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FCC Plans Total Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules…

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency’s Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate. The commission will vote on the proposal in December, some seven months…

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Amazon Launches a Cloud Service for U.S. Intelligence Agencies…

Amazon Web Services on Monday introduced cloud service for the CIA and other members of the U.S. intelligence community. The launch of the so-called AWS Secret Region comes six years after AWS introduced GovCloud, its first data-center region for public-sector customers. AWS has since announced plans to expand GovCloud. The new Secret Region signals interest…

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Google Will ‘De-Rank’ RT and Sputnik Articles to Make Them Harder to Find…

Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, says the company will “engineer” specific algorithms for RT and Sputnik to make their articles less prominent on the search engine’s news delivery services. “We are working on detecting and de-ranking those kinds of sites – it’s basically RT and Sputnik,” Schmidt said during a […]

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Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled…

Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t used any apps, and haven’t even inserted a carrier SIM card? Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected […]

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The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized…

We’ve all heard that the problem with the web is fake news, i.e. unsubstantiated or erroneous content that’s designed to mislead or sow confusion. The problem isn’t just fake news–it’s the homogenization of the web, that is, the elimination or marginalization of independent voices of skepticism and dissent. There are four drivers of this homogenization…

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Musk’s “Hardcore Smack-Down” to Gasoline Vehicles…

Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s new electric Semi truck, which he said “will blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate dimension.” The electric semitrailer would have a 500-mile range and will roll out in 2019, if all goes according to plan. On top of that, Musk surprised the crowd gathered at […]

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How a Half-Educated Tech Elite Delivered Us Into Chaos…

One of the biggest puzzles about our current predicament with fake news and the weaponisation of social media is why the folks who built this technology are so taken aback by what has happened. Exhibit A is the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, whose political education I recently chronicled. But he’s not alone. In fact […]

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Another Shady App Found Pre-Installed on OnePlus Phones That Collects System Logs…

The OnePlus Saga Continues… Just a day after the revelation of the hidden Android rooting backdoor pre-installed on most OnePlus smartphones, a security researcher just found another secret app that records tons of information about your phone. Dubbed OnePlusLogKit, the second pre-installed has been discovered by the same Twitter user…

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‘The Atlantic’ Commits Malpractice, Selectively Edits to Smear WikiLeaks…

Everyone was buzzing about the shocking, bombshell new report by The Atlantic yesterday, which revealed that Donald Trump Jr. and the WikiLeaks Twitter account had engaged in a “largely one-sided” conversation in private messages over the course of several months. Don Jr. actually comes off looking fairly normal in the report, while WikiLeaks comes off […]

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Voice of America Reporter Posts Racist Reddit Memes While Receiving Taxpayer Money…

While posting on his Reddit account UncleSam4200, Voice of America reporter Josh Fatzick bragged on the infamous pro-Trump subreddit r/The_Donald that he worked in Washington media — but half-jokingly added, “If I were to ever be publicly connected to this account, it probably would not be good for my career.” The reason why Fatzick didn’t […]

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Firefox 57 “Quantum” Released – 2x Faster Web Browser…

It is time to give Firefox another chance. The Mozilla Foundation today announced the release of its much awaited Firefox 57, aka Quantum web browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which claims to defeat Google’s Chrome. It is fast. Really fast. Firefox 57 is based on an entirely revamped design and overhauled core that includes […]

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Apple iPhone X’s Face ID Hacked (Unlocked) Using 3D-Printed Mask…

Just a week after Apple released its brand new iPhone X on November 3, a team of hackers has claimed to successfully hack Apple’s Face ID facial recognition technology with a mask that costs less than $150. Yes, Apple’s “ultra-secure” Face ID security for the iPhone X is not as secure as the company claimed […]

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Dem IT Aide, Imran Awan, Used Political Influence to Have Fraud Charges Dropped in Pakistan…

The family of Imran Awan, the now-indicted former IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other Democrats, was previously accused of fraud in Pakistan involving “huge chunks” of land, but the charges were dropped because “Awan’s son had easy access to the corridors of power,” according to a detailed article in a Pakistani newspaper. […]

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WikiLeaks: CIA Impersonated Kaspersky Labs As a Cover for Its Malware Operations…

WikiLeaks, under its new Vault 8 series of released documents, has rolled out what it says is the source code to a previously noted CIA tool, called Hive, that is used to help hide espionage actions when the Agency implants malware. Hive supposedly allows the CIA to covertly communicate with its software by making it […]

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REPORT: Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the NSA to Its Core…

Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., hotel where he was leading a training session. Checking Twitter, Mr. Williams, a cybersecurity expert, was dismayed to discover that he had been thrust into the middle of one of the worst security debacles ever to befall American intelligence. Mr. Williams had written on his company […]

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