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Sorry Alexa. ‘South Park’ Episode Messes With Viewers’ Home Devices…

In Wednesday’s episode, “White People Renovating Houses,” characters repeatedly yelled commands at Amazon Echo and Google Home devices, the Hollywood Reporter reports. Thanks to the nature of voice activation, this led to some chaotic and foul-mouthed results with real-life Echos and Homes across the country…

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High Ranking CIA Agent Blows Whistle on the Deep State and Shadow Government…

A CIA whistleblower, Kevin Shipp, has emerged from the wolves den to expose the deep state and the shadow government which he calls two entirely separate entities. “The shadow government controls the deep state and manipulates our elected government behind the scenes,” Shipp warned in a recent talk at a…

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Beware of Equifax Phishing Scams…

The government is warning Americans about scammers looking to capitalize on the recent Equifax data breach through fraudulent emails or phone calls. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an alert Thursday warning consumers to beware of phone calls from individuals purporting to be Equifax representatives asking for account…

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U.S. Senator on Equifax Hack: ‘Somebody Needs to Go to Jail’…

Thirty-six U.S. senators on Tuesday called on federal authorities to investigate the sale of nearly $2 million in shares of credit bureau Equifax Inc (EFX.N) by company executives after a massive data breach, and one compared their actions to insider trading. The lawmakers signed a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice…

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz IT Guy Was Banned From House After Trying To Hide Secret Server…

A secret server is behind law enforcement’s decision to ban a former IT aide to Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the House network. Now-indicted former congressional IT aide Imran Awan allegedly routed data from numerous House Democrats to a secret server. Police grew suspicious and requested a copy of…

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Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google Now Watching Your Every Political Move…

Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world’s largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind. Let’s face it, deep down in our heart of hearts we knew…

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Face ID On the iPhone X Is Probably Going to Suck…

The all-new iPhone X is out, and it’s packed with technology. But one thing it’s not packed with is a fingerprint sensor. Like many phones in 2017, the iPhone X goes for a nearly all-screen design, which means there’s no more room for a front Touch ID sensor. Rather than locate a fingerprint sensor on […]

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Facebook’s Ad Metrics Come Under Scrutiny Yet Again…

Facebook’s advertising metrics have again been called into question, after Pivotal Research Group senior analyst Brian Wieser pointed out a large discrepancy between U.S. census data and the potential reach that the social network promises advertisers. On Tuesday, Wieser issued a note pointing out…

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Equifax Hit with $70 Billion Lawsuit Following Hack of 143 Million Social Security Numbers…

One day after Equifax announced (more than one month after it itself had learned) that its systems had been hacked, resulting in up to 143 million social security numbers, names, addresses, driver’s license data, birth dates, some credit card numbers and pretty much all other critical personal data being leaked and…

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Equifax Says Data Breach Could Potentially Affect 143M Consumers…

Equifax, which supplies credit information and other information services, said Thursday that a data breach could have potentially affected 143 million consumers in the United States. The population of the U.S. was about 324 million in 2017, according to Census Bureau estimates, which means the Equifax incident…

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Wasserman Schultz Aide Who Fled U.S. Strikes a Deal to Return, Facing Charges…

A former staffer for Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who fled to Pakistan while under criminal investigation has struck a deal with federal officials to return to the U.S. to appear at an arraignment. Two former Democratic staffers, Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, both face charges of conspiracy…

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Apple, Microsoft Step Up to Defend Dreamers from Deportation…

Tech executives are near-unanimous in condemning the Trump administration’s plans to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. But some are going further than others in promising to help employees affected by the move. Microsoft and Apple are offering the most full-throated defense of “Dreamers”…

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My Friends at Google: It Is Time to Return to Not Being Evil…

A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power. I have known Google longer than most. At Opera, we were the first to add their search into the browser interface, enabling it directly from the search box and the address field. At that […]

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Awan Asks Judge to Remove GPS, Citing Possible Emergency with Kids in Pakistan…

A former House of Representatives IT aide was arraigned in federal court Friday on four felony fraud charges, appearing with three attorneys including Chris Gowen, a former close aide to Hillary and Bill Clinton. Gowen asked that Imran Awan’s GPS monitoring bracelet be removed, citing that Imran might need to attend to…

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Microsoft Discloses DREAMer Employees in Plea for DACA Continuance…

In a plea to President Donald Trump asking him to keep an Obama-era amnesty program for young illegal aliens, Microsoft revealed that it had an invested business interest in the program continuing. While lobbying the Trump Administration to continue adding young illegal aliens to the Deferred Action for Childhood…

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