At the Cascadia Rail Summit outside Seattle, a fledgling scheme to bring high-speed rail from Portland to Vancouver found an enthusiastic reception. Gregory Scruggs writes via CityLab: Only 175 miles separate Portland from Seattle. Then it’s another 140 miles north to Vancouver, British Columbia. The three Pacific Northwest cities, which together form the Cascadia megaregion, are currently served by Amtrak service that tops out at 79 mph, shares track with…
Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing
Researchers at Valimail found that only 5% of the largest voting counties in the U.S. are protected against email impersonation and phishing attacks. TechCrunch reports: Researchers at Valimail, which has a commercial stake in the email security space, looked at the largest three electoral districts in each U.S. state, and found only 10 out of 187 domains were protected with DMARC, an email security protocol that verifies the authenticity of…
Colombian government, unions renew talks but no agreement reached
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Snapdragon XR2 Chip To Enable Standalone Headsets With 3K x 3K Resolution, 7 Cameras
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Road to VR: Qualcomm today announced Snapdragon XR2 5G, its latest chipset platform dedicated to the needs of standalone VR and AR headsets. The new platform is aimed at high-end devices with support for 3K x 3K displays at 90Hz, along with integrated 5G, accelerated AI processing, and up to seven simultaneous camera feeds for user and environment tracking. While XR1 was made…
Rudy Giuliani Made A Surprise Visit To Kyiv And Nobody There Is Happy About It
Ukrainian and American officials in Kyiv told BuzzFeed News they had no advanced warning of Giuliani’s arrival and only learned about it from media reports.View Entire Post ›
Woman left with white patches of chemically burned skin ‘after using £6 DIY bleach’
A YOUNG woman was left with horrific burn patches after £6 hair dye seared through her skin. Brunette Annaliese Fox, from New South Wales, Australia, suffered third degree chemical burns after using the DIY bleach on her long dark hair. The 20-year-old needed skin grafts on the back of her head and neck after the […]
Facebook Said A Chinese Company Compromised Users With Malware And Then Ran Ads Using Their Accounts
The defendants allegedly used the accounts to run ads that often misused the images of celebrities to sell “counterfeit goods and diet pills.”View Entire Post ›
Biden scrap with voter risks overshadowing critique of Trump
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BotConf 2019 Wrap-Up Day #2
The second day is over. Here is my daily wrap-up. Today was a national strike day in France and a lot of problems were expected with public transports. However, the organization provided buses to help attendees to travel between the city center and the venue. Great service as always 😉
[The post BotConf 2019 Wrap-Up Day #2 has been first published on /dev/random]
The US Navy and Air Force have teamed up on a new ‘Manhattan Project’
Creating a resilient command and control network that joins Navy and Air Force assets over a wide area is an effort on par with the famous Manhattan Project that produced a bomb that brought World…