The US government has for the first time authorized funding to research geoengineering, the idea that we could counteract climate change by reflecting more of the sun’s heat away from the planet. An anonymous reader writes: The $1.4 trillion spending bills that Congress passed last week included a little-noticed provision setting aside at least $4 million for the National Oceanic and…
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Project Blue Book ended 50 years ago today
It has been five decades since the US government closed the lid on its infamous UFO research project. Carried out by the US Air Force between 1952 and… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333050/project-blue-book-ended-50-years-ago-today…
Pentagon in U-turn over secretive UFO program
The US government has completely changed its story over the purpose of its now-cancelled UFO program. Known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identific… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/332788/pentagon-in-u-turn-over-secretive-ufo-program…
Huawei Launches New Legal Challenge Against US Ban
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has launched a legal challenge to a decision by US regulators to classify it as a national security threat. From a report: It comes after the US Federal Communications Commission put curbs on rural mobile providers using a $8.5bn government fund to buy Huawei equipment. The firm said evidence that it was a threat to security “does…
Exclusive: NASA has been quietly commercialising orbital safety
We thought NASA was just monitoring space junk for the US government, but it turns out it has been selling an orbital warning service to select customers Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2226320-exclusive-nasa-has-been-quietly-commercialising-orbital-safety/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
NASA is quietly helping satellite firms avoid catastrophic collisions
We thought NASA was just monitoring space junk for the US government, but it turns out it has been selling an orbital warning service to select customers Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2226320-nasa-is-quietly-helping-satellite-firms-avoid-catastrophic-collisions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Project Blue Book documents to go on display
Actual files from the US government’s Project Blue Book are set to go on display in Washington DC next month. The secretive project, which was carried… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/332282/project-blue-book-documents-to-go-on-display…
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records
An open database exposing records containing the sensitive data of hotel customers as well as US military personnel and officials has been disclosed by researchers. ZDNet reports: On Monday, vpnMentor’s cybersecurity team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, said the database belonged to Autoclerk, a service owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts group. Autoclerk is a reservations management system…
Edward Snowden: ‘Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy. This is Our New Battleground’
Edward Snowden: In the midst of the greatest computer security crisis in history, the US government, along with the governments of the UK and Australia, is attempting to undermine the only method that currently exists for reliably protecting the world’s information: encryption. Should they succeed in their quest to undermine encryption, our public infrastructure and private lives will be rendered permanently…
Microsoft: Iranian Hackers Targeted a 2020 Presidential Campaign
Microsoft disclosed today that Iranian state-sponsored hackers tried to hack into email accounts belonging to current and former US government officials, and members of a 2020 US presidential campaign. From a report: The attacks have taken place “in a 30-day period between August and September,” Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust at Microsoft, said today. Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence…