North Korea is being extra naughty this week: the piss-broke dictatorship is about to launch a giant rocket for scientific purposes. Translation: a giant F U to the rest of the world, and a thermonuclear threat.
The country announced last month that it'd break its promise not to launch any large rockets by, well, launching a large rocket. And its five-day launch window opens right now.
Dropping one nuclear bomb is terrible enough—cities leveled, populations vaporized. Horrible enough on its own—but what if you dropped 183.000? Goodbye, USA. So what about obliterating the moon? We've got it.
Bad news if you like Earth unthreatened by crazy people wielding nukes: Iran just claimed significant advancements on its path to nuclear weapons.
Iran's got some new uranium enrichment centrifuges, which will let it produce fuel-grade uranium faster. It also just loaded its first batch of domestically produced fuel into a research reactor. That's important, as imported fuel has run dry, with the rest of the world trying desperately to dissuade Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons with assorted sanctions and resolutions.
A new Facebook scam tricks people into downloading malware by using a fake CNN report about World War III.
If you see a post on Facebook that claims the US just attacked Saudi Arabia and Iran, don’t believe it. And please, whatever you do, don’t click the link. It’s just another Facebook scam, reports Graham Cluley at Sophos’ Naked Security blog. This time, rather than playing on users’ desire for free iPads and get-rich-quick schemes, the swindlers are exploiting fears of impending doom.
