Zelenskyy"s new T-shirt riffs on Trump — and annoyed the Kremlin
Zelenskyy"s new T-shirt riffs on Trump — and annoyed the Kremlin.....»»
Google and Apple said to have removed Navalny voting app as Russian elections begin
A voting app created by allies of prominent Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was removed from Google and Apple's online stores in Russia just as polls opened for parliamentary elections, according to a series of tweets from Navalny's team on Friday......»»
Facebook forced troll farm content on over 40% of all Americans each month
Report blames Facebook’s prioritization of engagement over all else. Enlarge (credit: Chesnot | Getty Images) In the wake of the 2016 election, Facebook knew it had a problem. Pages and fake accounts created by the Kremlin-backed Internet Re.....»»
The Equity crew riffs on the Intuit-Mailchimp news
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We are back! From this morning, I suppose. But the news cycle doesn’t wait for our publishing schedule, so the E.....»»
High-throughput method of identifying novel materials
Coupling computer automation with an ink-jet printer originally used to print T-shirt designs, researchers at Caltech and Google have developed a high-throughput method of identifying novel materials with interesting properties. In a trial run of the.....»»
A Secretive Pentagon Program That Started on Trump"s Last Day in Office Just Ended. The Mystery Has Not.
A Pentagon program that delegated management of a huge swath of the Internet to a Florida company in January -- just minutes before President Trump left office -- has ended as mysteriously as it began, with the Defense Department this week retaking c.....»»
Biden backs end to wolf protections but hunting worries grow
President Joe Biden's administration is sticking by the decision under former President Donald Trump to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. But a top federal wildlife official on Friday told The Associated Press there is growing.....»»
How COVID-19 death rates impacted 2020 presidential voting patterns
In the fall of 2020, some political analysts predicted voters mourning the loss of friends and loved ones to COVID-19 would have blamed then-President Donald Trump for mismanaging the pandemic and, in turn, be more likely to vote for Joe Biden than t.....»»
TikTok named as the most downloaded app of 2020
The Chinese app's popularity comes even after former President Donald Trump tried to ban it in the US......»»
US settles with Trump admin whistleblower who exposed botched COVID response
Rick Bright warned US wasn't ready for COVID. He was demoted and Trump called him a "creep." Enlarge / Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, steps out of the hearing room before testifying ab.....»»
Study finds the cost of partisanship among federal workers
When Donald Trump became president in 2017, federal employees who lean Democratic found themselves working for an administration they didn't agree with. The same thing happened eight years earlier to Republican bureaucrats when Barack Obama took offi.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Social climbing
Fear is back with the deadly combination of pandemic politics and a vicious variant. The good news is that if enough people took the shots we could cut the damage to something manageable. The other good news is progress on the twin issues of Trump an.....»»
Russian Hackers Continue With Attacks Despite Biden Warning
Security researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing hacking campaign carried out by suspected Russian spies who are continuing to stage attacks amid U.S. pressure on the Kremlin to curtail its alleged cyber-intrusions. From a report: The Californ.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Social Climbing
Fear is back with the deadly combination of pandemic politics and a vicious variant. The good news is that if enough people took the shots we could cut the damage to something manageable. The other good news is progress on the twin issues of Trump an.....»»
Hardcore porn appears on news sites, including the Washington Post, after Vidme domain purchase
Twitter user @dox_gay (via Motherboard) spotted the hardcore filth popping up between stories about Martin Shkreli, Donald Trump, and more. Sites across the internet, including The Verge, Mashable, and Uproxx, were suddenly showing the likes of “Ma.....»»
TikTok, Biden administration agree to drop litigation over Trump-era app store ban
TikTok and the US government agreed on Wednesday to drop a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's attempt to ban the short-form video app from US app stores......»»
Republicans Call For Amazon To Testify On Pentagon Relationship
Republicans are questioning Amazon's relationship with the Pentagon after newly released emails show that defense officials praised tech executives vying for a $10 billion contract during the Trump administration. The Verge reports: On Tuesday, The N.....»»
Trump sues Twitter and Facebook for banning him, claims “trillions” in damages
Trump "free speech" case likely doomed by First Amendment and Section 230. Enlarge / A mob of Trump supporters stormed and breached the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump's incitement of the mob led to his bans from major social networks. (cre.....»»
Trump is suing Twitter, Facebook and YouTube over censorship claims
In his first press event since ignominiously leaving office earlier this year, former President Donald Trump announced that he is launching a volley of class-action lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, claiming that the three companies vio.....»»
Trump’s new lawsuits against social media companies are going nowhere fast
Trump’s spicy trio of lawsuits against the social media platforms that he believes wrongfully banned him have succeeded in showering the former president with a flurry of media attention, but that’s likely where the story ends. Like Trump.....»»
Trump is suing Twitter, Facebook and Google over censorship claims
In his first press event since ignominiously leaving office earlier this year, former President Donald Trump announced that he is launching a volley of class action lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, Google and their CEOs, claiming that the three co.....»»