AMERICANTHINKER - Leftist women yearn for subjugation
By Olivia Murray They scream about The Handmaid’s Tale, then they read porn novels and cover themselves in niqabs.
AMERICANTHINKER - Scarborough isn’t attacking the Left; he’s trying to save it.
By Greg Richter Ocasio-Cortez and Scarborough both want Democrats to keep the populism, but stop making its candidates defend nuttiness.
AMERICANTHINKER - These radicals must be soundly defeated
By Silvio Canto, Jr. It's up to voters to deny them victory and send them back to wherever they came from.
AMERICANTHINKER - The digital ball and chain
By Dan Bell You and everyone you know carries a digital ball and chain -- weightless in size, yet still bright enough to be seen from anywhere by anyone who knows where to look.
AXIOS (Amy Harder) - AI could help unlock more oil — and emissions
Move over, data centers. AI's climate impact may extend well beyond the electricity it consumes. Why it matters: A new peer-reviewed study finds AI could help produce more oil and natural gas — and produce a climate impact the authors argue could far outweigh the technology's benefits for renewable energy. Driving the news: The research, just published in a Nature journal, concludes AI's role in boosting oil and gas production would outweigh its climate benefits from accelerating renewable energy, leading to a net increase in emissions under a range of scenarios. - The study is among the first to estimate how AI-driven gains in fossil fuel production could affect global emissions. "Most assessments of AI's climate impact are framed as…
AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - Tenacious AI agents expose dark side of machine autonomy
New revelations about "rogue" AI agents have exposed a dystopian hazard: Give an agent a goal, and it may decide that hacking, deception or rule-breaking is worth the payoff. Why it matters: Billions of AI agents could soon be acting on behalf of humans across the real world, multiplying the consequences of every loophole, incentive and boundary they learn to exploit. Zoom in: The potential dangers of agentic overreach were laid bare over the weekend with Australia's first known autonomous AI hack , triggered by an innocuous request to book a sold-out fitness class. - An Australian man's AI assistant found a security flaw and used it to book him into classes months beyond the system's normal limit. - When he asked it to move him up a…
AXIOS (Emily Peck) - Why "chipflation" is here to stay
Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED ; Chart: Emily Peck/Axios Memory chip prices are skyrocketing, thanks to AI demand, and there's no end in sight. Why it matters: "Chipflation" is pushing up the prices for electronic goods like smartphones and laptops, as well as the costs for cloud storage and hardware — it also helps explain the eye-popping ascents in semiconductor stock prices. - While the overall effect on inflation may not be huge — other kinds of products get more weight in the government's measure of consumer prices — the scale of this boom is unprecedented. By the numbers: The Producer Price Index for electronic components and accessories, which measures what companies pay for semiconductor chips and other…
NPR (Kat Lonsdorf) - A year in, thousands of armed troops have quietly become a fixture of D.C. life
The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.
NPR (Sequoia Carrillo) - The school year begins in LA with one big change: limited screen time
As educators in the nation's second-largest district prepare for the new limits on classroom screen time, some teachers say it will be a difficult adjustment.
NPR (Debbie Elliott) - Alabama holds second primary Tuesday, leading to confusion, concerns about low turnout
After Alabama redrew its congressional maps in May, voters in several districts saw their primaries pushed to August. Now, it's time to vote and there are concerns confusion will dampen voter turnout.