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Massive Networks of Fake Accounts Found on Twitter
January 25th, 2017Via: BBC: Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research. The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger. UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it. Some of the accounts have been used […]
Trump Tells Business Leaders He Wants to Cut Regulations by 75% or ‘Maybe More’
January 23rd, 2017Via: CNBC: President Donald Trump on Monday told a range of business leaders that he believes his administration can cut regulations by 75 percent or “maybe more.” At the White House with 10 senior executives, he repeated his campaign pledges to roll back rules on companies, arguing that they have “gotten out of control.” A […]
Airbus CEO Sees ‘Flying Car’ Prototype Ready by End of Year
January 17th, 2017Via: Reuters: Airbus Group plans to test a prototype for a self-piloted flying car as a way of avoiding gridlock on city roads by the end of the year, the aerospace group’s chief executive said on Monday. Airbus last year formed a division called Urban Air Mobility that is exploring concepts such as a vehicle […]
Facebook: Building 8
January 12th, 2017Wikipedia: Transcranial Pulsed Ultrasound: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is undergoing research to develop a helmet that could control the minds of soldiers through the use of TPU. It would have the potential to control a soldier’s stress and anxiety levels with the click of a remote controlled button.[5] Sound waves would target specific […]
L.A. Coliving: PodShare
January 11th, 2017This looks like someone turned a Kafkaesque Japanese capsule hotel inside out and dressed it up with some hip millennial bullshit. Are young people sleepwalking into living like upper class bums and thinking that it’s somehow a cool thing? Children, gather around: This is bum living with running water and wi-fi. I have nothing against […]
Schumer: Intelligence Community May ‘Get Back At’ Trump for Tweet
January 11th, 2017Via: Daily Caller: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested Tuesday night that U.S. intelligence agencies could “get back at” President-elect Donald Trump after he questioned the legitimacy of the intelligence community’s probe into Russian involvement in the hacking of Democratic party officials. The “Intelligence” briefing on so-called “Russian hacking” was delayed until Friday, perhaps more […]
Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting Suspect Said He Heard Voices
January 7th, 2017Via: NBC: The suspect believed to have shot five people to death in a rampage at a Florida airport Friday was being treated in Alaska after complaining of hearing voices and had recently claimed to the FBI that the CIA was forcing him to watch ISIS videos, federal officials said. Esteban Santiago, 26, was identified […]
Which Bitcoin Wallet?
January 4th, 2017Update: Going with Electrum To the people who support Cryptogon with Bitcoin: Please see the Support page for the current Bitcoin address. Thank you. — I hadn’t looked at my Bitcoin wallet in a while and I just noticed that a couple of anonymous someones sent me some coin. The blockchain has grown far beyond […]
How Is the Facebook Android App So Diabolical?
January 2nd, 2017Update: How Facebook Learns About Your Offline Life I found this, but it doesn’t mention the “hot mics” issue that is obviously real: How Facebook Learns About Your Offline Life — Can anyone explain this one? During Christmas, I was over at a house with a bunch of family members. My brother in law’s girlfriend […]
The One About Amazon’s Floating Warehouses
December 29th, 2016My guess about this one is that it’s a joke—something like Elon Musk’s tunnel boring tweets. Assuming that it would be physically possible to float hundreds of tons of merchandise over a city (forget about the FAA for a moment), what would the economics of that look like? In any event, Jeff Bezos will probably […]
