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Photo: CCTV News By Stas Margaronis and Kevin Policarpo   As China builds up is drone capability, Taiwan and the United States are struggling to catch up. China’s Drone Build-Up According to a Small Wars Journal report: “Across the Taiwan Strait, the PLA Rocket Force has an arsenal of thousands of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and glide bombs. Chinese firms account for nearly 90% of...

Photo: U.S. War Department IN THIS REPORT An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks Anthropic Says Trump Administration Ignores Safety Dangers of Fully Autonomous Weapons Challenges in Countering the Threat BY KEVIN POLICARPO A.I. is growing more powerful and more dangerous and poses growing national security risks that are largely ignored. The Center for AI Safety is an American nonprofit...

BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS The recent purge of top military commanders by Chinese President Xi Jinping, growing resistance within Taiwan to the KMT opposition party’s support for a Chinese take-over and Japanese support for Taiwanese sovereignty are complicating China’s attempts to acquire Taiwan. A big question mark is whether President Donald Trump’s lack of support will undermine Taiwan’s...

  BY KEVIN POLICARPO The boom in data center construction, enabling AI, is running into growing opposition from Americans concerned about higher electricity bills. That in turn is challenging the Trump administration to relieve the data centers’ pressure on higher electricity bills. Trump’s Solution for Data Centers Is Questioned In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump...

BY KEVIN POLICARPO More than 5,500 hazardous sites across the U.S. are projected to be at risk of coastal flooding by 2100, according to a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) research team report.[1] Oil and gas wells and industrial facilities that emit quantities of hazardous substances make up the largest proportion of contaminated sites, the report said: “Oil and gas wells and...

  BY KEVIN POLICARPO REPORTING IMPACTS ON: U.S. COAST LINE 43 STATES NEW WORK S. ATLANTIC COAST DELAWARE TEXAS LOUISIANA U.S. COAST LINE The research website ScienceDirect published a report about saltwater intrusion and sea level rise threatening U.S. coastal communities which found: “The United States (U.S.) coastal plain is subject to rising sea levels, land subsidence, more severe...

  BY KEVIN POLICARPO China is gradually refining and improving its cyberwarfare capabilities that could shut down and hamper critical U.S. infrastructure including the U.S. power grid. Meanwhile, the U.S. is cutting back on spending for its cybersecurity infrastructure, reducing budgets for organizations and systems that are vital for U.S. cyberdefense. QUANTUM COMPUTING THREAT China is also...

BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS Geoffrey Hinton, a 2024 Nobel Prize winner, is now warning that AI is in the process of developing a super-intelligence capability that poses a threat to humans. He warns about the threat of mass-unemployment, increased cyber-attacks as well as biological warfare mounted by an AI technology run for profit and for military aggrandizement. In May 2023, Hinton announced...

Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “The rapidly increasing demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) models requires extensive server installation with sustainability implications in terms of the compound energy–water–climate impacts. Here we show that the deployment of AI servers across the United States could generate an annual water footprint ranging from 731 to 1,125...