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Galactic Gold Rush: The Tech Companies Aiming to Make Space Mining a Reality…

In 2014, the financial services site Motley Fool estimated the mineral wealth of the moon to be between $150 quadrillion and $500 quadrillion…The moon, for example, is abundant in Helium-3, an extremely rare element on Earth that could theoretically be used as fuel in future nuclear fusion plants…But the real gold, at least initially, is […]

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Ohio High Court Rules Dash-Cam Videos Are Public Record…

Law enforcement officials can redact investigative information from dash-cam videos but must release the remainder of recordings to the public, a unified Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. A case-by-case review will be used in the future to determine which portions of the videos are subject to withholding…

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Britain’s Politicians Exempt Themselves from Wide-Ranging Spying Laws…

Politicians have exempted themselves from Britain’s new wide-ranging spying laws. The Investigatory Powers Act, which has just passed into law, brings some of the most extreme and invasive surveillance powers ever given to spies in a democratic state. But protections against those spying powers have been given to MPs…

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UPDATE: FIREFOX and TOR PATCH CRITICAL ZERO-DAY VULNERABILITY…

The critical Firefox vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild to unmask Tor users has been patched with the release of new browser updates. Both Mozilla and Tor Project has patched the vulnerability that allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code on Windows operating system via memory corruption vulnerability in Firefox web browser…

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Beware! Malicious JPG Images on Facebook Messenger Spreading Locky Ransomware…

To keep yourself safe, you are advised not to open any unsolicited file that has automatically downloaded onto your computer, especially image files with unusual extensions like SVG, JS, or HTA. The bottom line: Don’t be curious to look at image sent by someone, at least for the time being…

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Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump…

State-sponsored hackers have conducted a series of destructive attacks on Saudi Arabia over the last two weeks, erasing data and wreaking havoc in the computer banks of the agency running the country’s airports and hitting five additional targets…

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AT&T Just Showed Us What The Death Of Net Neutrality Is Going To Look Like…

For consumers who have no idea what zero rating or net neutrality even is (read: most of them), this sounds like a great idea. Most don’t know that usage caps are an entirely-arbitrary construct completely untethered from network or financial necessity. As such, they believe they’re getting something for free…

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The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance…

The UK is due to pass its controversial new surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act…The Act formally legalizes a number of mass surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013… introduces a new power which will force internet service providers to store browsing data on all customers for 12 months…

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