First an aside. Is TikTok different than other social media? Maybe, I guess, but the whole idea behind social media is to be addictive. After all, users like me who get on Facebook for five minutes a day – that is not someone that they can put a lot of ads in front of. And, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An American diplomat that helped negotiate a UN cybercrime treaty pushed by Russia and China said it is likely to be approved by the UN. Administration officials have acknowledged concerns about the treaty in its current form. Human rights advocates say it would enable surveillance on a massive scale and do so in complete secrecy. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China Starts Flying Homegrown (Likely Cloned) US, EU Airplanes For those people who don’t think that China’s theft of foreign intellectual property is a problem, China has started delivering Chinese made COMAC C919 passenger jets. These compete with the Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320 neo. China’s big three airlines have ordered a hundred planes […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the biggest uses of the Internet is to sell sex. Whether it is chat rooms, pictures of naked people, whatever, it is a big money maker on the Internet. The hottest subject in town these days, even hotter than crypto, is AI. So what are Russian hackers doing? They are combining sex and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not what I want to hear and certainly not all or even most cops are crooked, but there is no way to know which ones are on the take. Of course, this is not new. Going back to prohibition and earlier, there were cops that were willing to look away in exchange for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a bit scary and something I know way too much about. Back in the dark ages, I worked on a team that developed the first first GPS system – for the Air Force. It was not designed to help you find the nearest Starbucks, but rather to protect Air Force personnel from our […]
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