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This is a guest on Joe Rogan. Insider speaks out again : ) Drones over the country as well. h/t Orangutan
by Michael The U.S. is accusing Russia of preparing to cut undersea cables which carry Internet traffic all over the world, and Russia is accusing western powers of preparing to do the exact same thing. In some cases, these undersea cables literally stretch from one continent to another, and so it is impossible to guard …
Every 11 years, our sun becomes a chaotic sphere that shoots out huge bursts of energy towards Earth – a period known as the ‘solar maximum’. These energy bursts are responsible for the stunning Northern Light displays we’ve been treated to in recent months. However, they can also disrupt internet and GPS satellites orbiting Earth …
The past few days have been tough for The Internet Archive team. The platform, which focuses on preserving the internet and offering free content, was temporarily unavailable due to a series of DDoS attacks. However, the most serious thing is the confirmation of a security breach that exposed sensitive data related to more than 31 …
Try with baby cat, dog etc. even food, recipes, cakes, cities etc. are compromised not only “cute things”. h/t pacmanpill
A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests. For months or longer, the hackers might have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful U.S. requests for communications data, according …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Here’s a quick outline of a “rich guys Internet”, one where it costs money to participate but the payoff is a 10-fold improvement in the user experience. That the Internet is now a toxic garbage dump is self-evident. Consider that Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious. …
https://twitter.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1835572094702108992 🇩🇪 Germany is no longer in the top 20 richest countries in the world* *Measured by GDP per capita in USD adjusted for purchasing power. https://t.co/oRY2YCNm1d pic.twitter.com/qAGS9qnH1N — PiQ (@PiQSuite) September 16, 2024 Is there any industry other than luxury handbags and obesity drugs where Europe is still leading against US corporations? pic.twitter.com/2nO15cYNq9 — …
To be honest, I really wanted to respond with this Tropic Thunder meme, but I would NEVER do something so rude & irresponsible! https://t.co/jL0GDW5QUx pic.twitter.com/XhUxCSGFNP — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2024 This is gonna break the internet — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 12, 2024
At that point they become a bot themselves used to forward the machine h/t Exciting-Motor-9192
BREAKING: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has signed an executive order clamping down on noncitizens who will try to vote in November by forcing the DMV to provide election officials with DAILY information on noncitizens and also requiring enforcement by the Attorney General… pic.twitter.com/r0LZMthBGk — George (@BehizyTweets) August 8, 2024 BREAKING: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has …
Well… This is certainly going to be must-see TV! Elon/Trump on 8/12 pic.twitter.com/xe1ETBtJkj — Charlie (@Cryptof3En) August 6, 2024 AMERICA LOVES THIS DUO!!🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/G3tuJYNR4I — FAN TRUMP ARMY (@TRUMP_ARMY_) August 6, 2024 h/t Flying Elvii
In a bid to regain control, the government declared an indefinite nationwide curfew starting at 6 pm on Sunday. This drastic measure is the first of its kind during the current wave of protests. Additionally, a three-day general holiday was announced, starting Monday, in an attempt to calm the situation. The government also moved to …
It’s hard to be anonymous online in China. Websites and apps must verify users with their phone numbers, which are tied to personal identification numbers that all adults are assigned. Now it could get more difficult under a proposal by China’s internet regulators: The government wants to take over the job of verification from the …
https://twitter.com/DakotaSidwell/status/1818032734151016909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw h/t WyatteSmith
by Mike Shedlock Might I suggest it’s time for some fact checks? Let’s start with a fact check on the White House Internet program “Fact Sheet”. White House Fact Sheet Let’s discuss the June 26, 2023 White House Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $40 Billion to Connect Everyone in America to Affordable, Reliable, High-Speed Internet …
Hospitals, banks, airports, airlines and broadcasters worldwide were impacted by a massive, ongoing IT outage Friday. Thousands of Windows PCs, which many companies and organizations rely on as part of their critical internet infrastructure, were hit by the CrowdStrike outage. Perhaps most concerning, several US states reported that their emergency 911 call centers were also …
A number of companies have taken major steps to stop scrapers from attempting to take their text. It is the latest front in an ongoing and apparently escalating battle between websites that allow people to read text and the AI companies that wish to use it to build their new tools. The rise of artificial intelligence has brought a …
Recent findings from computer scientists at Graz University of Technology reveal a chilling security loophole dubbed “SnailLoad.” This vulnerability bypasses traditional safeguards like firewalls and VPNs by exploiting fluctuations in internet connection speeds. Even without malicious code, attackers can meticulously track users’ online activities after a single innocuous interaction, such as visiting a website or …
Vietnam’s internet connectivity has faced disruptions once again due to three out of five submarine internet cables going down around June 15, 2024. These outages have significantly affected Vietnam’s connection with the world, making some offshore websites difficult to access. The impacted cables include: Intra Asia (IA) connection to Singapore. Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) link. Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) pipeline. As a result, only two subsea cables …
by Ed Driscoll Americans still waiting on Biden broadband plan; rural high-speed internet stuck in Dems’ red tape. Residents in rural America are eager to access high-speed internet under a $42.5 billion federal modernization program, but not a single home or business has been connected to new broadband networks nearly three years after President Biden signed the …
New research by a top telecommunications company has revealed that more than 600,000 internet routers were rendered useless by an enormous cyber attack. According to the telecommunications company’s blog post, the attack happened in November 2023 and took more than 600,000 routers offline. Lumen’s research team discovered the attackers installed malicious software that interrupted internet …
🚨🇺🇸 INTERNET ARCHIVE UNDER DDoS ATTACK The Internet Archive is facing a major DDoS attack, disrupting access to millions of documents and websites. The attack began earlier today, causing intermittent access issues despite efforts to mitigate it. The team assures no data is… pic.twitter.com/R2Wnj9dCfx — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 27, 2024 h/t Skid Marx
If a undersea cable breaks? And breaks do happen, with some regularity: about 200 times a year. When they occur, there are just 22 ships designed to repair them, staffed by an increasingly aging set of workers. Their task is one of “precision engineering on a shifting sea using heavy metal hooks and high-tension lines …
The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost. The web is often thought of as a place where content lasts forever. But vast swathes of its are being lost as pages are deleted or moved, according to new research. Of the webpages that existed in 2013, …
Google’s increasing reliance on AI-generated search results is transforming how we interact with the internet. While this shift offers convenience, it threatens the traditional web ecosystem. As AI provides direct answers to queries, web traffic to content creators decreases, potentially undermining the accuracy and richness of future AI data due to reduced human input. Key …
Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraph.com, The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In an April 16 post to X, Snowden drew attention to a thread originally posted by Elizabeth Goitein — the …
via Mike Shedlock I am fascinated by a story of how a Microsoft engineer discovered a major, heavily disguised, backdoor security breach that was years in the making, and nearly implemented. Background Hidden in a widely use compression utility was a software backdoor that would allow someone remote access to entire systems. This was a …
JUST IN – Major internet outages reported across Africa — BBC — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 14, 2024 Much of West and Central Africa without internet after undersea cable failures https://t.co/7COA0UEwny — Jack Straw (@JackStr42679640) March 14, 2024 The cause of the cable failures on Thursday was not immediately clear. The African subsea cable operator Seacom …