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…
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…
It’s Time to Be Honest About What Exactly Apple Is Doing in China…
The New York Times celebrated Apple CEO Tim Cook as a beacon of moral and social responsibility in an article published Monday, but the tech company’s questionable activities in China were noticeably absent from the column. “I think we have a moral responsibility to help grow the economy, to help grow jobs…
Google Is Losing Allies Across the Political Spectrum…
Eight years ago, Google was on top of the world. People across the political spectrum saw the search giant as a symbol of high-tech innovation. During the just-completed 2008 presidential campaign cycle, candidates as diverse as Ron Paul, John McCain, and Barack Obama had all made pilgrimages to Google’s Mountain View…
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FDA Is Recalling 465k Pacemakers…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling nearly 500,000 pacemakers — the device that controls one’s heartbeat — citing concerns that they are vulnerable to hacking. The FDA issued the recall Tuesday for 465,000 pacemakers created by health company Abbott Laboratories (formerly St. Jude Medical)…
Wasserman Schultz IT Staffer Banned from House Network Months Ago Still Has Active Account…
A former IT aide suspected of stealing equipment and data from Congress still has an active, secret email account on the House computer system, even though he has been banned from the congressional network because of a criminal investigation into the alleged cybersecurity violations…
Elon Musk Wants to Launch Manufacturer of Nice Cyborgs…
The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday — the same day as the theater opening of Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D — that Musk is sponsoring a new start-up named Neuralink Corporation, which has already raised the first $27 million of its $100 million goal to create a system that will implant electrodes in human […]
Congress Sneakily Passed a Bill Allowing Warrantless Searches of Homes…
A bill that will allow homes to be searched without a warrant was passed with overwhelming support by the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Trump—and it happened with no media coverage and very little fanfare. On the surface, House Joint Resolution 76 looks harmless. The title of the bill claims…
Mueller Reportedly Probing Flynn’s Role In Attempt To Find Hillary’s 30,000 Missing Emails…
Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining what role, if any, former national security adviser Mike Flynn may have played in a private effort to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers, according to people familiar with the matter. The effort to seek out hackers who were believed to have stolen Mrs. Clinton’s emails…
Google Issuing Refunds to Advertisers Over Fake Traffic…
Google is issuing refunds for ads that ran on websites with fake traffic, people familiar with the situation said, as the web giant develops a tool to give marketers more transparency about the ads they buy through its platform. In the past few weeks, the Alphabet Inc. unit has informed hundreds of marketers and…
Damore’s Revenge: Google Faces Growing Legal Threats As Other Googlers Come Forward…
James Damore gained instant fame earlier this month when he was fired for “un-Googly conduct” after publishing a paper on an employee chat board suggesting that men may be better equipped biologically for engineering jobs than women. Apparently science is embraced by the Left when discussing climate change…
Senate Bill Would Declare WikiLeaks ‘Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service’…
Congress will formally consider WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service” if lawmakers adopt the annual Intelligence Authorization Act passed 14-1 by a Senate panel last month — a provision the bill’s sole dissenter now cites as his reason for rejecting it. Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat and the only member…
Judge Approves Warrant for “Antifa” User Data from Anti-Trump Website…
A District of Columbia Federal Judge has approved a government warrant seeking information about users and subscribers to an anti-Trump website which has been linked to rioting during the presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., but he added protections to safeguard “innocent users”…
The Very Strange Indictment of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s IT Scammers…
Let’s say you’re a prosecutor in Washington. You are investigating a husband and wife, naturalized Americans, who you believe have scammed a federal credit union out of nearly $300,000. You catch them in several false statements about their qualifications for a credit line and their intended use of the money. The strongest…
What’s Left of Russiagate — Are We Down to the 1,000 Paid Trolls?…
Those who pay attention to what is going on — as opposed to passively consuming the obsessions of MSM — know that the Clinton-related material published by Wikileaks emerged from leaks, not hacks. Assange has stated in no uncertain terms that the Russian government was not responsible for providing the material…
NSA Whistleblower: Russia ‘Hack’ of DNC Server an ‘Outright Lie’…
Utilizing recently unlocked information from data that purportedly originated on the DNC’s servers, Binney claimed that he is “something like 99%” sure that the DNC servers were not hacked from the outside. He urged the U.S. Intelligence Community to immediately release any evidence utilized to draw the conclusion that Russia may…
How Google Is Secretly Recording You And Storing Your Conversations…
DID you know that Google has been recording you without your knowledge? The technology giant has effectively turned millions of its users’ smartphones into listening devices that can capture intimate conversations – even when they aren’t in the room. If you own an Android phone, it’s likely that you’ve used Google’s Assistant…
On the Google Memo Flap, Every Side is Right…And…
If I were a computer engineer struggling in Google’s male-dominated culture and woke up one morning to read a mini treatise by a male colleague that innate biological differences between the sexes—not sexism—were to blame for the company’s gender gap, I would be pretty damn pissed. But that wouldn’t mean that my colleague was wrong—nor […]
House Democrat’s Office Approved $120k Write-off Linked to Awan Brothers…
A chief of staff for Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke quietly agreed in early 2016 to sign away a $120,000 missing electronics problem on behalf of two former IT aides now suspected of stealing equipment from Congress, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Clarke’s chief of staff at the time effectively dismissed the loss and […]
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