Advertising giant Google is testing a new ad format to embed in search engine results sold for "self promotion" purposes (archived). Advertising revenue is the fuel that enables Google's adventures in launching small cars at the broad side of city buses at two miles per hour.
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Ransomware Comes To OSX Bittorrent Client
Ransomware has come to Apple's OSX through a doctored binary for the Transmission bittorrent client (archived). This is reminiscent of a similar failure by Linux Mint to secure their software distribution pipeline, with the only substantial added step in this case being the ~100 United States dollar expense to register a key with Apple to bypass their "Gatekeeper" check for signed code. Once again pseudo security theater fails to provide actual security.
Leaked Voicemails Show Donald Trump-Clinton Cozy With Liberal Media
A number of leaked voicemails show New York con artist and politician Donald Trump-Clinton's warm, cozy relationship with members of the leftist media. Despite the character Trump-Clinton plays on television presenting an adversarial relationship with the mainstream media, the leaked messages show affection for Trump demonstrated by NBC personalities as diverse as Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Tamron Hall (archived). Continue reading
Frontier County Prosecutor Alleges Circle Jerk iPhone Carries "Cyber Pathogens"
District Attorney Michael Ramos of San Bernadino County in California's desert frontier is now alleging the famous circle jerk iPhone 5c is now carrying a "cyber pathogen" (archived). With this latest wankery the podunk attorney is attempting to seriously allege a couple with a dangerous cyber pathogen would get themselves killed in a mundane shooting spree before they could deploy it. It's like suggesting a bio terrorist with Zika or Dengue would similarly get themselves killed in a boring normal shooting before spreading it to as many flying syringes as possible.
Correction Takes Bitcoin Network Difficulty Down 3.1%
After an eight month streak of hashrate increases, raising difficulty by a total of 231%, the mining difficulty has dropped to 158,427,203,767.3917 (3.1% below the previous adjustment, placing total network hashrate estimates around 1.2 EH/s). During this adjustment period, unknown actors flooded memory pools with several dozen megabytes of spam. Unlike last time, when the spammers made grand claims from behind meaningless pseudonyms, they have remained anonymous this time around; and unlike previous attacks, which merely contributed to demand for block space, this one caused immediate economic consequences, as disclosed previously. The transaction fee total climbed to 726.63690949 Bitcoins, comprising 1.42% of total miner income.
Hold on to your butts – Argentina is going on sale.
This year Argentina has a new president, one Mauricio Macri. The fellow stands very strongly on the side of capital and against labour, with daily pronouncements drawing the ire of the grobian-socialistoid Argentine (("Hay que reducir los gastos, y el salario es un gasto mas" (Macri) – "El salario es un derecho [umano]!11" (the G-S A). Continue reading
Chinese Businesses Scavenge US Industry For Brands
Today United States regulators from the "Justice" department gave China based Haier permission to buy General Electric's appliance unit. General Electric's efforts to escape the low margin appliance business have become public knowledge twice before. The first effort failed to find any credible buyers. Following that, last year "Justice" Department regulators refused permission for Swedish firm Electrolux's to unburden General Electric of this line of business by acquiring it for 3.3 billion United States dollars. They expressed concern about the poverty of suppliers for wall mounted ovens and cooktops for commerical use in the United States. Now Haier, which already markets appliances for sale in the United States, has received approval to acquire this business line from General Electric for 5.4 billion United States dollars. Continue reading
Government Accountability Office Declines To Offer Opinion On Worthless USG Finances
As has happened every year since 1997 during the height of the first1 Clinton presidency the United States Government Accountability Office has declined to offer an opinion on the United States Goverment's consolidated finances (archived). This is due to the impossibility of rendering an opinion with the financial statements from numerous department being so broken as to lack all meaning whatsoever. In other words the finances of the United States Government are in the same shape they have been since Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, and Obama managed to lose the Cold War years after the Soviet Union collapsed.
At this point BitBet odds presume either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Donald Trump Clinton will usher in a second Clinton presidency. ↩
Anti Music Piracy Advocate Pirates Music Production Software
Kanye West, most famous for his strong stance against music piracy and marrying the hobbit, has outed himself as a software pirate in screen shots he posted to Twitter (archived). This does not materially affect the poverty of sanity in the US driven copyrast regime.
A Miner Problem
As announced in #bitcoin-assets, BitBet was attacked earlier today through a transaction withholding mechanism. The attack unfolded as follows : Continue reading