Facebook has imposed new rules to limit the reach of political groups that disguise their content as coming from local newsrooms, a crackdown that hits political ads from both the left and the right but in particular targets a big liberal advocacy group…
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Inside One of Big Brother’s ‘Location Harvesting’ Contractors, Which Tracks ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of Phones…
A Virginia-based software company founded by two US military veterans with backgrounds in intelligence has been tracking hundreds of millions of mobile phones across the world, according to documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal…
Tech Giants Back Legal Challenge to Trump’s Foreign Worker Restrictions…
Top U.S. tech firms including Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) filed a legal brief on Monday backing a challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on…
Top Zoom Investor Funded Chinese Communist Party-Linked Artificial Intelligence Program…
A top investor in video conferencing platform Zoom also invested over $45 million in a Chinese Communist Party-run artificial intelligence program along with other party-linked companies designated as “tools of the Chinese government” by the U.S. State Department. Zoom – which has seen record growth due to the coronavirus-fueled shift to online meetings – has […]
TikTok’s Parent Company Employs Chinese Communist Party Members in Its Highest Ranks…
More than 130 employees at ByteDance, the Chinese owner of video-sharing application TikTok, are part of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee embedded in the company. Many of the employees work in management positions, an internal document reveals. The extent of CCP membership among ByteDance management further demonstrates the company’s ties to the Chinese regime, […]
US Judge Requests Assange Testimony in Case Brought by Parents of Slain DNC Staffer…
A federal magistrate judge in New York requested assistance from a UK court on Aug. 5 in obtaining testimony from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for a U.S. civil lawsuit brought against Fox News and others by the parents of slain Democratic National Committee voter data director Seth Rich. U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn requested the […]
Update on Sharyl Attkisson’s Lawsuit: Attkisson v [Rod] Rosenstein for Government Computer Intrusions…
The following is an excerpt from the brief being filed today in Maryland state court in Attkisson v. Rosenstein and others for the government computer intrusions. Plaintiff Sharyl Attkisson, an award-winning journalist—along with her husband and child—have tried for years to pursue their significant and credible claims of illegal government surveillance, but the U.S. Government […]
18 of 20 Facebook ‘Independent’ Fact Checkers Have Ties to Political Activist Soros or His Foundations…
In announcing the formation of an independent oversight board with authority to allow or remove content from Facebook and Instagram, the board’s four co-chairs stressed the body’s diversity. “The board members come from different professional, cultural and religious backgrounds and have various political viewpoints,” they wrote in a New York Times op-ed on May 6. […]
Honda Recalling 608k Vehicles in U.S. Due to Software, Backup Camera Issues…
Honda is recalling 608,000 vehicles in the United States to address four different issues pertaining to certain model years of the company’s Odyssey, Passport and Pilot vehicles so the automaker can complete “one or more of four recall repairs, for free,” the automaker announced Tuesday. Owners of an affected vehicle are “encouraged” to bring the […]
Chinese Artificial Intelligence Company Files $1.4B Lawsuit Against Apple…
Chinese artificial intelligence company Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology Co Ltd, also known as Xiao-i, has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc, alleging it has infringed on its patents. The company is calling for 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) in damages and demands that Apple cease “manufacturing, using, promising to sell, selling and importing” products […]
Chinese Behind Malware Used in Attacks on U.S. over Past Decade…
Malware used frequently in cyberattacks against the United States over the past decade has been linked to the Chinese government, according to a new Department of Homeland Security report. DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alerted business owners and government officials this week that much of the malware, or software designed to damage a computer […]
Trump Green Light’s Microsoft to Buy TikTok, Sets September Deadline…
President Donald Trump on Monday gave the green light for a U.S. company to acquire TikTok, a short-video app owned by Beijing-based internet giant Bytedance Technology Co. used by millions of mostly young Americans. He was called by Microsoft and allowed the company or another U.S. company to buy TikTok, the president said. “I suggested […]
SHOT: Time’s Up for TikTok – Trump to Order Bytedance to Sell U.S. Operations…
It appears a decision has been made on the viral social media app TikTok – what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman called ” fundamentally parasitic.” Bloomberg reports that, according to people familiar with the matter, President Trump plans to sign an order to direct China’s ByteDance Ltd.’s to divest its ownership of the popular app. The […]
CHASER: Microsoft Is in Talks to Buy TikTok in U.S….
Microsoft Corp. is exploring an acquisition of TikTok’s operations in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the matter. A deal would give the software company a popular social-media site and relieve U.S. government pressure on the Chinese owner of the video-sharing app. The Trump administration has been weighing whether to direct China-based ByteDance […]
Three Charged in Massive Twitter Hack, Bitcoin Scam…
A British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested Friday in Tampa, where the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office will prosecute him as […]
Twitter Representative Said Posts of Iran’s Supreme Leader About Eliminating Israel Do Not Violate Rules…
A Twitter senior official supported on Wednesday the decision to attach a special label to a tweet by President Donald Trump about violent protests but said that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s posts inciting violence against Israel count as comments on political issues, according to The Times of Israel. “We have an approach toward leaders […]
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft Attended Chinese Communist Party’s AI Conference Alongside Chinese Military Proxies…
Corporates including Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple have participated in the Chinese Communist Party’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference every year since its 2018 inception, an event that bolsters collaboration between Chinese government and military-linked companies and their American technology and healthcare companies. The event, organized annually by seven branches of the Chinese government and featuring dozens […]
Everything You Need to Know from the Tech Antitrust Hearing…
The CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are testifying in Congress today — trying to convince the House Judiciary Committee that their business practices don’t amount to anti-competitive monopolies. It’s one of the biggest tech oversight moments in recent years, part of a long-running antitrust investigation that has mustered hundreds of hours of interviews […]
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Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’…
For years, the U.S. government has repeatedly changed its tune regarding its official involvement with UFO research. As recently as February, a Pentagon spokesperson told Popular Mechanics that, while a government program did investigate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and other unexplained aerial phenomena for some time last decade, funding dried up in 2012. But when […]
Who Knew?: Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb’s Vibrations…
The list of sophisticated eavesdropping techniques has grown steadily over years: wiretaps, hacked phones, bugs in the wall—even bouncing lasers off of a building’s glass to pick up conversations inside. Now add another tool for audio spies: Any light bulb in a room that might be visible from a window. Researchers from Israeli’s Ben-Gurion University […]
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