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#GreenShirtGuy is the cure for political absurdity
Social media discourse is generally unhinged. But for those who follow US politics, simply opening the Twitter or Facebook app is like jumping into a swirling vortex of rage and blame. It's as though we've forgotten how to communicate with one another as mature, professional adults. ...
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AT&T employees bribed with $1M to unlock millions of phones
Millions of mobile phones were unlocked by AT&T insiders who took bribes to plant malware and remove the phones from the ...
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8chan booted out by Cloudflare after El Paso shooting (Updated)
Cloudflare announced it's terminating service for far-right message board 8chan in the wake of deadly mass shooting in El ...
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Activists created a free font made from gerrymandered US voting districts
Ugly Gerry is a new, free font created by a pair of activists apparently fed up with the US government's practice of gerrymandering voting districts. Every letter in the font is composed of images of gerrymandered US voting districts. Though a couple letters (the X, for example) ...
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Senate Intelligence Committee: Russia targeted all 50 US states ahead of 2016 elections
In a heavily redacted report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee today says Russians targeted election systems in all 50 US states ahead of the 2016 elections. This shows a much larger impact than previous reports (which separately noted that 21 states, and then 39 states ...
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Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting 'logic bomb' in spreadsheet software
A contract programmer has pleaded guilty to planting "logic bombs" inside a client's spreadsheets in an attempt to receive ...
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Equifax to pay $700m for breach that exposed 147 million Americans' data
Almost two years after a major data breach hit Equifax, the company has finally agreed to a global settlement with the US ...
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We gave US police, ICE, and CBP AI without regulations in 2016: Now it's 1984
This weekend's ICE raids are essentially a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the government's surveillance state. The same AI-powered tools empowering those agents to identify, target, track, and spy on immigrants without a warrant are already in the hands of police officers, sherriff's ...
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President Trump can't block you on Twitter, federal court rules
The US federal court has ruled today that president Donald Trump can't block his haters on Twitter anymore as he uses it ...
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Secret US Border Patrol hate group exposed on Facebook
Investigative journalist A.C. Thompson from ProPublica today exposed a secret Facebook group for US Border Patrol agents ...
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Facebook bans Huawei from pre-installing its apps, but does it matter?
Facebook has banned the Chinese tech company from pre-installing its apps – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – on Huawei's ...
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The frontline of the abortion battle isn't in Alabama, it's online
As the legislative noose draws tighter around women’s necks, it’s centuries-old technology, or modern adaptation of it ...
