https://www.jwnenergy.com/article/2021/3/5/gates-backs-icelandic-startup-that-turns-carbon-di/
Reykjavik-based Carbfix captures and dissolves CO₂ in water, then injects it into the ground where it turns into stone in less than two years.
https://digitstodollars.com/2021/03/05/youre-on-allocation/
The current shortage is driven by two things: Covid and manufacturing is hard. Last year, factories in China started shutting down early in the year. By the time they started re-opening later in the year, factories everywhere else had shut down, or at least drastically scaled back. So many Chinese factories did not scale production up in a hurry. The result was reduced output everywhere. Then early this year it became clear that pandemic was under control in China and vaccines were coming soon everywhere, and that demand for many electronic devices was stronger than ever. Companies across the supply chain suddenly had to race to catch up, but often found their suppliers were not back to producing at full scale. This caused wrinkles to spread across the industry. Finally, it appears now that shipping has become a bottleneck with air freight prices sky high (pun intended) and US ports still dealing with scaled back working conditions. You could probably also throw in the US-China Trade War, but let’s not go down that particular rabbit hole now, just chalk it up to further complicating the situation.
The best example of this, and one we commonly hear, is the proverbial $2 electric motor which prevents completion of a $50,000 car. Now multiply this by 10,000 companies all hindered in their ability to ship because of some shortage from someone else’s factory.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
Google can choose to dismantle the old scaffolding for surveillance without replacing it with something new and uniquely harmful.
We emphatically reject the future of FLoC. That is not the world we want, nor the one users deserve. Google needs to learn the correct lessons from the era of third-party tracking and design its browser to work for users, not for advertisers.
Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet. But researchers have invented a promising new blueprint for one — with properties akin to the novel RNA-based vaccine for COVID-19.
Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead.
https://www.drammen.kommune.no/om-kommunen/aktuelt/hackerangrep/
Drammen kommune har vært utsatt for et hackerangrep på en mindre del av infrastrukturen for vann og avløp.
Kommunen har kontroll på situasjonen, og alle vann- og avløpssystemer fungerer som normalt. Ingen av kommunens innbyggere er berørt av situasjonen, og ingen personopplysninger er på avveie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/oldsmar-florida-water-supply-hack.html
Hackers remotely accessed the water treatment plant of a small Florida city last week and briefly changed the levels of lye in the drinking water, in the kind of critical infrastructure intrusion that cybersecurity experts have long warned about.
the level of sodium hydroxide — the main ingredient in drain cleaner — was changed from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million, dangerous levels that could have badly sickened residents if it had reached their homes.
https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/kan-ta-et-halvt-ar-for-ostre-toten-a-rette-opp-dataangrep-1.15364106
Den første uka var mange helt uten e-post.
Sosialhjelpsmottakere måtte skrive søknader på nytt.
Alle PC-er måtte formateres og få lagt til ny programvare.
Det er stor fare for at sensitive data er kommet på avveie.
Også sikkerhetskopier ble slettet av angriperne.
Ansatte måtte jobbe med penn og papir i starten.
Angrepet vil trolig koste minst 10 millioner kroner.
Messenger maker has expressed no plans to fix location disclosure flaw.
People Nearby poses the biggest threat to people using Android devices, since they report a user’s location with enough granularity to make Hassan’s attack work. The recently released iOS 14, by contrast, allows users to divulge only a rough approximation of their location. People who use this feature aren’t as exposed.