Federal authorities are warning Microsoft Windows users to update their computers in response to a security vulnerability they said could allow a hacker to view, change and delete data using malware. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — overseen by the Department of Homeland Security — released the alert Monday about a so-called “BlueKeep” vulnerability […]
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DOJ Admits FBI Never Saw Crowdstrike Report on DNC Russian Hacking Claim…
The foundation for the Russian election interference narrative is built on the claim of Russians hacking the servers of the Democrat National Committee (DNC), and subsequently releasing damaging emails that showed the DNC worked to help Hillary Clinton and eliminate Bernie Sanders. Despite the Russian ‘hacking’ claim the DOJ previously admitted the DNC would not […]
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Huawei Braces for Phone Sales Drop of Up to 60 Million Overseas…
Huawei Technologies Co. is preparing for a drop in international smartphone shipments of 40 million to 60 million as the Trump administration’s blacklisting hammers one of the Chinese tech giant’s most important businesses. China’s largest technology company is crunching internal estimates and exploring options including pulling the latest model of its marquee overseas label, the […]
Amazon Slams Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Over ‘Starvation Wages’ Comment: ‘AOC is just wrong’…
Amazon hit back at New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday after the congresswoman claimed Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce company paid workers “starvation wages” and limited their access to healthcare. “[Ocasio-Cortez] is just wrong. Amazon is a leader on pay at $15 min wage + full benefits from day one. We also lobby to raise federal […]
Cell Phone Tower Shut Down After Complaints About Cancer Cluster in School Children by Sharyl Attkisson…
A controversial cell phone tower near a school in Ripon, California has been shut down amid reports of four students and three teachers children being diagnosed with cancer. According to news reports, Sprint–which owns the tower–shut down the tower even though the company says radio frequencies emitted were 100 times below the federal limit. The […]
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Labels Facebook a ‘Chaos Factory’…
Business Insider reports that tech industry insiders are becoming increasingly wary of social media platform Facebook, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee. During a recent commencement speech at Stanford, Tim Cook attacked Silicon Valley giants in general for behaving irresponsibly but did not specifically name any other companies. Cook did […]
Facebook Will Now Rank Your Comments So Its Dumbass Website Can Be ‘More Meaningful’…
Facebook is a disease, but it’s still trying to be “more meaningful.” Two reports on Friday gave us fresh reminders of why Facebook is a detriment to society. First, Intercept reported that—despite Mark Zuckerberg’s repeated insistence that his company has a moral and professional obligation to protect users’ privacy—Facebook’s lawyers argued to a California judge […]
Photos of Travelers Coming in and Out of the U.S. Have Been Hacked And Stolen…
A US Customs and Border Protection subcontractor suffered a data breach that exposed the photos of tens of thousands of travelers coming in and out of the United States, the agency revealed Monday, in what it described as a “malicious cyber-attack.” The database of identifying traveler photos and license plate images had been transferred to […]
Documents Detailing Google’s ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manipulation of Special Search Results…
Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate. Two official policies dubbed the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy” inform the company’s “XPA news blacklist,” which is maintained by Google’s Trust & Safety team. “T&S will be in charge of updating […]
THE PURGE: YouTube Seeks to Limit ‘Borderline Content,’ Videos That Don’t ‘Exactly Violate Policies’…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke with Axios this week to weigh-in on YouTube’s recent drive to remove “extreme” videos; saying the social media giant will also seek to limit “Borderline Content.” “We, you know, we rank content based on quality. And so we are bringing that same notion and approach to YouTube so that we […]
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Here’s Why Warren Is Demanding DOJ’s Lead Antitrust Investigator Recuse Himself from Google Probe…
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said she wants the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust agency to recuse himself from a big tech probe, saying his “past work as a lobbyist” for Google and Apple “creates the appearance of a conflict of interest.” Google hired the firm of Makan Delrahim, now the assistant attorney general […]
Well-Known Tech Reporter Arrested for Attempting to Solicit Sex with a 7-Year Old Girl…
A popular tech reporter who wrote about Microsoft was arrested for allegedly soliciting sex with children online, according to a complaint filed in May. Peter Bright sought to molest a 7- and 9-year-old and was later arrested after meeting with an undercover agent to facilitate the action, the federal complaint alleges. Bright, who formerly worked […]
LabCorp Says 7.7M Customers May Have Been Affected by Data Breach…
LabCorp said about 7.7 million customers’ personal information may have been compromised due to a data breach at a billings collections firm — a day after competing lab testing company Quest Diagnostics also announced nearly 12 million patients were potentially affected by a similar security incident. LabCorp said Tuesday that third-party collections firm American Medical […]
The Impossibility Of Content Moderation: YouTube’s New Ban On Nazis Hits Reporter Who Documents Extremism, Professor Teaching About Hitler…
So just as the recent big content moderation mess was happening on YouTube, the company announced that it had changed its policies to better deal with violent extremism and supremacism on the platform: Today, we’re taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order […]
First Video of Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison…
RT’s video agency Ruptly has obtained footage showing WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange inside Belmarsh maximum security prison. The footage shows Assange, who has visibly lost weight, conversing with what could be his fellow inmates. The camera then shows a small shabby cell, with books and papers strewn around the floor. While RT can’t independently verify […]
Amazon’s Helping Police Build a Surveillance Network with Ring Doorbells…
If you’re walking in Bloomfield, New Jersey, there’s a good chance you’re being recorded. But it’s not a corporate office or warehouse security camera capturing the footage — it’s likely a Ring doorbell made by Amazon. While residential neighborhoods aren’t usually lined with security cameras, the smart doorbell’s popularity has essentially created private surveillance networks […]
‘This will not go well’: YouTube Cracks Down on Pundits & Journalists After Policy Change…Stay Tuned This Story Is Just Breaking…
Minutes after announcing a new policy clamping down on “hateful” and “supremacist” videos, YouTube got to work banning, demonetizing, or otherwise hiding videos from conservatives, journalists, and even black metal musicians. The Google subsidiary updated its “hateful content” policies on Wednesday, announcing the clampdown in a blog post. The company said that from now on […]
The “Swedish Allegations” Concerning Julian Assange…
The Facts: There is widespread media misreporting about allegations made against Julian Assange in Sweden in 2010…First, Assange was always willing to answer any questions from the Swedish authorities and repeatedly offered to do so, over six years. The widespread media assertion that Assange “evaded” Swedish questioning is false. It was the Swedish prosecutor who […]
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DOJ Secures Jurisdiction for Potential Apple Investigation…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will take the lead in any future investigation of Apple’s market power, as regulators move toward a wider review of Silicon Valley’s antitrust concerns, Reuters reported on Monday. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the two agencies tasked with antitrust enforcement, reached an agreement in recent weeks […]
FTS Secures Authority to Open Antitrust Probe Into Facebook…
The Federal Trade Commission will be in charge of any antitrust investigations into Facebook, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal Monday. It’s part of an arrangement that permits the Justice Department to investigate Google while handing over Facebook and Amazon to the FTC. On Friday, reports surfaced that the Justice Department […]
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