Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these two campaigns are likely a small snapshot of what they believe to be widespread exploitation of surveillance vendors seeking access to global phone networks.…

Humanity may be signaling our presence to ET without even trying

We may already be signaling other intelligences beyond our solar system, without even trying. Kunyu City, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of northwest China, hosts huge sprinklers that are irrigating over 1,317 acres (533 hectares) of winter wheat fields on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Then there’s…

Water is ‘white gold’ in Baja’s drying beach towns » Yale Climate Connections

Editor’s note: This is the third story in a series about climate-related water vulnerability in Mexico. Read the second story here. Just before 10 a.m. on a Friday, Ramón Rafael Sanders cracks open another Tecate Light in the cab of his massive water truck. With an empty tank on the…

Katie Thurston Playfully Shuts Down Jeff Arcuri Divorce Speculation

Katie Thurston weighed in on a thorny take about her marriage. The Bachelor Nation alum firmly clapped back at a critic’s direct message predicting that her marriage with Jeff Arcuri was headed… Source link

Jury discharged in trial of baby allegedly sexually abused and murdered by teacher in process of adopting him with his boyfriend

The jury in the case of a baby boy allegedly sexually abused and murdered by a teacher who was in the process of adopting him with his boyfriend was today formally discharged. Jamie Varley, 37, and John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, were on trial at Preston Crown Court accused of sexually abusing…

Man City go TOP of the table by beating Burnley but missed chances leave Pep Guardiola frustrated as title race heads to the wire without a clear favourite, writes JACK GAUGHAN

These titles are not supposed to be easy. Pep Guardiola is at fault for lulling us into thinking that actually, they are and that relentlessly merciful, almost obnoxious, winning runs are the norm. They are not. What Manchester City have managed over the years skews expectations of champions and how…

U.S. military runs a Bitcoin (BTC) node, sees crypto as ‘power projection’ vs China

A four-star U.S. Navy admiral has told Congress the military is running a live node on the Bitcoin network and testing it for national security purposes. Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S.-Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), made the disclosure at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, a day after telling…

When Was Darrell Sheets Last Seen Before Death?

Storage Wars alum Darrell Sheets reportedly met with fans prior to his death at age 67 in an apparent suicide. Sheets posed for photos at his Lake Havasu City, Arizona, antique shop Havasu Show Me Your Junk at around 5 p.m. local time on Tuesday, April 21, per TMZ. The…

Comcast Stock Pops As Olympics, Super Bowl Fire Up Q1, Broadband Better

Comcast blew past Wall Street forecasts on the top and bottom lines for the three months ended in March as ad sales boomed and shaky broadband appears to be turning around. The shares, which have been poky over the past year, jumped over 10% after the numbers. Brian Roberts and…

The Barratt Redrow share price trades at a 13-year low! Is it a screaming buy at 266p?

Image source: Getty Images In January, I toyed with adding housebuilder Barratt Redrow (LSE: BTRW) to my SIPP. I already held one housebuilder, in the shape of Taylor Wimpey, but thought it might be a good time to add another. That’s not because my Taylor Wimpey shares had done well,…