Stanford University routinely monitors the wastewater treatment systems of a number of bay-area municipalities, including San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Sacramento, among others. This system, know as SCAN (Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network) provides a unique view and detection of a… Continue Reading
Things appear to be heating up in Ukraine, as Russian forces continue to amass on the edge of Ukraine, in full view of the world. Putin continues to deny everything, but the overhead shots and information coming in from, well,… Continue Reading
It’s not hard to find a lot of signs of unrest in the US today – from the Black Lives Matter riots on one hand to the January 6th riot on the other, along a whole host of other incidents,… Continue Reading
In July of last year, a drone was used in an apparent attack on a power substation in Pennsylvania. The person or persons behind the attack have not been caught. To say that this is concerning should be an understatement.… Continue Reading
Sure, just like an ICBM is a ‘spacecraft’. They both go in space, right?? China’s recent test-launch of a hypersonic missile caught American intel completely off-guard. The missile was launched in August, flying into a low-earth orbit before re-entering the… Continue Reading
Nicolas Chaillan (pictured) is the US Air Force’s first chief software officer, charged with securing US Government systems and strengthening US cyber warfare capabilities. Or at least he was, until he resigned last month. Chaillan resigned in September, and he… Continue Reading
If you ever needed another reason to stock up on extra supplies of water, here you go – Last week, an as-yet unidentified hacker nearly poisoned the water supply for a significant area in the Tampa Bay region of Florida,… Continue Reading
That the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent individuals like Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Bill Gates were hacked isn’t necessarily interesting news. What IS interesting, however, is that those accounts weren’t hacked – rather, Twitter itself was hacked,… Continue Reading
Amid stalled trade talks with China, JP Morgan has now lowered their guidance for Chinese equities to neutral, based on their assumption that the trade war with China will worsen over the course of the next year, negatively impacting the… Continue Reading
To say that the small Eurasian republic of Georgia and Russia have had a complicated past is putting it mildly. Georgia was a member of the Soviet Union, but as we’ve seen with Ukraine and the Baltic states, it doesn’t… Continue Reading