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+21 +1Silicon Valley Thought India Was Its Future. Now Everything Has Changed.
The India that Silicon Valley once so loved has long given way to a different one.
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+23 +1Australian Govt, AFP use AN0M bust to push for new range of encryption busting powers
Want to target bigger messaging services, 'criminal marketplaces'.
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+23 +1Australia is becoming a surveillance state
Government continues to give more powers to law enforcement.
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+24 +1Australian Crime Commission: Only Criminals Use Encrypted Communications
Well, someone finally said the quiet part loud: some government officials actually believe the only people who need, want, or use encryption are criminals. Here's Asha Barbaschow with the "encryption is for criminals" news at...
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+4 +1How automation could turn capitalism into socialism
There can be no doubt that automation is the future of work. There’s plenty of debate as to what extent AI will displace workers in the near and far future, but the general consensus is that blue collar work is an endangered species. It’s only a matter of time before robots can perform skilled human labor better and cheaper than we can. What happens then?
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+21 +1India wants to cut Big Tech down to size. Critics say the new rules may give the state too much power
Internet giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google — collectively known as Big Tech — have accrued billions of users on their digital platforms globally.
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+15 +1Free Money Isn’t Money
Every now and then I see the phrase “I can’t believe this app is free!” on Twitter. Every time I do, it makes me a little uneasy. Is Twitter free? Is any social network free? I know that I’m the product and not the customer to some extent, but what does “free” actually mean in 2021?
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+16 +1Massive Microsoft email hack hits tens of thousands of companies and it hasn't yet been stopped
White House fears significant number of organisations caught in Microsoft hack
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+18 +1Green Party leader urges feds to consider universal basic income as 'safety net' beyond pandemic
Green Party leader Annamie Paul is calling on the federal government to launch discussions on creating a national guaranteed livable income. “A guaranteed livable income is almost inevitably going to have to be part of the solution if we’re going to ensure that everyone has a social safety net beneath them,” Paul said at a roundtable discussion Monday with Independent Sen. Kim Pate and co-founder of Revenu de base Québec Jonathan Brun.
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+15 +1Ted Cruz Is No Hypocrite. He’s Worse.
The senator’s error is not that he was deliberately shirking his duty, but that he couldn’t think of any way he could help. Nero fiddled while Rome burned; Ted Cruz jetted to Cancún. And although the emperor was at least ensconced in a lavish, louche palace, the senator from Texas was stuck in economy class with the peasantry.
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+10 +1UN-sponsored talks produce interim government for Libya
Development prompts mixture of cynicism and hope Libya may be able to puts years of conflict behind it
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+4 +1Billionaires are blaming the GameStop surge on Covid stimulus checks
Billionaire “Bond King” Jeffrey Gundlach is the latest to blame government stimulus cheques for the massive surges in stocks like GameStop that’ve caused Wall Street firms huge losses. “In this case thanks to primarily government policy there’s wherewithal among investors, if you want to call them that, with government money being sprayed all over the place, with checks to people, that they have the wherewithal to put it together into a real capital base,” told Fox Business on Friday.
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+15 +1Joint Chiefs Remind U.S. Forces That They Defend The Constitution
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff reminded American forces Tuesday of their oath to defend the Constitution following the attacks on the Capitol building last week. The letter was addressed to the joint force, which is made up of about 1.3 million active-duty service members and more than 811,000 National Guardsmen and reservists — all of whom swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
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+22 +1If Christmas is so sacred in U.S. history, why did Massachusetts ban it?
When Christians mindlessly harrumph about the supposed “war on Christmas” in swiftly secularizing American society, their understanding of U.S. history seems a bit thin.
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+15 +1U.S. cyber agency says SolarWinds hackers are 'impacting' state, local governments
The U.S. cybersecurity agency said on Wednesday that a sprawling cyber espionage campaign made public earlier this month is affecting state and local governments, although it released few additional details.
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+13 +1Zoom employee secretly censored users on behalf of China, alleges DOJ
A senior Zoom employee falsely accused users of supporting terrorism and distributing child sexual abuse material in an effort to stop them from talking about the Tiananmen Square massacre, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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+4 +1Why People Don't Trust Pfizer's Covid Vaccine
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? Michael Shermer, a famous skeptic, was forced to admit that one of the reasons is that some of them are true. In his research he found that the fact that some conspiracy theories are real feeds people’s suspicion and makes them susceptible to the belief in others that are far less credible.
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+14 +1Bernard Madoff victims receiving more money, 12 years after his arrest
Overseers of two programs to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme have announced $679 million of new payouts, ahead of Friday's 12th anniversary of the now-imprisoned swindler's arrest.
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+2 +1Special Report: U.S. air monitors routinely miss pollution - even refinery explosions
When explosions ripped through a Philadelphia oil refinery last year, the shock waves knocked Felicia Menna’s front door frame out of place. Then came the black smoke.
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+20 +1Money-laundering bill finally back in Australian Parliament despite fight by Law Council, property lobby
As Australia is a global pariah on climate change, it is a pariah for not cracking down on money laundering and financial crime. One of six countries in the world not complying with global rules on money laundering.
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