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Tesla Starts Energy Storage at Hospital to Help Puerto Rico…

After CEO Elon Musk extended an offer to help Puerto Rico earlier this month, Tesla is following through on a pledge to contribute to rebuilding the power grid devastated by Hurricane Maria, leaving thousands of people without electricity. In a tweet Tuesday, Tesla posted photos of Hospital del Niño and the solar and power storage […]

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Boom Has Orders for 76 of Its Future Supersonic Passenger Jets…

Boom has a new design for its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator jet, the working prototype aircraft it’s creating to prove out its tech before beginning work on building real, commercial supersonic passenger aircraft. The new design was revealed Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, along with new business milestones: Boom has orders for 76 aircraft thus […]

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How Facebook’s Master Algorithm Powers the Social Network…

Instagram engineers faced a Herculean task in early 2016. Fearing that people would miss the most important posts, Instagram’s leadership asked the engineers to transform the chronological photo feed into a curated list of posts based on users’ individual preferences. Development of a similar algorithm for Facebook ’s News Feed, which determines what 2 billion […]

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O’Keefe Drops Part IV: 20-Year NYT Veteran Exposes “Culture Of Anti-Trump Bias”…

First it was Audience Strategy Editor, Nick Dudich, who admitted to repeatedly promoting content that intentionally sought to, among other things, damage President Trump’s businesses as a means towards forcing his resignation. Next came the NYT’s senior Home Page Editor, Des Shoe, who described Trump as an “oblivious idiot” and Pence as “f***ing horrible” while […]

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Congress Probes Whether Obama DOJ Used the ‘Trump Dossier’ Before Surveillance Court…

Both the House and the Senate are investigating whether the former President Barack Obama’s administration used intelligence in a salacious “Trump Dossier” as “evidence” before a secret federal surveillance court to obtain permission to spy on Donald Trump campaign aides and later his transition team. Leaders in Congress are trying to find out if the […]

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McCain’s latest surprise: Regulate Facebook…

Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) knows his time in the public eye is short, so his big statements in recent weeks are especially resonant. Today, McCain will join with two Democrats — Sens. Mark Warner (Va.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) — to give bipartisan imprimatur to the first of the “Facebook bills,” responding to last […]

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Behind Closed Doors: Former UN Ambassador Claims Others Unmasked in Her Name…

Former President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations has testified that others made so-called unmasking requests in her name, House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Tuesday. “Her testimony is they may be under my name, but I did not make those requests,” Gowdy said of former Ambassador Samantha Power during an interview with […]

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Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody’s Counting…

Jennifer Smith doesn’t like the term “accident.” It implies too much chance and too little culpability. A “crash” killed her mother in 2008, she insists, when her car was broadsided by another vehicle while on her way to pick up cat food. The other driver, a 20-year-old college student, ran a red light while talking […]

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Undercover Video: NYT Editor Slams Pence As ‘F***ing Horrible,’ Says Reporters Tried to Sway Voters Against Trump…

The newest Project Veritas video reveals a New York Times editor trashing Vice President Mike Pence as “f***ing horrible” and indicating that reporters wrote stories during the presidential campaign with the intention of persuading them to vote against Trump. “I think one of the things that maybe journalists were thinking about is like, oh, if […]

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Cyber Researchers Reveal Serious Wi-Fi Security Flaw…

Researchers on Monday disclosed a serious security flaw in the encryption standard that protects tens of millions of consumer, business and government Wi-Fi networks — a hole they said could allow hackers to intercept sensitive traffic, tamper with websites or install malware. The flaw affects a security protocol known as WPA2, one of the most […]

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“We Microchip Dogs, So Why Not Athletes”…

Companies in Scandinavia and the US have already embraced microchipping as a way to make the office experience more seamless by allowing employees to easily unlock doors or pay for food in the cafeteria. Of course, while workers say they’ve welcomed the technology (one Russian hobbyist has reported self-implanted six microchips), and companies not to […]

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Germany Says It Found “No Evidence” Kaspersky Helped Russia Spy on U.S….

US intelligence agencies are claiming that the Russian government leveraged the popularity of Kaspersky Labs’ cybersecurity software to create what is tantamount to a global spy network with the company’s explicit cooperation. However, Germany’s intelligence agencies say they’ve found “no evidence” to suggest these reports are true. The Wall Street Journal, which last week reported […]

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Congressional IT Aide, Imran Awan, Wiped His Phone BEFORE Being Arrested…

Imran Awan, the IT professional Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) kept on her congressional payroll long after it became known he was under investigation by the Capitol Police, wiped his phone hours before he was arrested last July. On August 17, 2017 a federal grand jury indicted Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, on four […]

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Teenager Pleads Guilty to Trying to Hack Top U.S. Officials Including CIA Director…

A British teenager has today admitted trying to hack US government officials including the director of the CIA and Obama’s intelligence chief from his council house bedroom. Kane Gamble, 18, from Coalville, pleaded guilty to ten hacking charges at Leicester Crown Court this afternoon and was warned he could face jail. Gamble, who lives in […]

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John Kelly’s Personal Cellphone Was Compromised…

White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly’s personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, according to three U.S. government officials. The discovery raises concerns that hackers or foreign governments may have had access to data on Kelly’s phone while he was secretary of Homeland Security and after he joined […]

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Russian Hackers Breached the NSA Through Russian-Made Antivirus Software…

Russian hackers managed to steal National Security Agency (NSA) data on how the U.S. hacks into foreign networks by making use of the Russian-made antivirus software Kaspersky. These Russian hackers, working on behalf of the Kremlin, stole code from the home computer of an NSA contractor after he took highly classified data back from NSA […]

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Lawyer for IT Aide Says Dem Congressmen to Blame for Falsified Spending Records…

House Democrats ordered the systematic falsification of records showing how they spend their taxpayer-provided office budgets, according to lawyers for two former House information technology (IT) aides. It’s a remarkable accusation that pits sitting lawmakers against the former aides, Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and his wife Hina Alvi. Imran was arrested in […]

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