Energy Department Orders PJM To Dispatch Units, Backup Power Through Mid-October

Iran Launches 'Brazen' Attacks On More Tankers In Hormuz, Killing Sailors, After Araghchi Mocked Trump's Toll Plan The battle for Hormuz has ramped up after the United States has undertaken three consecutive nights of major bombing raids against Iranian targets. All the while President Trump is said to be "very serious" about his plan to impose a 20% toll on cargo transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, a Semafor report says, citing a White House official who says the president has desired such a plan for months. Both warring sides are insisting...

China Ranked #1 In World At Math; USA 27th... How do math skills compare around the world? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks participating countries and economies by the average mathematics scores of 15-year-old students in the most recent PISA 2025 study, published in September 2026. PISA assesses students in mathematics, reading, and science. Its mathematics assessment goes beyond memorizing formulas or procedures, measuring whether students can apply mathematical knowledge and reasoning to real-world problems. More than 760,000 students took part in PISA 2025 across 91 countries and economies, representing roughly...

What's Really Behind The AI Panic... Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via Bombthrower, They want you scared, stupid and subservient... Just heading into mid-September, a purported moral panic broke out amongst the frontier AI leaders that their own products were "too dangerous" and so the only remedy would be for the government to regulate all AI models. Weeks earlier, Bernie Sanders had introduced The Ban AI-Superintelligence Act, that would make it illegal to create an AI model that was more intelligent than humans, going so far as to prescribe a 20-year prison term...