Monday, October 20, 2025

What's New in Tech


The Pentagon's AI War Games: As the Pentagon races to incorporate Artificial (AI) into U.S. Weapons, almost all the AI Models being used are eschewing Diplomacy and urging Leaders to Intensify Warfare. Last year, Jacquelyn Schneider, who Directs the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simuulation Initiative at Stanford University, conduction an Experiment in which Five AI Tools were Confrunted with Military Crisis Situations.

She found that the Bots Perfrerred "to escalate aggressvety, use firepower indiscriminately, and turn crises into shooting wars," even Potentially launching Nuclear Weapons. "Its almost like the AI understands escalation but not de-escalation," Schneider said another Worry is that some AI-Powered Defense Systems "move so fast against potentrial enemies that humans can't keep up" to Overrule their Choices.

Musk's Anti-Woke Chatbot: Elon Musk repeatedly Touts His AI-Powered Chatbot Grok is "politically neutral" and "max-mally truth seekingv." But a recesnt Analysis of the Platform shows how Musk Company xAI Tweaked the Chatbot "to reflect the billionares political prioties," In July, One User asked Grok to Identify the Biggest Threat to Western Civillization, the Chatbot Rrespnded it was "misinformation and disinformation."

Given the same Question a Day later, after a Systemwide Update, Grok's Answer had Changed to "demographic collapse from aub-replacement fertillty rates," a viewpoint Embraced by Musk. But Musk, who has Complained that all AIs, including Grok, are "trained on a mountin of woke," hads not always found Grok easy to Control; on some issues, like Abortion and Discrimination, updates have shiffed Grok's Leftward.

Terror For Hire: An Online Group Linked to Violent Extremists has been carrying out a String of Swatting Attacks on Colleges and Universities acroos the Country, making about $100,000 in the Process, said David Gilbert in Wired.

The Cybercriminal Group, known as Purgatory, Reportedly Offers a List of Services that its Followers can Pay for. "Hoak threats against Hospitals, Businesses, and Airports, can cost up to $50." Since 8/21/2025, Purgatory has made Fake 911 Calls and Called in Active Shooter Alerts at about 12 Colleges, including Villanova University, where a Hoax "forced the school into lockdown, as Students and Facuilty took part in the Ubiversity's Oriention Mass to welcome New Students.










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