Dallas-based journalist Barrett Brown walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars. The 35-year-old cause célèbre, convicted in January 2015 after spending more than two years in pretrial confinement, faces a laundry list of post-release restrictions…
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Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump…
State-sponsored hackers have conducted a series of destructive attacks on Saudi Arabia over the last two weeks, erasing data and wreaking havoc in the computer banks of the agency running the country’s airports and hitting five additional targets…
AT&T Just Showed Us What The Death Of Net Neutrality Is Going To Look Like…
For consumers who have no idea what zero rating or net neutrality even is (read: most of them), this sounds like a great idea. Most don’t know that usage caps are an entirely-arbitrary construct completely untethered from network or financial necessity. As such, they believe they’re getting something for free…
An Unbelievable 500k Drones Have Been Registered in the U.S….
Talk About Fake News: Something Silly About Putin Weaponizing a 14-Legged Squid…
The latest on the very long list of things Putin has been accused of weaponizing might just be the best yet. What better (or more logistically sound) way to destroy Western civilization than to breed giant, 14-legged killer squid under the Arctic? Totally genius…
Reddit CEO Announces Crackdown On Reddit’s Trump-Supporting Subreddit…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman made an announcement on the site today stating that Reddit is, “taking a more aggressive stance against toxic users and poorly behaving communities” — by which he meant r/The_Donald, the site’s hub for Trump-supporting users…
U.N. Ruling to Free WikiLeaks’ Assange to Stand after British Appeal Rejected…
The United Nations has rejected a UK appeal against its previous ruling in favor of Julian Assange as “inadmissible,” thus requiring both London and Stockholm to end the WikiLeaks founder’s “arbitrary detention”…
Oh Goodie: FBI to Gain Expanded Powers as Senate Effort to Block Fails…
A last-ditch effort in the Senate to block or delay rule changes that would expand the U.S. government’s hacking powers failed Wednesday, despite concerns the changes would jeopardize the privacy rights of innocent Americans…
5 Major Automakers Join Forces to Deploy 400 Ultra-Fast Charging Stations for Electric Cars in Europe…
Porsche, BMW, Daimler, ford, ultra fast charging stations, electric cars
Yes, U.S. Government Propaganda Use Against American Citizens Is Officially Legal Now…
Some people still aren’t sure on this point, so just for the record, yes: US government domestic propaganda use against American citizens has been fully made legal. Looking around at what’s going on in “the news” today, that certainly explains a lot, doesn’t it?…
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The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance…
The UK is due to pass its controversial new surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act…The Act formally legalizes a number of mass surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013… introduces a new power which will force internet service providers to store browsing data on all customers for 12 months…
Bill To Protect Freedom of Speech Online Heads to President’s Desk…
The Consumer Review Fairness Act, which now heads to the President’s Desk for approval, is needed after a number of consumers have found themselves in court, fighting multi-million dollar lawsuits for leaving negative – but truthful – reviews of companies’ services on sites like Yelp or TripAdvisor…
Facebook Employees are Quitting Because of Users Being Censored…
The war on “fake news” embarked upon by Facebook, Google, and Twitter may be earning the media goliaths brownie points with establishment politicos, but users — and even employees — aren’t feeling as enthusiastic…
Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail Note…
The man, who wasn’t identified by authorities, sent an e-mail visible to hundreds of co-workers, including Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, before the incident occurred, according to a person familiar with the matter. The man survived the fall from Amazon’s 12-story Apollo building…
Emojis Are So Big They Now Have Their Own Conference..
Emojis are having a moment. What with the New York MoMA acquiring the original set of emojis and Apple’s planned, and then rescinded, changes to its emoji keyboard for iOS 10.2, the tiny pictures on your phone have never been hotter…
FBI Hacked Into 8k Computers in 120 Countries Based on One Warrant…
The FBI hacked into more than 8,000 computers in 120 countries during an investigation into a child pornography website with just one warrant, a court hearing transcript has shown. It represents the largest known law enforcement hacking campaign to date…
Android Malware Used to Hack and Steal a Tesla…
By infecting a Tesla owner’s phone with Android malware, a car thief can hack and then steal a Tesla car…Security experts from Norwegian security firm Promon have chosen to go after Tesla’s Android app that many car owners use to interact with their vehicle…
Reddit’s Pro-Trump Community Calls on CEO Steve Huffman to Resign Following Edit Scandal…
Reddit user UnimatrixZeroOne made an announcement in the subreddit today explaining why they leaked the Slack chat logs featuring conversations between Reddit admins and moderators. “I leaked the chat logs because of my anger at /u/spez for editing someone else’s comment. If he did this”…
Facebook Develops Software to Censor News in China…
Facebook has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas, according to three current and former Facebook employees… The feature was created to help Facebook get into China, a market where…