Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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France Investigates Mystery Drones Over Nuclear Plants
from dw.de: Unidentified drones seen over several of France’s nuclear reactors in recent weeks prompted the French government to launch an investigation on Thursday. “Measures are being taken to know what these drones are and neutralize them,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told France Info Radio. According to the state electricity company EDF, the unmanned…
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FBI Created Fake Seattle Times Web Page To Nab Bomb-Threat Suspect
from seattletimes.com: The FBI in Seattle created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times web page to plant software in the computer of a suspect in a series of bomb threats to Lacey’s Timberline High School in 2007, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco. The deception…
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Elon Musk Likens Artificial Intelligence to a Demon
from beforeitsnews.com: CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors Elon Musk is sounding the warning bell about artificial intelligence. Musk compared AI to a demon during a recent interview at the MIT AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, describing it as a danger to the human race. “I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I…
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Top Secret Unmanned US Space Plane Returns After ‘Unspecified Experiments’
from abc.net.au: A top secret US military space plane has landed in California after almost two years in orbit above Earth. The unmanned X-37B, which is also known as the orbital test vehicle, was launched in December 2012 by the US Air Force. It was the space plane’s third known and longest mission. The Air…
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Video: Unmanned #NASA Rocket Explodes Shortly After Takes Off
from zerohedge.com: Several months ago, a Russian rocket, carrying Russia’s most advanced communications satellite, exploded on launch and the west was amused at Russia’s seeming incompetence, while birthing extensive speculation of the NSA’s involvement. Well, moments ago either Karma, or Russian hackers, intervened, and 6 seconds after launch, the NASA unmanned Antares rocket of rocket-maker…
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How #HongKong Protesters Get Around Official #Censorship
from brasschecktv.com: They’re going up against one of the most brutal, heartless regimes on the planet that censor everything. Yet demonstrators in Hong Kong are still getting their message out. Here’s how they’re doing it…
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Secret Recordings Show #GoldmanSachs and #TheFed In Bed
As the Fed’s secrets are revealed, will the world turn to #Bitcoin? from cointelegraph.com: Today secret tapes of correspondence from Goldman Sachs and the Federal Reserve were released. The truth is not pretty and it may be even more shocking than you think. Observers of the Fed have long known that it is extremely secretive.…
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U.S. Teen Wins $50,000 Grant For Fingerprint-Access Handgun Sensor
from biometricupdate.com: A young inventor in Boulder, Colorado will receive a $50,000 grant from the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation to continue working on a biometric sensor that prevents unauthorized individuals from firing a weapon. Kai Kloepfer, a high school student from Boulder, Colorado, is the first benefactor of the $1 million Smart Tech for Firearms…
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U.S. Tech Giant Fined $58 Million for Bribery
from thechosunilbo.com: A subsidiary of U.S. technology giant Hewlett-Packard was hit with a multi-million-dollar fine Thursday for bribing Russian government officials. The company’s Russian division will have to pay $58.7 million after pleading guilty in a California court to violating U.S. anti-bribery and accounting laws. HP Russia admitted to paying off government officials to secure…
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The Police Tool That Pervs Use to Steal Nude Pics From Apple’s iCloud
from wired.com: As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims’ iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may have made that cracking exploit possible in the first place.…
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Cyberthefts hit record ¥1.85 billion in Japan
from japantimes.com: Corporate bank accounts were increasingly targeted by swindlers in the first half of the year, and online thefts have already surpassed last year’s record total, according to National Police Agency data released Thursday. Roughly ¥1.852 billion was taken from the accounts of unsuspecting clients between January and June, surpassing the full-year record of…
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Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
from theatlantic.com: A zipping comes across the sky. A man named Neil Parfitt is standing in a field on a cattle ranch outside Warwick, Australia. A white vehicle appears above the trees, a tiny plane a bit bigger than a seagull. It glides towards Parfitt, pitches upwards to a vertical position, and hovers near him, a…
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SpaceX Falcon 9-R Rocket Suffers Malfunction, Self-Destructs During Test Flight
from dailytech.com: The SpaceX team suffered a setback yesterday when its experimental Falcon 9-R (F9R) reusable rocket experienced a malfunction during a test flight in Texas. According to SpaceX, an “anomaly was detected” during the test flight, and as a result, the flight was auto-aborted and the rocket F9R was instructed to self-destruct. In a…
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U.S. Food, Chinese Processing: the Latest Food Outrage
from blacklistednews.com: The US FDA prevents such things as artisinal cheese and butter being imported from Europe, products that have been in use for hundreds of years and don’t make people sick, but–speaking of sick–this breathtakingly corrupt agency is allowing big food processors to grow food in the US but then process it in China in…
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U.S. Hospitals Overdo Ebola Plans, Posing New Risks
from reuters.com: Fear of Ebola is causing U.S. hospitals to take precautions that, paradoxically, might backfire, increasing the risk to those caring for a patient with the deadly disease, researchers warned this week. The only confirmed Ebola cases on U.S. soil so far have been two American aid workers flown from Liberia for treatment…