Archive for the 'Technology' Category
A Day in the Life of a Twitter Employee
October 27th, 2022Censoring wrongthink and destroying free speech is a rough job… https://t.co/ONUz7P7cJj — Truthstream Media (@truthstreamnews) October 27, 2022
Russia Strikes Ukrainian Infrastructure, Says It May Destroy Western Satellites
October 27th, 2022Starlink. Via: Reuters: A senior Russian government official raised the possibility that Moscow could shoot down commercial Western satellites being used to help Ukraine’s war effort, as Russia pressed ahead with its bombing campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure. If acted on, the threat would inevitably raise fears about spiralling escalation of the eight-month-old conflict and the […]
Millions of Americans Were Assigned ‘COVID-19 Violation’ Scores Based on Cellphone Data Collected During Lockdowns
October 26th, 2022Via: The Defender: A voter analytics firm harvested data from millions of Americans’ cellphones during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns and used the data to assign phone users a “COVID-19 decree violation” score and a “COVID-19 concern” score, according to a whitepaper released by PredictWise, the firm that harvested the data. The data, derived from “nearly […]
Starlink Signals Can Be Reverse-Engineered To Work Like GPS
October 21st, 2022Via: MIT Technology Review: Todd Humphreys’s offer to SpaceX was simple. With a few software tweaks, its rapidly growing Starlink constellation could also offer ultra-precise position, navigation, and timing. The US Army, which funds Humphreys’s work at the University of Texas at Austin, wanted a backup to its venerable, and vulnerable, GPS system. Could Starlink […]
Secrets of Friedrich Lüling
October 18th, 2022Via: Secrets of Friedrich Lüling:
Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns
October 17th, 2022Via: The Intercept: In a series of little noted Zoom meetings this fall, the city of Oakland, California, grappled with a question whose consequences could shape the future of American policing: Should cops be able to kill people with shotgun-armed robots? The back-and-forth between the Oakland Police Department and a civilian oversight body concluded with […]
Kayne West To Purchase “Uncancelable” Social Media App Parler
October 17th, 2022I’m far more concerned with search engine censorship than with anyone’s ability to express themselves. Platforms that are resistant to censorship aren’t the hard part, but finding that information… They’ve thought of that. Maybe the answer is decentralized search engines that are run by volunteers. Think Bittorrent applied to search. Via: ZeroHedge: Parlement Technologies, the […]
Swarmed Navy Destroyer Had Its Bridge Illuminated By Mysterious Drones
October 15th, 2022Via: The Warzone: PHM [USS Paul Hamilton] observed four UASs with a CPA [closest point of approach] approximately 200 yds off the bow, port and starboard beams. The UASs had an on station time of approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes. The first UAS was spotted by lookouts at 0240L. observed with a single, solid […]
Musk Demands Pentagon Pay for Starlink Usage in Ukraine
October 14th, 2022Update: Made You Look, Musk Will Keep Starlink Active in Ukraine — Via: PC Magazine: SpaceX may have to stop providing Starlink terminals in Ukraine unless the US government steps in to cover the costs, the company writes in a letter to the Pentagon. According to CNN(Opens in a new window), SpaceX wrote to the […]
Students Break Acceleration World Record
October 13th, 2022Via: University of Stuttgart: In 1.461 seconds from 0 to 100[km/h]: This is the new best time for the fastest accelerating electric vehicle and a new world record. On Friday September 23, 2022, the record was broken by 20 students from the University of Stuttgart with their self-built electric racing car, on a racetrack at […]
