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Get ready for $250 oil if Iran blocks key shipment route in Middle East, analysts tell RT
Tehran is threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial artery for oil shipments from the Middle East, if Iranian exports are hampered. This will result in a huge loss of global crude supply and soaring prices. Read more Most of the crude exported from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and […]
Get What Matters Done by Scheduling Time Blocks
The demands on our time are greater now than ever before. With information coming at us faster than we can digest it, responsibilities handed to us faster than we can handle them and communication moving at breakneck speed, finding ways to fit as much as possible into your day is a daunting task to say […]
Venezuela’s largest ISP blocks Tor
Venezuelans have been relying on tools like Tor to access news sources, including local outlets like El Nacional and international ones like CNN en Español, after the government banned them in the country. Unfortunately, they’re going to have to work a little bit harder to circumvent government censorship — according to a report by human […]
Microsoft blocks Windows 10 April 2018 update to some Intel SSDs
Enlarge / Intel SSD 600p. (credit: Intel) The April 2018 update for Windows 10 is now being blocked from installing on systems with certain Intel SSDs. With the update installed, systems with the Intel SSD 600p Series and Intel SSD Pro 6000p Series devices seem to crash repeatedly during startup. The problem appears to be […]
Amazon blocks domain fronting, threatens to shut down Signal’s account
Enlarge / Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal. (credit: Knight Foundation) Last week, Amazon announced a change to an Amazon Web Service designed specifically to end the use of domain fronting—the exploitation of a content delivery network’s architecture to conceal the actual destination of encrypted Internet traffic. At the same time, Amazon issued a warning to […]
In effort to shut down Telegram, Russia blocks Amazon, Google network addresses
Enlarge / “Free” as in “censored.” (credit: Carl Court / Getty Images) Early today, Roskomnadzor—Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media—moved to enforce a new Russian federal law blocking the use of Telegram, the encrypted chat and social networking application that has become the favored tool of Russia’s political opposition and […]
“Erotic Review” blocks US Internet users to prepare for government crackdown
Enlarge / Still from a promotional video on The Erotic Review website. (credit: The Erotic Review) A website that hosts customer reviews of sex workers has started blocking Internet users in the United States because of forthcoming changes in US law. Congress recently passed the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act bill (SESTA), and President Trump […]
UK blocks Russia's draft UN Security Council statement on Skripal poisoning case
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Kodi BLOCKS MILLIONS from blockbuster new update
Kodi has pushed-out an early version of its all-new software. The non-profit confirmed the launch of an early version of its latest software in a blog post earlier this week. The blockbuster new update, branded Leia in tribute to the late Carrie Fisher, is currently in alpha – a very early version of the software. […]
