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Accenture Employees Demand Their Company Break Ties With U.S. Border Patrol
CEO Pierre NantermePhoto: Francois Mori (AP) Last year, consulting megafirm Accenture inked a nearly $300 million contract with Customs and Border Protection to help the agency recruit around 7,500 staffers over a period of five years. The tech industry’s complicity with CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—agencies widely criticized as helping enact President Trump’s…
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Democratic Senators Press Carriers Over Allegations of Video App Throttling
Image: Lisa Poole (AP) Following recent research that found U.S. telecom companies were throttling video streaming services like Netflix and YouTube, three Democratic senators are now calling for a response from those major mobile carriers in letters to their respective company heads. Citing a multi-university study that collected data on the practice using an app…
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Mistake in Filing Suggests WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Has Been Charged
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2011.Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth (AP) Following an earlier report that the Justice Department was looking to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Washington Post has now reported that Assange may have been charged under seal in a revelation that appears to have stemmed from a mistake in a court filing. The…
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ASUS prepares two powerful budget smartphone with a bigger battery
The company ASUS is preparing to release two advanced dolgorukij smartphone series ZenFone Max. Details about them shared Roland Quandt (Quandt Roland), editor of the well-known regular leaks of the German resource WinFuture, using your Twitter account. Smartphone ASUS ZenFone Max Pro M2 model number ZB631KL is equipped with a 6-inch display with Full HD…
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Figure of the day: How many ATMs all over the world under the threat of hacking?
Figure of the day: 85% ATMs worldwide are under threat of hacking. Company Positive Technologies conducted a study on the security of ATMs and found that about 85% of devices vulnerable to attacks aimed directly at stealing money. Experts looking for vulnerabilities in 26 models of ATMs of NCR, Nixdorf and Diebold GRGBanking. All of…
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Declassified specifications and price smartphone Xiaomi Mi Note 4
The network began to appear details about the upcoming smartphone Xiaomi Mi Note 4, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. The novelty will replace last year’s not too expensive smartphone Xiaomi Mi Note 3 with dual camera. In contrast to the predecessor, the smartphone will go to the frameless design. Xiaomi Mi Note is…
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Electronic Arts announced the re-release of the game Command & Conquer
The company Electronic Arts officially announced the updated version for games Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert. Previously about the upcoming wave of re-releases said on Reddit, Electronic Arts producer Jim Vesella (Jim Vessella), but gave no details, but simply asked users to share their thoughts on the matter. All three add-ons bundled…
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The Japanese Minister of cybersecurity admitted that he had never used a computer
Japanese Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada (Sakurada Yoshitaka), responsible for cybersecurity, has caused astonishment to the public, confessing, I never used the computer. The answer he gave to Parliament on the question about using USB flash drives. 68-year-old Yoshitaka Sakurada holds the position of chief of the government office for cyber security and is also the Minister…
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Under the Greenland glacier discovered the 31-kilometer impact crater
An international group of scientists working under the guidance of Kurt Cyrus from the University of Copenhagen, during a topological research found almost a kilometer-thick ice of the glacier Hiawatha in the North-West of Greenland, a huge impact crater with a diameter of about 31 kilometers. In the course of their work, scientists used data…
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Hibernation in space: is it possible to immerse the person in a state of hibernation?
No film about interstellar travel is not complete without diving into a deep sleep. “Prometheus”, “Passengers”, everywhere we see the main characters Wake up in the cabins hibernation, restart your fragile physiology from the long stationary state of the fossils, often with the eruption of gastric fluids, i.e. simply by vomiting. This cruel process, apparently,…