Amtrak trains traveling the Northeast Corridor, servicing major cities like New York, Boston, and Washington DC, are getting a $2.45 billion federal upgrade. But it won’t get you anywhere any faster. Read more…
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America’s Railroads Are Too Busted for High Speed Trains
If you ask Josiah Zayner, the genetic engineering revolution will not come in the form of designer babies or mutant super crops , but in the form of a bottle of glowing beer. Read more…
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This Biohacker Wants to Spur a Genetic Engineering Revolution With Glowing Beer
In October and November, around 70 people left their laptops at a single airport security checkpoint at the Newark Airport. It’s not only the cheap stuff that’s gets abandoned—a fair amount of Macbooks are getting left behind as well. Read more…
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Lisa From TSA Wants You to Pick Up Your Laptop, Thanks
In case you thought we’d figured out life in the oceans even a little bit, a new study published in Nature Communications sets the record straight. For the first time, scientists have found experimental evidence of underwater pollination. There are bees in the sea—or at least creatures that perform the same kind of… Read more…
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We’ve all stolen things from work—pencils, pens, maybe a notebook—but this Foxconn employee went a little too far. According to AsiaOne , a former senior manager at the world’s largest electronics maker and assembler was charged with stealing and selling 5, 700 iPhones for a value of about $1.56 million. Read more…
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Foxconn Employee Steals 5,700 iPhones Before Getting Caught
Ransomware, malware that enables attackers to disable systems or encrypt your data until you pay them , is on the rise. If you’ve become the victim of an attack, these four decryption tools might save the day. Read more…
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Avast’s Four Free Ransomware Decryption Tools Decrypt Locked Files
Cruises are like floating piles of shit and piss that you pay to ride for a week. But sometimes cruises need to release a bit of that shit and piss so that the ship doesn’t sink. Dumping of bilge water is tightly regulated when cruises are near populated areas. But Princess Cruises, owned by Carnival Corp, just spent… Read more…
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Carnival Cruises to Pay $40 Million Fine for Secretly Dumping Shit Water Since 2005
We already saw how the new $1.6 billion sarcophagus —the 843-foot wide, 354-foot tall steel shield that entombs the radioactive material leaking from the damaged nuclear reactor left over from the Chernobyl disaster—was going to be put in place to replace the old concrete structure that enclosed the damaged reactor… Read more…
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Watch Chernobyl’s Huge Radiation Shield Slide in and Enclose the Damaged Nuclear Reactor
(credit: Hefin Richards ) There has been yet another major data breach, this time exposing names, IP addresses, birth dates, e-mail addresses, vehicle data, and occupations of at least 58 million subscribers, researchers said. The trove was mined from a poorly secured database and then published and later removed at least three times over the past week, according to this analysis from security firm Risk Based Security. Based on conversations with a Twitter user who first published links to the leaked data , the researchers believe the data was stored on servers belonging to Modern Business Solutions , a company that provides data storage and database hosting services. Shortly after researchers contacted Modern Business Solutions, the leaky database was secured, but the researchers said they never received a response from anyone at the firm, which claims to be located in Austin, Texas. Officials with Modern Business Solutions didn’t respond to several messages Ars left seeking comment and additional details. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Breach exposes at least 58 million accounts, includes names, jobs, and more
Slashdot reader McGruber reports that federal prosecutors “have filed conspiracy charges against a part-owner of two information technology firms and an employee for fraudulently using the H-1B program”. Both were reportedly recruiting foreign IT workers, according to the AP: Prosecutors said the conspirators falsely represented that the foreign workers had full-time positions and were paid an annual salary [when] the workers were only paid when placed at a third-party client, and the defendants sometimes generated false payroll records… The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and obstruct justice and conspiracy to harbor aliens. They’re now facing up to 15 years in prison for an “alien-harboring conspiracy” charge — with a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250, 000 fine — and a separate visa fraud and obstruction of justice charge with a maximum 5-year penalty and a $250, 000 fine. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud