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Seems to be doing very well too: Brightline is the beginning of U.S. high-speed rail, says Fortress Investment co-founder Meanwhile, California government’s own “bullet train” is at $128 billion, way…
Portland, Oregon San Francisco Elsewhere An increase in shoplifting crime is blamed on An increase in shoplifting and property vandalism are reportedly spreading to other countries. Recent crime data itself…
This is the 2nd email phishing scam email I’ve received this morning – and it is still mid-morning on the west coast of the U.S. Note some of the oddities:…
Fake news web site The Guardian, of course, blames the “pandemic” rather than the ineffective policies and fear mongering (much of which was false) that caused harm: The mental health…
The hack swipes 2FA authentication tokens from the user’s computer and then uses those to login to their FB account, change their password, change the account name to Lily Collins,…
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Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role in shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than…
The world's largest seller of carbon offsets is accused of being a scam, possibly selling 30x more offsets than were actually realized.
Details are here. I believe there were multiple attack vectors. The one described at the link is an analysis of a Google Chrome extension that grabbed the authentication cookie for…
The Lily Collins hack is gradually encompassing more and more Facebook accounts. The attack has been underway since January and is still underway in late March. Facebook has no comment…