Singapore’s insatiable appetite for sand to use to expand its island’s territory has led to a worldwide boom in illegal sand-mining, run by criminal gangs who are responsible for the destruction of entire islands in the Pacific rim. Read the rest
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Sandwars: the mafias whose illegal sand mines make whole islands vanish
They were the first company to dabble in a laughably crude version of the surveillance business-model, aggressively collecting your address every time you bought batteries so they could get into the direct-mail racket. Read the rest
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Bankrupt Radio Shack will sell the customer data they promised to keep private
Well played, Ben Burst . Well played. For those of you who aren’t tweens, boy pop band One Direction lost a member yesterday: Zayn Malik. This abrupt breakup hit their fans right in the feels. [via Reddit ]
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Guy creates video mocking grief of One Direction fans after Zayn Malik quits. CBS airs it as real.
It was invented by Thanom Chakkapak in the seaside town of Si Racha—that sauce, however, isn’t quite the same as the stuff you know and love.
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On the Origins of Sriracha
Jonathan Zdziarski’s HOPE X talk, Identifying Backdoors, Attack Points, and Surveillance Mechanisms in iOS Devices , suggests that hundreds of millions of Iphone and Ipad devices ship from Apple with intentional back-doors that can be exploited by law enforcement, identity thieves, spies, and employers. Read the rest
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Back doors in Apple’s mobile platform for law enforcement, bosses, spies (possibly)
This NASA image of Mercury has been making the internet rounds anew this week, but has been widely reposted with some not-entirely-accurate information. Read the rest
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The clearest image of our nearest planet: Mercury as you’ve never seen it
Interfax , CNN, and other news agencies are reporting that a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 passenger jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed on the eastern border of Ukraine, near the border with Russia. The Ukrainian interior minister says the plane was “shot down, ” but does not say by whom. Read the rest
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Malaysia Airlines passenger jet reported shot down in Ukraine near Russian border
He was allegedly drunk, and had at least two victims before SFO’s crackerjack private aviation security outfit, Covenant, noticed (they’re the same ones who smashed my brand new camera some years ago and refused to take responsibility for it). Read the rest
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Fake TSA screener infiltrates SFO checkpoints, gropes women
Confirmed: Dark chocolate is good for your heart. Really good. What’s better, scientists have discovered that people who eat 70 grams of chocolate every day increase their vascular health dramatically by “restoring flexibility to arteries and preventing white cells from sticking to the walls of blood vessels.” Read more…
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New study confirms that dark chocolate is very good for your health
Oh baby. The US Navy is saying a prototype of the solid state Laser Weapons System (LaWS) is ready for deployment. This summer in the Persian Sea, the USS Ponce will be outfitted with lasers that can shoot down aerial drones, speedboats and swarm boats that are miles away. It’s going to be Star Wars in the open sea. Read more…
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The US Navy is finally deploying giant lasers