Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk by Alison Young
This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don’t want the public to entertain: Did the COVID-19 pandemic start with a lab leak in Wuhan, China?
#NFC geeks/nerds: where can I buy NFC cards with a #ST25TA64K chip? It seems that is the chip with the biggest storage available? Or do you know of other standard type 4 tags with 8kB or more?
I guess the only reason there haven't been #leaks is because unlike black markets for #Apple#Schematics noone pays the leakers enough to risk it nor have any black-hats done a #Lapsus on them and released stuff...
Or the number if those having access is so low that the individualization of copies makes it trivial to find them (kinda like #DRM-free #eBooks deter copying and sharing)...
@mwfc@jwildeboer Tho any boma-fide project I know would stay away from such #leaks because they don't want to land in hot water and keep on the "#cleanroom" side of Reverse-Engineering...
"Some 50 #OilAndGas companies worldwide have pledged to shore up leaky #methane systems by 2030, a move that could rapidly reduce #emissions of the potent gas and forestall some #ClimateChange effects — if the companies live up to their word.
The Environmental Defense Fund and the International Energy Agency — have signed on to track the effort and use satellite technology to provide additional accountability measures."
"#EPA's new policies would ban routine #flaring of natural gas produced by newly drilled oil wells, require oil companies to monitor for #leaks from well sites and compressor stations and establishes a program to use third party remote sensing to detect large #methane releases from so-called "#SuperEmitters," the agency said in a statement."
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott & Alex Mierjeski @ProPublica
#Thomas has attended at least two #Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a #political network that has brought multiple #cases before the #SupremeCourt.
For decades, the Kochs have held deep antipathy to govt #regulation. When Charles #Koch’s brother David ran for VP on the #Libertarian Party ticket in 1980, the party platform called for abolishing the #EPA, the #DOE & the #FDA.
Every winter, the network holds its marquee #fundraising event in Coachella Valley in SoCal. Hundreds of #donors fly in to learn how their money is being spent & plan for the coming yr. Fmr staffers describe an emphasis on preventing #leaks that bordered on obsession.
Someone leaked the source codes of the MS-DOS and Mac versions of Doom. Includes maps that were cut from release or were developed as tech demos, never seen before stuff.
Damn. I thought #kbin was where the cutting edge of information dissemination was, but #warThunder has a whole #wikipedia page dedicated to how it's absolutely crushing it. Who knew #MMORPGs were the future?!
For those who haven't witnessed anything re. information classification or the functioning of militaries or governments or other great organs of state, I refer you to the screenwriter Jonathan Lynn's words immortalised by the character Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister:
"The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets but to protect officials"
I regret deeply I cannot remember which episode. I also refer you to Yes, Prime Minister s02e02 (dailymotion link) which illustrates something about leaks, and their investigation and prosecution. Not to mention how the #press works in promulgating these things! I really can't recommend it highly enough.
Word is that #Nickelodeon has suffered a major data leak. Here's, if not everything, at least a lot that you want to know about this leak, which is being referred to as #NickelodeonGigaLeak.
I live in Devon. I am under a hosepipe ban. My supplier (South West Water) is very kindly suggesting some "easy wins" for me to save water, like taking less time in the shower, or using my washing machine less. It reckons that this way my household could save 12 litres per person per day, for a total of 48 litres saved per day, or about 18,000 litres per year. Sounds like a lot, right?
Yeah. The thing is, South West Water (in common with the other privatised water companies) lost 90 million litres per day in leaks in the last year for which data are available (https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/publication/leakage-dataset-march-2023/). And even that is likely a significant under-estimate, because it's under investigation by the regulator on suspicion of mis-reporting its leak figures. It has also paid out £112M in dividends to shareholders this week, while kindly putting my bills up, so sorry, we need money for investment to stop dumping all this sewage we're dumping. Illegally.
My little 48 litres is a literal drop in the ocean. Why on Earth would I put myself out when it will make not a blind bit of difference to the water available for general use?
In absolute terms, 18kl per year feels like a lot, granted. But the sheer effrontery of coming to me effectively cap in hand while handing out an actual fortune to their shareholders makes me want to just leave all my taps running.
South-West Water: Take the beam out of your own eye. Fix your flood of leaks before you come asking me to inconvenience myself to save (relatively speaking) drops. You've got the money for it, or at least you did before you gave it to your shareholders. Scum.
...about which nothing can be done, and fixing the underwater fields at a staggering cost of ca. 30 bn. USD (2/n), the 2 fields' #leaks 👉could be easily fixed👈, say experts, and 👉would rapidly reduce global heating👈...
Together, the two [main] fields released emissions equivalent to 366m tonnes of #CO2, 👉more..."
The War Thunder forum has once again been used to share restricted plane documentation - this time about the F-117 Nighthawk (www.techradar.com)
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/1220527...