SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR [1]. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, new advances in UGVs.
US Army’s Unmanned Hunter Wolf UGV in Field Tests
Over at Modernity: US Army Trials Unmanned Hunter Wolf Robot With Gun, Radar In Combat Drills [2]. Here is a quote:
“The U.S. Army is quietly putting armed robots through their paces alongside real soldiers – and new footage suggests these machines could soon be a regular sight on tomorrow’s battlefields.
Fresh imagery dropped on Monday by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service shows a Hunter Wolf unmanned ground vehicle rolling with the 101st Airborne Division during a full-on combat simulation at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Louisiana. The display amounted to a serious stress test in one of the Army’s roughest training environments – where ideas either prove they work or get ditched fast.”
Is “Opting-Out” Nearly Meaningless?
By way of Tam at the great View From The Porch [3]blog, there is this, over at 404 Media: Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit [4].
Big Tech Targeted Second Amendment Rights
The Truth About Guns reports: How Big Tech Killed Local News and Targeted Our Second Amendment Freedoms [5].
Will Maine Become First State to Block Data Centers?
Over at The Sons Of Liberty: Will Maine Become First State to Block Data Centers? [6]A pericope:
“Maine could become the first state to pause the rapid expansion of AI data centers, after lawmakers approved a bill freezing new construction through 2027. However, it is unclear whether Gov. Janet Mills will sign it. The move reflects growing nationwide concerns over the industry’s massive energy and water demands, environmental impact and broader social consequences.”
Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms
The New York Times reports: Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms [7]. A Fair Use excerpt:
“Within two weeks, the model, called Mythos, had set off a global scramble unlike anything yet seen in the A.I. era. Mythos, which Anthropic has said is uncannily capable of finding and exploiting hidden flaws in the software that runs the world’s banks [8], power grids and governments, had become a geopolitical chip — and a U.S. company held it.
World leaders have struggled to figure out the scale of the security risks and how to fix them, with Anthropic [9] sharing Mythos with only Britain outside the United States. The Bank of England governor warned publicly that Anthropic may have found a way to ‘crack the whole cyber-risk world open.'”
Southern Poverty Law Center Indicted for Fraud
Southern Poverty Law Center Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges. JWR’s Comments: The SPLC smeared my reputation back in 2019 [10], simply because they disliked my politics. It is good to see that they are being brought to justice.
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