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China Hacked a Navy Contractor and Stole 600GB of Data
Photo: Getty Hackers working for the Chinese government compromised a US Navy contractor and stole a massive cache of highly sensitive data, including details about a planned supersonic anti-ship missile, American officials said Friday. The hack, reported by the Washington Post, took place in January and February and resulted in more than 614 gigabytes of…
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Looks Like White House Chief of Staff John Kelly Got Hacked
Photo: Getty White House Chief of Staff John Kelly informed his staff in an email that one of his personal email accounts hacked while he was still serving as Secretary of Homeland Security, confirming previous reports that suggested one of his phones may have been compromised. The breach, which the White House has previously declined…
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Anheuser-Busch Pulls Funding From Controversial, Industry-Backed NIH Study on Daily Drinking
Photo: Getty The National Institutes of Health has taken a whole lot of heat for allegedly cozying up to Big Alcohol in order to secure funding for a major study on the effects of having a daily drink. On Friday, the NIH lost one of its backers from the booze business, as brewing giant Anheuser-Busch…
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Florida Didn’t Run FBI Background Checks on Gun Buyers for a Year Because of a Forgotten Login
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Factory Making Amazon Products in China Violated All Kinds of Labor Laws
Photo: Getty Factory workers in China tasked with building Amazon’s popular Echo speakers and Kindle e-readers are exposed to horrendous work environments and conditions that often are in violation of Chinese law, a recent report from a watchdog group found. China Labor Watch spent nine months investigating the working conditions of a Foxconn-owned factory that…
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Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Is Allegedly Looking to Start Another Company
Photo: Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes lost everything—and nearly $900 million of other people’s money—when her bunk blood-testing startup Theranos went into full meltdown, resulting in the layoff of nearly all staff and civil charges of “massive” fraud for Holmes and former company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. But she’s reportedly not done yet, according to an…
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Canada’s ‘Random’ Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn’t Actually Random
Photo: Getty Last year, Canada introduced a new lottery system used to extend permanent-resident status to the parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens. The process was designed to randomly select applicants in order to make the process fairer than the old first-come, first-served system. There’s just one problem: the software used to run the lottery…
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Get Ready for More Mergers if the AT&T-Time Warner Deal Goes Through on Tuesday
Photo: AP Telecom giant AT&T has been fighting like hell in court to pull off its $85 billion acquisition of content company Time Warner, which owns everything from HBO and Warner Bros to DC Comics. It’s been opposed by the Department of Justice, which has formally argued that it’s against the deal on antitrust grounds…
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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy and Galaxy J7 J3 2018
Company Samsung Electronics has presented in the United States updated version of the Galaxy smartphones and Galaxy J7 J3 entry-level Model.. 2018 inherited the design with the frames around the display and a standard aspect ratio, not succumbing to the fashion for the frameless design. Samsung Galaxy J3 (2018) equipped with a 5-inch display with…