Archive for the 'Technology' Category
CIA Trying to Contact Russians Who are Against Ukraine War
May 5th, 2022Via: Antiwar: The CIA is trying to contact Russians who are against the war in Ukraine and has offered a secure way to contact the agency. The spy agency wants Russians to communicate with them through a website the CIA set up on the dark web. “We are providing Russian-language instructions on how to safely […]
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
May 4th, 2022Via: Vice: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents […]
Panicked CNN Guest Wonders “How We’re Going To Control The Channels Of Communications In This Country”
May 2nd, 2022Via: Summit News: A CNN talking head declared Sunday that if Elon Musk is allowed to buy Twitter, the platform will have to be government regulated to prevent ‘discourse’ being open and free, and not subject to establishment controlled censorship. While discussing the Musk take-over on CNN’s potato time with Brain Stelter, “media analyst” David […]
FBI Conducted Millions of Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Data in 2021
April 30th, 2022Via: National Review: The FBI conducted as many as 3.4 million searches of data in the U.S. without a warrant over the year 2021, according to a new government report. The Annual Statistical Transparency Report, was published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Thursday and focuses on the intelligence community’s use […]
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes
April 30th, 2022Via: Vice: Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force the company to dramatically change how it deals with users’ personal data. And the “fundamental” problem, the company admits, is that Facebook has no idea where all of its user data goes, or […]
Researchers Build Portable Desalination Unit That Generates Drinking Water Without Need for Filters or High-Pressure Pumps
April 29th, 2022Via: MIT: MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. The suitcase-sized device, which requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger, can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel, which can be purchased online for […]
Google Turns Off ‘Newspeak’ Correction Tool (For Now)
April 29th, 2022Via: Summit News: Google claims that it has disabled a feature within its document editor that was correcting language to make it ‘more inclusive’, but only while it refines the tool to make it work more effectively. As we reported Monday, Google Docs was trialling ‘inclusive warnings’, which act like a language checker, suggesting that […]
Attacks on French Fiber Networks Cause Internet Outages, “Major Incident, Unprecedented in Its Scope”
April 27th, 2022Via: Bloomberg: Attacks on long-distance fiber-optic cables caused internet outages in several parts of France, carriers SFR and Free said on Wednesday. The cyber section of the Paris public Prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation, a spokesperson told Bloomberg. The probe has been entrusted to the DGSI, the French security agency, and the judicial police. […]
Ford Begins Production of F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup Truck, Says It’s a ‘Model T Moment’
April 27th, 2022Via: Electrek: Ford has officially started full production of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. The company compares the significance of the moment to the launch of the Ford Model T. The automaker grabbed a lot of headlines by announcing that the Ford F-150 Lightning would start at $40,000, […]
Rivian CEO Warns that Upcoming Battery Shortage Will Make Recent Chip Shortage Look Like a ‘Small Appetizer’
April 26th, 2022Via: Business Insider: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe warned that a shortage of electric-car batteries could soon eclipse the issues that the automotive industry has faced from the computer chip shortage. “Semiconductors are a small appetizer to what we are about to feel on battery cells over the next two decades,” Scaringe said, according to a […]
