SpaceX Reportedly Building Spy Satellite Constellation In Low Earth Orbit | ZeroHedge

SpaceX's Starshield program has been building a constellation of spy satellites under a classified contract with the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) since 2021, Reuters reported, citing five people familiar with the program.  

The spy satellite network will consist of hundreds of low-Earth orbiting satellites with Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a sat-swarm. SpaceX's contract with the NRO, signed in 2021, totals $1.8 billion. 

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Visualizing The Explosive Growth Of AI-Powered Fraud | ZeroHedge

Former U.S. president Donald Trump posing with Black voters, President Joe Biden discouraging people from voting via telephone or the Pope in a puffy white jacket: Deepfakes of videos, photos and audio recordings have become widespread on various internet platforms, aided by the technological advances of large language models like Midjourney, Google's Gemini or OpenAI's ChatGPT.

As Statista's Florian Zandt details below, with the right prompt fine-tuning, everyone can (more…)

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McDonald’s Stores Hit By Multi-Nation “Technology Outage” | ZeroHedge

A major technology outage forced McDonald's stores in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom to either shutter operations or suspend online ordering on Friday, CNN reported.

"Many stores across the country have temporarily suspended operations," McDonald's Japan wrote in an X post, adding, "There is currently a system failure." 

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