US Government-funded Android phones (Obama Phones) come preinstalled with unremovable malware…
January 11, 2020
The UMX U686CL is provided by Virgin Mobile's Assurance Wireless program. Assurance Wireless is an offshoot of the Lifeline Assistance program, a Federal Communications Commissions plan that makes free or government-subsidized phones service available to millions of low-income families. The program is often referred to as the Obama Phone because it expanded in 2008, when President Barack Obama took office.
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The malware that installs these programs is hidden in the phone's settings app. That makes it virtually impossible to uninstall, since the phone can't operate properly without it...Walmart Robots To Begin Fulfilling Grocery Orders, Replacing Workers – Walmart stores will begin testing the deployment of robots to collect grocery items for online orders. The robots are 10 times faster than people…
January 11, 2020
German scientists succeeded in killing tumour cells in mice using nano-sized copper compounds together with immunotherapy. After the therapy, the cancer did not return…
January 11, 2020
Okay, so:
- Tested on unspecified lung and colon cancers.
- They used iron oxide > copper oxide substitution to make 'nano' CuO.
- Determined it needs to be carefully regulated 'nano' copper oxide, because too much or uncontrolled can be toxic.
- They used an unknown process to encourage the CuO to affect cancer cells more than healthy ones, and were successful.
- This treatment alone doesn't cut it, but combined with immunotherapy does for their testing.
Iran admits it ‘unintentionally’ shot down Ukrainian jetliner, according to state TV…
January 11, 2020
The announcement, which cited “human error” for the strike, came Saturday via Iranian state television and referred to a statement from the military, according to The Associated Press.
Here's a statement from Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif:
A sad day. Preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces:
Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster
Our profound regrets, apologies and condolences to our people, to the families of all victims, and to other affected nations.
💔— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) January 11, 2020
Virginia lawmakers voted Friday to ban guns in the state Capitol building, the first of what is expected to be many votes on gun control legislation now that Democrats have retaken control of the statehouse for the first time in over 25 years…
Bloomberg Visits Virginia, Scolds Gun Owners, and urges them to turn in their guns to local police...
NPR calls the association of "Boogaloo" with the gun debate a dog whistle for "race wars" and "right wing extremists"...
January 11, 2020
Anyone with a concealed carry permit was previously allowed to bring a gun into the Capitol, although firearms were banned in certain parts of the building, according to The Associated Press. Democrats have said the new law is a safety measure, and Democratic Governor Ralph Northam previously outlawed guns in some state buildings.
Virginia Democrats have said they plan to make gun control a priority...
22GB database containing 56 million US folks’ personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address…
January 11, 2020
The information silo appears to have been obtained somehow from Florida-based CheckPeople.com, which is a typical people-finder website: for a fee, you can enter someone's name, and it will look up their current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, names of relatives, and even criminal records in some cases, all presumably gathered from public records.
However, all of this information is not only sitting in one place for spammers, miscreants, and other netizens to download in bulk, it's being served from an IP address associated with Alibaba's web hosting wing in Hangzhou, east China, for reasons unknown...
The data that users pay a fee to access is basically out on the open, hosted by Alibaba's cloud DB service.
San Diego’s massive, 7-year experiment with facial recognition technology appears to be a flop…
January 11, 2020
Comey’s daughter was the one who found Epstein footage was corrupted…
January 11, 2020
A letter filed by Assistant US Attorneys Jason Swergold and Maurene Comey said "the footage contained on the preserved video was for the correct date and time, but captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located", New York City media report...
FISA Court Appoints Obama-Era National Security Leader at DOJ to Review FBI Reforms…
January 11, 2020
And just like that, Obama holdovers are once again in charge of the FISA court...
Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online. One firm promised to “use every tool and take every advantage available in order to change reality according to our client’s wishes.”…
January 11, 2020