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A JetBlue pilot was taken off the cockpit of a plane before taking off on Wednesday after agents from the Transport Security Administration noticed he looked damaged.

The JetBlue plane was about to take off from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Wednesday when Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police removed 52-year-old James Clifton from the flight after TSA agents warned them about a possible injured pilot, according to The Buffalo News .

TSA agents noted that Clifton may have been injured as he passed an airport checkpoint.

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A JetBlue pilot was taken off the cockpit of a plane before taking off on Wednesday after agents from the Transport Security Administration noticed he looked damaged, according to a report. (iStock)

NFTA police gave Clifton a breathalyzer and it was recorded with a blood alcohol level of 0.17%, which is more than four times the standards of the Federal Aviation Administration for pilots, according to the report.

The planned destination of the flight is Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to the report.

After the breathalyzer test, Clifton was detained by police before being released from JetBlue security.

FILE – This Thursday, May 15, 2014, photo file, JetBlue Airways’ Airbus A320-232 took off from Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida. (AP Photo / Chris O’Meara / AP Newsroom)

Clifton could face federal charges after the incident, the NFTA told The Buffalo News.

A JetBlue spokesman told FOX Business that the crew member involved in the incident was “removed from duty”.

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The JetBlue Airways logo appears on the check-in counter at LaGuardia Airport in New York on April 5, 2012.

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“The safety of JetBlue customers and crew is our first priority. We adhere to all DOT rules and requirements regarding alcohol at all times and have a very strict internal policy for zero tolerance to alcohol. We are aware of the incident that took place this morning in Buffalo and are cooperating fully with law enforcement. We also conduct our own internal investigation. The crew member involved has been relieved of his duties, “the spokesman said.

Over the past five days, NVIDIA has been attacked by the South American hacker group Lapsus $, which has released confidential details about the company’s cryptocurrency-limiting cryptocurrency mining speed limiter (LHR) GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards. The group said earlier that it would provide access to data on software and firmware that promote LHR. The group says that unless NVIDIA pays more than $ 1 million, they will sell the software bypass tool at the highest price. This was originally announced by the online technology news site PC Magazine.

Hackers are threatening NVIDIA with a $ 1 million ransom to allow the technology giant to bypass the Light Hash Rate limiter for Ethereum and fully open all of the company’s GPU drivers.

NVIDIA LHR reduces digging capabilities by as much as 50 percent. The new Lapsus $ bypass will remove the Ethereum digging performance limiter, allowing full use of graphics card technology to increase Ethereum yields. While this is great news for cryptocurrency users, the main reason for initiating the LHR was to reduce the company’s popularity of GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards in the cryptocurrency community, allowing more inventory to be sold to both gamers and enthusiasts. .

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However, as GPU-based Ethereum production still dominates the current market, the company’s GeForce RTX 30 reserves remain stagnant. Some selected GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards continue to sell to double their original MSRP on eBay and others. This practice is even with the decline in GPU prices from last year.

BISMARK, North Dakota – North Dakota’s largest oil well said Wednesday it would set aside $ 250 million to fund a proposed pipeline that will collect carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in the Midwest and pump it to thousands. feet underground for permanent storage.

Continental Resources, led by billionaire oil tycoon Harold Ham, has discussed a $ 4.5 billion investment in the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline at an ethanol plant in Casselton, eastern North Dakota. The plant is one of 31 ethanol facilities in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Dakota, where emissions will be captured and taken to western North Dakota and buried deep underground.

The summit project is one of at least two major CO2 pipelines planned for the Midwest. Navigator CO2 Ventures is planning a 1,200-mile pipeline (1,931 kilometers) through Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois.

Similar plans for CO2 pipelines are being considered elsewhere, after the federal government increased tax credits by 2026 to $ 50 for every metric tonne of carbon dioxide the company captures. Ethanol manufacturers are working to make the fuel more marketable on the West Coast, and especially in California, which requires distributors in the state to buy only low-carbon ethanol; companies that produce such ethanol may get a higher price.

The Summit pipeline system will stretch 2,000 miles (3,219 kilometers) and can carry up to 12 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, said Wade Boeshans, executive vice president of the Iowa-based pipeline developer. That equates to eliminating the annual carbon emissions of 2.6 million cars, he said.

Boeshans said Hamm’s involvement is likely to help raise capital and improve the project’s profile. Hamm’s company helped drive the renaissance in the U.S. oil industry by using horizontal drilling to release oil trapped in shale rocks. Continental is the largest producer and largest tenant in the Bakken shale formation, with more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares) in North Dakota and Montana.

Hamm told the Associated Press that his company sees the pipeline project as more than an investment.

“We feel it’s the right thing to do at the right time,” Hamm said. “Carbon capture and storage will become more important every day as we move forward in America.

North Dakota is the third largest oil producer in the country after Texas and New Mexico.

Representatives of Continental and Summit said there were no plans to inject carbon dioxide into old oil wells to increase production, a process that has largely failed in North Dakota.

“It’s not part of our business plan,” Boeshans said.

North Dakota’s underground rock formations are ideal for storing carbon, said state geologist Ed Murphy.

In 2018, the Trump administration gave North Dakota the power to regulate underground wells used for long-term storage of waste carbon dioxide. North Dakota was the first state to be given such powers, the Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement. Since then, the state has invested heavily in carbon capture and sequestration technology.

North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgham praised the pipeline summit and other proposed carbon storage projects in North Dakota that are an integral part of the state’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2030.

Boeshans said the company began negotiations with landowners over the easement pipeline in December, although the company will not rule out the use of a prominent domain if agreements with landowners cannot be reached voluntarily.

“Overall, we are making progress with voluntary easements,” he said.

The company has not applied for permits in North Dakota for the pipeline or approximately a dozen underground wells needed for storage. The project could employ up to 17,000 people during construction and lead to 500 permanent jobs when it is expected to be online in mid-2024, Boeshans said.

With the reduction of COVID and high levels of vaccination in the Gulf region, Google will stop allowing most employees to do their work remotely and will start forcing workers to a three-day office routine this month, the company said Wednesday.

The mandate follows four stalled attempts by digital advertising giant Mountain View to resume office work amid changing threats from the coronavirus pandemic and changing public health contracts. Most recently, Google announced plans in December to end voluntary remote work on January 10, but amid the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, it postponed the return to the office indefinitely.

Google Bay Area offices are among the company’s chosen locations in the United States, where the new “hybrid” model will be imposed, mixing remote and office work, the company announced on Wednesday. Google has about 45,000 employees in the region, a spokesman said.

Employees can spend March adapting to the new workplace scheme, and the company expects the hybrid model to be fully operational on April 4, Google said in a press release.

To enter offices, workers will need to be vaccinated against COVID or, if not vaccinated, must work under company-approved restrictions, including camouflage and regular COVID testing, Google said.

Fifteen-minute consulting sessions will be available for workers who need help adapting to the new model, the company said.

Workers can apply for a location transfer or a full-time job, Google said, adding that it has approved about 85% of such requests from employees worldwide since June, with about 14,000 workers approved.

McDonald’s has been sued by Kytch, a startup that is working to repair the ice cream machine by inventing a device, Wired reports.

Kitsch’s legal appeal was pending. McDonald’s was accused of false advertising. The co-founders of the startup, Melissa Nelson and Jeremy O’Sullivan, are therefore seeking $ 900 million in damages.

Since 2019, Kitsch says it has a phone-sized device designed to fix problems with McDonald’s ice cream machine through installation. The device is designed to intercept the internal communications of each machine. It had to be sent to a smartphone or web interface to help owners repair their machines, according to Wired.

Although in November 2020, McDonald’s sent emails asking all franchisees to remove the device from their machines. In an email, McDonald’s said the Kytch device violated machine warranties and intercepted “confidential information.”

The fast food chain device can also cause serious injury. Kitsch denied the allegation, calling it slanderous.

“Nothing is more important to us than food quality and safety, which is why all the equipment in McDonald’s restaurants has been thoroughly inspected before being approved for use,” the statement said. “After learning that the unapproved Kytch device was being tested by some of our franchisees, we made a call to better understand what it was and subsequently reported potential concerns for the safety of franchisees. There is no conspiracy here. “

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), led by cryptosceptic chairman Gary Gensler, is reportedly investigating the creators of NFT and securities markets, according to a Bloomberg report.

Anonymous sources in the report claim that the SEC is investigating whether: “certain irreplaceable tokens … are used to raise money as traditional securities.”

In the last few months, lawyers from the SEC’s law enforcement unit have reportedly sent summonses requesting information on specific NFTs and other symbol proposals.

While crypto loan products have been subject to serious regulatory scrutiny over the past year, this report marks an important milestone in the NFT sector investigation. The inquiry shows that the SEC is particularly interested in how fractional NFTs are used. This is where the more valuable NFT is tokenized into smaller pieces and sold.

The warning signs have been clear for some time, as Hester Peirce, also known as Crypto Mom, said back in March 2021 that selling fractionated NFT could break the law.

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This investigation is the latest in a wave of crackdown that seeks to tighten the cryptocurrency market. Most recently, the SEC ordered New Jersey-based cryptocurrency company BlockFi to pay a record $ 100 million in fines for failing to name “high-yield: credit products as securities.”

While Bitcoin and Ethereum have managed to evade control due to the fact that they are not considered SEC securities (at least not yet), other digital assets have not enjoyed the same deferral, most notably Ripple Labs, the parent company of XRP, which has been involved in a lawsuit for the sale of “unregistered securities” since the end of 2020.

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NFT’s sales continue to grow, ignoring the current market downturn, with NFT’s two best exchanges, LooksRare and OpenSea, sharing $ 10.7 billion in trading over the past 30 days.