The Twitter accounts of some of the world’s most powerful people, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Michael Bloomberg were compromised earlier today, with hackers using their access to tweet out a Bitcoin scam. Bitcoin worth more than $100,000 have reportedly been transferred to the hackers. The compromised accounts included former President Barack Obama, current […]
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UK Bars Huawei from Supplying 5G Network in Major Reversal by Johnson…
After rolling back a decision to allow Huawei-made components to be used in non-critical parts of the UK’s 5G infrastrucutre, the UK government has just announced a landmark decision to block Huawei parts from being used throughout its 5G infrastructure in a major win for the Trump Administration as it bids to exclude Huawei from […]
Astronomers Discover Huge Galactic Wall Hidden Behind Milky Way…
Scientists have discovered a celestial structure made of galaxies more than 1.4 billion light-years long and 600 million light-years deep in the skies over the South Pole, according to a report. The South Pole Wall, as it has been dubbed, is situated along the southern border of the cosmos from the perspective of Earth, and […]
Stop What You’re Doing and Patch the Windows Bug That Took Microsoft 17 Years to Fix…
Microsoft released a patch today that fixes what appears to be a major, long-standing flaw in the Windows Domain Name System. The patch, which is bundled in with the regular Tuesday Windows update, fixes the SigRed flaw, which was discovered by Israeli security firm Check Point, Wired reported. The DNS is kind of like a […]
Dr. Robert Epstein: Google Will Shift 10% of Voters to Make Trump a ‘Blip in History’…
Dr. Robert Epstein, the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, joined Breitbart News’ Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on Breitbart News Daily to discuss how Google hopes to shift 10 percent of the voting public away from Trump to fulfill a company executive’s stated goal of making populism nothing more than […]
Amazon Fined for Violating U.S. Sanctions on Iran, Syria, Crimea…
Online retailer Amazon has agreed to pay the U.S. government $134,523 for violating sanctions on Iran, Syria, and Crimea, according to the Treasury Department. The fines were issued as part of Amazon’s admission that it may be civilly liable “for apparent violations of multiple [U.S.] sanctions programs” administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign […]
Report: Google, Microsoft, Amazon Have Thousands of Unreported Military and Law Enforcement Contracts…
Newly released records appear to show that many Silicon Valley companies including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have thousands of previously-unreported contracts with the U.S. military and law enforcement, including ICE and the FBI. Business Insider reports that a number of subcontracts between Silicon Valley tech firms and the U.S. military were obtained by open records […]
Mystery ‘COVID-19 Exposure Logging’ Function ‘Appears in Settings on iPhones and Android Devices’…
The features allow for contact tracing when the connecting phone apps are downloaded. To access the COVID logging feature on iPhones, users must go under “settings,” then click on “privacy,” and lastly “health.” Android users can reportedly access the secretive feature by clicking “settings,” then google, and then “settings” again. According to the feature: “When […]
Meet the Israeli Intelligence-Linked Firm Using Artificial Intelligence to Profile Americans and Guide U.S. Lockdown Policy…
An Israeli government contractor founded by a former Israeli spy has partnered with one U.S. state and is set to announce a series of new partnerships with other states and U.S. healthcare providers to monitor civilian health and use an IDF-designed AI system to profile Americans likely to contract coronavirus and to inform U.S. government […]
Bill Making It Illegal to Forcefully Microchip Employees Passes in Michigan House…
Lawmakers in Michigan have passed a bill that would make it illegal for employers to force their workers to be tagged with microchips in a bid to preemptively thwart companies who seek to make it mandatory to wear the productivity-tracking devices. The Michigan House passed the bill on Wednesday, which would make acceptance of the […]
Facebook Removes ‘Violent’ Groups Amid Boycott from Corporate Interests – Antifa Groups Remain…
Facebook has banned of hundreds of accounts across its platform including accounts of groups considered violent; however, domestic terrorist Antifa accounts remain. Despite these bans, hundreds of companies enacting a boycott on Facebook advertising, under the direction of activist groups. This sweeping move came only four days after a Justice Department task force was enacted […]
Reddit Openly Proclaims It Will Discriminate Based on Race in Content Policing…
Social media platform Reddit adopted new rules against “hate speech” that discriminate against certain people based on their race, gender, religion, and other characteristics. Reddit seems to be the first tech company to do so openly, though there’s evidence that other companies have done so surreptitiously. Reddit used to have no hate speech policy. The […]
University of California Pays Over $1M to Ransomware Gang…
A ransomware gang has struck gold again, this time for more than $1 million. The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) announced on June 26 that it paid $1.14 million to a ransomware group. “We … made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14 million, to the individuals behind the […]
FCC Blocks Huawei, ZTE From Lucrative American Markets…
In a move that will essentially cut Huawei off from a critical US market: the smaller, more rural-focused telecoms providers who rely on cheap Huawei components to maintain its wireless infrastructure. According to Bloomberg, the FCC has designated Huawei and ZTE, two Chinese telecoms giants, as national security threats. The renewed pressure on both Huawei […]
TikTok is Controlled By the Chinese Communist Party – Delete It…
One of the side effects of the coronavirus pandemic has been a multitude of viral videos showing hospital nurses singing and dancing. For some, these “TikTok nurses” have brought joy in dark times, while others say that these videos are demeaning to the medical profession. Lost in the discussion, however, is the dark side of […]
India Bans 59 Chinese Apps Including TikTok Over “Privacy & Sovereignty” Violations…
Despite a round three of border deescalation talks between Indian and Chinese military delegations scheduled for Tuesday, there’s yet more significant fallout following the June 15 border clash which left 20 Indian troops dead, also with an unknown number of PLA casualties. India is moving to ban up to 59 Chinese apps in the country, […]
Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger…
When Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in April, we had deep concerns. Google, a notoriously data-hungry company with a track record of reneging on its privacy policies, was about to buy one of the most successful wearables company in the world —after Google had repeatedly tried to launch a competing product, only to […]
Unilever Halts Advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter…
Shares of both Facebook and Twitter were down more than 7% in mid-day trading Friday after Unilever said it would pull its advertising from the social media companies for the rest of the year. “Given our Responsibility Framework and the polarized atmosphere in the U.S., we have decided that starting now through at least the […]
FBI Expands Ability to Collect Cellphone Location Data, Monitor Social Media, Recent Contracts Show…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation may be watching what you tweet and where people gather. The federal law enforcement agency’s records show a growing focus on harnessing the latest private sector tools for mass surveillance, including recent contracts with companies that monitor social media posts and collect cellphone location data. On May 26, as demonstrations […]
Senators Move to Make UFO Data Public…
Lawmakers in the Senate Intelligence Committee are moving forward with a request that would order the Defense Department and U.S. Intelligence agencies to create a public, unclassified, collection of all information and data on “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” also known as unidentified flying objects, UFOs. According to The NY Post, Senators recognized the existence of a […]
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