Deutsche Bank Cuts 18,000 Jobs, Exits Equities
July 7th, 2019Via: Bloomberg:
Deutsche Bank AG unveiled a radical overhaul that will see the lender exit its equities business, post a 2.8 billion-euro ($3.1 billion) second-quarter loss and cut the workforce by a fifth to reverse a slide in profitability.
How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox
July 6th, 2019Via: ZDNet:
A step by step guide to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support in the Firefox browser.
Skywatcher Captures Rare Image of Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane
July 6th, 2019Via: LiveScience:
Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane.
Vandebergh said he’d been hunting for the robotic spacecraft for months and finally managed to track it down in May. But it took a bit longer to get photos of the vehicle.
“When I tried to observe it again [in] mid-June, it didn’t meet the predicted time and path,” Vandebergh explained. “It turned out to have maneuvered to another orbit. Thanks to the amateur satellite observers’ network, it was rapidly found in orbit again, and I was able to take some images on June 30 and July 2.”
The X-37B’s recent passes were almost overhead, Vandebergh added.
Jeffrey Epstein Arrested, Charged with Sex Trafficking of Minors
July 6th, 2019Via: Bloomberg:
U.S. prosecutors have arrested fund manager Jeffrey Epstein and charged him with sex trafficking of minors, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Epstein, who had been previously accused of molesting young girls, is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday, according to the person, who declined to comment publicly because the charges remain private.
Suspicions about Epstein date back more than a decade, when his alleged victims said he used employees to bring local teen girls to his Florida mansion for sex and paid them to recruit new victims. The girls were as young as 13-years-old. Epstein eventually pleaded guilty in 2008 to two counts of soliciting a prostitute and served 13 months in a Florida state prison in Florida, while avoiding prosecution for federal sex-trafficking offenses.
What Is This?
July 4th, 2019The first part. Any prosaic explanations for this? Do any of the many physicists, engineers, video experts reading want to take a stab at calculating the acceleration of this thing?
The second part is probably some de-orbiting satellite or space junk.
Via: Thirdphaseofmoon:
“Italy Arrests 18 for Allegedly Brainwashing and Selling Children”
July 4th, 2019This story will disappear quickly.
Via: AFP:
Italian police have arrested 18 people including a mayor, doctors and social workers for allegedly brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused them so they could then be sold to foster parents.
Police in the northern city of Reggio Emilia made the arrests after an investigation started in 2018 revealed an alleged network of carers who used methods including electroshock to make the children believe they had been sexually abused.
The network then allegedly gave the children to foster families in exchange for cash, while keeping gifts and letters sent to the children by their real parents hidden in a warehouse that was discovered by police.
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The accused include psychotherapists working for a social work association in Moncalieri, near Turin, and the mayor of Bibbiano.
To brainwash the children, those arrested allegedly forged child-like drawings with sexual connotations and used electroshock therapy as a “little memory machine” to create fake abuse memories, while the therapists are accused of dressing up as “wicked” children’s story characters.
The probe codenamed “Angels and Demons” revealed a scheme to “pass off as a model welfare system for abused minors what was in reality an illegal business to the children’s detriment,” La Repubblica newspaper reported.
“According to investigators, the aim of the arrested group was to take children away from families in difficult social situations and to give them, for money, to other parents,” said the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Some of the foster parents have been accused of sexually abusing the children they paid money for, La Repubblica reported.
Police declined to say how many children were involved, or of what age.
Hundreds of thousands of euros were involved, Italian media reported.
Mirror: Italy Arrests 18 for Allegedly Brainwashing and Selling Children
Why Does the Pope’s Audience Hall at the Vatican Look Like a Giant Snake Head?
July 4th, 2019I’m think I’ve posted this before, but just in case…
Via: Reddit:
More: Inside the Pope’s Reptilian Audience Hall in Vatican City
List of Alternatives to All Google Products
July 4th, 2019Via: TechSpot:
With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to Google products.
Scientists Are Using Subatomic Particles To Search For a Mirror Universe
July 3rd, 2019Via: Slashdot:
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe. She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror matter,” but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel, past a ring-shaped magnet and into an impenetrable wall. If the setup is just right — and if the universe cooperates — some of those particles will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them to tunnel right through the wall. And if that happens, Broussard will have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our own.
Amazon Stores Alexa Transcripts Indefinitely, Unless Customers Manually Delete Them
July 3rd, 2019I wouldn’t believe that anything can actually be deleted from that thing.
Via: IAfrikan:
Amazon has confirmed that it keeps transcripts of users’ Alexa voice recordings indefinitely on its servers. The company also keeps Alexa voice recordings indefinitely. According to Amazon, customers customers do have an option to delete both the transcripts and voice recordings.
