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Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage…

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubling both for the social media giant and its millions of users, guess […]

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Firefox Send — Free Encrypted File Transfer Service Now Available For All

Mozilla has made it easy for you to share large files securely and privately with whomever you want, eliminating the need to depend upon less secure free third-party services or file upload tools that burn a hole in your pocket. Mozilla has finally launched its free, end-to-end encrypted file-transfer service, called Firefox Send, to the […]

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Facebook Bans Zero Hedge…

Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private messages, would be actively blocked by the world’s largest social network, with the explanation that “the […]

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Your Phone and TV Are Tracking You, and Political Campaigns are Listening In…

It was a crowded primary field and Tony Evers, running for governor, was eager to win the support of officials gathered at a Wisconsin state Democratic Party meeting, so the candidate did all the usual things: He read the room, he shook hands, he networked. Then he put an electronic fence around everyone there. The […]

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If Big Tech Can Censor Me, Think What it Can Do to You…

Anti-conservative censorship online has gone from bad to worse. As major social media platforms start to target me for censorship, I shudder to think what it means for millions of other Americans, especially as we approach the 2020 presidential campaign. As Jussie Smollett’s preposterous story about being beaten in a racist, homophobic attack was falling […]

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Daniel Ellsberg Responds to the Unjust Jailing of Whistleblower Chelsea Manning…

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent to jail for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify in front of a grand jury believed to be investigating Wikileaks’s publishing activities—a grave threat to freedom of the press. The following quote can be attributed to famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder […]

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LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses ‘Steering’ the Conservative Movement…

Google’s senior director of U.S. public policy, Adam Kovacevich appeared to describe the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a “sideshow Circus,” in a leaked audio recording in which he also argued that Google should remain a sponsor of the conference to “steer” the conservative movement “away from nationalistic and incendiary comments.” The comments came […]

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Tim Berners-Lee: “The Web Has Been Hijacked by Crooks and Trolls”…

Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity. But three decades after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has warned that his creation has been “hijacked by crooks” that may spell its […]

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SHOT: James Clapper – ‘I Didn’t Lie’ to Congress About NSA Surveillance, I ‘Simply Didn’t Understand’ the Question…

Former National Security Agency Director James Clapper said he did not lie about mass domestic surveillance programs when he testified to Congress in 2013, but rather he made a mistake and did not understand what specific program was being asked about. CNN’s John Berman asked for Clapper’s reaction to The Intercept’s Glen Greenwald report: “The very first NSA program we revealed […]

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Russiagate Grand Wizard Deceives Audience About Assange…

When it was first revealed in November that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is under secret charges by the Trump administration, I spent the next few days being told by Russiagaters that this was proof that I have been wrong about their demented cold war cult all along, because #MuellerTime is fast approaching. At long last, […]

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Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search…

Google employees have carried out their own investigation into the company’s plan to launch a censored search engine for China and say they are concerned that development of the project remains ongoing, The Intercept can reveal. Late last year, bosses moved engineers away from working on the controversial project, known as Dragonfly, and said that […]

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If This Story Turns Out to Be Factually Correct, Be Sure to Thank Edward Snowden, Bill Binney, Glenn Greenwald and Yes, President Trump – Disputed NSA Phone Surveillance Program Is Shut Down…

The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the Sept. 11 attacks. The agency has not used the system in months, […]

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Here’s What Amazon Has to do to Secure $23M from Virginia…

Amazon will receive staggered payouts for occupying an increasing amount of office space near National Airport, and get at least two days’ notice when someone requests information it provides to Arlington County, under an incentives agreement the County Board will vote on March 16. The $23 million agreement, which was provided to The Washington Post […]

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New Horizons Spacecraft Captured the Sharpest Possible Pictures of Ultima Thule…

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured the sharpest possible pictures of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule – the farthest object ever explored. The pictures were obtained just before New Horizons’ closest approach to the object (officially named 2014 MU69) at 12:33 a.m. EST on Jan. 1, 2019 – offer a resolution of about 110 […]

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Chelsea Manning Unsuccessfully Fights Subpoena to Testify Before Grand Jury Probing Julian Assange…

WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning appeared in a federal courtroom on Tuesday in Alexandria, Virginia, where the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst unsuccessfully challenged a subpoena requiring her to testify before a grand jury that is investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Outside the courthouse, the former Bradley Edward Manning (who is now 31) told reporters that her efforts […]

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No Lack of Skilled American Tech Workers…

Americans don’t usually think of technical professionals as “guest workers,” yet at any one time, there are more than a half-million foreigners holding tech jobs in the U.S. They are here thanks to the H-1B visa program. H-1B, so the official spiel goes, addresses an alleged shortage of “highly skilled” Americans to fill jobs “requiring […]

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