Month: September 2023

10 things you need to know today: September 2, 2023

1 North Korea fires missiles into sea following US-South Korea drills North Korea fired several missiles into the sea on Saturday, South Korean officials said, in an apparent retaliation for extended joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. The missiles were detected off the west coast of North Korea, according to a…

Your new car may be a ‘privacy nightmare on wheels’

“Bad news: your car is a spy,” Gizmodo reported, citing new research from the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that found new cars to be the worst category for privacy of any product it had ever reviewed since 2017. “If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine…

How a volcano prepared Tenerife to fight wildfires

Safety Europe How a volcano prepared Tenerife to fight wildfires | View caption Hide caption Amid changing climate, much of the world is struggling with wildfires. But in Tenerife, locals have managed to contain blazes without fatalities or loss of homes, thanks to experience learned from previous natural disasters. “All this nature that was destroyed…