Archive for the 'Technology' Category
A “Leap” Toward Humanity’s Destruction
July 10th, 2021Via: Unlimited Hangout: The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months old. Their agenda can only advance if we allow it. Related: Corbett […]
Ending Anonymity: Why the WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens the Future of Privacy
July 10th, 2021Via: The Last American Vagabond: Of particular interest is the call by both FS-ISAC and the WEF Partnership against Cybercrime to specifically target cryptocurrencies, particularly those that favor transactional anonymity, as well as the infrastructure on which those cryptocurrencies run. Though framed as a way to combat “cybercrime”, it is obvious that cryptocurrencies are to […]
Framing Surveillance and Eugenics as “Healthcare” with Johnny Vedmore
July 10th, 2021Via: Unlimited Hangout: Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb · Framing Surveillance and Eugenics as “Healthcare” with Johnny Vedmore Whitney is joined by Johnny Vedmore to discuss two organizations, Wellcome Leap and Trinity Challenge, whose founding members were the architects of the most controversial COVID-19 policies and narratives. Both groups are actively developing new invasive methods […]
New UC Berkeley Study Suggests Cell Phones Sharply Increase Tumor Risk
July 7th, 2021Via: Fox: New UC Berkeley research draws a strong link between cell phone radiation and tumors, particularly in the brain. Researchers took a comprehensive look at statistical findings from 46 different studies around the globe and found that the use of a cell phone for more than 1,000 hours, or about 17 minutes a day […]
Pentagon Kills Microsoft’s $10B JEDI Cloud Contract
July 7th, 2021Via: Ars Technica: Following years of controversy and intrigue, the Pentagon canceled its JEDI cloud computing contract with Microsoft today. Microsoft was awarded the contract in October 2019, but work stalled as Amazon, the other finalist, mounted a legal challenge. Now, the Department of Defense has scrapped the entire project, saying that it’s out of […]
How Many Robots Does It Take To Run a Grocery Store?
July 6th, 2021How does it handle fruits and vegetables? Via: Tom Scott: Research Credit: BVegas
Windows 11 Laptops Will Require Front Facing Camera in 2023
July 6th, 2021Via: TweakTown: Starting in 2023, all new laptops will require front-facing webcams for Windows 11 — so we expect tape sales to increase by then.
Elon Musk Admits Self-Driving Is Harder Than He Thought As Tesla Owners Troll Him Over Missed Deadlines
July 5th, 2021Via: Electrek: Elon Musk is admitting that self-driving is a harder problem than he originally thought as some Tesla owners are trolling him over yet another missed deadline for Tesla’s self-driving program. Musk has a long history of failed predictions regarding Tesla bringing a true self-driving system to market. It was first supposed to happen […]
Facebook: “Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?”
July 2nd, 2021Via: Information Liberation: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday had his company send out Orwellian messages warning some users that they “may have been exposed to harmful extremist content” and telling others to rat out their friends and family if they suspect they’re “becoming an extremist.” “You may have been exposed to harmful extremist content […]
Hackers Exploited 0-Day, Not 2018 Bug, to Mass-Wipe My Book Live Devices
June 29th, 2021Via: Ars Technica: Last week’s mass-wiping of Western Digital My Book Live storage devices involved the exploitation of not just one vulnerability but a second critical security bug that allowed hackers to remotely perform a factory reset without a password, an investigation shows. The vulnerability is remarkable because it made it trivial to wipe what […]
