Nasty Safari bugs let hackers take over your Mac and iPhone’s mic and camera…
April 6, 2020
The bugs (there were several of them) were found by security researcher Ryan Pickren. He says that, by combining several of the bugs together, an attacker was able to create a web link which would trick Safari into handing over control to the computer's webcam and microphone. Wired claims that an attacker perusing these bugs would be able to "quietly" launch the victim's webcam and microphone and use them to record video and audio as well as take photos. Worse, the bugs worked on iPhones, iPads, and Macs as well.
NYTIMES: Trump administration designates Russian “white supremacist” group as terrorist organization…
April 6, 2020
The Russian Imperial Movement is an ultra-nationalist group based in St. Petersburg and believed to be responsible for training neo-Nazi militants in Western Europe, recruiting separatists to attack Ukraine and supporting election interference in the United States.
Patriot Peter Navarro Explodes At Fauci In Heated Showdown Over Hydroxychloroquine…
April 6, 2020
After Hahn gave an update on various trials and real-world use of the drug, Navarro got up and dropped a stack of folders on the table to pass around. According to Axios's source, "the first words out of his [Navarro's] mouth are that the studies that he's seen, I believe they're mostly overseas, show 'clear therapeutic efficacy,'" adding "Those are the exact words out of his mouth.
Fauci - who's not got his own Twitter hashtag, #FireFauci - began pushing back against Navarro, repeating his oft-repeated contention that 'there's only anecdotal evidence' that the drug works against COVID-19.
Navarro exploded - after Fauci's mention of anecdotal evidence "just set Peter off." The economic adviser shot back "That's the science, not anecdote," while pointing to the stack of folders on the desk, which included the results of studies from around the world showing its efficacy.
Queen of Denmark Steps Down…
April 6, 2020
Danish monarchy has been left with no option but to take precautions to protect its own royal family – with heir Crown Prince Frederik and his wife Crown Princess Mary stepping up
to take over the throne.Three Russians Sue Christopher Steele for Slandering Them in His Steele Dossier Used By the Deep State and Democrats to Spy On and Destroy Candidate and President Trump…
April 6, 2020
Hillary Clinton Really Doesn’t Want The Elections Cancelled…
April 6, 2020
Let's be clear. Trump does not have the power to cancel or postpone the November election. https://t.co/OKQyAq5g80
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 6, 2020
Scientists Create ‘Xenobots’ – Virtual Creatures Brought to Life…
April 6, 2020
Computer scientists and biologists have teamed up to make a new class of living robotics that challenge the boundary between digital and biological.
New laser technique will allow more powerful – and smaller – particle accelerators…
April 6, 2020
researchers estimate the accelerator would be 10,000 times smaller than a proposed setup recording similar energy, reducing the accelerator from nearly the length of Rhode Island to the length of a dining room table. With such a technology, scientists could perform tabletop experiments to probe the Higgs boson or explore the existence of extra dimensions and new particles that could lead to Albert Einstein's dream of a grand unified theory of the universe...
Irish Researchers Have Developed Hospital Robot That Uses UV Light to Kill Viruses, Bacteria, and Germs on all surfaces…
April 6, 2020
Supposedly RUSSIAN military scientists claimed they discovered that the coronavirus is “aggressively mutating” into a form of pneumonic plague, capable of killing those contracting it within hours…
April 6, 2020
The shocking but unsubstantiated claims were made by a top Russian political analyst during a radio interview on Wednesday. Valery Solovey, who until recently was a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and now works as a researcher for the US Wilson Center, told Echo Moskvy that military virologists had made the frightening discovery while studying the outbreak in Italy.
Take this with a grain of salt.
Texas Police To Charge 18-Year-Old With Terroristic Threat for Claiming to Have Coronavirus and Saying She Was Spreading It on Purpose…
April 6, 2020
We have identified the woman seen on social media claiming to be COVID-19 positive as 18-year-old Lorraine Maradiaga and are charging her with Terroristic Threat, Texas Penal Code 22.07.
We have not located her yet. Tips: (972) 466-3333 or [email protected]. pic.twitter.com/KySDDXL2RH
— Carrollton TX Police (@CarrolltonTXPD) April 5, 2020
NYC education department tells principals to stop using Zoom, citing privacy concerns…
April 6, 2020
The department is now telling schools they should use services provided through Google or Microsoft to connect with students while schools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The message comes after a group of at least three state attorneys general said they were probing the company for potential privacy violations.
Is NYC thinking about temporarily burying coronavirus victims in parks?…
UPDATE - Temporary Burials Possible for COVID-19 Victims, But NYC Park Trenches Plan Denied...
April 6, 2020
“Soon we’ll start ‘temporary interment’,” said Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan) wrote in a series of tweets. “This likely will be done by using a NYC park for burials (yes you read that right). Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line.”
Spain to launch universal basic income ‘soon’…
April 6, 2020
While the immediate goal of the program will be to provide relief to families that have lost income due to virus-related lockdowns, the country is developing it with an eye toward making it a resource “that stays forever, that becomes a structural instrument, a permanent instrument,” she said, according to Bloomberg.
As many as 4,000 New Yorkers being treated with Trump-touted malaria drug…
April 6, 2020
Patients have received doses as part of four- or 10-day regimens, officials said.
YouTube will suppress content promoting 5G coronavirus theories…
UK cell towers torched over theories that link 5G with coronavirus...
April 6, 2020
It may allow other conspiracy-themed content about 5G which doesn’t mention the coronavirus to remain on the site as “borderline content.” Those videos could be suppressed and removed from search results.
This should show you that Youtube and the other giants are back to their old games again. Rumours of them having their algorithms reset was only temporary.
NASA has released a report detailing how it intends to set up a base on the moon — and from there send astronauts to explore Mars as part of its Artemis program…
Read the full report...
April 6, 2020
The planned lunar base would include elements like a vehicle for transporting astronauts around the moon’s surface, some kind of mobile habitation to allow astronauts to travel across the moon for up to 45 days at a time, and a more permanent lunar habitation structure where up to four astronauts could live for short periods...
Tunisia has deployed a police robot to patrol the streets of the capital and enforce the coronavirus lockdown. Known as PGuard, the ‘robocop’ is remotely operated and equipped with infrared and thermal imaging cameras, in addition to a sound and light alarm system…
April 6, 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come under increased pressure to lift his executive order prohibiting pharmacists from dispensing the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine outside a hospital or inpatient setting to treat the novel coronavirus…
April 6, 2020
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he recently witnessed an elderly man with a high fever arrive at Mount Sinai Hospital, “and the first thing they did before they even talked to him was give him hydroxychloroquine.” “Why is the governor banning it?” asked Mr. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Everything shows that it works.”...