Last month USG.DoJ began the process of transferring former University of Tennessee Knoxville Engineering professor An Ming Hu (WoT:nonperson) to the Bureau of Prisons, potentially cutting his welfare benefits substantially over Hu's similtaneous affiliations with NASA and Beijing University of Technology (archived, archived). Continue reading
Lebanon's Diab Announces Default On Eurobond Debt
Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced today that his government will not pay a 1.2 billion USD Eurobond debt due on Monday, March 9th (archived). Continue reading
IRCG's Hossein Salami Publicly States Possibility of Cornonavirus Being US Bioweapon Attack As Much Of Iran's Government Afflicted
With numerous senior members of Iran's government stricken by the novel coronavirus, Revolutionary Guard leader Hossein Salami made a public statement raising the possibility that the outbreak is the result of a US bioweapon attack (archived). On January 3rd the USG assassinated Iranian Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani inside Iraq while there on diplomatic business at Iraq's invitation. Iran retaliated with precision ballistic missile strikes on USG positions in Iraq which the USG humiliatingly could not answer with anything other than token sanctions.
While Salami is merely raising the possibility of USG culpability at this point, the USG's credibility on the international stage is locked into a steep downward spiral.
Control Of "Steem" Altcoin Network Successfully Sold Despite Challenger
Yu Chen Sun (WoT:nonperson), former Ripple “Chief Representative” in China and student of “failure education” based Hupan University, faced an attempted rape of his recently purchased Steem pre-mine on Sunday (archived, archived, archived, archived).
He executed in cooperation with the Poloniex, Binance, and Huobi exchanges Monday a counter-rape using the Steem staked on those exchanges and regained control of his altcoin's network (archived).
Steem, created by Daniel Larimer (WoT:nonperson) in 2016, was last raped that same year. Although Sun can now change the “decentralized” altcoin seemingly at will, he has announced no plans that would prevent future rapes.
Some CIA Passwords Unveiled At Trial: 123ABCdef and mysweetsummer
As the show trial of Joshua Schulte for allegedly leaking the USG.CIA's "Vault 7" hacking tools approaches its end, it has come out that the software was secured behind shared passwords including 123ABCdef, mysweetsummer, and others (archived). The security situation described at trial is such that anyone in the development group could have been the leaker making USG's case on the prosecution consist of "Schulte is the one we know was disgruntled, and he, like everyone else on the team, had the means to leak" and nothing more.
Intel CFO Concedes Competitors Will Maintain Process Node Lead For At Least Two More Years
Intel CFO George Davis announced at a conference hosted by Morgan Stanley that the USG chip maker would remain behind its competitors on process node size until shipping 7nm parts near the end of 2021 (archived). Continue reading
Cheap USD: USG "Open Market Committee" Announces Emergency Interest Rate Cut, Largest Since 2008
Today the USG Federal Reserve's "Open Market Committee" announced an emergency action to drop their interest rate target by 0.5% in their biggest cut since 2008. Continue reading
Bitstamp Plays With Novelty Segwit Only Bech32 Addresses
Bitstamp has annouced the addition of novelty segwit only Bech32 addresses to their platform (archived). Segwit involves cleaving the ever important transaction signatures from inclusion in Bitcoin blocks through a set of rules precariously enforced at the convenience of miners. With the signatures cleaved, transactions opting for the lower segwit security standard feature a space saving "spend by anyone" script when added to the Bitcoin blockchain. Continue reading
Cisco Lays Off And Pivots While Huawei Grows
USG.NSA collaborator Cisco Systems announced a layoff of an undisclosed number of workers last month as well as a pivot to software (archived). Continue reading