Anthropic has introduced Claude to Google Meet with a new product called Claude Meetings. The AI joins video calls, listens to discussions, and helps teams turn conversations into tasks during a meeting.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it brought 348 enforcement actions in fiscal 2026, the fewest cases since 1991, according to a Reuters review of agency statistics. The agency's actions were down from 456 a year earlier, as the Wall Street watchdog said it levied nearly $1.1 billion in fines and other financial remedies. That was the lowest level of penalties it has imposed since 2008, on a non-inflation-adjusted basis, according to the Reuters review of figures published on the SEC's website.
Dozing off in your armchair in the middle of the afternoon is one of life's simple pleasures. But depending on how often you find yourself doing it, those daytime naps could be a warning sign of worsening cognitive health, research suggests.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released a majority staff report titled, "A Review of the Federal Government's Mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Criminal Investigations." The report culminates the Committee's 15-month investigation, which included 19 transcribed interviews and depositions with key witnesses, the release of documents from the Department of Justice and the Epstein estate, and an extensive review of financial records.
With data centers cropping up around the United States, the cost of the energy infrastructure on which they rely, and who pays for it, are among the country's most debated economic and political questions. A new study finds that in 2025, the rising energy costs associated with AI data centers landed hardest on lower-income, rural households, which bore disproportionate shares of the financial burdens compared with the data centers themselves.
OK, I have posted one rock artist who seems to have more respect for veterans than the Sec of Stage-Prancing Hegseth seems to have.
Here's another rock artist who, in this song takes an imaginary turn, but still expresses respect for a Marine.
Stan Ridgway - Camouflage (1986)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1]
I was a PFC on a search patrol huntin' Charlie down
It was in the jungle wars of '65
My weapon jammed and I got stuck way out and all alone
And I could hear the enemy movin' in close outside
Just then I heard a twig snap and I grabbed my empty gun
And I dug in scared while I counted down my fate
And then a big marine, a giant with a pair of friendly eyes
Appeared there at my shoulder and said wait
When he came in close beside me he said
"Don't worry, son, I'm here
If Charlie wants to tangle now he'll have two to dodge."
I said, "Well thanks a lot."
I told him my name and asked him his
And he said, "The boys just call me Camouflage."
[Chorus]
Whoa Camouflage
Things are never quite the way they seem
Whoa Camoufalge
I was awfully glad to see this big marine
[Verse 2]
Well I was gonna ask him where he came from
When we heard the bullets fly
Coming through the brush
And all around our ears
It was then I saw this big Marine light a fire in his eye
And it was strange but suddenly I forgot my fears
...
Verse 5]
And I knew there was something weird about him
Cause when I turned around he was pullin' a big palm tree
Right up out of the ground
And swattin' those Charlies with it from here to Kingdom Come
When he led me out of danger
I saw my camp and waved goodbye
He just winked at me from the jungle and then was gone
And when I got back to my HQ, I told 'em about my night
And the battle I'd spent with a big marine named Camouflage
[Verse 6]
When I said his name a soldier gulped
And a medic took my arm
And led me to a green tent on the right
He said, "You may be tellin' the truth boy
But this here is Camouflage
And he's been right here since he passed away last night."
In fact, he's been here all week long
But before he went he said, "Semper Fi,"
And said his only wish
Was to save a young marine caught in a barrage
So here, take his dog tag, son
I know he'd want you to have it now."
And we both said a prayer for a big marine named Camouflage
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Top intel Dem unsure if Alice Huang is a Chinese spy or useful idiot' after classified briefing
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... Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the likely incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is unsure whether a business executive who cultivated close ties with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is a Chinese spy, based on information he received from U.S. intelligence officials in a classified briefing earlier this week.
In a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday, Himes told POLITICO he left the briefing given by heads of U.S. intelligence agencies to top lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees without clarity on whether Alice Huang knowingly cultivated information for the Chinese government on the $4 trillion U.S. chip company, or was a "useful idiot" unaware of China's wider espionage activities.
"What's the relationship with Alice Huang and the Chinese, and what do we know about what influence or information was traded? Because today, at least, I don't know," he said.
He noted that the classified briefing touched on multiple subjects, including the Nvidia CEO's relationship with Huang, who is associated with Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed. ...
Oh, this looks to be a growing issue for the Trump admin ...
'Answer in front of God and country': GOP turns on Lutnick over chips
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... The blast radius from Nvidia's espionage scandal is now spreading to the Commerce Department, potentially setting up Secretary Howard Lutnick or other agency leaders to be the Trump administration's scapegoats.
Recent reports that the Commerce Department failed to take action on Megaspeed, the Singapore-based firm at the center of the spying and chip-smuggling allegations, have intensified scrutiny of the agency's decisions to allow more foreign chip sales, particularly of Nvidia's advanced artificial intelligence chips. Over the past 24 hours, more than half a dozen Republicans have demanded answers -- and potentially congressional testimony -- from Lutnick and top deputies over whether they put private tech interests above national security.
"The obvious question is why did he choose to sell advanced chips?," Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said in an interview Wednesday. "Secretary Lutnick needs to answer that in front of God and country. If I were he, I'd call a press conference this afternoon and explain what happened and why he agreed to sell em chips, and I would stop doing it."
"I mean, there will be a congressional investigation," Kennedy added. "But I don't think he ought to wait on Congress."
Kennedy and other prominent Republicans are calling for Lutnick to explain the agency's lack of action to block Megaspeed from buying advanced chips, despite U.S. intelligence warnings that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was having an affair with a Megaspeed executive suspected of being a Chinese asset. ...
Pyramids: Solving the Mystery
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... How were the pyramids built? And how have they stood up over time? Thanks to CGI imagery and footage filmed from the sky, this series sets out to relive the construction of the pyramids and to recreate Egypt as it was more than 5,000 years ago. ...
There's also this ...
North Korea posts revised constitution online on propaganda website
www.koreatimes.co.kr
... North Korea has reposted its full constitution on a state propaganda website, more than 2 1/2 years after taking the document offline following leader Kim Jong-un's declaration of a two hostile state policy.
The version posted on Naenara appears to be the text revised in March, which the outlet said was amended at the first session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly on March 23.
Previously, Naenara had pulled down the full text of the constitution in March 2024, along with its sections on modern history and overseas Koreans, which were believed to contain references to "unification" and "one nation."
The removal followed Kim's declaration at a party plenary meeting in late 2023 that the two Koreas are separate, hostile states, and his order in January the following year to strip expressions such as "peaceful unification" and "national unity" from the constitution.
At that time, Kim said he will no longer consider South Korea a counterpart for reconciliation and unification.
The website appears to have removed the old text because it conflicted with North Korea's new policy toward the South.
The text now on Naenara is largely identical to the version Seoul's unification ministry obtained and made public in May, which added a new territorial clause, dropped all references to unification with the South, elevated the leader's status and power, and granted him command of the nuclear forces.
There are some minor additions in the Naenara version, however, such as ...
One thing I noticed, and the reason why I posted links to those two songs ...
The rock musicians involved in those songs seem to have a higher respect for those who serve in the Military than Sec Def Hegseth does.
Let that sink in ...