Shadow Wars: IRGC Operatives Tried To Infiltrate Kuwait, Firefight Ensues

Waste Of The Day: Millionaire Mortgages Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, The Department of Agriculture's Section 502 loan programs help low-income families buy homes with mortgages that don't require a down payment. But in 2013, an investigation by Reuters found dozens of millionaires took advantage to purchase vacation and rental homes. Though the millionaires later repaid their loans, the program as a whole covered $500 million in losses from defaults in 2013, or $715 million in today's money. That's according to the "Wastebook" reporting published by the late U.S. Senator Dr. Tom...

While the US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks didn’t actually wrap up until Thursday, Israel was already scaling the war back up substantially on Wednesday, giving the impression that the relative reduction in violence of recent weeks is coming to an end. On Wednesday Israel fired 113 projectiles into Lebanon, the most strikes launched in a single day […]

Chamath Warns A Government Ban On Open-Source AI Would Tank The Market And Crater Anthropic And OpenAI Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warned that any U.S. move to ban open-source AI would blow a hole in corporate balance sheets and drag the stock market down. "If the United States government intervenes, it will tank the stock market. Not debatable," Palihapitiya said on the "All-In" podcast released over the weekend. "Now, you can debate which companies get tanked. For example, if they said, 'No more open source. American companies cannot use open source.'" Chamath:...