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The AI boom has driven up demand for memory chips so sharply that companies in other industries, from tech giants like Apple to medical device manufacturers, are now asking the federal government for help securing chip supplies. The New York Times reports that memory chips, which store data in everything from smartphones to cars, are being bought up by AI companies for giant data centers. Prices have quadrupled in a year, a problem that impacts everything from iPhones to MRI machines. Medical device makers, car manufacturers and consumer electronics companies such as Apple are pressing the government for help. Interviews…

Brexit boss Nigel Farage followed up the announcement his Reform UK party has opened talks with El Salvador to offshore prison for migrant offenders with other robust policies to end the present practice of widespread early release over a shortage of prison places. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and spokesman Zia Yusuf rejected the government’s official position that crime is actually falling on Monday morning and vowed to implement a raft of new policies to keep criminals off the streets if elected to form a future British government. Offering a simple and long-effective idea — that criminals should spend time…

Authorities in Mexico arrested the leader of a regional cartel that is linked to the ongoing wave of violence plaguing various cities in the Mexican Caribbean resort area, including Playa Del Carmen and Cancun. The arrest took place in Zapopan, Jalisco, during a joint operation by agents from the attorney general’s offices of Jalisco and Quintana Roo, who tracked down Angel Eduardo “N”, known in the region as El Ruso. Due to changes in Mexican law, authorities do not release the last names of individuals they arrest and instead use “N,” while partially covering their faces in mugshots. Mexican authorities…

At least four Moroccan minors under 14 have received hospital treatment for alleged sexual assaults as reception facilities in Ceuta struggle with overcrowding At least four girls under 14 have been treated for alleged sexual assaults in the Spanish North African exclave of Ceuta, after a massive migrant influx overwhelmed reception facilities in the area and left minors sleeping on the streets, Euronews has reported.The victims are reportedly Moroccan minors who entered Ceuta during the unprecedented migration surge in late July, the outlet said on Sunday, citing medical officials.A boy is also believed to be among the victims, while medical…

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday. At least 70 people are dead. The epicenter of the quake was in San Jose Del Palmar about 250 miles west of Bogota. People ran as buildings collapsed. The AP reported: A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 69 people, trapping residents under debris of collapsed buildings and forcing people to evacuate their homes as far as the capital of Bogotá. The epicenter was in San Jose Del Palmar, a community of about 4,800 people in the Choco region about 250 miles (400 kilometers)…

AP — Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia´s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 75 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the 4-year-old war. The Ukrainian military said it hit an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which is about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of the Ukrainian border and has a population of about 240,000. Russian officials didn’t say what the drones targeted, but the city is home to two refineries and a petrochemical plant. Ukraine has targeted Russian oil facilities with long-range drones almost daily…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an essay outlining a philosophy for developing AI that he says should center on individual empowerment rather than concentrated institutional control. In the essay, Zuckerberg argues that superintelligent AI should be distributed widely to individuals rather than restricted to a small number of companies, governments or institutions. He frames the approach around three principles: individual empowerment as “the source of prosperity,” invention as “the primary purpose of superintelligence,” and a balance of power as “the foundation of safety.” The essay extends Zuckerberg’s AI optimism position established at the end of July. Zuckerberg criticized what…

Former Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reportedly met with President Donald Trump about film tax incentives as Paramount pledged to release 30 movies in theaters a year if it should acquire Warner Bros. Pratt said last Friday that he met with President Trump to lobby for a federal tax incentive to keep filming in Los Angeles and the United States. “Working with the President on a 25% FEDERAL film tax credit to bring back Hollywood,” Pratt said in a Friday Instagram post. “While Gavin Newsom’s commissioner is actively outsourcing production jobs to Hungary, and his rogue AG is trying to…

A reporter recently asked Vladimir Zelensky how Europe could help Kiev “kill more Russians” German news coverage of Russia is becoming increasingly radical as the media grooms the public for war, correspondent Thomas Roeper told RT.Roeper made the remarks on Monday after Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung correspondent Michael Martens asked Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky how Europe could help Kiev “kill more Russians.” The journalist hastily clarified that he meant “more Russian soldiers.”“I’m following the German media and the propaganda they are doing, and they increased the anti-Russian narrative really, well, radical. I can’t use another word,” Roeper said.He pointed to media…

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey signed a new law on Aug. 5 attempting to block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from accessing a variety of locations across the state. Healey described the law, which names schools, daycares, hospitals, health centers, nursing homes, and courthouses as places ICE cannot access, as the strongest legislation in the country against ICE. The official claimed that children in Chelsea, where she signed the legislation, have not been attending school for fear of ICE encounters, per a report from CBS News. She also claimed that people have stopped going to the doctor’s office or testifying…