Ken Garen, CPA, Co-Founder and President, UBCC

"Eliminate Dead Zones": Elon Musk Partners With T-Mobile For New Satellite-To-Cell-Service BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, AUG 26, 2022 - 06:10 PM Elon Musk's SpaceX teamed up with T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert to beam cell service via Starlink satellites to " most places in the US ," including more than half a million square miles of dead zone areas that aren't covered by cellular networks.  The two companies would create a new mobile network to broadcast T-Mobile's existing mid-band spectrum via Starlink satellites to anywhere in the continental US, Hawaii, parts of Alaska, and Puerto Rico.  SpaceX and T-Mobile wrote in a  press release  that the new network would "provide near complete coverage in most places in the US — even in many of the most remote locations previously unreachable by traditional cell signals." Musk tweeted that the new service, launching in 2023, will "eliminate dead zones worldwide."  Bloomberg  explained how

Self-Driving Vehicles Could Be On Britain's Roads As Early As 2025 Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, August 21, 2022 Cars, lorries, and coaches with self-driving features could be operating on Britain’s motorways next year and fully autonomous vehicles could be a feature on the roads by 2025 under plans unveiled on Friday. The Department for Transport, which is injecting £100 million worth of investment, published a  policy paper  that said the self-driving vehicle industry could create up to 38,000 jobs and be worth £42 billion to the UK economy. Transport Secretary  Grant Shapps  said:  “The benefits of self-driving vehicles have the potential to be huge. Not only can they improve people’s access to education and other vital services, but the industry itself can create tens of thousands of job opportunities throughout the country. Most importantly, they’re expected to make our roads safer by reducing the dangers of driver error in road collisions.” The D

Streaming Viewership Tops Cable TV For First Time, Nielsen Says BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, AUG 19, 2022 - 08:00 PM For the first time, streaming platforms surpassed cable as the most popular way to consume shows, live broadcasts, and movies, according to new data from Nielsen.  It was only a matter of time before streaming platforms, led by Netflix, would dominate how Americans watch television. In July, Nielsen revealed US households that streamed content accounted for 34.8% share of total consumption versus 34.4% for cable.  Source: Axios Netflix continues to be the most used streaming platform, accounting for 7.7% of the total share of consumption in the month. YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ increased their share last month to 7.3%, 3%, and 1.8%, respectively. HBO Max was around 1%.  Streaming usage has surged over the years and was supercharged during the virus pandemic lockdowns, though Netflix earlier this year disclosed in a first-quarter earnings report that

Apple Discloses New Security Flaw That Can Allow Attackers To Take "Complete Control" Over iPhones, iPads, & iMacs   BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, AUG 19, 2022 - 09:14 AM Apple has disclosed what are being called "serious" security vulnerabilities with iPhones, iPads and iMacs this week. The vulnerabilities are so significant, they can potentially allow attackers to "take complete control of the devices", according to  Sky .  In a non-descript statement on Thursday, Apple said it was "aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited". Everyone that owns the affected devices, which include iPhones after the 6S, new iPads and any Mac running OS Monterey, is being encouraged to update their software as soon as possible. The hack even affects some older iPod models. Remember iPods? Apple said on its website that means a malicious application "may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges", which is c

Post-quantum crypto cracked in an hour with one core of an ancient Xeon   Laura Dobberstein – August 3, 2022 20h ago NIST's nifty new algorithm looks like it's in trouble One of the four encryption algorithms the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended as likely to resist decryption by quantum computers has has holes kicked in it by researchers using a single core of an Intel Xeon CPU, released in 2013.… The Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation (SIKE) algorithm was chosen by NIST just last month as a candidate for standardization, meaning it advanced to an extra round of testing en route to adoption. Within SIKE lies a public key encryption algorithm and a key encapsulated mechanism, each instantiated with four parameter sets: SIKEp434, SIKEp503, SIKEp610 and SIKEp751. Microsoft – whose research team played a role in the algorithm's development along with multiple universities, Amazon, Infosec Global and Texas Instruments – set up

The Earth Just Started Spinning Faster Than Ever Before And Scientists Don't Know Why   Authored by Elijah Cohen via TheMindUnleashed.com, August 1, 2022 The Earth recently  completed  a rotation faster than ever before at  1.59 millisecond under 24 hours , and the   consequences for how we keep time have experts around the world  alarmed . It could be the  first time  in world history that global clocks will have to be sped up. “This would be required to keep civil time—which is based on the super-steady beat of atomic clocks—in step with solar time, which is based on the movement of the Sun across the sky,”  Time and Date  reported . Scientists don’t know what is causing our planet to spin faster than ever before ,   but some  experts fear  it could be  “devastating,”  while others speculate the shorter days could be related to climate change, of course. Since the Earth’s rotation has always largely been slowing down throughout time, atomic clocks have thus f

Millions infected by 'auto-starting' Android malware — delete these apps now By  Anthony Spadafora  published August 1, 2022 about 6 hours ago This new malware runs in the background and hides itself from victims A new  malware  strain capable of starting on its own after users download one of the affected apps has been discovered on the Google Play Store by research from the cybersecurity firm  McAfee . Unlike other malicious apps that need to be opened first, apps that contain the HiddenAds malware begin running malicious services automatically after being installed. They also continuously show advertisements on a victim’s  Android smartphone  and are quite difficult to remove once installed. According to a  blog post (opens in new tab) from McAfee’s Mobile Research Team, most of the apps containing this new malware are disguised as  cleaner apps  that delete junk files or help optimize battery life on Android devices. Delete these apps immediately Below you’ll