Archive for the 'Technology' Category
‘Unfixable’ Boot ROM Security Flaw in Millions of Intel Chips
March 12th, 2020Via: The Register: A slit in Intel’s security – a tiny window of opportunity – has been discovered, and it’s claimed the momentary weakness could be one day exploited to wreak “utter chaos.” It is a fascinating vulnerability, though non-trivial to abuse in a practical sense. It cannot be fixed without replacing the silicon, only […]
Wikipedia: A Disinformation Operation?
March 10th, 2020Via: Swiss Propaganda Research: Wikipedia is generally thought of as an open, transparent, and mostly reliable online encyclopedia. Yet upon closer inspection, this turns out not to be the case. In fact, the English Wikipedia with its 9 billion worldwide page views per month is governed by just 500 active administrators, whose real identity in […]
Google Scrubs Coronavirus Misinformation on Search, YouTube
March 10th, 2020October 2019, Event 201: “Countries are reacting in different ways as to how best to manage the overwhelming amounts of dis and misinformation circulating over the Internet. In some cases, limited Internet shutdowns are being implemented to quell panic.” And now… Jon Rappoport: Vimeo censors my interview, in which Catherine Austin Fitts and I discuss […]
Amazon Launches Business Selling Automated Checkout to Retailers
March 10th, 2020Amazon calls it: Just Walk Out: Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. Born from years of experience at Amazon Go, Just Walk Out uses a combination of technologies to eliminate checkout lines. We now offer retailers the ability to leverage this technology in […]
U.S. Navy Robot Submarine Would Be Able to Kill Without Human Control
March 9th, 2020Via: New Scientist: The US Navy is quietly developing armed robot submarines controlled by onboard artificial intelligence. The vessels could potentially kill without explicit human control. The Office of Naval Research is carrying out the project, known as CLAWS, which it describes in budget documents as an autonomous undersea weapon system for clandestine use. CLAWS […]
Through Apps, Not Warrants, ‘Locate X’ Allows Federal Law Enforcement to Track Phones
March 6th, 2020Via: Protocol: U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions of dollars worth of contracts with a Virginia company after it rolled out a powerful tool that uses data from popular mobile apps to track the movement of people’s cell phones, according to federal contracting records and six people familiar with the software. The product, called Locate […]
Did ISS Live-Feed Accidentally Capture “Top Secret” Hypersonic Vehicle Test?
March 5th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Scott C. Waring, the founder of UFO Sightings Daily, claims he has come across a strange video recorded from the International Space Station’s (ISS) NASA Space Cam that shows the moment an unidentified flying object rockets into orbit.
India Lifts Ban on Cryptocurrency Trading
March 4th, 2020Via: Techcrunch: India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned central bank’s two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country in what many said was a “historic” verdict. The Reserve Bank of India had imposed a ban on cryptocurrency trading in April 2018 that barred banks and other financial institutions from facilitating “any service in relation to […]
SpaceX Aims to Launch 70 Missions a Year from Florida’s Space Coast by 2023
March 4th, 2020Via: Space.com: SpaceX is planning a huge boost to the number of rocket launches from its Florida launch sites in the next few years as the company builds its Starlink satellite megaconstellation while meeting flight demands from its customers, according to a federal environmental report. The missions for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets […]
Honeywell Says it Built the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer
March 3rd, 2020Via: Engadget: When it comes to quantum computers, we tend to think of companies like Google and IBM as the big players in the field, but there could soon be more competition in the space. Honeywell says sometime in the next three months it will unveil a quantum computer that is at least twice as […]
