The night before Nasim Aghdam opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View police found the San Diego woman sleeping in her car. She had been reported missing by her family in Southern California, and her father Ismail Aghdam told police she might be going to YouTube because she “hated” the […]
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How Apple Dropping Intel Would Change the Future of Technology…
A report this week said Apple plans to make processors for its notebook and PC designs, replacing Intel, whose stock tanked on the news. Bloomberg’s report suggests that Apple’s AAPL, +1.03% move mirrors its development and integration with silicon chip design for its mobile products including iPhone and iPad. Apple would apparently begin the rollout […]
San Bruno Sheriff Reports One Person Deceased, Believed to Be the Shooter…
A woman opened fire inside YouTube headquarters in California on Tuesday — sparking chaos and confusion on the campus, according to multiple reports. The shooter is dead at the scene, NBC News reported. It’s unclear if there were any other fatalities. Multiple victims were rushed to Stanford University Medical Center, though the extent of their […]
Mark Zuckerberg Explains How Facebook Will Try to Kill Alternative Media…
In his recent interview with the far-left online publication Vox, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new system of favoring “broadly trusted” news sources, via a mechanism designed to favor established outlets and crush new media. Facebook introduced its new system in January, and the results were immediately apparent. Facebook traffic to establishment outlets including CNN and […]
Concerned About What Facebook Knows About You? Check Out What Google Knows…
Many users have been dropping Facebook, ceasing to use social media, or looking into the data that’s been collected about them. But if you think that what Facebook knows about you is scary, check out what Google knows about you. Dylan Curran, an information technology consultant, took a look at just what Google knew about […]
Mark Zuckerberg Forced to Explain Fellow Exec’s Memo That Implies Platform-Caused Deaths May Ultimately Be Worth It…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg condemned insensitive comments made by a top executive at the company after BuzzFeed revealed them Thursday. Facebook Vice President Andrew published a memo titled “The Ugly” in June 2016, which included claims that implied the company cared more about the business than potential deaths. Bosworth alleged in the memo that bringing […]
Tesla: Autopilot Was on During Deadly Mountain View Crash…
Autopilot was active in the moments leading up to last week’s crash of a Tesla Model X on a South Bay freeway that left a 38-year-old San Mateo man dead, the Palo Alto-based electric carmaker revealed in a blog post Friday. The disclosure comes amid a National Transportation Safety Board investigation into whether Autopilot was […]
44 Dems, Including Wasserman Schultz, Exempted Pakistani IT Aides from Background Checks…
Every one of the 44 House Democrats who hired Pakistan-born IT aides who later allegedly made “unauthorized access” to congressional data appears to have chosen to exempt them from background checks, according to congressional documents. All of them appear to have waived background checks on Imran Awan and his family members, even though the family […]
Trump Triples Down in Amazon Feud: “Deal with Post Office will be changed”…
According to Trump, “only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed. Also, our fully tax paying retailers are closing stores all over the country…not a level playing field!”
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Silencing of Assange Sparks Historic Ten-Hour Online Vigil to #ReconnectJulian…
The Ecuadorian Government’s decision to silence Julian Assange by cutting off his internet access, phone communications and ability to receive visitors represents a saddening turnabout by a country that has long protected the publisher’s human and journalistic rights. The move took place at the behest of Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno, who took office in May […]
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Czechs Extradite Alleged Russian Hacker to U.S….
The Czech Republic extradited a Russian man to the U.S. to face charges of hacking computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and other American companies, an official said Friday. Yevgeniy Nikulin was flown to the U.S. overnight, Justice Ministry spokeswoman Tereza Schejbalova said. Nikulin denies he’s a hacker. His defense attorney claimed his case is politically motivated […]
Here’s Cambridge Analytica’s Plan for Voters’ Facebook Data…
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than 50M Facebook users — is at the center […]
Atlanta Ransomware Attack Leaves Court Systems Offline As City Enters Recovery Phase …
“We are dealing with a hostage situation,” Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told reporters this week as her government, the target of a malicious cyberattack, ground to a halt. Residents were kept from paying their bills, and those trying to go online to switch on water services at new homes have been left with dry […]
WAT?: Google Targeting ‘Underserved or Low-Income’ Teens on Fake News…
As Facebook and other Internet sources continue to come under fire for promulgating fake news, Google decided that more education at a younger age is required. Pledging $3 million to fight the “fake-news epidemic,” Google is seeking to educate teens so that they can differentiate between online fact and fiction. The project aims to reach […]
Surveillance State? Nah, Can’t Happen…Because it Happened Already…
Many have argued that there is neither a surveillance state, nor a concerted effort to disarm the public door-to-door, house by house, etc. Some of these are far-leftists, masquerading as conservatives…trying to appear “skeptically cynical.” We’ll “game” the thought, to bring everyone back from opacity to transparency. The Communists, Marxists, Leftists, Progressives, Liberals, Democrats, and […]
Leader of Hacking Group Who Stole $1B from Banks Arrested in Spain…
Spanish Police has arrested the alleged leader of an organised Russian cybercrime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks, which stole over a billion euros from banks worldwide since 2013. In a coordinated operation with law enforcement agencies across the globe, including the FBI and Europol, Police detained the suspected leader of Carbanak hacking […]
U.S. Charges 9 Iranians with Hacking Universities to Steal Research Data…
The United States Department of Justice has announced criminal charges and sanctions against 9 Iranians involved in hacking universities, tech companies, and government organisations worldwide to steal scientific research resources and academic papers. According to the FBI officials, the individuals are connected to the Mabna Institute, an Iran-based company created in 2013 whose members were […]
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U.S. Government Confirms It’s Investigating Facebook, Sending Shares Plummeting…
The US Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday morning that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices. The news came in a press release sent out Monday morning, and Facebook’s shares have already dropped more than 5% from opening. The FTC serves as the consumer watchdog over privacy issues, so it’s no surprise […]
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FCC Wants Chinese Tech Out of U.S. Phones, Routers…
U.S. officials are discouraging U.S. telephone and internet companies from purchasing Chinese technology that could be used for surveillance, Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai announced Monday. “Threats to national security posed by certain communications equipment providers are a matter of bipartisan concern,” Pai said. “Hidden ‘back doors’ to our networks in routers, switches — and […]
Yes, a Chinese Space Station Is About to Plummet to Earth…
Sometime between Thursday and the middle of next week, the Chinese space station known as Tiangong-1 is expected to fall out of the sky. Most of the 18,740-pound space lab likely will burn up in the atmosphere, experts said. But not all of it. Between 10% and 40% of the station’s mass probably will land […]
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