As coal stalls, Wyoming thinks about brand-new ecological clean-up guidelines
Enlarge / GILLETTE, Wyo.: A truck loaded with coal is viewed from the Eagle Butte Coal Mine Overlook which is operated by Alpha Coal. The area is a large producer of coal. Gillette uses the moniker of "The Energy Capital of the Nation". (Photo by On Wednesday, Wyoming's Land Quality Advisory Board voted to limit…
Boeing/Saab joint T-X style wins Flying force’s jet fitness instructor competitors
Enlarge / The Boeing/Saab T-X has won the Air Force's advanced jet trainer contract. Boeing The end-of-the-year contract rush for the US Defense Department has been good to Boeing. As the clock ticks down on the fiscal year, Boeing grabbed its third DOD contract in a month. This time, it's the Air Force's T-X next-generation…
Covert charges that raise rate of broadband would be prohibited by...
Getty Images | Biddiboo US Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) today introduced legislation that would require telecom companies to include all charges in their advertised prices, potentially ending the practice of advertising low prices and then socking customers with loads of extra fees. The bill would also force telecom companies to justify price increases that occur…
NSA worker who brought hacking tools house sentenced to 66 months...
The National Security Operations Center at NSA, photographed in 2012—the nerve center of the NSA's "signals intelligence" monitoring. A former NSA coder has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for bringing home the code that drove much of the NSA's signals intelligence operations. Nghia Hoang Pho, a 68-year-old former National Security Agency employee who…
Business that draws CO2 from air reveals a brand-new methane-producing plant
Enlarge / Air capture at Climeworks' Troia, Italy, plant. It's been a banner week for hydrocarbons made from waste gases. Earlier this week, a company announced that it had delivered 4,000 gallons of jet fuel made from steel-plant waste gases to Virgin Atlantic. Now, Swiss company Climeworks has announced the opening of a new plant…
Iranian phishers bypass 2fa defenses provided by Yahoo Mail and Gmail
A recent phishing campaign targeting US government officials, activists, and journalists is notable for using a technique that allowed the attackers to bypass two-factor authentication protections offered by services such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail, researchers said Thursday. The event underscores the risks of 2fa that relies on one-tap logins or one-time passwords, particularly if…
A big bet to kill the password for good
Elena Lacey After years of tantalizing hints that a passwordless future is just around the corner, you're probably still not feeling any closer to that digital unshackling. Ten years into working on the issue, though, the FIDO Alliance, an industry association that specifically works on secure authentication, thinks it has finally identified the missing piece…
If you have not covered Vim or NeoVim full-screen editor, you...
A recently patched vulnerability in text editors preinstalled in a variety of Linux distributions allows hackers to take control of computers when users open a malicious text file. The latest version of Apple’s macOS is continuing to use a vulnerable version, although attacks only work when users have changed a default setting that enables a…
Elon Musk went on shooting spree over sluggish satellite broadband development
Enlarge / Elon Musk at a SpaceX press conference on September 17, 2018 in Hawthorne, California. Getty Images | Mario Tama SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently "fired at least seven" managers in order to speed up development and testing of satellites that could provide broadband around the world, Reuters reported today. SpaceX has Federal Communications…
Russia introduces sub that will bring end ofthe world nuke drone...
SEVERODVINSK, RUSSIA - APRIL 23, 2019: The Belgorod nuclear-powered submarine (Special Project 09852), during the launching ceremony, that carries Poseidon strategic underwater drones. (Photo by Oleg Kuleshov/TASS via Getty Images) Slide from presentation to Putin in 2015 The lower rudders, shown in this MoD. image, are different from those of other Oscar subs. The starboard…
