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Submission + - Young Journalists Drone, Expose Russian Ships Off Dutch-German Coasts (digitaldigging.org)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Seven German journalism students, as a continuation of their OSINT course project, tracked the movements of ships with Russian crews off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany and linked them to swarms of drones appearing over European military airfields and other strategic sites.

The guys not only analyzed thousands of data points, but also used leaked documents, established connections with sources in European agencies, and drove 2,500 km across three countries chasing one of the ships – even launching their own drone to fly over it.

At the end of the article, there’s precise data on the vessels, so you can follow them yourself.

Submission + - Elon Musk's doge.gov website hacked (fortune.com) 1

Submitted by ArchieBunker
ArchieBunker writes: Hackers wasted no time in infiltrating the Department of Government Efficiency’s website.

After a hasty launch this week, at least two pages of the site have been defaced by critics who seemingly have accessed a database the page draws from. Two messages appeared on two separate pages of the site, reading “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”

The hacked pages, though still accessible as of 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday morning, no longer appear to people who navigate to the DOGE website in traditional methods.

404 Media, which first discovered the hacked pages, quoted anonymous experts who said the DOGE page does not appear to be hosted on government servers and was pulling data from a database that can be accessed by third parties. That opened the doors for the embarrassing criticism.

Submission + - NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025 (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For weeks, NASA has downplayed problems experienced by Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft that took two astronauts to the International Space Station in June. But on Wednesday, NASA officials admitted that the problems with the spacecraft were more serious than first thought and that the astronauts may not travel home on the Boeing vehicle, after all. The agency is exploring a backup option for the astronauts, Suni Wiliams and Butch Wilmore, to hitch a ride back to Earth on a vehicle built by Boeing’s competitor SpaceX instead. Their stay in orbit, which was to be as short as eight days, may extend into next year. “We could take either path,” Ken Bowersox, NASA’s associate administrator for the space operations mission directorate, said during a news conference on Wednesday. “And reasonable people could pick either path.”

NASA and Boeing officials had maintained that the crew that launched with Starliner on its first crewed test flight was not stranded in space. Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore have spent two months aboard the orbital outpost while engineers continue to analyze data about the faulty performance of several of the Starliner’s thrusters when it approached for docking. Under the contingency plan, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule would travel to the space station with two astronauts instead of its planned crew of four. Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore would then join as full-time members of the space station crew for a half-year stay, returning on the Crew Dragon around next February. “In the last few weeks, we have decided to make sure we have that capability there, as our community, I would say, got more and more uncomfortable,” said Steve Stich, the manager of the commercial crew program at NASA. NASA officials said no decision had been made yet.

Submission + - Kamala Harris approach on the H-1B issue is mostly silence (techtarget.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: Vice President Kamala Harris risks repeating a critical error from Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign with respect to the H-1B visa. With strong financial backing from Silicon Valley VCs and businesses keen on expanding the H-1B visa program, Clinton remained mostly silent on the issue, ultimately alienating IT workers concerned about job security. Harris, supported by over 200 Silicon Valley venture capitalists, mirrors Clinton's approach. She has also not addressed the implications of H-1B visas and offshore outsourcing on American jobs.

In 2016, Clinton's approach allowed Donald Trump to capitalize on the concerns of displaced IT workers. Trump gave these workers a platform at his rallies, promising reforms that resonated in key swing states like Florida and Pennsylvania, contributing to Clinton's narrow losses.

The Biden administration has shifted focus towards increasing green cards rather than reforming the H-1B visa program, which is still heavily utilized by IT services for offshoring jobs. If Harris doesn't address these issues it could lead to similar electoral consequences as those faced by Clinton in 2016, especially as the tech job market continues to evolve and college enrollments in computer science rise. However, the rise in undergraduate CS enrollments (mostly domestic students) could draw some opposition to Trump. Trump, who has picked up Silicon Valley support from some VCs and Elon Musk, is proposing giving green cards to STEM grads from junior colleges on up. This has the potential of discouraging domestic undergraduates if foreign student enrollments rise.

Submission + - Putin Grants Snowden Russian Citizenship (ria.ru)

Submitted by nunya_bizns
nunya_bizns writes: "Putin signs decree granting Snowden Russian citizenship," according to state-run RIA Novosti. "In accordance with paragraph 'a' of Article 89 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, I decide: to accept the following persons in the citizenship of the Russian Federation: Edward Joseph Snowden, born June 21, 1983, in the United States of America."

Submission + - Gunman Livestreams Killing of 10 on Twitch - after Radicalization on 4Chan (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by DevNull127
DevNull127 writes: 10 people were killed in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York this afternoon — and three more were injured — by a guman who livestreamed the massacre on Twitch. "A Twitch spokesperson said the platform has investigated and confirmed that the stream was removed 'less than two minutes after the violence started,'" reports NBC News.

The Raw Story reports that the 18-year-old suspected gunman had also apparently posted a 106-page manifesto online prior to the attack. A researcher at George Washington University program on extremism studied the manifesto, and points out that the suspected shooter "states that he was radicalized online on 4chan and was inspired by Brenton Tarrant's manifesto and livestreamed mass shooting in New Zealand."

The suspect reportedly used an assault rifle.

Submission + - Man's picture used for 2 years to illustrate Wikipedia article on serial killer (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by Andreas Kolbe
Andreas Kolbe writes: For more than two years, Wikipedia illustrated its article on New York serial killer Nathaniel White with the police photo of an African-American man from Florida who happened to have the same name. A Wikipedia user said he had found the picture on crimefeed.com, a "true crime" site associated with the Discovery Channel, which also used the same photo in a TV broadcast on the serial killer. During the two-and-a-half years the Wikipedia article showed the picture of the wrong man, it was viewed over 125,000 times, including nearly 12,000 times on the day the TV program ran. The man whose picture was used said he received threats to his person from people who assumed he really was the killer, and took to dressing incognito. His picture is now all over Google when people search for the serial killer.

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