Tag: PRINCE

Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia

The Justice Department has charged two former Twitter employees for allegedly spying on behalf of the Saudi government. A third man is also being charged but didn’t work at Twitter. Instead, he allegedly served as an intermediary for the Saudi government and the Twitter staffers. Engadget reports: The Justice Department has charged Ali Alzabarah (the one whose activities first surfaced) and…

Ten Drones Attack Saudi Arabia’s Oil and Gas Facilities

“Saudi Arabia has cut oil and gas production following drone attacks on two major oil facilities run by state-owned company Aramco…” reports the BBC. “TV footage showed a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco’s largest oil processing plant [the world’s biggest oil producer], while a second drone attack started fires in the Khurais oilfield.” The Iran-aligned Houthi movement (fighting the…

Research redefines lower limit for planet size habitability

In The Little Prince, the classic novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the titular prince lives on a house-sized asteroid so small that he can watch the sunset any time of day by moving his chair a few steps. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-09-redefines-limit-planet-size-habitability.html…

Newt Gingrich Trying To Sell Trump on a Cheap Moon Plan

WindBourne writes: Newt Gingrich and an eclectic band of NASA skeptics are trying to sell President Donald Trump on a reality show-style plan to jump-start the return of humans to the moon — at a fraction of the space agency’s estimated price tag. The proposal, whose other proponents range from an Air Force lieutenant general to the former publicist for pop…

Cloudflare Terminates 8chan

“We just sent notice that we are terminating 8chan as a customer effective at midnight tonight Pacific Time,” writes Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. “The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths. Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community,…

After 8chan Possibly Linked To Another Shooting, Cloudflare CEO Defends Hosting It

The Guardian learned that the suspected mass shooter at an El Paso, Texas Walmart “is believed to also have posted a white nationalist rant on 8chan” — then interviewed the CEO of the company hosting it. If the connection between the 21-year-old suspect in Saturday’s massacre and the 8chan document is confirmed — and law enforcement sources told NBC News that…

Leaked Documents Reveal Saudi Arabia’s Plans For Its Next Megacity

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A new report from The Wall Street Journal shares some of the proposals for Saudi Arabia’s biggest megaproject yet: a city built in the desert named Neom, where robots will outnumber humans and hologram teachers will educate genetically-enhanced students. These are only proposals, of course, dreamt up by American consulting firms like…

Astronomers spot asteroid with shortest year known

The newly-discovered rocky body – dubbed 2019 LF6 – orbits the sun roughly every 151 days. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2019lf6-shortest-orbit…

Lessons From 5 Years of Free Cybersecurity For At-Risk Groups

Cloudflare’s Project Galileo, which offers free high-tier DDoS protection service to journalists, dissidents, civil liberties groups and other at-risk groups, turned 5 years old this week. From a report: The project currently serves over 600 accounts. An LGBT protection group in the Middle East, for example, does important work on a shoestring budget and cannot possibly afford to block the outsized…