For the second time in six months, the FBI is accusing a Chinese national working for Apple of attempting to steal trade secrets related to the company’s secret autonomous vehicle program, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit learned Tuesday. Apple began investigating Jizhong Chen when another employee reported seeing the engineer taking photographs in a sensitive […]
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Disastrous Apple’s FaceTime Bug Lets You Spy on Person You’re Calling…
Well this is a serious problem. A major bug has been discovered in iOS that lets a caller hear and see a person on the other end of a FaceTime call before the call has been answered. That’s right, this massive security screwup means you can take a digital peek into another person’s life — […]
Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools…
Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year. A number of organizations, including ProPublica, have developed tools to let the public see exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers. Now, Facebook has quietly made […]
NewsGuard’s Advisory Board Has History of Fake News, Unethical Journalism…
NewsGuard, an anti-“fake news” service built into Microsoft’s Edge mobile browser, has an advisory board with a history of spreading inaccurate information, conspiracy theories, and engaging in unethical journalism. Four out of seven of the members on the advisory board are alumni from the presidential administrations of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. […]
PayPal Blacklists Free Speech YouTube Alternative ‘BitChute’…
Payment processing service PayPal has blacklisted free speech YouTube alternative “BitChute,” stopping the platform from receiving or sending any money through its service, which BitChute used as its main payment processor. BitChute blames the action on its “stand against the current trend in censorship.” BitChute announced the blacklisting in a blog post, Wednesday, declaring, “A […]
Stone Indictment Underscores That There Was No Trump-Russia Conspiracy by Andrew C. McCarthy…
Roger Stone is the shiny object. The obstruction charges in his long-anticipated indictment, made public on Friday, are not the matter of consequence for the United States. Nor is the critical thing the indictment’s implicit confirmation that there was no criminal “collusion” conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. What matters is this: The indictment […]
Why Is This Man Spending a Single Day in Federal Prison: The E-Recycler…
It sounds like a scene straight out of the movies. Federal immigration and customs agents burst into an LA home, guns drawn. But the nature of the crime they were tracking will shock you. It doesn’t involve terrorism, murder, drugs or even illegal immigration. The target— was a recycling advocate. His incredible saga is today’s […]
Firefox Browser Introduces Anti-Tracking Privacy Settings…
In a blog post, Firefox’s Vice President of Product Strategy, Nick Nguyen, outlined the browser’s new privacy settings. “One of the features we outlined in our approach to anti-tracking was Enhanced Tracking Protection, otherwise known as ‘removing cross-site tracking’. We initially announced in October that we would roll out Enhanced Tracking Protection off-by-default. This was […]
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Granted Changes to Bail Conditions, Future Court Session…
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was granted changes to her bail conditions in a Vancouver court today. She is currently on bail in Canada, where she faces possible extradition to the United States, who have filed a formal extradition request for Meng over fraud charges related to U.S. sanctions against Iran. Through her lawyer David Martin, […]
Google Manipulates Search Results on ‘Controversial’ Topics, Report Says…
Google tweaks search results on topics the company deems “controversial,” two Google sources revealed to Breitbart. Sometimes, the company even changes the results manually—something its chief executive, Sundar Pichai, denied in sworn testimony. Among the singled out topics were abortion, gun-control activist David Hogg, the February 2018 An-148 Russian plane crash, the December 2018 Strasbourg […]
What Is 5G? Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Newest Cell Phone Technology…
Just the other day, I was sitting on my couch in North Carolina, face-to-face with my nieces, who were cuddling on their couch hundreds of miles away. They were breathlessly recounting, in the way children of a certain age do, how they spent their snow day. The usual: sledding, screaming, making snow angels. But just […]
U.S. Announces Set of Indictments Against Huawei Ahead of Trade Talks with China…
The Trump administration unveiled a sweeping set of actions — including criminal charges — against China’s Huawei Technologies Co. in its latest salvo against the telecom giant, with authorities unsealing a set of indictments just days before U.S.-China trade talks are set to resume. In a pair of cases unsealed Monday, federal prosecutors accused Huawei […]
Facebook Turned a Blind Eye to ‘Friendly Fraud’ as Kids Racked Up Thousands on Games…
In 2011, Facebook sent out a memo to employees to help them educate game developers about the company’s fraud practices. One of the bullet points in that memo read: “Friendly Fraud – what it is, why it’s challenging, and why you shouldn’t try to block it.” In Facebook’s jargon, “Friendly Fraud” refers to people accidentally spending money on […]
The Globotics Upheaval: The Globots Coming for the Middle Class…
Assange Prosecution Will Focus on Chelsea Manning Era Releases, Not DNC Emails…
It seems that the shades have finally been ripped off of the persecution of Julian Assange. Fallen by the wayside is the pretense used to justify his arbitrary detention: allegations of sexual misconduct, of Russian involvement, and of aiding Trump’s ascension to the Presidency. Gone is the pretense that it is not the rabid wolves […]
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Is Big Tech Merging with Big Brother? Kinda Looks Like It…
A friend of mine, who runs a large television production company in the car-mad city of Los Angeles, recently noticed that his intern, an aspiring filmmaker from the People’s Republic of China, was walking to work. When he offered to arrange a swifter mode of transportation, she declined. When he asked why, she explained that […]
Cannot Imagine: China Starts “Debt Shaming”: New App Warns Users if They Are Walking Near Someone in Debt…
Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Hebei have rolled out an app over WeChat which can tell people if they’re walking near someone in debt, according to China Daily. The program, aptly named “map of deadbeat debtors,” flashes a warning if someone in debt is within a 500-meter radius – showing their exact location according to a screenshot […]
Want to Heal the Internet? Ban All Collection of User Data…
The social media/search giants have mastered the dark arts of obfuscating how they’re reaping billions of dollars in profits from monetizing user data, and lobbying technologically naive politicos to leave their vast skimming operations untouched.I’ve been commenting on the cancerous disease that’s taken control of the Internet– what Shoshana Zuboff calls Surveillance Capitalism–for many years. Here is […]
Boeing Pilotless Air Taxi Lifts Off the Ground…
Boeing on Wednesday offered a glance at a futuristic alternative to crowded freeways when its prototype autonomous air taxi — essentially a flying car with no driver — lifted off the ground for the first time on a test takeoff. “In one year, we have progressed from a conceptual design to a flying prototype,” said […]
I Tried to Block Amazon from My Life. It Was Impossible…
Apparently, I am a masochist. I am on a mission to live without the tech giants—to discover whether such a thing is even possible. Not just through sheer willpower but technologically, with the use of a custom-built tool that would literally prevent my devices from accessing these companies, and them from accessing me and my […]
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