After the entire US Senate was briefed this week about the Chinese attack called Salt Typhoon on US and other telecom and Internet carriers, the feds are trying to figure out what to do. This is going to be the job of the next administration because I doubt Congress can create a solution in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk Admits to Making It Harder to Read News on X We only post blogs to Twitter anymore to support our current followers. Musk wants you to upload your content to Twitter so that he controls it and you never leave the platform. If you include a link in a post, it will be deprioritized. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I bet this shows up as a surprise to exactly no one. There are at least 600 undersea fiber lines that connect the world. While these two going away at roughly the same time is annoying, the Internet is quite resilient. However, depending on WHICH fiber lines are cut, the problems can be more severe. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The EPA tested 1,062 drinking water systems that server over 193 million Americans. That is about 60 percent of the population. However, there are 149,000 drinking water systems in the United States. So that is about 0.7 percent of all of the drinking water systems in the US. A lot of them serve really small […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Right after it was disclosed that China hacked into the major telecom providers in the U.S. and eavesdropped on calls and texts for major national politicians like (but not limited to) Trump and Harris, China is claiming that unnamed western countries are spying on them. Can you imagine that? Countries spying on each other. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]