Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not

Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not

In June 2024, a cyber-attack on a pathology services company caused chaos across London’s hospitals. More than 10,000 appointments were cancelled. Blood shortages followed and delays to blood tests led to a patient’s death.

Lethal cyber-attacks like this are thankfully rare. But a new AI release could change that – plunging us into a terrifying new world of chaos and disruption to the digital systems that we rely on.

This week Anthropic, a leading AI company in San Francisco, announced “Claude Mythos Preview”, an AI model that the startup says is too dangerous to publicly release, thanks to its exceptional cybersecurity – and cyber-attacking – capabilities. Mythos, the company claims, has found vulnerabilities in every major browser and operating system. In other words, this new AI model might be able to help hackers disrupt much of the world’s most important software.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Liberals wonder: what does their newest MP say about their party?

Liberals wonder: what does their newest MP say about their party?

As Prime Minister Mark Carney made the rounds on day two of his party’s Montreal convention, two types of Liberals kept trying to shake his hand.

One, the lifetime Liberals, who’ve known every party leader for decades. The other, young Liberals, whose introduction to the party was through former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s progressive values.

Neither are sure what to make of the newest Liberal among them and what it says about the future under Mr. Carney.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Negotiating With Tehran: The Danger of Diplomacy

Negotiating With Tehran: The Danger of Diplomacy

Iran has ostensibly agreed to a two-week ceasefire — which, intentionally or not, it broke within minutes — and to negotiations. At first glance, an agreement may seem a meaningful step. With the Islamic Republic of Iran, however, a ceasefire does not necessarily indicate a genuine shift in intent. As US President Donald J. Trump and his negotiators undoubtedly know, it more likely functions as a tactical pause to relieve pressure, rebuild capabilities, and buy time under the cover of diplomacy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Goldstein: How the Liberals broke the law while claiming to defend it

Goldstein: How the Liberals broke the law while claiming to defend it

It’s easy to see why the Carney government wants to overturn the unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeal condemning the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act (EA) during the trucker convoy demonstrations in February 2022.

The appeal court’s Jan. 16 ruling – upholding the 2024 judgment of Justice Richard Mosley that the government’s actions were unconstitutional and unlawful– is a devastating indictment of what the Liberal government did, reflecting many of the arguments made by the protesters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump reportedly says he’ll issue mass pardons at end of his presidential term

Trump reportedly says he’ll issue mass pardons at end of his presidential term

Donald Trump has reportedly said he will issue pardons en masse to his closest advisers at the end of his second presidency, promising them in casual conversations over the last year.

“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval [Office],” the president reportedly said in a recent meeting, garnering laughs from the room, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing an anonymous source.

The publication reported that another source had said Trump used the line in an earlier conversation, but with a smaller radius: he said he would pardon anyone who came within 10ft of the presidential office. Other sources claim Trump has floated hosting a news conference at the end of his term where he will announce mass pardons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Liberal party adopts motion to restrict kids from social media

Liberal party adopts motion to restrict kids from social media

MONTREAL – Federal Liberals have agreed to set 16 as the age of majority for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts.

Party grassroots passed a non-binding resolution Saturday morning for the restriction and to place the onus on social media companies to enforce it.

Quebec MP Rachel Bendayan says prolonged social media use is harmful to the mental health of young Canadians.

They’ll extend this to your retirement years ASAP.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

MANDEL: ‘Difficult’ decisions await judge as Frank Stronach sex assault trial ends

MANDEL: ‘Difficult’ decisions await judge as Frank Stronach sex assault trial ends

At long last, billionaire Frank Stronach’s high-profile sex assault trial has sputtered to an end.

Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy told the 93-year-old she hopes to have a decision by June on whether the former auto parts magnate is guilty or innocent of sexually assaulting three young women more than 40 years ago.

It’s difficult to “trust all women” when the crown does such a poor job.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#MeToo

Knifeman calling himself ‘Lucifer’ slashes three at NYC’s Grand Central

Knifeman calling himself ‘Lucifer’ slashes three at NYC’s Grand Central

A machete-wielding suspect attacked three people at New York City’s Grand Central station before he was fatally shot by police, in a rampage that diverted trains at the nation’s biggest rail hub.

The suspect slashed an 84-year-old man and a 65-year-old man about the head and face and left a 70-year-old woman with cuts to her shoulder in the subway platform attack.

Police said the assailant, 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, ignored repeated demands to drop the weapon and called himself Lucifer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Mark Carney is hard to define, but he is defining the Liberal party

Mark Carney is hard to define, but he is defining the Liberal party

MONTREAL — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s agenda at the party’s 2026 convention was simple: a little byelection politicking, a little schmoozing, a little hockey cheering, sprinkled with a lot of speechifying.

For about 4,500 federal Liberals who gathered, their agenda also seemed simple. They mainly came to hail Carney, the leader whose arrival a year ago threw the Liberal Party of Canada a political lifeline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

What will it take for U.S. and Iran to end war? Here’s what we know.

What will it take for U.S. and Iran to end war? Here’s what we know.

Negotiators from the United States and Iran are set to meet in Islamabad this weekend for talks aimed at turning their current ceasefire into a durable peace.

The truce, announced Tuesday, has been shaky. Israel launched an aerial barrage against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remains snarled. But after nearly six weeks of war, both Washington and Tehran appear motivated to end the conflict, raising hopes that the talks Saturday, to be led by Vice President JD Vance and senior Iranian officials Abbas Araghchi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, might produce a deal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Saab dangles sovereign data centre in Montreal to undercut F-35 fighter contract

Saab dangles sovereign data centre in Montreal to undercut F-35 fighter contract

As part of its pitch to lure Canada to buy Gripen-E fighter jets, Saab has offered to establish a secure, sovereign data centre in Montreal to house critical, top-secret mission data and intelligence, CBC News has learned.

The company is framing it as a “unique advantage” in the battle to convince the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney to limit the purchase of U.S.-manufactured F-35s, which have all of their data stored at a Lockheed Martin centre in Fort Worth, Texas.

The purpose-built Saab data centre “will host all work on the fighter mission system,” Saab spokesperson Sierra Fullerton confirmed in a recent statement to CBC News.

Given the potential for graft I suspect Carney & Co. are leaning toward the Gripen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCAF", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Era of Free Seas Is Unraveling—and Now Everyone’s Going to Pay

The Era of Free Seas Is Unraveling—and Now Everyone’s Going to Pay

In just six weeks, the Iran War has shattered a system of global trade that has enriched people and nations for more than a century: the freedom to sail the open seas.

The Strait of Hormuz long functioned as an artery for the world’s maritime economy. But that 30-mile-wide waterway is now a monument to a new global disorder. As some 20,000 sailors effectively held hostage at sea digested President Trump’s cease-fire announcement this week—contingent on the complete opening of the strait—Iranian officials stressed they would determine which ships could leave and at what price.

The “Tehran toll booth” was taking effect, as the U.S. Navy watched on, an admission that, at least here and now in the world’s oil corridor, America no longer rules the waves.

Imagine that! The WSJ is so obsessed with money it publishes absolute rot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Ferrari drivers among ‘brazen’ thieves stealing £1m of petrol a week

Ferrari drivers among ‘brazen’ thieves stealing £1m of petrol a week

Fuel theft at forecourts has surged in the wake of price spikes caused by the US-Iran war and many of the perpetrators are driving expensive cars.

Data from about 500 UK filling stations found that the value of daily thefts had risen by 27 per cent since the conflict in Iran began in February and suggest that more than £1.2 million of fuel is being stolen every week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", WTF?