A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from governments and businesses. The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if […]
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Assange Legal Advisor: Pentagon Spearheaded Pursuit of WikiLeaks Founder…
Further evidence has emerged that the American military is playing a central role in the US pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over his role in exposing its war crimes and neo-colonial operations in the Middle East and around the world. Geoffrey Robertson, a senior legal advisor to Assange, revealed in a radio interview that […]
Potent Firefox 0-Day Used to Install Undetected Backdoors on Macs…
Hackers exploited a pair of potent zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox to infect Mac users with a largely undetected backdoor, according to accounts pieced together from multiple people. Mozilla released an update on Tuesday that fixed a code-execution vulnerability in a JavaScript programming method known as Array.pop. On Thursday, Mozilla issued a second patch fixing a […]
China Supercomputers Firms, Institutes Barred from Buying American Parts…
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it was adding several Chinese companies and a government-owned institute involved in supercomputing with military applications to its national security “entity list” that bars them from buying U.S. parts and components without government approval. The export restriction announcement adding the firms to what is effectively a trade blacklist […]
MUST READ: Bodies in Seats – At Facebook’s Worst-Performing Content Moderation Site in North America…One Contractor Died, Others Say Fear for Their Life…
Keith Utley loved to help. First, he served in the Coast Guard, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. He married, had a family, and devoted himself utterly to his two little girls. After he got out of the military, he worked as a moderator for Facebook, where he purged the social network […]
Your Next Doctor’s Appointment Might Be with an AI…
“I’m sorry to hear that,” says a female voice. “Are you happy to answer a few questions?” And so the consultation begins. Where’s the pain? How bad is it? Does it come and go? There’s some deliberation before you get an opinion. “This sounds like dyspepsia to me. Dyspepsia is doctor-speak for indigestion.” Doctor-speak, maybe, […]
The Unholy Alliance Between DNA Sites and Facial Recognition…
Technology that was once only seen in dystopian science fiction is rapidly infecting real life. Two means of collecting personal data – DNA databases and facial recognition software – are forming an unholy alliance, and the privacy implications could be devastating. Privacy concerns surrounding DNA and facial recognition aren’t anything new. As the popularity of […]
Facebook’s Process to Label You a ‘Hate Agent’ Revealed…
Facebook monitors the offline behavior of its users to determine if they should be categorized as a “Hate Agent,” according to a document provided exclusively to Breitbart News by a source within the social media giant. The document, titled “Hate Agent Policy Review” outlines a series of “signals” that Facebook uses to determine if someone […]
Microsoft Windows Vulnerable to ‘Wormable’ BlueKeep Malware…
Federal authorities are warning Microsoft Windows users to update their computers in response to a security vulnerability they said could allow a hacker to view, change and delete data using malware. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — overseen by the Department of Homeland Security — released the alert Monday about a so-called “BlueKeep” vulnerability […]
DOJ Admits FBI Never Saw Crowdstrike Report on DNC Russian Hacking Claim…
The foundation for the Russian election interference narrative is built on the claim of Russians hacking the servers of the Democrat National Committee (DNC), and subsequently releasing damaging emails that showed the DNC worked to help Hillary Clinton and eliminate Bernie Sanders. Despite the Russian ‘hacking’ claim the DOJ previously admitted the DNC would not […]
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Huawei Braces for Phone Sales Drop of Up to 60 Million Overseas…
Huawei Technologies Co. is preparing for a drop in international smartphone shipments of 40 million to 60 million as the Trump administration’s blacklisting hammers one of the Chinese tech giant’s most important businesses. China’s largest technology company is crunching internal estimates and exploring options including pulling the latest model of its marquee overseas label, the […]
Amazon Slams Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Over ‘Starvation Wages’ Comment: ‘AOC is just wrong’…
Amazon hit back at New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday after the congresswoman claimed Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce company paid workers “starvation wages” and limited their access to healthcare. “[Ocasio-Cortez] is just wrong. Amazon is a leader on pay at $15 min wage + full benefits from day one. We also lobby to raise federal […]
Cell Phone Tower Shut Down After Complaints About Cancer Cluster in School Children by Sharyl Attkisson…
A controversial cell phone tower near a school in Ripon, California has been shut down amid reports of four students and three teachers children being diagnosed with cancer. According to news reports, Sprint–which owns the tower–shut down the tower even though the company says radio frequencies emitted were 100 times below the federal limit. The […]
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Labels Facebook a ‘Chaos Factory’…
Business Insider reports that tech industry insiders are becoming increasingly wary of social media platform Facebook, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee. During a recent commencement speech at Stanford, Tim Cook attacked Silicon Valley giants in general for behaving irresponsibly but did not specifically name any other companies. Cook did […]
Facebook Will Now Rank Your Comments So Its Dumbass Website Can Be ‘More Meaningful’…
Facebook is a disease, but it’s still trying to be “more meaningful.” Two reports on Friday gave us fresh reminders of why Facebook is a detriment to society. First, Intercept reported that—despite Mark Zuckerberg’s repeated insistence that his company has a moral and professional obligation to protect users’ privacy—Facebook’s lawyers argued to a California judge […]
Photos of Travelers Coming in and Out of the U.S. Have Been Hacked And Stolen…
A US Customs and Border Protection subcontractor suffered a data breach that exposed the photos of tens of thousands of travelers coming in and out of the United States, the agency revealed Monday, in what it described as a “malicious cyber-attack.” The database of identifying traveler photos and license plate images had been transferred to […]
Documents Detailing Google’s ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manipulation of Special Search Results…
Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate. Two official policies dubbed the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy” inform the company’s “XPA news blacklist,” which is maintained by Google’s Trust & Safety team. “T&S will be in charge of updating […]
THE PURGE: YouTube Seeks to Limit ‘Borderline Content,’ Videos That Don’t ‘Exactly Violate Policies’…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke with Axios this week to weigh-in on YouTube’s recent drive to remove “extreme” videos; saying the social media giant will also seek to limit “Borderline Content.” “We, you know, we rank content based on quality. And so we are bringing that same notion and approach to YouTube so that we […]
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Here’s Why Warren Is Demanding DOJ’s Lead Antitrust Investigator Recuse Himself from Google Probe…
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said she wants the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust agency to recuse himself from a big tech probe, saying his “past work as a lobbyist” for Google and Apple “creates the appearance of a conflict of interest.” Google hired the firm of Makan Delrahim, now the assistant attorney general […]
Well-Known Tech Reporter Arrested for Attempting to Solicit Sex with a 7-Year Old Girl…
A popular tech reporter who wrote about Microsoft was arrested for allegedly soliciting sex with children online, according to a complaint filed in May. Peter Bright sought to molest a 7- and 9-year-old and was later arrested after meeting with an undercover agent to facilitate the action, the federal complaint alleges. Bright, who formerly worked […]