Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Amazon Boots Parler Off AWS
January 9th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: And so the hammer has come down late on Saturday, when Amazon officially kicked Parler off its cloud Web hosting service, AWS according to Buzzfeed. The suspension means that once the ban takes effect on Sunday, the website – which as of this moment is still up – will be offline until it […]
University of Texas Researchers Increase Efficiency of Water Desalination
January 1st, 2021Via: University of Texas: The paper documents an increase in efficiency in the membranes tested by 30%-40%, meaning they can clean more water while using significantly less energy. That could lead to increased access to clean water and lower water bills for individual homes and large users alike.
Can The U.S. Reduce Its Dependency On Chinese Rare Earths?
December 28th, 2020Via: OilPrice: Since the days of President Jimmy Carter and the 1970s oil crisis, the United States has relentlessly pursued the utopia of energy independence. But persistent oil crises, severe oil price shocks, and the global shift to clean energy have made it glaringly obvious that Washington will never achieve true energy independence by relying […]
Large Explosion, Buildings Damaged in Downtown Nashville
December 25th, 2020Update: Improvised Thermobaric Device [???] The expert referenced below, “Conducted the FBI’s on-scene investigations of the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Pan Am 103 and Unabomber bombings.” Hmm. Via: SpyTalk: Find his test sites, top bomb experts say. Anthony Quinn Warner’s device, although probably made of common over-the-counter components, is unique in the annals of […]
Tesla Megapack Energy Storage System at Moss Landing Could Be World’s Largest ‘Battery’
December 21st, 2020Via: Electrek: The massive new Tesla Megapack project at the Moss Landing substation in California is starting to take shape as we can see in a new flyover of the construction site. It could soon become the world’s biggest battery. We first learned of the project at PG&E’s Moss Landing substation when they submitted it […]
Starlink Teardown
November 25th, 2020This is a full teardown of a Starlink groundstation antenna. SpaceX definitely doesn’t want people messing around with the business end of that thing, as you’ll see. My assumption all along has been that the rural broadband aspect of Starlink is a limited hangout. Looking at the size of the PCB and the phased array, […]
Cheap Chinese Routers Contain Hidden Backdoors to Control Devices
November 23rd, 2020Via: Cybernews: In a collaboration between CyberNews Sr. Information Security Researcher Mantas Sasnauskas and researchers James Clee and Roni Carta, suspicious backdoors have been discovered in a Chinese-made Jetstream router, sold exclusively at Walmart as their new line of “affordable” wifi routers. This backdoor would allow an attacker the ability to remotely control not only […]
Found Working Nuclear Bunker with Vehicles & Gear
November 15th, 2020Via: Illegal Freedom:
Danish Military Intelligence Uses XKEYSCORE to Tap Cables in Cooperation with NSA
November 2nd, 2020Via: Electrospaces: In an extensive piece from September 13, the renowned Danish newspaper Berlingske (founded in 1749) describes how the FE, in cooperation with the NSA, started to tap an international telecommunications cable in order to gather foreign intelligence. In the mid-1990s, the NSA had found out that somewhere under Copenhagen there was a backbone […]
Starlink Beta Begins
November 1st, 2020$99 per month for 50 to 150 Mbits/sec download with (apparently) “unlimited” datacap… In the middle of nowhere. If you’re interested in the very latest on Starlink, check out the subreddit. There are several people posting about their experiences. In short: Even in beta, the service is already outstanding. Via: Ars Technica: Expect to see […]
