Crazy new video game about the 2020 election lets you fight Donald Trump
“Video games cause violence,” a pixelated representation of President Trump declares in the boss battle of a forthcoming video game about the 2020 election, ” …
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Elizabeth Warren has Wall Street donors scared, and now they’re taking a dramatic step
Saturday Night Live loves Elizabeth Warren. The Democratic US Senator from Massachusetts got the SNL treatment once again over the weekend, with the sketch comedy …
How to watch the first 2020 Democratic debates online and on TV
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have no doubt heard about the seemingly endless stream of Democrats who have thrown their hat into …
China fights back against the Huawei ban with a blacklist of its own
The Trump administration delivered a massive blow to Huawei a few days ago, placing the biggest China’s smartphone maker on the US Commerce Department “Entity …
Justice Department says that the T-Mobile-Sprint merger should be blocked
Just days after the FCC came out in favor of the T-Mobile-Sprint merger that has been brewing for the past several years, the U.S. Department …
A serious fight against robocalls could finally be imminent, thanks to the FCC
Hardly anyone needs a reminder of how pervasive the problem of robocalls has become, or how ineffective the action against them has been up to …
FCC demands to know if wireless carriers stopped selling location data like they promised
The FCC is demanding answers from several carriers over a bombshell Motherboard report from earlier this year that revealed how the carriers made a habit …
The NSA now thinks the phone surveillance program it once defended isn’t worth it anymore
The National Security Agency appears to have done a complete about-face over the controversial electronic spying program that whistleblower Edward Snowden brought to light almost …
Ecuador turns WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over to UK police after six years of asylum
London police on Thursday arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of US authorities after Ecuador announced that it would be withdrawing his asylum. Assange …
How to watch Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night
There was some question as to whether or not there would even be a State of the Union this year, amid the chaos of the …
This scary report says the government shutdown is crippling US cybersecurity
At this point, you’re probably sick of reading stories about the ongoing partial government shutdown which, at the time of this writing, still has no …
To make ends meet during the shutdown, federal employees are driving for Uber
One of the results of the partial federal government shutdown now persisting for over a month is that some 800,000 workers on Uncle Sam’s payroll …
Google hit with $57 million GDPR fine, the first for a US tech company
Google has kicked off 2019 by getting hit with yet another multimillion-dollar fine from a European regulator. Stemming from an investigation that began in May …
Unpaid federal workers have set up almost 1,000 GoFundMe pages due to the shutdown
The ongoing federal government shutdown, which entered its 21st day on Friday, and is now tied for the longest ever, is very much a political …
On his first trip as POTUS to a war zone, Trump exposes details about SEAL Team 5
The day after Christmas, with a partial government shutdown under way, President Trump made his first visit to troops in a combat zone. These things …
California is considering taxing its citizens for sending text messages
Regulators in California have come up with a proposed plan to raise more money to pay for expanding internet connectivity in the state by adding …
Lawmakers are finally preparing to take action to stop all those annoying robocalls
It’s not exactly asecret that robocalls have gotten out of control. According to data published last month by Consumer Reports, about one-third of all calls …
The FTC may be coming after video game loot boxes
During a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing this week, New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan grilled commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission about video game loot boxes …
Facebook takes down hundreds of fake accounts ahead of US midterm elections
With less than a month to go before millions vote in the US midterm elections, Facebook has removed hundreds of pages and accounts that were …
Does Android stifle competition? DOJ antitrust chief says Google could be investigated
Makan Delrahim, President Trump’s antitrust chief at the U.S. Dept. of Justice, told congressmen this week that Google could very well find itself the subject …
Telecoms industry sues California to kill strict net neutrality law
Just days after California Governor Jerry Brown signed a statewide net neutrality bill into law, four telecoms industry organizations have filed a lawsuit against the state, …
Stung by hacks, the Democratic National Committee is switching from Android to iPhones
Bob Lord, chief information officer of the Democratic National Committee, swears this is not a “religious debate.” But after the alleged hacks of its systems …
Political campaigns can ask for new tools from Facebook to help ward off hackers
We’re less than two month away from the midterm elections, and Facebook has decided to roll out a new suite of tools to protect campaigns …
Here’s something congressmen actually agree on: Google’s China plans sound alarming
David Cicilline, a U.S. Rep. from Rhode Island, blasted Google with a tweet on Thursday that said the search giant shouldn’t be using its vast …
Google fights back as Donald Trump claims the site is biased against him
Earlier this week, Donald Trump started complaining on Twitter about how Google was suppressing positive stories about his administration from conservative sites while promoting “fake …
Trump going after Google, Facebook, and Twitter is pretty hypocritical
Donald Trump on Tuesday posted messages on Twitter to complain that Google is supposedly suppressing good news about him, and, therefore, that it’s “rigged” against …
Big telecom is lobbying against California’s net neutrality bill with the dumbest possible strategy
California is currently moving at speed to pass a state-wide net neutrality bill that would give the state’s residents some of the strongest protections in …
Iranian state media is connected to a misinformation campaign Google disclosed today
Well, that was fast. One day after Facebook’s former chief security officer Alex Stamos made headlines for declaring it’s “too late” to protect the 2018 …
DOJ starts new war on encryption, this time with Facebook
As part an investigation into MS-13, the U.S. Department of Justice is trying to box Facebook into the same corner it tried to put Apple …
FCC Chairman defends lying about fake DDoS attack – even after admitting he knew the truth
After a year of investigation, a truth that many news outlets and net neutrality advocates have been shouting about since 2017 has been proven. During …
