Archive for August, 2016
The Tunguska Event
August 18th, 2016Via: BBC: On 30 June 1908, an explosion ripped through the air above a remote forest in Siberia, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river. The fireball is believed to have been 50-100m wide. It depleted 2,000 sq km of the taiga forest in the area, flattening about 80 million trees. The earth trembled. Windows smashed in […]
Justice Department to Phase Out Use of Private Prisons
August 18th, 2016Didn’t see that coming… Via: The Globe and Mail: The U.S. Justice Department plans to phase out its use of privately-operated prisons, which it called less safe and less effective than government-run facilities, according to a memo released publicly by the department on Thursday. In a move that hammered corrections company share prices, the Justice […]
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month
August 18th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, crossing an important milestone that no automotive or technology company has yet achieved. Google, widely regarded as the leader in the field, has been testing its fleet for several years, and Tesla Motors offers Autopilot, […]
Mock Human Sacrifice at CERN
August 18th, 2016Via: Guardian: The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has launched an investigation into a video filmed at night on its Geneva campus depicting a mock ritual human sacrifice. The video, which circulated online, shows several individuals in black cloaks gathering in a main square at Europe’s top physics lab, in what appears to be […]
Dr. Drew Pinsky On Hillary Clinton’s Medical Situation: “Gravely Concerned”
August 18th, 2016The original link for this audio is on KABC 16 August 2016. The title is Dr. Drew Speaks Out on Hillary’s Health. However, that page is now displaying, “Whoops! Page Not Found” At the time I’m posting this, the audio player widget on KABC at the link above still plays the interview. In case that […]
Equation Group Firewall Operations Catalogue
August 17th, 2016#EXTRABACON *chortle* Via: musalbas: This week someone auctioning hacking tools obtained from the NSA-based hacking group “Equation Group” released a dump of around 250 megabytes of “free” files for proof alongside the auction. The dump contains a set of exploits, implants and tools for hacking firewalls (“Firewall Operations”). This post aims to be a comprehensive […]
Clinton Foundation Hacked?
August 17th, 2016Via: Reuters: Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charitable foundation hired the security firm FireEye to examine its data systems after seeing indications they might have been hacked, according to two sources familiar with the matter. So far, no message or document hacked from the New York-based Clinton Foundation has surfaced in public, the sources said. One […]
Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem
August 17th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Police reports from dozens of stores suggest the number of petty crimes committed on Walmart properties nationwide this year will be in the hundreds of thousands. But people dashing out the door with merchandise is the least troubling part of Walmart’s crime problem. More than 200 violent crimes, including attempted kidnappings and multiple […]
Ford: Driverless Cars by 2021
August 17th, 2016Via: NBC: Most major automakers — and a number of automotive start-ups — are racing to develop the first hands-free vehicles. Nissan, for one, hopes to have a fully autonomous car in production by 2020. But Ford says it will go a step beyond. It has announced plans to eliminate the driver entirely when it […]
Debtors’ Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System
August 17th, 2016Part 1 Part 2
