Archive for September, 2013
Microsoft to Acquire Nokia Handset Business
September 3rd, 2013I wonder how reckless Microsoft will get as the realization sinks in that Android and iOS are too far ahead to catch. Via: BBC: Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia’s mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; £4.6bn). Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft. Nokia shares jumped 45% […]
Fukushima Radiation Levels 18 Times Higher than Previously Admitted
September 2nd, 2013This is definitely one for your Not The Onion file folder. Via: BBC: Radiation levels around Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned. Last week the plant’s operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground. It now says readings taken near the […]
Britain: First Time a British Prime Minister Lost a Vote on War Since 1782
September 2nd, 2013Whoops. Via: Reuters: Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to join a potential military strike on Syria were thwarted on Thursday night when Britain’s parliament narrowly voted against a government motion to authorize such action in principle. In a humiliating defeat for the British leader likely to damage Cameron’s hopes of being re-elected in 2015 and […]
China Wants Operational Control Over Nuclear Power Plants It Finances in Britain
September 2nd, 2013Via: Power Engineering International: China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) is looking for increased influence over EDF nuclear power facilities in the UK in return for investment in the sector. The state-owned group is currently in negotiations with EDF over potential investment in the Hinkley Point project in England. The FT reports that CGN wants […]
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing NSA’s
September 2nd, 2013Via: New York Times: For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection […]
Worse Off Than a Medieval Peasant?
September 2nd, 2013Via: Reuters: Life for the medieval peasant was certainly no picnic. His life was shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and personal hygiene left much to be desired. But despite his reputation as a miserable wretch, you might envy him one thing: his vacations. Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking […]
U.S. Spy Agencies Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-Operations in 2011
September 1st, 2013Via: Washington Post: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides […]
July and August Earnings
September 1st, 2013Thanks to everyone who sent contributions and conducted business via Cryptogon’s affiliate links in July and August. In July, earnings totaled $882.52. Amazon $462.32 Amazon GBP9.40 Amazon.ca CA$4.29 Pookie $75 AM $50 MW $25 NM CA$20 DS $30 CM $25 BlueHost $90 Eileen $87.5 In August, earnings totaled, $1141.96. Amazon $788.91 Pookie $75 DM $15 […]
