Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Massive Demand for Tesla Model 3
April 2nd, 2016People Pre-Ordering Now Might Not Receive The Car Until 2020 253,000 pre-orders now. Via: Jalopnik: As for actual order fulfillment for the Model 3, Fortune broke down the numbers with Cairn Energy Research Advisors. Tesla expects to begin shipping the car at the end of 2017, and an optimistic estimate for Model 3 production rate […]
Long Lasting Camp Fires
March 30th, 2016Bob Hansler: — Bowdrillaz Bushcrafter: — Far North Bushcraft And Survival:
Paul Le Roux, International Criminal… Creator of TrueCrypt
March 29th, 2016TrueCrypt is actually just a tiny pimple on the larger story of Paul Le Roux. But if you thought the situation surrounding the genesis of such a program would be weird, you have no idea: “The Mastermind” is a story about a new kind of internet-enabled cartel and its machinations, from murder in the Philippines, […]
Boeing’s Underwater Robot Can Wander the Ocean for 6 Months
March 29th, 2016Via: Wired: The Echo Voyager can spend six months at a time exploring the deep sea, with a 7,500-mile range, no ship needed. Structurally, the 51-foot Voyager’s not too different from its little brothers, the 32-foot Seeker and 18-foot Ranger. The big difference is the introduction of the hybrid rechargeable power system. Like Boeing’s other […]
DOJ Recovers Data from San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone (Possibly with Help of Israeli Company)
March 28th, 2016Possible explanation of how they did it: NAND “Mirroring” Concept Demonstration tl;dr There are clever tricks to allow unrestricted brute forcing of the password, no crack or cryptographic signatures necessary. Israel’s Cellebrite Linked to FBI’s iPhone Hack Attempt: An Israeli cybersecurity firm is under pressure to reveal its involvement in efforts to extract data from […]
PSYOP: Public Perception of Autonomous Machines
March 26th, 2016The vast majority of robotics research is funded by the military industrial complex. There is a lot of dancing around that fact, but the reality is that it’s governments’ desire for more, cheaper and deadlier killing machines that’s at the root of this. Sure, the corporate drive to shrink payrolls is a large factor, but […]
Water Treatment Plant Hacked, Chemical Mix Changed for Tap Supplies
March 25th, 2016Wow! They don’t say where this supposedly happened. Via: Register: Hackers infiltrated a water utility’s control system and changed the levels of chemicals being used to treat tap water, we’re told. The cyber-attack is documented in this month’s IT security breach report (available here, registration required) from Verizon Security Solutions. The utility in question is […]
Britain: Dyson Developing an Electric Car with Partial Government Funding
March 25th, 2016Via: Guardian: Dyson is developing an electric car at its headquarters in Wiltshire with help from public money, according to government documents. The company, which makes a range of products that utilise the sort of highly efficient motors needed for an electric car such as vacuum cleaners, hand dryers and bladeless fans, last year refused […]
Hedge Funds Pumped Up Silicon Valley. Now They’re Pulling Out.
March 24th, 2016Just in time for… Via: Bloomberg: In recent months, venture capital firms and mutual funds have become choosier about which technology startups they’re prepared to back. Now hedge funds, after helping push valuations to dot-com-era heights, are getting more picky, too. Last month, hedge funds participated in the fewest number of venture capital rounds in […]
Binney: NSA Is So Overwhelmed with Data, It’s No Longer Effective
March 23rd, 2016On the contrary, I think it’s remarkably effective, as long as effective means being able to use retroactive surveillance and parallel construction to secretly build criminal cases against anyone the state wants to disappear into its private/for-profit gulags. Furthermore, most “terrorist” attacks are very obviously false flag operations. So tune away on the Magic 8 […]
