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originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: Thoughtful2
Interesting thought, T2... could be!
There was a post on telegram circulating that the Brunson case has been denied by SC... completing the last step of proving the corruption/treason. Apparently the denial was published on the down-low but when people searched "brunson updates" on goog, no results came back... meaning the articles have been scrubbed?
Time will tell.
THAT SHOULD JUST ABOUT DO IT! THIS CASE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE SUPREME COURT! STAY TUNED!!
www.supremecourt.gov...
(PDF)
Feb 21 2023 Rehearing DENIED.
For example, a different John Roberts is the chief White House correspondent for Fox News. Back when the flight logs were revealed in August 2019 he tweeted: "To anyone who thinks this might be me, I did not know Epstein, never met him, and certainly never flew on any of his aircraft."
Financial tech provider Finastra says it has been approved for the new FedNow Service launching in the next few weeks. FedNow is a US government initiative to power real-time payments. The service will be integrated into Finastra’s Payments To Go platform and will later be added to its Global PAYplus solution. Finastra participated in the FedNow pilot programming expediting the certification process.
Finastra said its customer Amarillo National Bank will be an early user of their FedNow offering.
A cross-industry consortium is being launched in the UK to reimagine and test new payment rails for the global financial system, the Digital FMI Consortium announced. The new group – standing for 'Digital Financial Market Infrastructure (DFMI)' – is the body behind Project New Era, the UK's first privately-led Digital Sterling (dSterling) pilot, set to launch in the autumn.
The group will focus on real-world testing to evaluate a future digital currency ecosystem, environment and economy that includes the coexistence of current forms of money, regulated digital assets (including cryptocurrencies and stablecoins) and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), starting in the UK with Project New Era.
The consortium intends to use the blueprint set out by Project New Era to launch private-sector pilots in multiple jurisdictions across the world.
The DFMI Consortium is made up of leading financial institutions, including commercial banks, payment providers, telecommunications providers, FinTechs, NFT ecosytems and digital currency exchanges. To date members include IBM, Finastra, FinClusive, Ibanera, paywith.glass, Mattereum, Trust Payments and Accomplish Financial, with further members set to be announced upon the launch of the UK pilot.
Today saw the launch of a UK-based cross industry group, the Digital FMI Consortium, which is planning privately led trials of new digital currency payment rails such as retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). The consortium includes IBM, Finastra and several fintechs with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as consulting partner and supported by the UK’s Payment Association.
The Project New Era pilot of digital sterling will start in the autumn. It aims to test potential digital currency use cases that may prove useful for CBDC design considerations and stablecoin regulation.
- Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, today announced its partnership with Corvallis, Tinexta Group, a leading IT provider in the Italian financial services sector, to support Italian banks with their digital transformation journeys.
The total volume of trades between rubles, Russia’s currency, and Tether’s USDT, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, almost quadrupled from $4 million on Saturday to $15 million on Sunday, according to digital assets data provider CCData.
The spike occurred just as Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, captured the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and his forces pushed northward toward Moscow in an apparent coup attempt aimed at Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Later on Saturday, the Wagner leader reportedly came to a Belarus-brokered deal with Putin to leave Russia and stop his northward march, and trading volumes between rubles and Tether dropped to approximately $3 million as the conflict de-escalated.
WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey”, a leading cybersecurity, IoT and AI company, announced that in cooperation with FOSSA Systems launched a new generation of nanosatellites, FEROX WISeSat-Ready FOSSA powered satellites with SpaceX, adding to the 13 satellites already in orbit.
These new satellites are part of the 80-satellite constellation which FOSSA has been planning to deploy since early 2022, aiming to provide global and real-time IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity for industrial applications with a 10-hour data latency. The launch was carried out by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 Vehicle.
This next-generation will deliver higher capacity services in a commercial manner for a wider range of applications, supporting IoT and other space-related services in areas such as communications or remote sensing in the fields of Signal Intelligence.
Switzerland-based cybersecurity, AI and IoT company WISeKey has announced that its semiconductors, NFTs, post-quantum and blockchain solutions are used to secure smart cities.
As per the press release, the company’s security chips are leveraged for the protection of IoT devices that connect smart cities, such as drones and their captured images, satellite communications, as well as logistics sensors.
When placed on an object, these semiconductors issue NFTs securely for the authentication and tracking of the object, similar to an embedded e-passport, and the confirmation of the identity of the object on the blockchain ledger.
Based on announcement information, smart cities leverage WISeKey’s secure chips embedded in high-tech products and goods for the protection of data, communication, and firmware against cyberattacks. These encompass routers, modems, traffic lights, 5G equipment, energy smart meters, drones, and medical devices, amongst others.
After the launch, the first one in 2023, the Spanish startup expects to soon start deploying new batches of satellites in bulk to complete the first phase of its 80 satellite constellation that will provide its end-to-end service of IoT solutions to monitor all types of industrial assets and infrastructure in remote or difficult-to-access areas. FOSSA is currently carrying out pilot projects in the infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Defence and Security and AgroTech sectors, among others.
With the launch of this new satellite platform, FOSSA Systems is once again positioning itself as a pioneer with its disruptive technology in global IoT connectivity services. This is a growing market, which currently has 10 billion connected devices that will grow to more than 25 billion by 2025 and, according to IoT Analytics forecasts, the market will reach $525 billion by 2027.
Japan recently completed construction of an underwater tunnel, through which the treated and diluted water will flow into the ocean for the next 30 years. A two-week-long test run of the tunnel is expected to end this week.
According to a recent joint survey by South Korea's Hankook Ilbo and Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspapers, 84% of South Koreans disapproved of the release.
Quant, a provider of blockchain technology, has announced the public release of its Overledger Platform as a software-as-a-service. According to the official statement, the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements have announced that Project Rosalind, an initiative focused on central bank digital currency, has utilized this infrastructure.
The platform offers users the ability to create digital currency and interoperable assets, as well as facilitate their transfer across various blockchains. Additionally, it allows for the development of applications and the creation of smart contracts. The project aims to reduce the implementation time required by developers for a blockchain project.
The launch of Overledger Platform comes at a critical time for the financial services industry. Although the unregulated crypto experiment has failed, blockchain-based infrastructure and systems, regulated tokenised money and digital assets are still central to innovation. In tandem, it is expected that the value of tokenised assets will reach $4 trillion by 2030 but businesses are scrambling to hire the right expertise or a plethora of developers to capitalise on the opportunity presented by this new technology.
Quant’s platform solves this problem by allowing any business to access blockchain and unlock its benefits. As Quant continues to work on projects with financial institutions worldwide, its platform is updated regularly, ensuring that all Overledger customers, big or small, benefit from new innovations as they are developed.
AI is upending the internet as we know it. As exciting as this technology is, it’s brought with it a rise in frauds and deepfake duplicate accounts looking to steal our identities.
Many affordable AI tools now allow anyone to create fake photographs, replicate a person's voice, or make highly convincing video calls using real people’s voices without their knowledge or consent. Sometimes, an attacker only needs the content from someone’s social media profile to generate fake video, images, or messages that look just like the real thing.
Luckily, using blockchain technology, digital IDs can provide verified proof of identity, adding trust and safety to interactions online. Decentralized identities, made with tools from companies like PolygonMATIC, Nuggets and Unstoppable Domains, offer verified credentials for a user’s digital persona. Blockchain-verified profiles can offer a type of ‘proof of humanity,’ a place to store digital assets and identifiers, and a single point of access into the Web3 ecosystem — all while keeping the user’s privacy under their control. Meanwhile, AI can work to monitor and secure these profiles, keeping people from becoming the next victims of AI-wielding criminals.
Verified digital identity offers a means of combating AI scams, but AI can also help make these systems more robust. AI can secure these IDs and monitor social networks for suspicious activity or profiles.
If nothing else, the recently released interagency report documents the vast amount of effort that has gone into unraveling the origin story for SARS-COV-2. There are four possible versions of this story. Despite the intense controversy around the virus' origin, from a public health perspective, it no longer matters.
The origin story for the virus is only useful if it provides information relevant to either managing the current pandemic or preventing or managing future pandemics. At this point, no origin story can possibly help us better manage COVID-19. How could it tell us more than the 350,000 research papers written since it emerged? With 100 mutations, the current strains aren't even the same virus.
Let's consider whether the origin story could help us manage or prevent future pandemics.
Possibility 1: It was an intentionally engineered bioweapon.
All intelligence agency reports have ruled out option 1. In the unlikely event all of those reports were wrong, it would be the most inept bioweapons program ever created and its consequences would probably kill future programs and any such clandestine effort would necessarily ignore any public health efforts to stop it.
Possibility 2: It resulted from well-intentioned gain-of-function research and was accidentally released.
Most reports excluded this as a possibility. Even if it were true, it seems unlikely that any researcher will pursue gain-of-function research in the future.
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