How after clearing their TNT stocks US and Nato relied on imports from Ukrainian for missile making but Russians easily cut off supplies
Besides the plant in Poland, production of TNT is now concentrated in China and India. Customs records examined show at least 1,200 tonnes of TNT were exported from India in 2023 and 2024 to arms makers that supply Western forces. India also shipped large volumes of the explosive fillers RDX and HMX to Poland’s Nitro-Chem.
Cashless outage: How global CrowdStrike meltdown shocked consumers back into using cash to pay bills
Richard Forno, a cybersecurity lecturer at the University of Maryland, said Friday’s outage demonstrates the vulnerability of our current cloud and internet infrastructure. “Software supply chains have long been a serious cybersecurity concern and potential single point of failure,” Forno says.
How one bad CrowdStrike update crashed the world’s computers in airports, train systems, banks, hospitals …and more
The widespread Windows outages have been linked to a software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. It is believed the issues are not linked to a malicious cyberattack, cybersecurity officials say, but rather stem from a misconfigured/corrupted update that CrowdStrike pushed out to its customers.
Worldwide cyber outage linked to third-party software upgrade grounds flights, disrupts businesses
Microsoft’s cloud unit Azure said it was aware of the issue that impacted virtual machines running Windows OS and the CrowdStrike Falcon agent getting stuck in a “restarting state” amid an ongoing global outage.
Boeing pleads guilty to criminal fraud conspiracy to resolve investigations into 737 MAX fatal crashes
Pentagon spokesperson Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder told reporters the agency would make an assessment to decide the impact of the guilty plea on Boeing’s contracts. He did not address whether the agency was in talks with the planemaker.
Police in Nairobi drop probe into allegations Worldcoin illegally obtained Kenyans’ data
Worldcoin is being rolled out by Tools for Humanity, a company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Its website says it has signed up 5.7 million users across more than 160 countries.
Food slaves: Since AGRA’s launch, African biodiversity has been severely lost, farmers tricked into dumping nutrient-dense, drought-resistant crops
In 1999, Monsanto’s CEO Robert Shapiro bragged that the company planned to control “three of the largest industries in the world – agriculture, food and health – that now operate as separate businesses. But there are a set of changes that will lead to their integration.” Today these chemical manufacturers control a huge percentage of the world’s food supply.
Congress probe unearths how US former director of health hatched plans to engineer monkeypox virus capable of killing millions
A new interim report describes the obstruction and secrecy around the mpox proposal as a case study of how the institute “oversees and accounts for the monitoring of potentially dangerous gain-of-function research of concern.”
Serious integrity questions raised about why a journal retracted study showing Covid vaccines may cause cancer
Subsequent research and case studies have largely validated the findings of the retracted study conducted by Mei and Hui Jiang, of Stockholm University in Sweden.
The big ‘Techno Foods’ lie: Artificial foods won’t feed the world, they are marketed to make tech entrepreneurs richer
Lab meat (or cellular meat) is not “fake” meat but is an attempt to grow real meat in a laboratory. Stem cells are taken from a live animal and placed in a man-made soup of genetically modified growth hormones and other synthetic “nutrients” which are brewed together in steel vats or bioreactors.
