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China Reportedly Years Ahead of U.S. On Hypersonic Missiles With Heat-Seeking Technology

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 01, 2022 36 Comments

"Warfare could be transformed by hypersonic missiles able to search for, identify and lock on to targets based on heat signature."...

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China Unveils Artificial Intelligence ‘Prosecutor’ That Can Identify Dissent Against Regime, And Suggest Sentences

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 28, 2021 29 Comments

"The dystopian machine can identify 'dissent' against the state and suggest sentences for supposed criminals, removing people from the prosecution process."...

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FBI Server Hacked, Results in Over 100,000 Spam Emails

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 15, 2021 13 Comments

Emails showed a subject line of "Urgent: Threat actor in systems" and appeared to end with a sign-off from the Department of Homeland Security....

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Russian Ransomware Gang Hits Major Iowa Agriculture Cooperative

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 23, 2021 5 Comments

Perhaps if the cyberattack impacted the nation's ice cream supply, Biden would care?...

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U.S. Officials Claim China Hacked Microsoft Exchange

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 20, 2021 9 Comments

China responds by threatening US and allies with retaliation, which was preceded by an earlier threat to nuke Japan....

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DOJ Claims It Recovered Millions in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 07, 2021 47 Comments

The Department of Justice announced it recovered millions in Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid DarkSide after a ransomware attack shut down the main pipeline for gas on the East Coast. But many crypto experts raised their eyebrows with this announcement.

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Report: Russia-Linked Hacking Group Behind JBS Cyberattack

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 02, 2021 22 Comments

Sources told Bloomberg News the hacking group REvil (or Sodinokibi) is behind the shutdown of JBS SA, the world's largest meat producer, plants in the U.S. JBS SA owns JBS USA and Pilgrim's Pride Corp.

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Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Suspected of Hacking U.S. Treasury, Commerce, Other Departments

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 14, 2020 56 Comments

Officials suspect a hacking group that works for the SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service, breached many U.S. federal departments, including Treasury and Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

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Google Will Hand Over Location Data to Health Officials to Supposedly Combat Wuhan Coronavirus

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 03, 2020 26 Comments

This is not creepy at all. Google announced the company will hand over location data to health officials to help combat the Wuhan coronavirus.

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Apple Will Manufacture New Mac Pro in Texas After Receiving Tariff Waivers

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 23, 2019 23 Comments

Apple announced this morning that the company will manufacture its new Mac Pro in its facility in Austin, TX. There is a slight catch. Apple secured tariff waivers "for certain necessary components" not made in America.

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The Largest Steam Locomotive in North America Draws Massive Crowds in Midwestern Tour

Posted by Tyler Hummel on August 03, 2019 36 Comments

Over the weekend of July 27th, the city of West Chicago, Illinois played host to the largest steam locomotive in North America. The locomotive, nicknamed "Big Boy," was built in 1941 for the Union Pacific Railroad. It was retired from active service in 1959 with the discontinuation of steam service on American railroads and turned into a display piece in Pomona, California.

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Congress, DOJ Launch Antitrust Investigation Into Big Tech Monopolies, Business Practices

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 04, 2019 24 Comments

The House Judiciary Committee announced on Monday that it would launch an antitrust investigation into big technology like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) also announced their own investigation into these companies.

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U.S. Officials: Chinese Hackers Attacked American Universities to Steal Maritime Technology

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 06, 2019 19 Comments

There is growing concern among experts in the U.S. that China is targeting American universities for hacking, specifically for maritime technology.

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DOJ Charges Chinese Tech Giant Huawei and Its CFO With Stealing Trade Secrets, Misleading Banks About Iran Dealings

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 31, 2019 15 Comments

We have been following the developments related to Canada's arrest of China’s Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, who faces extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. The Department of Justice officially unsealed charges against the tech giant, the executive, and several subsidiaries, alleging the company stole trade secrets and misled banks about its business...as well as violating U.S. sanctions.

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Apple to Move Production of Top-End Apple Phones to India, Out of China

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 28, 2018 12 Comments

According to Reuters, Apple will move production of their higher end phones out of China and over to FoxConn in India. The change could happen as early as 2019, say Reuters' sources.

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Israel, India Deepen Technology Cooperation

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 05, 2018 4 Comments

India and Israel are cementing bilateral cooperation in technology with the launch of a $40 million joint research fund. The 'Israel-India Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund', or I4F as the project is formally known, was kicked off at a ceremony in India's capital New Delhi last week.

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Sen. Mark Warner’s Memo Calls for the Government to Regulate Internet

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 01, 2018 16 Comments

Axios obtained a memo written by the office of Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, that plans for the government to takeover the internet and regulate digital platforms. From Reason:

To save American trust in "our institutions, democracy, free press, and markets," it suggests, we need unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into online press and markets, including "comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation" of the sort enacted in the E.U.

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Net Neutrality Ended on Monday and the Internet Still Works

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 11, 2018 33 Comments

Remember when the FCC repealed net neutrality last December? Net neutrality supporters went into hyperbole-overload. Some even spewed racial slurs at FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and stalked his house. You would've thought the world, or at the least, the internet would end. The FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom Order went into effect today, June 11, and...the internet is still working. The world is still turning.

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