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NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest NSA

NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest

An employee of controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group abused access to the company's powerful hacking technology to target a love interest, Motherboard has learned. The previously unreported news is a serious abuse of NSO's products, which are typically used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The episode also highlights that…
bubmag
April 28, 2020
The Berrics’ ‘Best of Battle Scars’ Is a Painfully Good Crash Compilation Skateboard

The Berrics’ ‘Best of Battle Scars’ Is a Painfully Good Crash Compilation

The Berrics‘ Battle Scars series showcases various skaters’ gnarliest slams, and the latest installment in the long-running series is a painfully good Best of Battle Scars, a “greatest hits” compilation of sorts. Pro skaters may make absurd flip tricks and impossible rails look easy in clips and video parts, but…
bubmag
April 28, 2020
Global Humanitarian Body Warns of up to 1B COVID-19 Cases in War-Torn, Vulnerable Countries Turkish Refugee Camp

Global Humanitarian Body Warns of up to 1B COVID-19 Cases in War-Torn, Vulnerable Countries

The International Rescue Committee warned Tuesday of up to 1 billion COVID-19 cases and 3.2 million deaths in 34 countries that are confronting crises or at war, including Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.  The IRC said an analysis of “potential response scenarios” found COVID-19 could cause between 500 million and 1 billion infections and between 1.7 and 3.2 million fatalities in those…
bubmag
April 28, 2020
IRC Warns of up to 1B COVID-19 Cases in War-Torn, Vulnerable Countries Turkish Refugee Camp

IRC Warns of up to 1B COVID-19 Cases in War-Torn, Vulnerable Countries

The International Rescue Committee warned Tuesday of up to 1 billion COVID-19 cases and 3.2 million deaths in 34 countries that are confronting crises or at war, including Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.  The IRC said an analysis of “potential response scenarios” found COVID-19 could cause between 500 million and 1 billion infections and between 1.7 and 3.2 million fatalities in those…
bubmag
April 28, 2020
IRC Warns of up to 1 Billion COVID-19 Cases in War-Torn, Vulnerable Countries Turkish Refugee Camp

IRC Warns of up to 1 Billion COVID-19 Cases in War-Torn, Vulnerable Countries

The International Rescue Committee warned Tuesday of up to 1 billion COVID-19 cases and 3.2 million deaths in 34 countries that are confronting crises or at war, including Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.  The IRC said an analysis of “potential response scenarios” found COVID-19 could cause between 500 million and 1 billion infections and between 1.7 and 3.2 million fatalities in those…
bubmag
April 28, 2020
Refugee Boats Stranded at Sea Show How COVID-19 Is Making Threatened Groups More Vulnerable Refugees

Refugee Boats Stranded at Sea Show How COVID-19 Is Making Threatened Groups More Vulnerable

Two fishing trawlers are crisscrossing the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, trying to find a country that will take in hundreds of Rohingya families fleeing Bangladesh’s refugee camps, who escaped ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. It’s unclear where they’ll end up: Malaysia has already turned away other boats of…
bubmag
April 28, 2020
Elon Musk provides more details about SpaceX’s plan to reduce Starlink satellite visibility Elon Musk

Elon Musk provides more details about SpaceX’s plan to reduce Starlink satellite visibility

During a virtual conference briefing this week, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk provided more details about a new plan that his company has to mitigate the impact of their Starlink satellite constellation on night sky observation. Musk first revealed on Twitter the intent to build a “sun visor” to…
bubmag
April 28, 2020