Authorities say Tulsa maintenance base workers workers for American Airlines found seven bricks of cocaine weighing 31 pounds with a street value of about a half a million dollars hidden in the nose of an AA aircraft. (more…)
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Almost half a million bucks worth of cocaine stuffed up nose of American Airlines plane from Colombia
David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz created an interactive chart showing the weight, national origin and position of more than 1,300 active satellites orbiting the planet Earth. The data was sourced from the Union of Concerned Scientists . It goes out in bands: there’s a cloud in low-earth orbit bulked up with the International Sapce Station and surveillance satellites. Satellite phone networks such as Iridium and Globalstar form conspicuous rings about 800 and 1500 km up. 20km up are the navigation networks GPS and Glonass. 37km up is a mess, with so many geostationary satellites clustered together that they become a rainbow blur in the graphic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=hL3gA8IMO-w Researchers from Context Security have identified a vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy phones: by embedding commands in the obsolete, 17-year-old WAP proptocol in an SMS message, attackers can put them into endless reboot loops, or encrypt their storage and charge the phone’s owners for a decryption key. (more…)
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You can install ransomware on a Samsung Galaxy by sending it an SMS
Tooth Magnified to the atomic level It’s like Powers of Ten for dentistry.
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Zooming in on a tooth until you can see individual atoms
YouTuber and photographer Timmy Joe saw spectacular light pillars on an arctic January night from his northern Ontario home. He thought they were northern lights until he went to investigate. It’s a totally different phenomenon, as he helpfully explains. (more…)
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Weather phenomenon of light pillars vs. northern lights
From Geopolitical Futures via Joshua Landis . Seems rough on details. If Islamic State gets wee satellites down in Yemen, you’d think the Sinai Insurgents would at least get some diagonal shading! (more…)
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Map shows Middle East based on who actually holds territory
In the village of Antia on Greece’s Evia island, shepherds use whistling to communicate over long distances. This isn’t a code but rather a real language. “Whistles let shepherds communicate between distant hillsides because a whistled sound wave travels farther than spoken words.” ( Scientific American )
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The amazing whistling language of Greek shepherds
https://youtu.be/ukug2h1kS4Q Electric eels are incredible animals. Besides being able to shock animals, it uses radar to locate prey. This 1950s film features a happy scientist and his beloved pet eel, Joe, who happily shocks five people in the office with his superpower.
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How electric eels work
In Eastern Europe, organized crime and the government are the same thing, so the US is having a tough time stopping the ransomware attacks emanating from those countries. The LA Times has a story about a recent attack on a community college in Los Angeles: Phil Lieberman, a cybersecurity expert, said attacks such as the one at Los Angeles Valley College are common among companies and government agencies that use the Internet. “The attacks generally come out of Eastern Europe and cannot be stopped because the United States does not have pacts with the countries where the attacks are launched,” he said. Ransomware is usually delivered via email or through an infected website and immediately locks a computer system, Lieberman said. After a payment is received, hackers provide an “unlock code.” Finding the hackers isn’t the hard part, he said. The problem, according to Lieberman, is that “the U.S. government has no way to stop them, since the governments of the countries that launch this are uncooperative and in fact benefit from the criminal activity going on within their borders.” Here are 27 screenshots of ransomware . Most of them look like computer screens from bad 1990s hacker movies.
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Los Angeles Valley College pays $28,000 in bitcoin ransom to hackers
YouTuber Proto G shot these cool experiments with plasma vortex force fields . Scientists are looking into large-scale practical applications of the force field generated in this manner: (more…)
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Fun with plasma vortex force fields