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Submission + - 5G & EMR "protection" stickers that are dangerously radioactive still availa

Submitted by farrellj
farrellj writes: Stickers that claim to protect you from 5G and other electromagnetic radiation using negative ions are apparently made with thorium, which is fairly radioactive. This information is not new. What is new is that this "snake oil" is still available online, sold by retailers like Amazon, and still just as radioactive, as Big Clive shows in his recent video.

Submission + - NSA Spied On Denmark As It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft (thedrive.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Reports in the Danish media allege that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) spied on the country’s Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its defense industry firm Terma, as well as other European defense contractors Eurofighter GmbH and Saab, in an attempt to gain information on its fighter acquisition program that was eventually won by the U.S.-made Lockheed Martin F-35. Allegedly, the NSA sought to conduct espionage [ab]using an existing intelligence-sharing agreement between the two countries. Under this agreement, it is said the NSA is able to wiretap fiber-optic communication cables passing through Denmark and stored by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, or Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE). In June, Denmark said it want to be able to exclude 5G technology suppliers [namely Huawei Technologies of China] from providing critical infrastructure in Denmark if they are not from countries considered security allies. “In order to protect Denmark and the Danes, we want to collaborate with someone with whom we already have alliances,” Minister of Defence Trine Bramsen told reporter. U.S. officials were seeking to block an undersea cable backed by Google, Facebook Inc. and a Chinese partner, in a national security review that could rewrite the rules of internet connectivity between the U.S. and China, alleging that Beijing could physically access the cable for espionage—in this case by wiretapping internet traffic.

Submission + - Slashdot is on the backscatter.org blacklist 2

Submitted by Raenex
Raenex writes: I noticed I stopped getting email notifications of replies and moderation. I checked my spam log, and found that Slashdot was listed at backscatter.org, via (smtp.lw.sourceforge.com) [216.105.38.6].

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 161

I agree. It isn't a surprise that modern machine learning can recognize patterns. I don't see how this is even close to innovative. Now if it resulted in changing treatment offered to patients such that the outcomes were improved relative to current human Dr recommendations, then that would be interesting.

Submission + - Sony outage disables DASH devices, no ETA on a fix

Submitted by Jack Greenbaum
Jack Greenbaum writes: In 2012 Sony closed the developer site for the DASH, their version of the Chumby platform. Sony never officially killed off the product, and they kept the back end servers on line, until recently at least. About two weeks ago DASH owners started seeing their devices fail with a cryptic error message "Unable to download the Control Panel (No download information available). Please restart your dash to try again." Sony acknowledges that the issue is at their end, but no ETA for a fix has been provided. The passionate DASH community is not pleased that Sony is being so quiet about a fix. One user even overslept for work because they depended on the alarm clock feature. Now every DASH is dead until Sony decides to not abandon its walled garden.

Submission + - 3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Developed as part of a university master thesis is a "truly 3D" windowing system environment. The 3D desktop was developed as a Qt Wayland compositor and output to an Oculus Rift display and then controlled using a high-precision Razer mouse. Overall, it's interesting research for bringing 2D windows into a 3D workspace using Wayland and the Oculus Rift. The code is hosted as the Motorcar Compositor. A video demonstration is on YouTube.
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Submission + - How the web makes a real-life Breaking Bad possible—and legal (medium.com)

Submitted by gallifreyan99
gallifreyan99 writes: The real revolution in drugs isn't Silk Road—it's the open web. Thanks to the net, almost anyone with a basic handle on chemistry can design, manufacture and sell their own narcotics, and in most cases the cops are utterly unable to stop them. This piece is kind of crazy: the writer actually creates a new powerful-but-legal stimulant based on a banned substance, and gets a Chinese lab to manufacture it.

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