Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Zuckerberg Tells Rogan Biden Admin Would ‘Scream’ and ‘Curse’, Demanding Vaccine Information Censorship
January 10th, 2025And he did it, like a good Kapo: A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks. How many are dead because of this censorship? Never forget Zuckerberg’s participation in […]
Tethered Russian Attack Drone Can Unwind Six Miles of Fiber Optic Cable, Not Susceptible to Electronic Warfare Jamming
January 10th, 2025Via: Telegraph: Justin Crump, the chief executive of the strategic intelligence company Sibylline, said: “Fibre optic drones were developed by Russia to counter the problems of effective EW. “People think of a drone at the end of a tether pulling off a big spool of wire, but the cable is so lightweight that the drone […]
Trump and Greenland: Vast Mineral Deposits, Energy Transformation, EV Revolution, Musk, Other Prominent Big Tech Figures
January 8th, 2025Via: Whitney Webb: People should consider that arguably the main interest in Greenland (and also likely Canada as well) from the Trump camp and Musk is related to vast mineral deposits, particularly those necessary for the “energy transformation” and “EV revolution” that is directly tied to the business interests of Musk as well as other […]
Zuckerberg Ends “Fact Checking” on Facebook
January 7th, 2025Mmm hmm. Via: Fox: In a new video, Meta’s CEO announced that the company would adopt X standards and restore free speech protections across Facebook, Instagram, and Meta platforms. Meta will also end its third-party fact-checking program, introduce a ‘community notes’ system, and focus on removing criminal and fraudulent material—the very guidelines proposed by some […]
“AI Friends Are Coming to Facebook and Instagram”
January 2nd, 2025Flashback to 2011: Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda: It’s recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda. It could also be used as surveillance […]
U.S. Treasury Says Chinese Hackers Stole Documents in ‘Major Incident’
January 1st, 2025Via: Reuters: Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department’s computer security guardrails this month and stole documents in what Treasury called a “major incident,” according to a letter to lawmakers that Treasury officials provided to Reuters on Monday. The hackers compromised third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust and were able to access unclassified documents, the […]
Orbit by Mozilla: “AI You Can Trust”
December 31st, 2024“Easily summarize emails, docs, articles, and videos across the web — without sacrificing your privacy.” Mmm hmm. In the first entry of Orbit’s frequently asked questions, “How does Orbit work?” we read: For the current version, we are using a Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) hosted within Mozilla’s GCP instance. In case you don’t know, and […]
Apple Photos Phones Home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
December 28th, 2024Apple privacy: In case anyone thinks this is somehow an endorsement of Windows, see: Pointless Rant About Hopeless Situation. Via: Jeff Johnson: From my own perspective, computing privacy is simple: if something happens entirely on my computer, then it’s private, whereas if my computer sends data to the manufacturer of the computer, then it’s not […]
“The Paper Passport’s Days Are Numbered – Despite New Privacy Risks”
December 27th, 2024Via: Wired: In a matter of years, no matter where you live or travel, your face will likely be your new passport. For centuries, people have used some form of passport while moving from place to place. But the widespread standardization of passports as we know them today didn’t really begin until after World War […]
60 Minutes Piece on How Mossad Turned Hezbollah’s Communications Devices Into Bombs
December 26th, 2024Via: The Warzone: “We create a pretend world,” Michael explained. “We are a global production company. We write the screenplay, we’re the directors, we’re the producers, we’re the main actors, and the world is our stage.”
