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Here’s What’s in the Senate’s Massive Bill Funding the Tech War With China

It's a far cry from the $100 billion in National Science Foundation funding the Senate originally considered.

Politics Tom McKay

A Capitol Hill Tech Vendor Is the Latest Ransomware Victim

The attack on iConstituent comes amid a string of high-profile cyberattacks against major U.S. businesses.

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

FBI Effort to Expose ‘USA Today’ Readers Was Likely Unlawful, Experts Say

The FBI announced Saturday it had withdrawn a subpoena seeking to identify readers of a USA Today story concerning a Florida shooting that left two of its agents dead. The decision to do so, however, is purportedly unrelated to allegations raised in court last week by USA Today’s publisher, which accused the FBI of violating…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Nigeria Will Arrest and Prosecute Users That Try to Get Around Its Twitter Ban

One day after it banned Twitter, Nigeria announced that authorities would arrest and prosecute users who attempted to use the social network, whose app and website were still available to some in the country on Saturday despite the ban. A spokesman for Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s attorney general and minister of justice, revealed the government’s new…

Social Media Jody Serrano

Justice Department Says It’ll No Longer Quietly Seize Reporters’ Records in Leak Investigations

The U.S. Department of Justice will no longer secretly obtain the records of journalists during leak investigations, the White House said in a statement Saturday. “While the White House does not intervene in criminal investigations, the issuing of subpoenas for the records of reporters in leak investigations is not consistent with the President’s policy direction…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Lauren Boebert Spends Drought Hearing Rambling About ‘Green New Deal Extremists’

The West is facing a crippling drought, but Lauren Boebert is focused on what truly matters.

Climate Change Molly Taft

New Biden Executive Order Bans U.S. Investment in Huawei and 58 Other Chinese Tech Companies

Following a previous Trump executive order that banned some Chinese companies from buying U.S.-made tech, this week President Biden issued a new executive order banning U.S. entities from investing in 59 different Chinese tech and defense companies. In a statement published by the White House, the Biden administration says the new executive order is designed…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Which Countries Will Receive America’s Donated Covid-19 Vaccine Doses?

The White House announced on Thursday that the U.S. will donate at least 80 million covid-19 doses to countries around the world by the end of June, with the first 25 million doses going out to nations in the very near future. But where exactly are the doses heading? About 19 million of the first…

Health Matt Novak

Dildo Drone Interrupts ‘Tough on Crime’ New Mexico Sheriff’s Speech, Chaos Ensues

A New Mexico sheriff running as the tough-on-crime candidate for the mayorship of Albuquerque was buzzed at a campaign event on Tuesday by a small drone with a giant dildo attached to it. Per the Albuquerque Journal, Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales III was speaking at Revel Entertainment, a venue with multiple bars and restaurants,…

Tech News Tom McKay

The Old QAnon Gang Is Back on the Campaign Trail

Media Matters has released the latest edition of its now-regular QAnon candidates series: the checklist of people running for Congress who also adhere to conspiracy theories that helped motivate a violent insurrection. One has even talked about participating in that event. Some already hold office. Fun with friends from the internet. Out of the 19…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Matt Gaetz Clarifies He Meant ‘Armed’ Government Overthrow, Not Murdering Tech Workers

There are increasing signs that Matt Gaetz’s future prospects aren’t great. The GOP congressman’s ex-girlfriend is cooperating with the feds, his former “wingman,” the one who accused him of sex trafficking a minor, is cooperating with the feds, and now there are stories about planes of young women in the Bahamas. Conspicuously, there’s no phalanx…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Ron Watkins Is Done With Q and Has Moved On to Aliens

Ron Watkins, conspiracy-peddler extraordinaire, has found his next gig: leaking “disclosures” about extraterrestrials, Julian Assange-style. Yes, do yourself a favor and check out “AlienLeaks,” a new website Watkins just launched that he claims will be a destination for secret “never before seen” documents and disclosures involving extraterrestrials. In an insult to Assange and actual whistleblowers…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Hoo Boy, the Feds Sure Have a Lot of Dirt on Big Rudy

Rudy Giuliani, gin-pickled simulacrum of a lawyer and former personal attorney to Donald Trump, is in even deeper shit than was previously known. And the shit he was in was already known to be very deep. Last month, federal agents raided Giuliani’s New York home and offices. For prosecutors to execute a search warrant on…

Politics Tom McKay

With the 2021 Tokyo Olympics Looming, US Issues Do-Not-Travel Advisory for Japan

On Monday, the U.S. State Department issued a Level Four: Do Not Travel advisory for Japan, urging Americans to exercise caution when traveling to the country just two months before it’s set to host the 2021 Summer Olympics. In tandem with the State Department’s warning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its own separate…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

U.S. Agency Ran ‘Rogue’ Police Force, Spied on Americans’ Social Media

A security unit tasked with assessing threats against the U.S. Department of Commerce used counterintelligence tools to gather information about U.S. citizens and foreign visitors to the United States, unauthorized surveillance that included the monitoring of Americans’ Twitter accounts for comments critical of the government, according to a senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. Ahead…

Tech News Dell Cameron

India Asks Social Media Platforms to Take Down References to ‘Indian Variant’ of Coronavirus: Report

India’s information technology ministry has reportedly sent notices to social media platforms asking them to censor content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the coronavirus. In a letter issued on Friday and reviewed by Reuters, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology asked several social media companies to “remove all the content” that names…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Bipartisan Privacy Bill Promising Easier Opt-Outs and Tech Transparency Actually Has a Chance of Passing

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing forward a privacy bill meant to offer some much-needed transparency on the data being hoovered by our digital devices. And for once, a bill like this actually has a chance of passing. This week, Senator Amy Klobuchar reintroduced the 2019 Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act to…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

Everything You Need to Know About the Cyber Ninja Clown Car That’s Crashing Through Arizona

Republicans in the Arizona Senate—obsessed with overruling Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 elections—have been working with a shady, virtually unknown firm named Cyber Ninjas to audit 2.1 million votes in Maricopa County. This farce comes despite the objections of the county’s election officials, who insist their own audit has already proved…

Politics Tom McKay

Anonymous Donors Keep the Climate Denial Machine Chugging

There’s lots of talk from the GOP and fossil fuel companies these days about changing their tune and finally getting really serious about climate change. But new research shows that not much has changed in the world of organized climate denial: It’s still massively funded by mostly anonymous donors shielding major conservative actors, and money…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Leaked Police Docs Show a Lot of Disturbing but Mostly Dumb Plans Made by the Boogaloo Bois

A recent leak from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. reveals ongoing surveillance of right-wing activists in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6th Capitol riot and the lead-up to President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The documents in question were stolen several weeks ago by the ransomware gang Babuk. According to leaked chats between police…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Here’s What’s in the Senate’s Massive Bill Funding the Tech War With China

A Capitol Hill Tech Vendor Is the Latest Ransomware Victim

FBI Effort to Expose ‘USA Today’ Readers Was Likely Unlawful, Experts Say

Nigeria Will Arrest and Prosecute Users That Try to Get Around Its Twitter Ban

Justice Department Says It’ll No Longer Quietly Seize Reporters’ Records in Leak Investigations

Lauren Boebert Spends Drought Hearing Rambling About ‘Green New Deal Extremists’

New Biden Executive Order Bans U.S. Investment in Huawei and 58 Other Chinese Tech Companies

Which Countries Will Receive America’s Donated Covid-19 Vaccine Doses?

Dildo Drone Interrupts ‘Tough on Crime’ New Mexico Sheriff’s Speech, Chaos Ensues

The Old QAnon Gang Is Back on the Campaign Trail

Matt Gaetz Clarifies He Meant ‘Armed’ Government Overthrow, Not Murdering Tech Workers

Ron Watkins Is Done With Q and Has Moved On to Aliens

Hoo Boy, the Feds Sure Have a Lot of Dirt on Big Rudy

With the 2021 Tokyo Olympics Looming, US Issues Do-Not-Travel Advisory for Japan

U.S. Agency Ran ‘Rogue’ Police Force, Spied on Americans’ Social Media

India Asks Social Media Platforms to Take Down References to ‘Indian Variant’ of Coronavirus: Report

Bipartisan Privacy Bill Promising Easier Opt-Outs and Tech Transparency Actually Has a Chance of Passing

Everything You Need to Know About the Cyber Ninja Clown Car That’s Crashing Through Arizona

Anonymous Donors Keep the Climate Denial Machine Chugging

Leaked Police Docs Show a Lot of Disturbing but Mostly Dumb Plans Made by the Boogaloo Bois

Amazon Clears Out Govee LED Smart Light Bulbs (2-Pack) at a Record Low, Each Bulb Costs Just a Few Dollars

The First Proper ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Trailer Is a ’90s Anime Fever Dream

JBL PartyBox Club 120 Speaker Drops Back to Black Friday Pricing for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale Only

YouTuber Resolves Fraternal Disagreement With Excavator and Hilariously Large Sword

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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