Archive for August, 2016
Cisco Systems to Lay Off About 14,000 Employees
August 17th, 2016Via: Reuters: Cisco Systems Inc is laying off about 14,000 employees, representing nearly 20 percent of the network equipment maker’s global workforce, technology news site CRN reported, citing sources close to the company. San Jose, California-based Cisco is expected to announce the cuts within the next few weeks, the report said, as the company transition […]
Florida: Murder Suspect Found Biting Off Victim’s Face
August 16th, 2016#zombies Via: Click Orlando: A man accused of stabbing three people in South Florida, killing a married couple, was found biting off the face of one of the victims, according to deputies. Martin County sheriff’s officials said deputies found Austin Moore, 23, on top of one of the victims at their Tequesta home, biting the […]
Soros Nearly Doubles Down Bearish Bet Against S&P 500
August 16th, 2016Via: Market Watch: Billionaire investor George Soros, who rose to fame and fortune by betting against sterling in 1992, on Monday showed his latest hand: nearly doubling down on his bearish bet against the market. The 86-year-old’s fund, Soros Fund Management LLC, disclosed in a regulatory filing it had increased its bet against the S&P […]
Aetna Ditching 70% of Its Obamacare Business
August 16th, 2016Via: Business Insider: Aetna, one of the country’s five largest health insurers, announced on Monday evening that it would be pulling out of nearly 70% of the counties in which it offers coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The firm said that after a review of its public-health-exchange business it determined that the nearly $300 […]
Moronic Millennials Think Karl Marx is 3rd Party Presidential Candidate Challenging Hillary & Trump
August 15th, 2016Via: Mark Dice:
Make Your Time: Hacking Group Purportedly Hacked NSA-Linked Equation Group, Auctioning Cyber Weapons
August 15th, 2016Real or fake, I couldn’t stop chortling while reading the text. I think I know the author. Via: Computerworld: Quite honestly this could be fake – even the broken English announcement could be faked to make the attackers seem to not use English as their native language – but the Shadow Brokers said on GitHub: […]
In Bungled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner
August 15th, 2016Via: The Intercept: Tony Fullman is a middle-aged former tax man and a pro-democracy activist. But four years ago, a botched operation launched by New Zealand spies meant he suddenly found himself deemed a potential terrorist — his passport was revoked, his home was raided, and he was placed on a top-secret National Security Agency […]
Rumor: Possible Earth-Like Planet Around Proxima Centauri
August 15th, 2016Via: PhysOrg: The hunt for exoplanets has been heating up in recent years. Since it began its mission in 2009, over four thousand exoplanet candidates have been discovered by the Kepler mission, several hundred of which have been confirmed to be “Earth-like” (i.e. terrestrial). And of these, some 216 planets have been shown to be […]
How CIA’s Palantir Wired Washington
August 14th, 2016Via: Politico: When a little-known Silicon Valley software startup began vying for national security contracts, it went up against an entrenched bureaucracy and opposition from major contractors skilled in the Washington game. But quickly, Palantir began pulling pages from the defense industry’s own playbook — bulking up on lobbyists, challenging the Pentagon’s contracting rules and […]
Nissan: Variable Compression Gasoline Engine
August 14th, 2016Via: Reuters: Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today’s advanced diesel engines obsolete. The new engine uses variable compression technology, which Nissan engineers say allows it at any given moment to choose an optimal compression ratio for combustion – a […]
