Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Boeing Wins $76 Million “Doomsday Plane” Contract
from stratrisks.com: The Department of Defense has awarded Boeing a $75.7 million defense contract modification, the Pentagon announced Monday. The award relates to an existing sole-source contract under which Boeing serves as Product Service Integrator on the E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post platform, performing maintenance, modification, and support services on the planes. Present plans call for the E-4Bs…
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Comet #ISON Is Really Done For
from guardianlv.com: Comet ISON appears really done for this time. It was first reported to have been destroyed when it passed by the sun. That information was apparently to some degree exaggerated, but it appears this time that the comet’s demise is the real thing. Fragments of the object which had been called the “comet…
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SpaceX Rocket Successfully Launches Its First Commercial Satellite
from reuters.com: An unmanned Falcon 9 rocket developed by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, blasted off on Tuesday to put its first commercial satellite into orbit, staking a potentially game-changing claim in a global industry worth nearly $190 billion a year. The 22-story rocket lifted off from its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air…
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With Look Ahead to Manned Mission, #China Launches Lunar Rover
from computerworld.com: China on Monday launched a lunar probe carrying an exploration rover in what is expected to be the nation’s first soft-landing on an extraterrestrial body. The Chang’e-3 spacecraft carries a lander, as well as a rover named “Yutu,” which means Jade Rabbit, according to the Xinhua News Agency, China’s official news service. The…
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#Amazon Testing Delivery By #Drones
from chicagotribune.com: Amazon.com Inc. is testing delivery packages using drones, CEO Jeff Bezos said Sunday on the CBS television program “60 Minutes.” Bezos said the drones, unmanned vehicles that fly through the air, could deliver packages that weigh up to five pounds. That represents roughly 86 percent of packages that Amazon delivers, he said. The…
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China Launches First Moon Mission
from cnn.com: China launched ts first lunar probe early Monday, which, if all goes well, will make it only the third nation — after the United States and the Soviet Union — to soft-land on the moon. The launch of the unmanned probe took place at 1:30 a.m. Monday (12:30 p.m. ET Sunday), state-run Xinhua…
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Israeli Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Units Active in Damascus Battles
from phantomreport.com: Israel military in East Gouta to Damascus? Battles, which began last Friday, a surprise attack on the outposts of the Syrian army in the far East Gouta, may turn out to be the first occasion involving Israelis effectively in the Syrian war along one of the parties. According to sources cross, the Israelis…
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Twitch Cracks Down on ‘Non-Gaming’ PS4 Streams
from usatoday.com: Video streaming service Twitch is cracking down on broadcasts unrelated to video games after reports surfaced of people using its PlayStation 4 app to stream racy content. Over the weekend, Kotaku reported some PS4 owners appear to be using Twitch in conjunction with the console’s Playroom app to broadcast activities from their locations.…
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Comet ISON Sighting Possible on Thanksgiving
from science.time.com: The jury is still out on whether stargazers will be able to spot the “comet of the century” on Thanksgiving night. On Monday, scientists observed a decreased light emission from the ISON comet, as it is officially called, which could mean that the icy lump of gravel and rocks has broken apart on…
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TPP Negotiators Accused Of Bullying; Refusing To Budge On Ridiculous IP And Corporate Sovereignty Demands
from techdirt.com: This is hardly a surprise, but more reports are coming out revealing that the US’s ongoing strategy in negotiating the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement is to not take into account the many, many concerns about the US’s hardline, maximalist position on both intellectual property issues and efforts to give corporations sovereignty over…
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Bitcoin’s Skyrocketing Value Ushers in Era of $1M Hacker Heists
from arstechnica.com: A company billing itself as one of Europe’s biggest Bitcoin exchanges said it suffered a coordinated attack that succeeded in stealing almost $1 million worth of the digital currency, marking the latest in a string of high-stakes heists hitting companies that hold large sums online.
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LG Says: You Caught Us! Our Smart TV’s Really DO Spy On You
from theregister.co.uk: South Korean electronics giant LG has confirmed that some of its smart TVs have been logging their owners’ viewing habits without their permission and has promised a patch. Hull, UK–based developer Jason Huntley, aka “DoctorBeet,” was first to notice the spying behavior when he analyzed network traffic coming from his LG TV and…
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Rare, Tiny Neutrinos May Have Huge Implications for Astronomy
from latimes.com: The 28 subatomic particles from deep space detected within an Antarctic glacier are mysterious and extremely powerful, suggesting a new way of looking at the universe, scientists say. Together, they contain a tiny fraction of the mass of a single electron. But the 28 neutrinos from deep space detected by an icy observatory…