Archive for January, 2016
NSA’s Hacker-in-Chief: We Don’t Need Zero-Days To Get Inside Your Network
January 31st, 2016I’m posting this for people in network management and security rolls who have to deal with managers who don’t really get it. This talk isn’t for you IT people, because you already know all of this. It’s for the people who block you from trying to do your job effectively. And this is just for […]
Project Skybender: Google Working on Solar Powered Drones for 5G Internet Access
January 31st, 2016Via: Guardian: Google is testing solar-powered drones at Spaceport America in New Mexico to explore ways to deliver high-speed internet from the air, the Guardian has learned. In a secretive project codenamed SkyBender, the technology giant built several prototype transceivers at the isolated spaceport last summer, and is testing them with multiple drones, according to […]
Lawyers, Doctors and Public Servants in Firing Line from Rise of the Machines
January 30th, 2016Via: Canberra Times: Machines will end about 40 per cent of today’s Australian jobs within two decades and they’re coming for middle class occupations, one of the nation’s automatisation experts has warned. University of Sydney professor of data science and machine learning Hugh Durrant-Whyte said Canberra’s public servants would be among those in the firing […]
Official Projections for Solar Adoption May be Much Too Conservative
January 29th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: FastCompany: If solar power prices fall in line with other technologies, we could see continued price-drops of 10% a year. That’s according to an historical analysis of 53 technologies that finds a distinct pattern in how major innovations perform over time. If so, the […]
France to Pave 1000km of Roads with Solar Panels
January 29th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — 😯 Via: Treehugger: Over the next five years, France will install some 621 miles (1,000km) of solar roadway using Colas’ Wattway solar pavement. … No, this is not the crowdfunded solar road project that blew up the internet a few years ago, but is a […]
F-35 Software Overrun with Bugs, DoD Testing Chief Warns
January 29th, 2016Via: Ars Technica: The F-35’s flight plan appears to have delays written all over it. A previously unreleased memo from Michael Gilmore, the Department of Defense’s director for Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E), details a list of problems that will likely hold up the testing of the final configuration of the aircraft—and will mean the […]
Israeli Drone Feeds Hacked By British and American Intelligence
January 29th, 2016Via: The Intercept: AMERICAN AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE secretly tapped into live video feeds from Israeli drones and fighter jets, monitoring military operations in Gaza, watching for a potential strike against Iran, and keeping tabs on the drone technology Israel exports around the world. Under a classified program code-named “Anarchist,” the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters, or […]
France: FedEx Staff Found Fake Bombs Headed to U.S. Embassy in Tunisia
January 29th, 2016Via: AFP: Employees of the American courier service at Charles de Gaulle airport were shocked to find a pressure cooker filled with nuts and bolts inside a package in transit from the US to Tunisia. On further inspection they discovered a container of other similar devices, along with what appeared to be detonators, said Frederic […]
And Now: “Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Join The Fight To Stop Zika Virus”
January 28th, 2016Here’s what happened in Brazil, where Oxitec has been conducting massive experiments with genetically modified mosquitoes. The chart below is from, Zika Virus, Explained in 6 Charts and Maps: Also, from 2012: Brazil Rolls Out GM Mosquito Farms: Brazil has opened its first-ever, large-scale genetically modified mosquito farm in an effort to reduce the incidence […]
Nazis Researched Use of Mosquitoes for War at Dachau
January 28th, 2016I’ve been reading about the Zika virus situation and came across this article from 2014. Probably not related to Zika. Hopefully not. Via: BBC: German scientists at Dachau concentration camp researched the possible use of malaria-infected mosquitoes as weapons during World War Two, a researcher has claimed. Dr Klaus Reinhardt of Tuebingen University examined the […]
