Study: White Supremacists Use Twitter with ‘Relative Impunity’
White nationalists, Nazis and other racists are using Twitter to spread their hateful messages with “relative impunity,” according to a newly-released study. Reuters reports the study, conducted by the...
View ArticlePresident Obama Says He Wants to Prevent Cyber Arms Race
President Barack Obama at once warned of an international cyber weapons arms race and subtly cautioned Russia and other adversaries that the United States has a greater capacity to wage cyber warfare...
View ArticleYahoo: 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked in 2013
Internet giant Yahoo announced Wednesday that a 2013 hack by an unknown third party compromised the accounts of more than 1 billion users. BBC News reports Yahoo said the attack is separate from...
View ArticleUS Asks Foreign Visitors to Provide Social Media Account Info
Citing the 15-year-long global war against Islamist terrorism, the United States government has started asking some foreign visitors to provide information about their social media accounts. McClatchy...
View ArticleThe Surreal Spectacle of Republicans Embracing Julian Assange & WikiLeaks
Not too long ago, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was Public Enemy Number One to many prominent conservative figures including Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, both of whom openly called for his...
View ArticleTrump Taps Net Neutrality Foe Ajit Pai to Head FCC
President Donald Trump on Monday named Ajit Pai, the senior Republican serving on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to head the agency charged with regulating the nation’s...
View ArticleGoogle’s Eric Schmidt: Donald Trump ‘Will Do Evil Things’
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, told company employees that President Donald Trump is “going to do evil things.” BuzzFeed News reports Schmidt’s remarks came...
View ArticleRepublican Anti-Science Bills Target Children in 4 More States
Republican state lawmakers in four more states, many of them adherents of a theological worldview with no basis in science, are advancing legislation allowing educators to teach “alternative...
View ArticleCanada Sex Toy Company to Pay $3.75M to Settle ‘Spying Vibrator’ Lawsuit
Two women who filed a lawsuit against a Canadian sex toy company alleging its popular Internet-connected vibrator was spying on them have won a $3.75 million ($5 million Canadian) settlement in an...
View ArticleHouse Passes, Trump to Sign, Bill Rolling Back Obama-Era Internet Privacy...
The House of Representatives approved — and President Donald Trump signaled he will sign — a bill repealing Obama-era Internet privacy rules restricting Internet service providers’ ability to track and...
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