrypted communication, but the certificate is of the basic Domain Validated (DV SSL) type, which is commonly used even by scammers. The domain is...

Welcome to the techno-feudal state, where citizens are forced to underwrite unnecessary and harmful technology at the expense of the technology they actually need. The economic story of 2025 is the government-driven build-out of hyperscale AI data centers — sold as innovation, justified as national strategy, and pursued in service of cloud-based chatbot slop and expanded surveillance. This build-out is consuming land, food, water, and energy at enormous scale. As Energy Secretary Chris Wright bluntly put it, “It takes massive amounts of electricity to generate intelligence. The more energy invested, the more intelligence produced.” That framing ignores what is being...

Artificial intelligence is being used to steal voices, faces, and reputations. Victor Davis Hanson knows this firsthand. Hanson explains the growing problem of AI-generated deepfake videos that falsely use his image, voice, and setting to promote ideas he has never expressed and often strongly disagrees with.

The generative AI chatbot integrated into billionaire Elon Musk's X is under international scrutiny over reports it has been filling the social media platform with sexually explicit images of children and women. Complaints of abuses began after an "edit image" button was added to Grok just before Christmas. The button allows users to modify any image on the platform, with some using it to partially or completely remove clothing from people without their consent, according to complaints. Grok maker xAI, which is run by Mr Musk, replied to an ABC request for comment with an automated response: "Legacy Media Lies".

Welcome to 2026.....CES, kicks off on Jan. 6 under the bright lights of Las Vegas.Companies big and small will take over the ...Strip and Las Vegas Convention Center, debuting their latest and greatest offerings, and a good helping of fly-by-night products that’ll never see the light of day. While the show officially begins on Jan. 6, the festivities start a few days earlier...events like CES Unveiled and press conferences featuring Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang and AMD (AMD) CEO Lisa Su. ...That means you can expect artificial intelligence to be front and center....That will include everything from AI-focused PCs to...

2025 began with the devastating fires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, which destroyed the homes of many in the industry and stymied production and livelihoods for others. Then there were the ups and downs of the theatrical box office — And, of course, there were the big industry shakeups. Just in this year, we saw the completion of the Paramount-Skydance merger followed by Paramount’s initial bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, and then the potential acquisition of Warner Bros.’ studios, HBO and HBO Max by Netflix. About the only thing I can predict with certainty is that 2026 is going...

Buzz Aldrin has been "abandoned" and "dying" in his bed all alone. The 95-year-old astronaut's longtime friend Steve Barber has spoken out exclusively to RadarOnline.com after seeing the "horrific" state of Aldrin's living conditions during a recent visit. In a photo exclusively provided to Radar, the ailing space hero could be seen staring blankly inside of his dingy Los Angeles apartment, as he received oxygen support through his nose. Aldrin, wearing a NASA T-shirt, appeared in a daze while bedridden and leaning over on a small pillow. There was a table beside the elderly star, allowing him to reach over...

Dipti Sharma@Diptish098 HIDDEN GROK COMMANDS THAT 90% OF USERS DON’T KNOWMost people use GROK like this: “Write a post,” “Make a list,” “Explain this…”But if you’re doing that, you’re missing out on 90% of its real power.Here are 8 advanced commands that will make GROK work at its full potential:Dipti Sharma@Diptish09·17h1️⃣ “Act as…” – Turns GROK into any expert.→ Generic prompts give weak answers. Defining a clear role improves results dramatically.→ Example: “Act as a luxury brand marketer. Develop a high-end product promotion strategy.”Dipti Sharma@Diptish09·17h2️⃣ “Break this answer down into 3 levels: beginner, advanced, expert.”→ You get a response tailored...

Built by a small Italian team, the bot exploded in popularity.Turns out robots can trade, too. A new AI trading bot reportedly flipped a $3,200 investment into $14,158 in just one week, with the receipts to prove it, according to verified trading records and third-party data from MyFxBook. The story doesn’t end with the initial success. Starting from July 2025, with a $1,000 investment, the bot once again stunned traders. By December 2025, it earned a profit of $5,600 — an astonishing 560% gain over the 5-months period. Skepticism was expected... and honestly, deserved. Sure, there are glowing reviews online...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4 In this video, we walk through the anti-consumer AI circlejerk contributing to what we think is an "AI bubble." NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are now all sort of working with each other, despite also being the only competitors in some of their market segments. This creates opportunity, we think, for price fixing and anti-consumer collusion; at the same time, the three are now crossing over in their partnerships with OpenAI, CoreWeave, Oracle, xAI, and other AI-obsessed companies demanding more AI pickaxes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4

Joe Rogan Reacts to Senator Kennedy Dropping the Jeffrey Epstein Bomb #shorts