Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Damning Video Details Tesla’s ‘Full Self Driving’ Claims Versus Reality
March 26th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: On Thursday, a video dropped on YouTube that laid out Elon Musk’s statements about Full Self Driving over the last 5 years, compared to what the company has actually been able to achieve and deliver. The 12 minute video laid out a blatantly obvious case for Full Self Driving to be, as one […]
Multiple U.S. Navy Destroyers Were Swarmed By Mysterious ‘Drones’ Off California Over Numerous Nights
March 24th, 2021Highly recommended reading. This is an extremely weird one. Via: The War Zone: In July of 2019, a truly bizarre series of events unfolded around California’s Channel Islands. Over a number of days, groups of unidentified aircraft, which the U.S. Navy simply refers to as ‘drones’ or ‘UAVs,’ pursued that service’s vessels, prompting a high-level […]
Amazon Delivery Drivers Forced to Sign ‘Biometric Consent’ Form or Lose Job
March 24th, 2021Via: Vice: Amazon delivery drivers nationwide have to sign a “biometric consent” form this week that grants the tech behemoth permission to use AI-powered cameras to access drivers’ location, movement, and biometric data. If the company’s delivery drivers, who number around 75,000 in the United States, refuse to sign these forms, they lose their jobs. […]
Closing Web Browser Windows Doesn’t Close Connections
March 24th, 2021Via: The Desolation of Blog: Closing the private window closed the connections associated with the window, in every browser. Thus, it seems pretty clear that this behavior must be intentional. Searching on the web, I found a very suggestive document about the Chrome networking stack: Socket reuse: persistent TCP connections are retained in the socket […]
Los Angeles Unified School District and Microsoft Implement Daily Pass App for Students
March 23rd, 2021As you watch this, you might be thinking, “This can’t be real.” It’s definitely real. Via: Reclaim the Net: The Los Angeles Unified School District has partnered with tech giant Microsoft to introduce a COVID-19 “Daily Pass” app which requires students as young as 13 to complete daily in-app health checks in order to gain […]
UK Announces Vaccine ‘Certificates’, Says They Are Not Vaccine Passports
March 22nd, 2021Via: Summit News: The UK government Culture Secretary announced Thursday that “Covid-19 certification” is coming to enable people to attend sports events and go to theatre performances, but in the same breath denied that COVID passports are being introduced. Appearing on Sky News, Oliver Dowden said that the government is trialling a system to ensure […]
U.S. Army Prepping Robotic Combat Vehicles for Big Test with Soldiers in 2022
March 17th, 2021Via: Defense News: The U.S. Army has taken receipt of its light and medium Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes from industry teams and is putting them through the paces this year ahead of a major company-level soldier assessment in 2022. More: Textron Systems Readies All-Electric Ripsaw M5 UGV
Company Offering Realtime Tracking Information For “Specific Cars In Nearly Any Country On Earth”
March 17th, 2021Mobile phone tracking: Check License plate tracking: Check Vehicle telematics tracking: Check Via: Vice: A surveillance contractor that has previously sold services to the U.S. military is advertising a product that it says can locate the real-time locations of specific cars in nearly any country on Earth. It says it does this by using data […]
A Defensive Computing Checklist
March 17th, 2021For those who didn’t get enough from Who Controls Your Computer? (And How to make sure it’s you). This is more hilarious than anything else: defensivecomputingchecklist.com
VW Orders $14 Billion Worth of Battery Cells from Northvolt’s Gigafactory
March 16th, 2021Via: Electrek: Volkswagen Group confirmed that it placed a new order for $14 billion worth of battery cells from Northvolt’s Swedish gigafactory, and it is taking a bigger stake in the battery manufacturer. Northvolt is a battery startup founded by two former Tesla executives who worked on Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada with Panasonic.
