Archive for April, 2017
U.S. Envoy to UN Threatens Further Military Action in Syria
April 8th, 2017Via: france24: The United States on Friday threatened to take further military action in Syria following its missile strikes on an air base in the war-wracked country in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack. “The United States took a very measured step last night,” US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the UN Security Council. “We are […]
U.S. Fires Missiles at Assad Airbase, Escalating Tensions with Russia
April 7th, 2017Well, Hillary supporters, maybe you’ll get that war with Russia anyway. Via: Reuters: The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week, an escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria that immediately raised tension with Russia. […]
Android Devices Can be Fatally Hacked by Malicious Wi-Fi Networks, iOS Patched on Monday
April 6th, 2017Via: Ars Technica: A broad array of Android phones are vulnerable to attacks that use booby-trapped Wi-Fi signals to achieve full device takeover, a researcher has demonstrated. The vulnerability resides in a widely used Wi-Fi chipset manufactured by Broadcom and used in both iOS and Android devices. Apple patched the vulnerability with Monday’s release of […]
Apple Calls Journalists to Explain That the Company Has Not Abandoned the Mac
April 6th, 2017Everything is great! Don’t worry. We love you. We’re sorry. Check back next year, mmmkay? The picture at the link looks like an action shot for a Touch of Gray ad. *chortle* Via: TechCrunch: The Mac has an important long future at Apple. Apple cares deeply about the Mac. We have every intention to keep […]
Zunum Aero Developing Electric Powered Aircraft for Regional Flights
April 5th, 2017They’re actually going to be hybrid to start, according to the Zunum Aero website: Did you know that short-haul flights produce over 40% of aviation emissions? With our aircraft, we believe these will be largely eliminated within twenty years. Our aircraft are “hybrids to electrics” that sip fuel only when they have to, will use […]
Florida’s Money Laundering Suburb
April 5th, 2017Via: USA Today: In a community known mostly as a getaway from the urban problems of Miami, the flood of drug money has confounded law enforcement agencies. “We always thought we would get to it at some point,” said Charlie Blau, a former federal prosecutor who oversaw the first money laundering sting in Miami. “We […]
Amazon’s Robot War Is Spreading
April 5th, 2017Via: Bloomberg: It was Amazon that drove America’s warehouse operators into the robot business. Quiet Logistics, which ships apparel out of its Devens, Mass., warehouse, had been using robots made by a company called Kiva Systems. When Amazon bought Kiva in 2012, Quiet hired scientists. In 2015 it spun out a new company called Locus […]
Teardown of Tesla Drivetrain
April 4th, 2017Multiple groups are working on jailbreaking it. Via: Jehu Garcia:
Ideology Test and Mobile Phone Shake Down to Visit U.S.?
April 4th, 2017Via: MarketWatch: Foreigners who want to visit the U.S., even for a short trip, could be forced to disclose contacts on their mobile phones, social-media passwords and financial records, and to answer probing questions about their ideology, according to Trump administration officials conducting a review of vetting procedures. The administration also wants to subject more […]
Top Obama Adviser Used NSA Intercepts to Learn Names of Trump Associates
April 4th, 2017Via: Bloomberg: White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The pattern of Rice’s requests was discovered in […]
