Archive for June, 2015
“Amazon, Google Race to Get Your DNA Into the Cloud”
June 5th, 2015Via: Reuters: Amazon.com Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seeking both bragging rights in helping scientists make new medical discoveries and market share in a business that may be worth $1 billion a year by 2018. Academic institutions and healthcare companies are picking sides between their cloud […]
Massive Breach of Federal Personnel Data at Agency Handling Security Clearances
June 4th, 2015Via: AP: The Obama administration is scrambling to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records, U.S. officials said Thursday. A congressional aide familiar with the situation, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to discuss it, said the Office of Personnel […]
NSA Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
June 4th, 2015Via: New York Times: Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified N.S.A. documents.
Leaked TISA Documents Reveal Privacy Threat
June 4th, 2015Via: Forbes: Under the draft provisions of the latest trade deal to be leaked by Wikileaks, countries could be barred from trying to control where their citizens’ personal data is held or whether it’s accessible from outside the country. … And the contents of TISA make interesting reading, particularly for anybody concerned about privacy. Under […]
29 Percent of Elderly Americans Have No Retirement Savings
June 4th, 2015Via: CNBC: How bad is America doing when it comes to retirement savings? The Government Accountability Office looked into the question, and its answer is sobering. A new GAO analysis finds that among households with members aged 55 or older, nearly 29 percent have neither retirement savings nor a traditional pension plan.
Two More Finance Firm Employees Dead
June 3rd, 2015They’re starting to go two at a time now. Thomas Hughes: Investment Banker Jumps To His Death In NYC — Sarvshreshth Gupta: Goldman Sachs Analyst Found Dead Hours After Complaining to Father of ‘100 Hour Weeks’
Thousands of Teenage Girls Enduring Debilitating Illnesses After Routine School Cancer Vaccination
June 3rd, 2015Via: Independent: Mrs Ryalls reported Emily’s condition to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). In the 10 years to April this year the agency received almost 22,000 “spontaneous suspected” adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports in 13 routine immunisation categories including flu, MMR, tetanus, diphtheria and polio, according to a Freedom of Information response […]
Editors of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue”
June 3rd, 2015Via: Zerohedge: Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are the two most prestigious medical journals in the world. It is therefore striking that their chief editors have both publicly written that corruption is undermining science. The editor in chief of Lancet, Richard Horton, wrote last month: Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, […]
Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: Australian Electricity Retailers Selling Battery Systems to Customers with Solar
June 2nd, 2015In other news, Meridian CEO Mark Binns shits the bed. haha Here’s another one for you, Mark: New Zealand Solar Uptake Triples. Have a nice day. Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Snowy Hydro’s retail arm Red Energy, ActewAGL and Queensland’s Ergon Energy will trial a home battery system made by Panasonic in a bid to ensure […]
DHS Red Teams Get Weapons and Explosives Through Airport Security Checkpoints 95% of Time
June 2nd, 2015What are they getting us ready for here? Via: ABC: An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has learned. The series of tests […]
