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Trump-led Effort ‘Kills’ FISA Reauthorization in House — Despite Push from Speaker Johnson, 9/11 Families…
Democrats showed up today in force killing the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act aka FISA. It expires in nine-days…
Biometric Identification: It’s What Russia Craves…
Nobody asked for this but we’re getting it anyway…
Apple Got Caught Censoring Its Own Regulator Lina Khan…
Jon Stewart interviewed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on the Daily Show, and told the audience Apple blocked him from inviting her as a guest on his previous Apple TV podcast…
YouTube Ordered to Reveal the Identities of Video Viewers…
Federal US authorities have asked Google for the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of accounts that watched certain YouTube videos, according to unsealed court documents Forbes has seen…
Twenty Years Ago, Google Did the Only Good Tech April Fools Joke: It Launched Gmail for Real…
Regular readers of Techdirt will know that we’ve never done any sort of April 1st jokes, even though people often send us ideas for them each year. The simple fact is: nearly all April Fools’ jokes are terrible, especially the silly corporate ones. They’re just bad…
AT&T Admits the Ugly Details of a Massive Data Breach Affecting Millions…
The wireless carrier is resetting account passcodes and notifying customers…
Instagram Has Changed All User Settings to Limit Political Content, Here’s How to Change it Back…
Ask yourself, why would Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram change their algorithm so you the user no longer received political content of any kind?…
New Jersey Couple Wake up to Hour-Long Voicemail from ‘Unknown Caller’ – and Are Terrified to Learn it Was Left by Their Amazon Alexa…
A New Jersey couple received a 67-minute voice message from their Alexa…The voice message included a conversation with their dog, Penny…Amazon was forced to pay more than $30 million in 2023 for privacy violations…
House Judiciary Investigating IRS Corruption Claims: Is Agency Spying on Taxpayers ‘en masse’?…
Feds accused of watching bank accounts without legal justification…
Fascinating: Neuralink Patient Paralyzed from the Shoulders Down Uses Telepathy to Move Chess Pieces on a Chessboard…
This is such a massive breakthrough for all of humanity. Seriously. Imagine being paralyzed from your neck down or your arms just being paralyzed but a device, used responsibly, is inserted into that area of your brain and all of a sudden you can interface with a computer like one normally does, using just your mind…
U.S. Sues Apple for Illegal Monopoly over Smartphones…
The Department of Justice claims Apple has maintained an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market by locking in customers and making experiences worse for rival products…
Judge Rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit Must Face Lawsuits Claiming They Helped Radicalize a Mass Shooter…
A New York state judge on Monday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against several social media companies alleging the platforms contributed to the radicalization of a gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in 2022, court documents show…
These Will Be the Jobs Most Impacted by AI…
Large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools haven’t been around for very long, but they’re expected to have far-reaching impacts on the way people do their jobs. With this in mind, researchers have already begun studying the potential impacts of this transformative technology…
Google Helped Boost Obama, Clinton Presidential Runs While Censoring Republican…
Then CEO of Google Eric Schmidt apologized profusely to then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for not doing enough to help her win in 2016. He was alluding to Google’s algorithm which is now being exposed…
Former Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Is Putting Together an Investor Group to Buy TikTok…
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is building an investor group to acquire ByteDance’s TikTok, as a bipartisan piece of legislation winding its way through Congress threatens its continued existence in the U.S…
Virginia Lawmakers Remain Concerned Hampton Roads’ Giant Cranes Made in China Are Spying on the U.S…
U.S. lawmakers continue to talk about the threat of Chinese technology, including U.S. reliance on Chinese-manufactured cranes at port terminals like those in Hampton Roads…
In Their Own Words: Hear How CCP Propagandists Are Using TikTok to Indoctrinate America’s Youth…
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” to inject its propaganda into the minds of America’s youth, according to restricted Chinese military journals uncovered in Peter Schweizer’s new book: Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans…
Fate of TikTok in Senate’s Hands…
The House passed the bill — also known as The Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act — in a 352-65 vote Wednesday, sending it to the Senate, which faces mounting pressure to pass the bill…
HR7521 – The TikTok Ban Law (as written) Is NOT About Banning TikTok, It’s About Information Control – pdf Included…
Lots of buzz surrounding the future to TikTok on social media with all kinds of future predictions. For now, however, this is the only public play so far…
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