Archive for February, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: 10 ITALIAN TOWNS IN LOCKDOWN
February 21st, 2020Via: AFP: Authorities in northern Italy on Friday ordered the closure of schools, bars and other public spaces in 10 towns following a flurry of new coronavirus cases. Five doctors and 10 other people tested positive for the virus in Lombardy, after apparently frequenting the same bar and group of friends, with two other cases […]
Sweden Is Now Testing Digital Version of Cash, the e-Krona
February 21st, 2020Via: MIT Technology Review: The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, has announced the launch of a year-long pilot project of its proposed e-krona. The project will use distributed ledger technology inspired by the blockchains that run cryptocurrencies. Cashless in Sweden: Physical cash is headed toward obsolescence in Sweden. Nearly everyone uses a mobile payment application called […]
Tesla Autopilot Tricked Into Accelerating from 35 to 85 MPH by Speed Limit Sign Modified with Two Inches of Tape
February 21st, 2020Via: MIT Technology Review: Hackers have manipulated multiple Tesla cars into speeding up by 50 miles per hour. The researchers fooled the car’s Mobileye EyeQ3 camera system by subtly altering a speed limit sign on the side of a road in a way that a person driving by would almost never notice. This demonstration from […]
Aided by Machine Learning, Scientists Find a Novel Antibiotic Able to Kill Superbugs in Mice
February 21st, 2020Via: STAT: A study published Thursday in the journal Cell describes how researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used machine learning to identify a molecule that appears capable of countering some of the world’s most formidable pathogens. When tested in mice, the molecule, dubbed halicin, effectively treated the gastrointestinal bug Clostridium difficile (C. diff), […]
CHINA: 92% PERCENT DROP IN CAR SALES IN FIRST HALF OF FEBRUARY
February 21st, 2020Via: South China Morning Post: A 92 per cent drop in car sales in China in the first half of February provided the first real indicator of the economic impact of the coronavirus epidemic, with officials also warning of a sharp decline in Chinese exports and imports for the first two months of the year. […]
Coronavirus: China’s Manufacturing Supply Chain Pummelled from All Sides in Efforts to Restart
February 21st, 2020Let me know if you start to notice product shortages, or unusual events related to the coronavirus situation. Assuming anything major is going to happen outside of China, my guess is that a lot of mainstream media will go with censorship, diversion, and lies for as long as possible. The only obvious coronavirus related shortages […]
Coronavirus Infections Outside Of China Are Growing Exponentially
February 20th, 2020Via: Peak Prosperity:
Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
February 20th, 2020Via: KrebsonSecurity: Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing […]
Cruise Ship Is a Coronavirus Factory
February 19th, 2020Via: The Times: Japan’s incompetent quarantining of thousands of passengers on a British cruise ship created a “coronavirus machine” that risks further spreading the disease, one of the country’s leading experts has said. Kentaro Iwata, a professor of infectious disease, condemned the decision to release most of the passengers following two weeks of quarantine today […]
How China Is Working to Quarantine the Truth About the Coronavirus
February 19th, 2020“Censorship, diversion, and lying.” Google’s core principals? *I crack myself up* This piece is useful in understanding state behavior, in general, and their large, lapdog media and social networking organizations. Via: DefenseOne: In its battle to contain the coronavirus, the Chinese government has undertaken a wide range of measures, from shutting down cities to using […]
