Cloudflare is proposing a new DNS standard it developed with Apple that’s designed to help close a blindspot in my (and I’m sure many others’) internet privacy measures.

The protocol is called Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH), and it’s meant to help anonymize the information that’s sent before you even make it onto a website.

The protocol works by introducing a proxy server between you and the DNS server. The proxy acts as a go-between, sending your requests to the DNS server, and delivering its responses back without ever letting it know who requested the data.

Just introducing a proxy server, though, is only moving the problem up one level: if it has the request, and also knows you sent it, what keeps it from making its own log of sites you visited? That’s where the “DNS over HTTPS” (DoH) part of ODoH comes in.

Just one thing - it has nothing to do with privacy, as you can use VPN already for this.

But it has all to do with censorship of huge number of sites, as this guys will control all DNS requests.

Google will also have almost same DNS protocol implemented very soon in Chrome.

This guys now want to destroy all smaller sites they don't like.

Hackers have learned to embed Trojans and other malicious software into powerbanks. Victims' devices are infected without establishing an Internet connection; it is enough to briefly connect the gadget to an external charger with malware. The cybersecurity bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of China announced this on its WeChat page.

These modified external batteries are used to inject Trojans onto victims' devices. With their help, attackers can intercept and steal almost any information. Photos, videos, messenger messages, bank SMS messages and other information stored on the device - all this can fall into the hands of third parties. It should be noted that such malware can remain unnoticed for a long time, secretly sending data to third-party servers.

Users of devices running Android and iOS operating systems may face this problem. To avoid this, experts recommend avoiding the use of chargers installed in public places, as well as purchasing power banks supplied by large companies that are known in the market. For Android devices, it is recommended to disable "Developer Mode", as in this state the device is more vulnerable. You should also pay attention to what messages appear on the screen of the device when connected to a charger, since in some cases power banks may issue a request for obtaining certain permissions.

Wanted universal chargers with very complex protocol made by corporations only to cover it with 1000 patents? Here you go.

Ancha Baranova, professor at the School of Systems Biology at George Mason University, called the problem complicating the fight against COVID-19.

According to her, the modern patenting system does not allow putting on the market simple drugs that could help during the course of illness and during rehabilitation. “For example, if we have a simple molecule that we have in the body and we just need to get a little more of it, - it would seem an elementary task - but such a drug will not be developed. Because it cannot be patented, ”she explained.

Baranova noted that this is a logical continuation of the general patenting system, which was introduced out of good intentions. However, the system is now "in crisis," the biologist said.

The specialist said that the patenting system obliges to conduct several stages of clinical trials. This led to the fact that drug prices rose, and pharmaceutical companies ceased to be profitable to produce cheap drugs. In addition, drugs, the scheme of which was discussed by scientists in the open press, did not get into production, since in this case the agent could no longer be protected by a patent.

Who could have though. But capitalism is not to blame here, of course. Just need to adjust patent system a little.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Fully matches farmers and large fruits manufacturers behavior in 2020. They set absolute record on specially destroyed and dumped good food.

Nothing much changes in capitalism, its teeth constantly cut through the mask of "nice human face".