Facebook announced on Friday that it is suspending data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon while it investigates whether the firm’s government contracts are in violation of the social-media giant’s policies on how public data is harvested and shared. The Boston based firm which uses AI-powered technology developed at Harvard University says it has the largest repository […]
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Google Steps in to Fund United Nations Climate Programmes…
More evidence that taxpayer funds are not required for climate research – UN Environment and Google announced today a global partnership that promises to change the way we see our planet. Combining environmental science, big data and unprecedented accessibility, this joint effort aims to expand what the world knows about the impacts of human activity […]
Facebook Caught Profiling American Traitors – Russia and Putin Blamed!…
In this report, I want to accomplish two goals. First, I want to come out and admit that I often wonder what it is like to be totally devoid of intelligence and good character and to possess only one paramount and defining trace of good – to be lucky as hell. Secondly, I want to […]
Some Thoughts on the EU’s Latest $5 Billion Google Antitrust Fine…
As was widely expected, earlier today, the EU Commission brought down its latest antitrust fine against Google, this time for an eye-popping $5 billion. The number gets the attention, but it’s worth looking at the underlying details here. This was the result of a two year investigation, specifically into certain bundling practices that Google used […]
The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech to Troops…
The idea of humans controlling machines with their minds has spun off sci-fi blockbusters like “Pacific Rim” and entire subgenres of foreign film, but while today skyscraper-sized fighting robots exist only on the big screen, the Pentagon is building technology that could one day make them a reality. Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency […]
SHOCK STUDY: Facebook Has Eliminated 93% of Traffic to Top Conservative Websites Since 2016 Election…
The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly reported on tech giant censorship of conservative content. The Gateway Pundit (TGP) reached a record number of page views in 2017. TGP readership hit an all-time high in 2017! We reached more than 224 million page views in 2017. This surpassed our previous record from 2016 of 182 million page […]
Big Win For Julian Assange…
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights based in Costa Rica has ruled that the British government has to let Assange leave the Ecuadorian embassy without harassment or threat of arrest and let him go to Ecuador where he was granted citizenship. The big question is will they allow this to happen? The bigger question is […]
Here’s the Inspector General Report on Imran Awan, Congressional Democratic Caucus IT Guy…
The Department of Justice found “no evidence” that former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan violated cybersecurity laws, prosecutors said Thursday, but the House of Representatives’ internal watchdog reported that the Pakistani native made “unauthorized access” to congressional servers. Prosecutors said police interviewed approximately 40 witnesses, reviewed relevant communications and examined a number of related devices, […]
Meet Hadrian, the Brick Laying Robot That Will Make Construction Workers Obsolete…
Across the US, cities are independently passing measures to implement a $15 minimum wage – or mandating higher wages with an eye toward one day achieving that goal. But low-wage workers who are celebrating their fatter paychecks should enjoy the feeling while it lasts…because the more expensive workers become, the faster employers will work to […]
The Rot at the Heart of DOJ’s Sweetheart Deal for Imran Awan…
When Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors announced Tuesday they won’t press charges against House IT scandal kingpin Imran Awan, they violated one of the most fundamental rules of logic, the law of non-contradiction: That which is A cannot simultaneously also be non-A. Either Awan, his wife, two of his brothers and an unrelated friend — […]
DOJ Agrees Not to Prosecute Imran Awan for Democrats House Cybersecurity and Theft. Questions Remain…
An assistant US attorney said Tuesday he would not prosecute Imran Awan, a former systems administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other Democrats, for any crimes on Capitol Hill in a plea agreement that had him plead guilty to one count of bank fraud. Only one person sat at the prosecutors’ table: J.P. Coomey, […]
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DOJ Diverges from House Investigators in Plea Deal with Imran Awan…
Tech’s ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail…
Google said a year ago it would stop its computers from scanning the inboxes of Gmail users for information to personalize advertisements, saying it wanted users to “remain confident that Google will keep privacy and security paramount.” But the internet giant continues to let hundreds of outside software developers scan the inboxes of millions of […]
The Crucial Next Few Days in the EU’s Copyright Filter and Link Tax Battle…
As we reported last week, JURI, the key European Parliamentary committee working on copyright reform, voted on June 20th to support compulsory copyright filters for media platforms (Article 13), and to create a new requirement on websites to obtain a license before linking to news stories (Article 11). That vote marked the last chance for […]
House IT Aide Allegedly Solicited Bribe…
Former House IT aide Imran Awan allegedly solicited a bribe from a technology vendor in exchange for the vendor doing business with a representative he worked for. Awan, who alongside his family members and associates represented 44 House Democrats over a period of more than a decade, was fired by most of those representatives in […]
Facebook Reveals It Shared Your Data with 52 Companies, Including Foreign Corporations…
Facebook has confirmed that it shared user information with 52 companies that manufacture hardware and software, including some based in China. The social media giant made the disclosure in a 747-page report it provided Friday to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The list features major American tech companies such as Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. […]
After More Than a Decade of Litigation, the Dancing Baby Has Done His Part to Strengthen Fair Use for Everyone…
Litigation can always take twists and turns, but when EFF filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group in 2007 on behalf of Stephanie Lenz, few would have anticipated it would be ten years until the case was finally resolved. But today, at last, it is. Along the way, Lenz v. Universal contributed to strengthening fair […]
Samsung Phone “Bug” Secretly Sent Photos to Random Contacts…
If you own a Samsung Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+ or the Note 8, you better be careful: Because those nudes your girlfriend sent you just might end up in the inboxes of your friends and family, too. Though hopefully this glitch will soon be fixed, as Samsung is reportedly scrambling to fix a bug in […]
NSA Quietly Deletes Years of Illegally Collected Wiretap Data…
The National Security Agency (NSA) is scrubbing several years worth of call records swept up in foreign intelligence surveillance wiretaps that it was never authorized to collect – claiming that “technical irregularities” caused the oversight, according to the agency. The agency issued a statement Thursday notifying the public that in May it began to delete […]
‘Preparing the Battlefield’: Hackers Implant Digital Grenades in Industrial Networks…
The United States pioneered the use of cyberweapons when it shattered Iran’s nuclear centrifuges in 2010 but such devastating cyber tools have spread and are now boomeranging to make industrial digital sabotage a growing concern to the United States. The weapons can wreak destruction and kill people. Experts say cyber weapons can turn off power […]
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