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Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
June 7th, 2024Via: Wired: When Microsoft named its new Windows feature Recall, the company intended the word to refer to a kind of perfect, AI-enabled memory for your device. Today, the other, unintended definition of “recall”—a company’s admission that a product is too dangerous or defective to be left on the market in its current form—seems more […]
Israeli Government Funded Covert Influence Campaign Targeting U.S. Lawmakers
June 7th, 2024Via: Common Dreams: Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs organized and paid for a digital campaign to influence U.S. lawmakers, especially Democrats who are Black, The New York Timesreported on Wednesday. The ministry allotted $2 million to the operation in October and hired Stoic, a Tel Aviv-based political marketing firm, to carry it out. Stoic established […]
South Carolina: Another Container Ship Disaster Narrowly Averted, Engines “Were Stuck Nearly Full-Ahead”
June 6th, 2024Via: The Hill: An investigation is underway after a large container ship lost the ability to control its engines in Charleston Harbor, prompting a temporary closure of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. U.S. Coast Guard Sector Command Center in Charleston, South Carolina, received a report from the harbor’s pilot dispatch around 12:17 p.m. of an […]
Want to Pay Cash? That’ll Cost You Extra
June 6th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal: Paying with cash used to be a way to get a discount. These days it can often cost an extra $1 to $6—the sort of transaction fees once limited to swiping a credit card or using an out-of-network ATM. Reverse ATMs like those at Yankee Stadium are now common at cashless […]
BlackRock, Citadel Securities-Backed TXSE Group to Launch Texas Stock Exchange
June 5th, 2024Hmm… Via: Reuters: TXSE Group, backed by BlackRock and Citadel Securities, plans to launch Texas Stock Exchange in Dallas, going up against established New York-centric exchanges in a bid to attract global companies. The exchange, which has raised about $120 million, plans to file registration documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to start […]
“Tech is dead. I’m done.”
June 5th, 2024I’m not sure if this is satire or not, but it contains a lot of truth and his deadpan delivery is hilarious. Via: TechLead:
Kevin Knuth, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Albany: Handheld Nuclear Fission Reactor to “Lure” UFOs
June 4th, 2024Keep in mind, long time CIA contractor, Garry Nolan, is listed as, “Executive Director of the Board,” on the Sol Foundation’s website. Via: The Sol Foundation:
Netherlands Joins Denmark In Saying Ukraine Can Use F-16s To Strike Inside Russia
June 4th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: The Netherlands is the latest NATO country to announce that it backs allowing Ukraine to attack inside Russian territory using its weapons. More importantly, it has joined Denmark in saying it does not object to Kiev using F-16s to attack Russia. “If you have the right to self-defense, there are no borders for […]
Fusion Tech Finds Geothermal Energy Application
June 4th, 2024Via: IEEE: The upper 10 kilometers of the Earth’s crust contains vast geothermal reserves, essentially awaiting human energy consumption to begin to tap into its unstinting power output—which itself yields no greenhouse gasses. And yet, geothermal sources currently produce only three-tenths of one percent of the world’s electricity. This promising energy source has long been […]
Actual Headline: “Covid Vaccines May Have Helped Fuel Rise in Excess Deaths”
June 4th, 2024What do it mean that this is in the mainstream media now? Via: Telegraph: Covid vaccines could be partly to blame for the rise in excess deaths since the pandemic, scientists have suggested. Researchers from The Netherlands analysed data from 47 Western countries and discovered there had been more than three million excess deaths since […]
