Donald Trump‘s top advisor has fallen victim to a sinister scheme by hackers who infiltrated her phone and used artificial intelligence to impersonate her voice.
The nefarious plot involved stolen data from the personal cellphone of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles that was then used to call some of American’s most powerful people.
Over the course of several weeks, high profile senators, governors and American business executives have received voicemails or messages from an unknown number claiming to be Wiles, Wall Street Journal reported.
The hackers came undone when they made the fatal mistake of asking questions that the president’s closest aide would already know the answer to.
Wiles – who has been nicknamed ‘Ice Maiden’ – has been contacting associates urging them to disregard any unusual messages or calls from unknown numbers purporting to be her.
In a terrifying twist, some of the phone calls used a voice that mimicked Wiles. Authorities suspect the impersonator used artificial intelligence to replicate it.
The scientific investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) has reached a critical juncture with the recovery and analysis of the extraordinary “Buga sphere phenomenon” – a metallic, spherical object first documented in Colombia on March 2, 2025. This remarkable case presents unprecedented evidence of technology demonstrating flight capabilities beyond conventional human engineering, offering researchers a rare opportunity to directly examine a physical artifact that displays characteristics consistent with advanced aerial technology of unknown origin.
“This is truly extraordinary… this sphere that flew and descended. For me personally, the most important evidence that demonstrates a non-human origin, not to say extraterrestrial, non-human of this sphere is that it flies through the skies and flies from one side to the other as if it were a drone, but it isn’t; it doesn’t have a propulsion system, and therefore it’s something more,” explains Jaime Mausán, during a Youtube video about the Buga Sphere.
A group of participants from several U.S. agencies took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise that tested their preparedness for a severe solar storm, revealing major cracks in scientists’ ability to forecast space weather—which could put crucial systems at risk.
The Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) task force, an inter-agency group that includes the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), organized a space weather exercise aimed at better understanding the U.S. government’s preparedness for an impending solar storm. The results were recently published in a report, which highlighted significant limitations in space weather forecasting.
The exercise was held from May 8 to 9, 2024, at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and at a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) site in Denver, Colorado. The space weather scenario was organized into four modules involving a series of solar events that resulted in adverse effects on our systems on Earth and in space. The effects included radio communication blackout, loss of GPS functionality, power outages, intense radiation exposure for astronauts and satellites, and an inability to track and communicate with orbiting satellites.
This will be the greatest technological advance in human history. I hope we use it to provide wealth and leisure for everyone, while also improving our gene pools. Leisure time well used helps humans become even more wonderful. Is it not probable our global elite will become bored with greed? Once machines can outdo us in (almost) everything, we will enjoy other humans in new ways. I am confident FIML will become very attractive and widely used because it will be central to the few things that only we humans are able to do. ABN
LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
Power inverters, which are predominantly produced in China, are used throughout the world to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids. They are also found in batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers.
While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.
However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.
Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
At around 15 min, the video describes the effects of this observation of those who observed it. Worth watching from the beginning, but I mention that to show it goes somewhere human and very interesting. Filing this one under both ‘science’ and ‘Buddhism’. ABN
AI and zero-click searches are killing the business model of the web that has sustained content creators for the last 15+ years. It’s an opinion that is shared by many, including Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, who recently warned that “search drives everything that happens online.”
It’s been known for some time that the web is changing into the Zero-Click Internet, the name for when users no longer need to click on links to find whatever content they want.
Social media sites stopped promoting posts with links years ago, posting content directly on the platforms so users don’t have to leave them. With the advent of generative AI, people are having their queries answered directly on Google’s search page – no need to click on a website to find an answer.
The main issue is that nobody is going to want to create new content when they get paid nothing or almost nothing for doing so. This is especially true when it comes to smaller, independent, impartial sites that AI companies might not partner with. And let’s not forget how often AI gets things completely wrong.
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