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The former NSA employee transmitted excerpts of three classified documents to the undercover FBI agent.Illustration: Jens Buettner/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (AP)A former employee at the National Security Agency (NSA) has been charged with attempting to transmit classified defense information to a representative of a foreign government. He was arrested on Wednesday and made his initial appearance at a federal court on Thursday.According to the Department of Justice, Jareh Dalke used an encrypted email account to send…

Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers are set to attend hearings in a Canadian courtroom via telephone on Monday, arguing for the Canadian attorney general to release more confidential documents relating to her arrest.Meng, 48, was arrested in December 2018 at Vancouver International Airport on a US warrant charging her with bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's business dealings in Iran.She has said she is innocent, and is fighting extradition to the United States…

Carnivorous plants are already quite fascinating, but a newly discovered one ratchets up the weirdness factor even further. It's a type of pitcher plant, and it captures prey that lives underground.Ordinarily, pitcher plants lure and catch insects via modified leaves that grow above the ground. These vertically oriented pitcher-shaped appendages are roughly cylindrical, with an open top and an enclosed bottom.Insects such as flies are initially drawn in by attractive pigments or nectar, but then slip on the slick rim of…

A player of Gaijin Entertainment's MMO combat simulator, War Thunder, has once again leaked confidential military documents on the game's forum, according to UK Defense Journal (via PC Gamer). The leak details a secret piece of Chinese military hardware: The DTC10-125, a 125mm sabot round. The DTC10-125 is compatible with various Chinese MBTs and is excellent at taking out enemy tanks. The player behind the leaks didn't just post the DTC10-125's documentation--they posted a photo of its documentation with…

Surely this can’t keep happening The most bonkers pattern in video game leaks has happened again. Not a leak of a video game, mind you. But a leak of classified military information in order to win a fight on an internet forum for War Thunder, a game about tanks. This is somehow the third time this has happened on the War Thunder forums. The first happened in July 2021, as a War Thunder player posted classified documents in an effort to prove a point about one of the in-game tanks. Later that year, the same thing…

Not sure I remember this part of biology class!Bee KindBees are fish, corporations are people — and California, as always, is an entertaining mess.A California appellate court ruled this week that bees can legally be classified as fish, a decision which — albeit in an incredibly roundabout and bureaucratic manner — is poised to help protect bees in the Golden State.Although California's Department of Fish and Wildlife considers a number of bee species to be "endangered," there were no previous legal protections under the…

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)A California judge ruled this week that bees can now be legally defined as “fish” under a state conservation law, but they’re still biologically bees (obviously).The decision comes from California’s Third District Court of Appeal, whichruled on Tuesday that the California Endangered Species Act can protect bees. In 2020, the Sacramento County Superior Court ruled that the California Fish and Game Commission could not list invertebrates (like bees) under the California Endangered Species…

In the recent past, electric vehicles, specifically electric two-wheelers have become a thing of concern due to some incidents where these vehicles reportedly caught fire in the hot summers of the country. The accidents that are caused a repercussion have perished more than two dozen scooters and have claimed multiple lives. Govt. clears the air over false news to halt EV launchesIn the light of the recent fiery mishaps across the country, Nitin Gadkari led the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways initiated an…