Archive for the 'Technology' Category
In Conversation with Andrew Bridgen: Digital ID, Excess Deaths & Political Silence
January 26th, 2026Via: Digby Furneaux:
Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys to Unlock Suspects’ Laptops
January 23rd, 2026Letting Microsoft hold copies of your Bitlocker keys is very convenient—for the police. Via: Forbes: Early last year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant, asking it to provide recovery keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops. Federal investigators in Guam believed the devices held evidence that would help prove individuals handling […]
Scientists Mimicking the Big Bang Accidentally Turn Lead Into Gold
January 22nd, 2026Via: Independent: While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after the Big Bang, physicists working on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland incidentally produced small amounts of gold. Extremely small amounts, in fact: a total of […]
Russia Restores Mothballed Soviet-Era Jets As Plane Shortage Worsens
January 20th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: Russia has throughout nearly four years of its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine been largely successful in weathering constantly expanding US and EU sanctions. While isolated, its economy has stayed afloat, but it has been forced into desperate measures as sanctions take a toll on some key sectors. Russian newspaper Izvestia reports that […]
China to Launch 200,000 Satellites for ‘Mega-Constellation’
January 20th, 2026Via: Daily Mail: China has applied to launch almost 200,000 satellites into space, sparking concerns that the nation seeks to build a ‘mega-constellation’. On December 29, a newly formed body called the Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilisation and Technological Innovation filed applications for two satellite constellations. Each of these enormous collections of spacecraft, dubbed CTC-1 […]
Piecing Together A Theory On How Donut Lab’s Solid State Battery Could Be Real
January 15th, 2026Via: Miss GoElectric: Related: “Either this battery changes the world within the next 3 months, or it will make the CEO look like a fool” — ESOX Group Using Donut Lab Solid State Batteries for Military EVs
Firefox AI Kill Switch
January 14th, 2026Via: Extreme Tech: Mozilla is adding a global “AI kill switch” to Firefox, giving users a single option to permanently disable all AI tools in the browser. Developer Jake Archibald confirmed on Mastodon that the new toggle will remove every AI component. He also explained that all AI features will be optional by default. The […]
Britain: Digital ID Cards Won’t Be Compulsory
January 14th, 2026Mmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: Labour was forced into another humiliating U-turn on Tuesday night after abandoning its plans for mandatory digital IDs for workers. Keir Starmer had vowed to crack down on illegal immigration by making digital identification compulsory to verify a person’s right to work in the UK. But he has been forced […]
UK Government Video Game Warns Kids They May Be Terrorists For Questioning Mass Migration
January 13th, 2026Via: Modernity News: In a chilling move, the UK government has rolled out a taxpayer-funded video game that paints every curious teenager as a potential far-right extremist. The “Pathways” game, backed by the Home Office’s Prevent counter-terrorism program, threatens young players with referrals to anti-terror experts simply for questioning unchecked mass migration or engaging with […]
“Sources” Claim Pentagon in Possession of Possible Havana Syndrome Device
January 13th, 2026Via: CNN: The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting US spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter. A […]
