Archive for August, 2016
Milwaukee Mob Riots After Police Shooting
August 14th, 2016Via: Journal Sentinel: A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase on the city’s north side. After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported at 10:15 p.m. that a gas station at N. […]
A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
August 13th, 2016Via: Wired: Later this week at the Usenix security conference in Austin, a team of researchers from the University of Birmingham and the German engineering firm Kasper & Oswald plan to reveal two distinct vulnerabilities they say affect the keyless entry systems of an estimated nearly 100 million cars. One of the attacks would allow […]
EV West Shop Off Grid with DIY Powerwall
August 12th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Guys who refuse to wait. Via: Jehu Garcia: Related: EV West
A Big Leap for an Artificial Leaf *
August 11th, 2016* “Commercializing the technology will likely take years.” Indeed, there are posts about Nocera’s various artificial leaf iterations on Cryptogon going back almost a decade… Via: MIT Technology Review: Daniel Nocera, a professor of energy science at Harvard who pioneered the use of artificial photosynthesis, says that he and his colleague Pamela Silver have devised […]
DEA Regularly Mines Americans’ Travel Records to Seize Millions in Cash
August 11th, 2016“Basically, you’ve got to feed the monster.” Via: USA Today: Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel information to profile people who might be ferrying money for narcotics traffickers — though they almost never use what they learn to make arrests or build criminal cases. Instead, that targeting has helped the Drug Enforcement Administration seize […]
Unsafe Levels of Toxic Chemicals Found in Drinking Water for Six Million Americans
August 10th, 2016Only six million. *wink* Via: Science Bulletin: Levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked with cancer and other health problems — polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) — exceed federally recommended safety levels in public drinking water supplies for six million people in the U.S., according to a new study led by researchers […]
Google Employees Have Enjoyed Revolving Door During Obama Administration
August 10th, 2016Via: Watchdog.org: More than 250 people have moved from Google and related firms to the federal government or vice versa since President Barack Obama took office. The Google Transparency Project, the work of Campaign for Accountability, poured over reams of data to find 258 instances of “revolving door activity” between Google or its associated companies […]
WikiLeaks: US$20K Reward for Information Leading to Conviction for the Murder of Seth Rich
August 9th, 2016Via: Nieuwsuur: — Via: WikiLeaks: ANNOUNCE: WikiLeaks has decided to issue a US$20k reward for information leading to conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 9, 2016 Related: DNC Staffer Murdered
90-Year-Old Cryptanalytic Efforts Must Stay Secret, Says NSA
August 9th, 2016Via: The National Security Archive: The National Security Agency is withholding 90-year-old information on early American cryptanalytic efforts against Russia and the Soviet Union from a 20-year-old document on the grounds that releasing the information could “reasonably be expected to cause identifiable or describable damage to national security.” Specifically, the NSA claims that the release […]
Quantum Computers: Chips with Built-In Optics
August 9th, 2016In case you don’t know about Lincoln Lab: The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security. Via: MIT News: Although quantum systems with as many as 12 qubits have been demonstrated in the lab, […]
