Mullvad VPN
I’d been running my own VPS VPN server for quite a while since there were a lot of stories of these suspicious VPN companies consolidating with one connected to intelligence. And at the end of the day you’re trusting the…
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Police Dept Dumps Entire Fleet of Durangos Due To Engine Failures
Stellantis is one of the worst companies that put out low quality products and then want to charge premium prices, and who do not stand behind their products as the video below highlights to their shame. This is also why…
Car Software Patches Are Over 20% of Recalls, Study Finds
A nice spin to get you to accept that internet connected vehicle? What’s of interest is that companies are getting creative with software updates all so they don’t have to replace faulty hardware, with a nice example listed in the…
Top UK Bank Launches Payment Tracking System to Crack Down on Meat Purchases
This would instantly make me find a new bank, but in the UK you might not have good options. Consequently, I don’t have financial apps installed on my phone, but looking at the Wells Fargo app’s data safety they don’t…
There’s No Way Qualcomm Is Buying Intel as Is
Qualcomm is not a good operator by the fact they were caught spying on users outside the phone OS. And that’s a problem with cellular phones, as a lot of firmware/software is outside the operating system and the user has…
Automatic Takeoffs Are Coming for Passenger Jets and They’re Going to Redraw the Map of the Sky
All the demonization of Boeing was thought to benefit Airbus primarily, but Embraer (no. 3) is increasing their sales while adding new features like automated takeoffs. By Jacopo Prisco The Embraer E195-E2 is the larger of the E2 variants…
Elon Musk Apparently Bricked Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov’s Machine-Gun-Mounted Cybertruck
What’s being missed in this story, is do you really own that internet connected vehicle? And since the manufacturer can send updated firmware to the vehicle, they can disable it at anytime. Or upload an update so you can’t take…
Woman Who Hired ‘Hitman’ to Take Out New Wife of ‘Hiking Friend’ She Met Online Sentenced
The interesting bit in this story below is the location tracking using Strava, which was primarily for tracking bicycling and jogging but now includes hiking. A lot of people allow themselves to be seen by others, and through the drive…
Torvalds Weighs in on ‘Nasty’ Rust vs C for Linux Debate
The article is below, but I’ll include the video here. Linus is looking pretty weathered for 54. And I’m already running the 6.11 kernel on my Debian based systems with Xanmod kernels, but still waiting for it to show up…
Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments, Cutting Out Card Networks (FedNow)
The interesting bit in this story is the link to FedNow processing transactions on the backend. But worth saying these payment processors have become so greedy, that they’re bribing customers with higher percentages back on their purchases, in essence rebating…
Former Chinese Crypto Mine Near Cheyenne Air Force Base Has New American Owner
So the facility that was supposedly a security threat to the F. E. Warren nuclear missile base is now allowed to continue on with new American owners after Biden shut the formerly Chinese owned facility down? Someone exerted their significant…
Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s MGX to Back $30BN Blackrock AI Infrastructure Fund
I have a theory that the Antichrist will arise out of Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates with Abu Dhabi, so anything having to do with the UAE is of particular interest. And I’ve also speculated the image of…