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Everything You Wanted To Know About The Oscars, Including A Link To All Of The Winners
If you want the summary, all of the acting awards went as expected; Guillermo del Toro won Best Director; and Shape of Water won Best Picture. But here's everything. … Read More
Latitude Oscars 2018 winners and losers
KATIE COURIC: Tech Companies ‘Do Not Care About Stories’ And The Journalism Industry.
Surveillance Valley:
1200 Australian New Agencies Are Selling Fractions of Crypto ...
London Now More Dangerous Than New York, Crime Stats Suggest
New Orleans says it had no idea it’s been the testing laboratory for a Silicon Valley precrime tool.
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`NSA-proof’ Tor actually funded by US govt agency, works with BBG, FBI, DOJ – FOIA docs RT. Tom d: “A bit reminiscent of the Per Wahloo novel “Murder on the Thirty-First Floor”: All the dissidents are lured into one work space–and killed.”
Trump jokes about impeachment, Melania during Washington dinner
Trump jokes about impeachment, Melania during Washington dinner
Italy's voters ditch the centre and ride a populist wave
Peter Thiel makes offer to buy Gawker, the news site he helped bankrupt |
At least 30 dead as French embassy comes under attack in Burkina Faso. “The bloodshed began when five of the gunmen jumped out of a pickup truck in the city centre, shouted ‘Allahu Akhbar’ (‘God is greatest’ in Arabic), set fire to the truck and opened fire on passers-by. They then ran towards the French embassy, according to witnesses who saw the attack from the state television offices facing the embassy.”
REPORT: Andrew McCabe Authorized Media Leaks, Misled Investigators.
William Collins will publish the first book by Cambridge espionage historian Svetlana Lokhova revealing the "greatest pre-war triumph of Stalin’s secret services".
Technology and our increasing demand for security have put us all under surveillance. Is privacy becoming just a memory?
Not fine: Time for Vikki Campion's friends to stage an intervention
The Secret History of the Plot Against Gawker
A new book pieces together the strange legal saga that was sparked by a 2007 Gawker post outing the billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel.
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday's new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now. Peter Thiel's..
Via Quora, there are 23 answers on this posting – so this is just one –read all of them here: “#1 — Google tracks you. We don’t. You share your most intimate secrets with your search engine without even thinking: medical, financial and personal issues, along with all the day to day things that make you, well, you. All of that personal information should be private, but on Google it’s not. On Google, your searches are tracked, mined, and packaged up into a data profile for advertisers to follow you around the Internet through those intrusive and annoying ever-present banner ads, using Google’s massive ad networks, embedded across millions of sites and apps. So-called incognito mode won’t protect you either. That’s a myth. “Incognito” mode isn’t really incognito at all. It’s an extremely misleading name and in my opinion should be changed. All it does is delete your local browsing history after your session on your device, but does nothing from stopping any website you visit, including Google, from tracking you via your IP address and other tracking mechanisms like browser fingerprinting. Here’s the fine print:
To keep your searches private and out of data profiles, the government, and other legal requests, you need to use DuckDuckGo. We don’t track you at all, regardless what browsing mode you are in. Each time you search on DuckDuckGo, it’s as if you’ve never been there before. We simply don’t store anything that can tie your searches to you personally, or even tie them together into a search history that could later be tied back to you. For more details, check out our privacy policy…”
Two Australians hurt in Kabul car bomb
At least 30 dead as French embassy comes under attack in Burkina Faso. “The bloodshed began when five of the gunmen jumped out of a pickup truck in the city centre, shouted ‘Allahu Akhbar’ (‘God is greatest’ in Arabic), set fire to the truck and opened fire on passers-by. They then ran towards the French embassy, according to witnesses who saw the attack from the state television offices facing the embassy.”
REPORT: Andrew McCabe Authorized Media Leaks, Misled Investigators.
The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog will criticize former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for authorizing leaks to the media and giving misleading statements to investigators about doing so, according to two new reports.McCabe, 49, authorized FBI officials to speak to the media for articles prior to the 2016 election, including one about an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation, according to a report being prepared by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.The FBI No. 2 also misled watchdog investigators when they initially asked about the media disclosures, according to The Washington Post.The New York Times also reported details of Horowitz’s report, which is expected to be released in March or April.
William Collins will publish the first book by Cambridge espionage historian Svetlana Lokhova revealing the "greatest pre-war triumph of Stalin’s secret services".
A Foreign Power’s Recruitment Effort Is Not a Basis for a FISA Court Warrant Andrew McCarthy, National Review
What Mueller Has and What He’s Missing The American Conservative