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Amazon, FBI.gov, and 70,000 Other Sites Are Sending Your Data to Elon’s Twitter, New Research Says
In October, Elon Musk purchased Twitter for a cool $US44 ($61) billion dollars. Among a variety of other assets and headaches, the deal came with one resource that’s gone under-explored: a vast data collection network spanning the sites of more than 70,000 Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, non-profits, universities, and more. Given Twitter’s history of…
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Gettr Promised Users It Would Free Them From Big Tech, But It’s Tracking Them for Facebook and Google
Gettr, just one of the interminable Facebook/Twitter clones for MAGA chuds angry about social media rules against conspiracy theories and bigotry, sold itself to potential users as a way to escape the totalitarian tyranny of tech giants like Facebook and Google. Surprise! That pitch comes with a million caveats, the first and foremost of which…
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Former Senior Pentagon Official Says China is Kicking Our Arse in Artificial Intelligence
A former senior Pentagon official recently quit his job over frustrations with the government’s apparent inability to make meaningful headway on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity — two areas he says China will likely surpass us in if we don’t get our shit together.
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Report: Russian Cyber Spies Recently Hacked the Republican National Committee
According to a new investigation from Bloomberg, cyber spies connected to the Russian government recently hacked into the Republican National Committee — though the RNC has denied that their systems were breached in this way.