Quick notes: Stealing clouds | Fasting cures...

• Stealing clouds: Eight of the world's biggest technology service providers were hacked by Chinese cyber spies in an elaborate and years-long invasion. Hackers working for China’s Ministry of State Security broke into these networks in an effort to steal commercial secrets from their clients



• The Global Data War Heats Up: The Indian govt has concerns about Chinese firms misusing Indian data. For example, Indian military personnel aren’t allowed to install WeChat, the Chinese social-messaging app, on their phones, but can use Facebook’s WhatsApp. The historically tense relations between the two countries are likely driving India’s caution.



• Fasting miracle: The Growing Science Behind a Fasting Treatment for Alzheimer’s. . . Ketones provide neurons with more energy than glycogen does, and with this extra energy, the neurons can better ward off cell death and brain degradation



• Divine Magnetism:

  Silence is the most potent form of work. However vast and emphatic the scriptures may be, they fail in their effect. The Guru is quiet and peace prevails in all. His silence is vaster and more emphatic than all the scriptures put together. These questions arise because of the feeling, that having been here so long, heard so much, exerted so hard, one has not gained anything. The work proceeding within is not apparent. In fact the Guru is always within you.”




• Dr Devra Davis: The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation.




• AMD helping China? How a Big U.S. Chip Maker Gave China the 'Keys to the Kingdom'.



• Not a day too soon: Modi government freezes ads in Times Group, The Hindu and Telegraph India.