Archive for December, 2019
Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
December 12th, 2019If the mobile radio is on, always assume that the device is phoning home your location, and a deluge of other privacy compromising information. If airplane mode is on, assume it will transmit your movements as soon as as you turn off airplane mode and it connects to the Internet. If the mobile radio is […]
Armies of Low Paid Contractors Transcribing Recordings from Tech Company Surveillance Platforms to Improve AI Apps
December 12th, 2019Ah yes, the AI secret sauce in your “smart” speaker… Via: Bloomberg: How the world’s biggest companies got millions of people to let temps analyze some very sensitive recordings.
The Origins of Cyberpunk
December 12th, 2019Via: Indigo Gaming:
Epstein and Prince Andrew Victim Virginia Giuffre Tweets That She Is Not Suicidal
December 12th, 2019Via: Virginia Giuffre: I am making it publicy known that in no way, shape or form am I sucidal. I have made this known to my therapist and GP- If something happens to me- in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil […]
Ultrasound Destroys 80 Percent of Prostate Cancers in One-Year Study
December 11th, 2019Via: New Atlas: Treating prostate cancer through traditional means such as surgery or radiotherapy carries certain risks, with some patients experiencing impotence, urinary problems and bowel trouble, among other unwanted side effects. Safer and less invasive treatment options could soon be on the table, however, including a novel MRI-guided ultrasound technique that eliminated significant cancers […]
World’s First Electric Commercial Airplane Completes Test Flight
December 11th, 2019Via: Business Insider: A Vancouver-based airline is one step closer to launching the world’s first all-electric commercial plane after a successful test flight on December 10. Harbour Air’s ePlane completed a 10-minute trip across the Fraser River in Richmond, BC. The ePlane is a six-passenger DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver, a Canadian-designed aircraft that has been […]
No Safe Spaces
December 11th, 2019Via: No Safe Spaces:
These Secretive Oil Companies Control $3 Trillion In Wealth
December 11th, 2019Via: OilPrice: They control the vast majority of the world’s oil and gas assets, yet the average person has never even heard of them, outside of those that are famous for things like getting attacked by missiles or becoming embroiled in a high-profile corruption scandal. State-owned oil and gas companies (aka, the national oil companies, […]
The Afghanistan Papers
December 11th, 2019Via: Washington Post: A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. Related, 2007: The War in […]
White House Veterans Helped UAE Build Secret Surveillance Unit
December 11th, 2019Via: Reuters: In the years after 9/11, former U.S. counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke warned Congress that the country needed more expansive spying powers to prevent another catastrophe. Five years after leaving government, he shopped the same idea to an enthusiastic partner: an Arab monarchy with deep pockets. In 2008, Clarke went to work as a […]
