Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Wikileaks: Amazon Atlas
October 11th, 2018Via: WikiLeaks: Today, 11 October 2018, WikiLeaks publishes a “Highly Confidential” internal document from the cloud computing provider Amazon. The document from late 2015 lists the addresses and some operational details of over one hundred data centers spread across fifteen cities in nine countries. To accompany this document, WikiLeaks also created a map showing where […]
U.S. Army 1983: “Be Intellectually Prepared to React to Possible Encounters with Intelligent, Non-Corporal Energy Forms When Time-Space Boundaries Are Exceeded”
October 10th, 2018This is a U.S. Army Intelligence document on Hemi-Sync and Itzhak Bentov’s Stalking the Wild Pendulum. The source document is “Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process,” CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf, which you can find on CIA’s Electronic Reading room. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5
Air Force Awards Launch Vehicle Development Contracts to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, ULA
October 10th, 2018Via: SpaceNews: The U.S. Air Force announced on Wednesday it is awarding three contracts collectively worth about $2 billion to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and United Launch Alliance to develop launch system prototypes. The funding is for the development of competing launch system prototypes geared toward launching national security payloads. Each company will […]
GM Appoints Ex-CIA Deputy Director, Co-Vice Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations to Its Board
October 10th, 2018More connections than a switchboard, including an NSC role where, “She had oversight responsibility for covert action programs and special reconnaissance missions,” and In-Q-Tel. Via: CNBC: General Motors appointed a former deputy director of intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency to its board on Wednesday. Jami Miscik is the chief executive and vice chair of […]
Financial Accounts May Be “Modified” to Shield Classified Programs
October 9th, 2018Not a new policy: missingmoney.solari.com Via: Federation of American Scientists: In an apparent departure from “generally accepted accounting principles,” federal agencies will be permitted to publish financial statements that are altered so as to protect information on classified spending from disclosure. The new policy was developed by the government’s Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) […]
Tesla Model 3 Is #1 Top Selling American Car In USA
October 9th, 2018Via: CleanTechnica: Tesla’s production and sales growth is stunning. It is one of the most dramatic manufacturing stories in US history, let alone 2018. The sales records and eye-warping bar charts are in multiple important categories, not just in the electric vehicle space. However, one story I haven’t seen highlighted yet is that the Tesla […]
China’s Dystopian Social Credit System
October 8th, 2018Interesting take. In short, everything is so F-ed up in China, the implementation of the social credit system will be no different. The good news is that it might never work, or, if it does work in some capacity, it will quickly break down, like everything else in China. To me, the most horrifying aspect […]
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
October 8th, 2018Via: Wall Street Journal: Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and […]
Facebook Wants People to Invite Its Cameras Into Their Homes
October 8th, 2018Mmm hmm. Via: AP: Facebook is launching the first electronic device to bear its brand, a screen and camera-equipped gadget intended to make video calls easier and more intuitive. But it’s unclear if people will open their homes to an internet-connected camera sold by a company with a questionable track record on protecting user privacy. […]
The World’s Most Beautiful Battery
October 7th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: High in the Austrian Alps, a utility has adapted a 70-year-old facility to store solar and wind energy for when it’s needed most.
