Archive for the 'Technology' Category
War Is A Racket: Anduril Pulsar
May 8th, 2024Here’s a tiny curiosity to add to your long herniating War Is A Racket file folder. The U.S. Government paid Anduril about a billion dollars for a system that seeks to counter a sub-$500 threat: The company in 2022 mentioned the EW equipment after winning a nearly $1 billion counter-unmanned aerial systems contract from U.S. […]
Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators
May 8th, 2024Via: The Warzone: The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) looks to be the first organization within the U.S. military to be using rifle-wielding “robot dogs.” Other armed robotic K-9s have been explored by the U.S. military and shown off by foreign countries, in the recent past. Eric Shell, head of business development […]
Google Lays Off Hundreds of ‘Core’ Employees, Moves Some Positions to India and Mexico
May 8th, 2024One for your, “Laid Off Factory Workers Should Learn to Code” file folder. Via: CNBC: Just ahead of its blowout first-quarter earnings report on April 25, Google laid off at least 200 employees from its “Core” teams, in a reorganization that will include moving some roles to India and Mexico, CNBC has learned.
How Attackers Can Decloak Routing-Based VPNs For a Total VPN Leak
May 6th, 2024I’ve been advising Cryptogon readers not to trust VPNs for a couple of decades, but not for this reason. My guess is that a lot of VPN admins are checking their configurations right now. Even if this DHCP exploit is mitigated, it doesn’t change the fact that the VPN provider can see every site you […]
JavaScript Pilot in Microsoft Flight Simulator
May 5th, 2024Via: Pomax: …we’re writing a web page that can control an autopilot running in JS that, in turn, controls a little virtual aeroplane. And by “little” I actually mean “most aeroplanes in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020” because as it turns out, MSFS comes with an API that can be used to both query *and set* […]
Natron Energy: Lithium-Free Sodium Batteries Enter U.S. Production
May 3rd, 2024These have no supply chain constraints; made in U.S. They are for stationary applications only. Via: New Atlas: Two years ago, sodium-ion battery pioneer Natron Energy was busy preparing its specially formulated sodium batteries for mass production. The company slipped a little past its 2023 kickoff plans, but it didn’t fall too far behind as […]
The Censorship-Industrial Complex: How Top Biden White House Officials Coerced Big Tech to Censor Americans, True Information, and Critics of the Biden Administration
May 3rd, 2024I doubt any of this will come as a surprise to you, but there’s 881 pages of it at the link if you’re interested. Via: U.S. House of Representatives: This interim report details the monthslong campaign by the Biden White House to coerce large companies, namely Meta (parent company of Facebook), Alphabet (parent company of […]
U.S. DoD Concerned About Russian Plan Build Nuclear Anti Satellite Weapon
May 3rd, 2024Also U.S. DoD: Starfish Prime: Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency. It was launched from Johnston Atoll on July 9, 1962, and was the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space, and one of […]
BlackRock CEO: Rise Of The Machines Will Go Easier In Countries With Declining Populations
May 2nd, 2024NEW – BlackRock CEO: "The social problems that one will have in substituting humans for machines is going to be far easier in those countries that have declining populations."pic.twitter.com/6umP1JnLQ0 — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 2, 2024 Via: The Sociable: Blackrock CEO Larry Fink tells the World Economic Forum (WEF) that developed countries with shrinking populations will […]
War Zone Surveillance Technology Is Hitting American Streets
May 1st, 2024Via: NOTUS: Big Brother isn’t just watching you: He’s using your cell phone, smartwatch, wireless earbuds, car entertainment systems and license plates to track your location in real time. Contracting records and notes from local government meetings obtained by NOTUS show that federal and state Homeland Security grants allow local law enforcement agencies to surveil […]
