Archive for September, 2016
5,300 Wells Fargo Employees Fired Over 2 Million Phony Accounts
September 9th, 2016Via: CNN: Everyone hates paying bank fees. But imagine paying fees on a ghost account you didn’t even sign up for. That’s exactly what happened to Wells Fargo customers nationwide. On Thursday, federal regulators said Wells Fargo (WFC) employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers knowing it […]
Dear Mark Zuckerberg
September 8th, 2016Via: Aftenposten: Dear Mark Zuckerberg. I follow you on Facebook, but you don’t know me. I am editor-in-chief of the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten. I am writing this letter to inform you that I shall not comply with your requirement to remove a documentary photography from the Vietnam war made by Nick Ut. Not today, […]
North Korea Nuclear Test Suspected After ‘Artificial’ Quake
September 8th, 2016Via: BBC: North Korea is suspected of carrying out its fifth test of a nuclear bomb, after a magnitude 5.3 earthquake was detected close to its test site. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said it had been an “artificial quake”. An unnamed South Korean government source said it was highly likely to have been a […]
Google Drones Will Deliver Chipotle Burritos at Virginia Tech
September 8th, 2016Via: WTVR: Project Wing, a drone project in Google’s X lab, will begin testing drone delivery of burritos at Virginia Tech later this month. Google expects to conduct a few hundred deliveries over the course of several days or potentially weeks. Burritos won’t be delivered just anywhere on campus. Testing will be confined to a […]
European Commission President Says He Spoke to Leaders of Other Planets About Brexit
September 8th, 2016Via: Exopolitics: In a speech before the European Parliament discussing the consequences of the Brexit vote, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, made the stunning comment that he had spoken about it to “leaders of other planets.” … The official transcript released by the European Commission has been edited to remove the reference […]
New ISIS Military Commander Was Trained by State Department as Recently as 2014
September 7th, 2016Via: PJ Media: Gulmurod Khalimov, the new ISIS military commander whom the U.S. just days ago announced a $3 million bounty for, was trained by the State Department in an anti-terror program as recently as 2014 while serving in the security service of Tajikistan. He replaces former ISIS commander Tarkhan Batirashvili, aka Umar al-Shishani, who […]
Pentagon Working Through ‘Terminator Conundrum’
September 6th, 2016Via: USNI News: The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the Defense Department is working through the problems of future robotic weapon systems – so-called thinking weapons. “We’re not talking about cruise missiles or mines,” but “robotic systems to do lethal harm… a Terminator without a conscience,” a reference to the 1984 […]
Bill Gates Doubles His Bet on Wiping Out Mosquitoes with Gene Editing
September 6th, 2016Via: MIT Technology Review: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to double the sum it is spending to create a mosquito-killing technology that relies on CRISPR gene editing. The technique, called a gene drive, is a way to spread traits through wild populations of animals, but its ability to alter nature is drawing opposition […]
Flashback: MI6 Spy Gareth Williams Found Dead in Bag Had ‘Hacked Clinton Secrets’
September 5th, 2016Via: IB Times: A MI6 spy who was discovered dead in a holdall at his apartment in 2010 had hacked into sensitive information about former US President Bill Clinton, it has been claimed. The spy had obtained Clinton’s diary for an event and passed it to a friend. Gareth Williams, 31, hacked into the event’s […]
Anti-Zika Toxin Decimates Bees
September 5th, 2016Via: Guardian: Huddled around their hives, beekeepers around the south-eastern US fear a new threat to their livelihood: a fine mist beaded with neurotoxin, sprayed from the sky by officials at war with mosquitos that carry the Zika virus. Earlier this week, South Carolina beekeepers found millions of dead honey bees carpeting their apiaries, killed […]
