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https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/international-law-enforcement-operation-targeting-opioid-traffickers-darknet-results-150
International Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid Traffickers on the Darknet Results in 150 Arrests Worldwide and the Seizure of Weapons, Drugs, and over $31 Million
The Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team joined Europol to announce the results of Operation Dark HunTor, a coordinated international effort on three continents to disrupt opioid trafficking on the Darknet. The operation, which was conducted across the United States, Australia, and Europe, was a result of the continued partnership between JCODE and foreign law enforcement against the illegal sale of drugs and other illicit goods and services. Operation Dark HunTor builds on the success of last year’s Operation DisrupTor and the coordinated law enforcement takedown earlier this year of DarkMarket, the world’s then-largest illegal marketplace on the Darknet. At the time, German authorities arrested the marketplace’s alleged operator and seized the site’s infrastructure, providing investigators across the world with a trove of evidence. Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and JCODE have since been compiling intelligence packages to identify key targets.
International Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid Traffickers on the Darknet
The Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team joined Europol to announce the results of Operation Dark HunTor, a coordinated international effort on three continents to disrupt opioid trafficking on the Darknet. The operation, which was conducted across the United States, Australia, and Europe, was a result of the continued partnership between JCODE and foreign law enforcement against the illegal sale of drugs and other illicit goods and services. Operation Dark HunTor builds on the success of last year’s Operation DisrupTor and the coordinated law enforcement takedown earlier this year of DarkMarket, the world’s then-largest illegal marketplace on the Darknet. At the time, German authorities arrested the marketplace’s alleged operator and seized the site’s infrastructure, providing investigators across the world with a trove of evidence. Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and JCODE have since been compiling intelligence packages to identify key targets.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-and-partners-target-online-drug-markets-102621
With Overdose Deaths at a Historic High, FBI and Partners Target Online Drug Markets
>“FBI and partners” ARE the online drug markets.
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We are here today to expose those who seek the shadows of the internet to peddle killer pills worldwide. Thanks to unprecedented international law enforcement collaboration — 150 Darknet drug traffickers have been arrested around the world — including 65 here in the Untied States.
Led by the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team, an international law enforcement partnership — also known as JCODE — Operation Dark HunTor spanned 10 months, three continents, and more than 12 international law enforcement agencies. The graphic you see on screen reflects what can be achieved through global cooperation — including the recovery of more than 500 pounds of illegal drugs, which contained enough fentanyl for more than four million lethal doses. This operation seized nearly $32 million in cash and virtual currencies — the largest JCODE seizure to date.
Our efforts span back to the January 2021 dismantling of Dark Market — at the time the world’s largest illegal marketplace on the Darknet — thanks to our German law enforcement partners. Armed with intelligence from that action, Operation Dark HunTor was launched with one clear goal: to hunt down the vendors, buyers, and suppliers who had been hiding on that site and make sure they did not find a new platform.
The timing was key: since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people have turned to the Darknet than ever before to buy drugs. Already a billion-dollar illicit drug industry, Darknet drug revenue has surpassed pre-pandemic levels. With muchof the sales occurring on social media platforms — including sales of fake pills, which are often laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine. Last month, DEA Administrator Milgram and I warned from this same podium that “One Pill Can Kill.” Well, Operation Dark HunTor went after illegal drug distributors who use the Darknet to traffic the illicit drugs — and items like pill presses — which are fueling the ongoing opioid crisis plaguing our communities.
The FBI Deputy Director and DEA Administrator will describe their operations in more detail but as part of Operation Dark HunTor, we saw Darknet drug vendors running laboratories at home, creating fake pills with pill presses — pills styled to look like OxyContin, Xanax, or Adderall but which are actually laced with fentanyl, methamphetamine or other potentially fatal doses of narcotics.
In the United States alone, this operation seized over 200,000 pills, 90% of which were found to contain counterfeit opioids or narcotics. To put this in perspective, just two milligrams of fentanyl — a size so small it could fit on the tip of a pen — is considered a deadly dose.
Thanks to the partnership represented here, lives around the world will be saved.
Before I close, I want to address those who remain on the Darknet, peddling illegal drugs and thinking they are safe behind layers of digital anonymity.
My message to you is simple: there is no dark internet. We can and we will shine a light. The agencies you see here and the thousands of the law enforcement professionals they represent will bring to bear all of their resources to protect our citizens and hold you accountable.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/10/26/British-Prince-Andrew-interview-sex-abuse/6211635272124/
Prince Andrew must submit to interview in sex abuse suit by July
A federal judge in New York has set a deadline for British Prince Andrew to be questioned in a lawsuit in which he's accused of sexual abuse.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York on Monday said the duke of York must make himself available for questioning by July 14.
American Virginia Giuffre filed the lawsuit against Prince Andrew in August, accusing him of rape and sexual abuse when she was underage. The civil lawsuit is tied to since-disgraced and deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex ring.
Under the order, Giuffre's lawyers must interview Prince Andrew and submit the transcript by July 14.
Giuffre first took her allegations public in 2015, saying British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, a friend of Prince Andrew and Epstein, recruited her and other underage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. She said Maxwell and Epstein offered her to Prince Andrew, as well.
Andrew, who is Queen Elizabeth II's second-oldest son, has denied the allegations.
Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019 while being held on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is set to go on trial in November on charges she recruited underage girls. She's being held in a Brooklyn jail without bail.
White House Counsel Dana Remus on Monday sent National Archivist David Ferriero a letter that was obtained by CBS News and The Hill, and which was first reported on by CNN, stating President Joe Biden will not assert executive privilege on documents that Trump wants to prevent the committee from obtaining.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/10/25/CDC-designates-Ukraine-very-high-COVID-19-travel-risk/7661635208538/
CDC designates Ukraine as 'very high' COVID-19 travel risk
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday designated Ukraine as a "very high" risk travel destination.
The health agency designated Ukraine as "Level 4: Very High," its most severe travel warning, citing high amounts of COVID-19 cases in the Eastern European nation.
Ukraine has reported 397,851 COVID-19 cases and 8,727 deaths in the past 28 days, according to data gathered by Johns Hopkins University.
The CDC defines a "Level 4: Very High" COVID-19 risk destination as an area that has reported more than 500 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents within the past 28 days.
Monday's designation marks the second consecutive week the CDC has only designated one new nation as a Level 4 travel risk, after designating Singapore last week.
The current list of Level 4 destinations also includes Austria, Bahamas, Botswana, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Jamaica, Maldives, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey and Britain.
Seven destinations including Guatemala, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritius, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin and Sri Lanka were downgraded from Level 4 to "Level 3: High" risk.
Egypt and the Dominican Republic were moved up to Level 3 from "Level 2: Moderate" and the Cayman Islands were raised from "Level 1: Low."
Destinations designated as a Level 3 risk have had between 100 and 500 cases per 100,000 residents in the past 28 days, while Level 2 destinations have reported 50 to 99 cases per 100,000 residents in the same period.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/10/26/robots-taught-to-think-humans-study/4311635269971/
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0064771
Technology enables researchers to teach robots to think like humans
Advances in physical reservoir computing, a technology that makes sense of brain signals, could allow robots to be taught to think like humans, researchers said Wednesday.
The technology was used to train robots to navigate through a maze by electrically stimulating human brain nerve cells connected to the machine, the scientists, from the University of Tokyo, wrote in an article in Applied Physics Letters.
These nerve cells, or neurons, were grown from living cells and acted as the physical "reservoir" for the computer to generate coherent signals.
The signals, which are homeostatic, or living, effectively guided the robot through the maze, according to the researchers.
Whenever the robot veered in the wrong direction or faced the wrong way, the neurons in the cell culture were stimulated by an electric impulse.
Throughout trials, the robot was continually fed signals interrupted by the electrical impulses, which acted as disturbance signals, until it had successfully navigated the maze.
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0056027
18.8 Gbps real-time quantum random number generator with a photonic integrated chip
Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) can produce true random numbers. Yet, the two most important QRNG parameters highly desired for practical applications, i.e., speed and size, have to be compromised during implementations. Here, we present the fastest and miniaturized QRNG with a record real-time output rate as high as 18.8 Gbps by combining a photonic integrated chip and the technology of optimized randomness extraction. We assemble the photonic integrated circuit designed for vacuum state QRNG implementation, an InGaAs homodyne detector, and a high-bandwidth transimpedance amplifier into a single chip using hybrid packaging, which exhibits the excellent characteristics of integration and high-frequency response. With a sample rate of 2.5 GSa/s in a 10-bit analog-to-digital converter and subsequent paralleled postprocessing in a field programmable gate array, the QRNG outputs ultrafast random bitstreams via a fiber optic transceiver, whose real-time speed is validated in a personal computer.
We acknowledge technical supports from QuantumCTek Co., Ltd. and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No. 44 Research Institute. This work has been supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No. 2017YFA0304004, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11674307, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies.
>Whenever the robot veered in the wrong direction or faced the wrong way, the neurons in the cell culture were stimulated by an electric impulse.
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