Less than a month before the U.S. presidential election, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued an unprecedented statement denouncing the then-Republican nominee. “[Donald] Trump has insulted and vilified the press and has made his opposition to the media a centerpiece of his campaign,” said…

Briefly Stuff that matters David vs Goliath Shutterstock In a rare bit of good environmental news, voters in California’s fourth-largest oil-producing county passed a measure to ban fracking and other fossil fuel extraction techniques. Proponents won even though oil companies outspent them 30 to…

Lorraine Chow Nov. 11, 2016 09:01AM EST Donald Trump's surprise election win has encouraged Energy Transfer Partners's Kelcy Warren, the CEO of the parent company of Dakota Access LLC, which is building the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). In an interview with CBS This Morning , Warren said he is "100…

Donald Trump may select Jose Rodriguez, one of the primary architects of the George W. Bush torture program, to run the Central Intelligence Agency, according to a law firm with close ties to Trump. Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service, helped developed the CIA black…

‘Elite neoliberalism unleashed the Davos class. People such as Hillary and Bill Clinton are the toast of the Davos party. In truth, they threw the party.’Photograph: Ruben Sprich/Reuters T hey will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or…

L eonard Cohen was always the grownup in the room. He was young once, of course, but the world never saw much of the modestly successful poet and novelist from Montreal. He was already 33 — ancient by 60s standards — when he gazed out from the sepia-tinted, photo-booth snapshot on the cover of…

Trump has called global warming a ‘bullshit’ Chinese-invented hoax and wants the US to exit the Paris climate deal.Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images The ripples from a new American president are far-reaching, but never before has the arrival of a White House administration placed the livability…

Musical artists are reacting with outrage at the dismissal of the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, calling the move an aggressive attack that is part of a larger effort to erode their creative rights and bolster advocates of free content. "This is a major affront to copyright," said songwriter and…

Earlier this month, we discovered a piece of encryption malware targeting Russian users. One of its peculiarities was that it uses Telegram Messenger’s communication protocol to send a decryption key to the threat actor. To our knowledge, this is the first cryptor to use the Telegram protocol in an…

Cerebrum . 2013 Jul-Aug; 2013: 9. Published online 2013 Jul 1. PMCID: PMC3788166 PMID: 24116266 Disclaimer Jane A. Foster, Ph.D. , is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at McMaster University, and a member of the Brain-Body Institute, St. Joseph’s…

Facebook has responded to widespread criticism of how its Newsfeed algorithm disseminates and amplifies misinformation in the wake of the Trump victory in the US presidential election yesterday. Multiple commentators were quick to point a finger of blame at Facebook’s role in the election campaign,…

Already, cyber-crime has moved beyond the desktop and corporate network to the world of mobile devices. And with well over 30% of the global population expected to own a smartphone or tablet by 2017 – and some 38% of mobile users having admitted to being the victim of some form of attack in the…

Here’s a list of the 10 tools every white hat hacker needs in their toolkit, says ESET’s Lucas Paus. Sometimes, during security audits, we may encounter a situation where everything is being managed correctly. In other words security patches, policies, network segmentation, antivirus, and user…

Posted by Brooke Heinichen, Safe Browsing Team Since 2005, Safe Browsing has been protecting users from harm on the Internet, and has evolved over the years to adapt to the changing nature of threats and user harm. Today, sites in violation of Google’s Malware , Unwanted Software , Phishing, and…

The NSA Chief Has A Phone For Top-Secret Messaging. Here’s How It Works By Patrick Tucker Technology Editor November 1, 2016 Print The Boeing "Black" phone By Patrick Tucker Technology Editor Read bio November 1, 2016 The Boeing device is less a phone and more a locked-down portal to a faraway…

Turkish internet users are flocking to Tor, the anonymizing and censorship-circumvention tool, after Turkey's government blocked Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Usage of Tor inside of Turkey went up from around 18,000 users to 25,000 users on Friday, when the government started blocking the popular…

The gorgeous colors of Yellowstone National Park’s Grand Prismatic Spring are among the park’s myriad hydrothermal features. (Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel) What makes Old Faithful blow? That is a question scientists are trying to answer as they launch an effort to map the subterranean systems…

Scientists have developed a set of wireless brain and spinal cord implants that helped monkeys with severed spinal cords regain control of their paralyzed limbs and walk again. The device, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, is the first to give a paralyzed primate the ability to control its…

Briefly Stuff that matters FRACKING-A Joe Brusky In recent years, a number of communities in the state have passed local bans, but the state Supreme Court struck them down. Activists then decided to try to change the constitution to allow local fracking bans. So the oil and gas industry then decided…

An airstrike in Bashiqa, northern Iraq, on Tuesday. (Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) The number of civilians killed by U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria is more than double the previous estimate, U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday, after reexamining its air campaign based on…

Members of the Stutsman County SWAT watch protesters demonstrating against the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Stand Rock Sioux Reservation, as they stand next to a police barricade on Highway 1806 in Cannon Ball, N.D., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Standing Rock, North Dakota — Widespread outrage over…

This morning, Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States, and the ACLU has a message for him. President-elect Trump, as you assume the nation’s highest office, we urge you to reconsider and change course on certain campaign promises you have made. These include your plan to…

Nobody saw it coming. Not the media. Certainly not Hillary Clinton. Not even Donald Trump’s team of data scientists, holed up in their San Antonio headquarters 1,800 miles from Trump Tower, were predicting this outcome. But the scientists picked up disturbances—like falling pressure before a…

How Japan Prepares Its Children for Independence

D ecades ago, behavioral neurobiologist David Crews read a strange report about the desert grassland whiptail, a small, slender lizard that lives in the sagebrush of the American Southwest. The paper claimed that the species was entirely female, and reproduced by cloning. It tested the limits of…

2014 – If you were on the Mac Web in July 2007, you probably saw Fudder’s article, The Very First iPhone – or at least stories about the article or links to it. The mock-up (below) was created by Frog Design , built by Hertmut Esslinger , and bears more than a passing resemblance to the Apple IIc .…

Hillary Clinton was the choice of nearly every American newspaper editorial board. It didn't matter. When it comes to influencing public opinion, the 2016 presidential election demonstrated with sobering effect the weakening role of traditional media and the ascendant power of social networks like…

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With the polls virtually tied, the possibility of a Trump victory is no longer the stuff of dark comedy or fan fiction. It is fair to ask: What would he actually be like as President? Photo Illustration by Ji Lee; Source: Pete Souza / White House (Office); Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / AP (Trump);…

As Donald Trump finishes his campaign with a promise to break the control of Washington by political insiders, his transition team is preparing to hand his administration over to a cozy clique of corporate lobbyists and Republican power brokers. “Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt…

Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on April 10 in Rochester, New York. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images Around 11:30 on Tuesday night, I left CBS News studios in New York City to take a walk and call my wife. We talked about the election. We talked about the very real chance of President Donald…

Californians voted to keep a state ban on single use plastic bags, but decided against a measure requiring paper bag fees to go toward environmental causes. With nearly all precincts counted Wednesday, 51.9 percent voted yes on Prop. 67, keeping the statewide plastic shopping bag ban after a…

The Humane Society of the United States Main navigation Our Big Fights Our Impact How You Can Help Donate Button Donate site search Search Humanesociety.org Breadcrumb News Press Release November 8, 2016 Save Endangered Animals Oregon Share By an overwhelming majority of 70 to 30, Oregon voters…

The Humane Society of the United States Main navigation Our Big Fights Our Impact How You Can Help Donate Button Donate site search Search Humanesociety.org Breadcrumb News Press Release November 9, 2016 Share Animal advocates and family farmers are celebrating the defeat of Oklahoma’s State…

Support the news November 08, 2016 A consumer looks over Whole Foods Market's extensive selection of eggs that already comply with Question 3 requirements. (Andrea Shea/WBUR) Massachusetts voters have approved a measure that bans the sale of products from pigs, calves and hens that aren't provided…

It is election day in the United States, and the tech figure who had one of the biggest impacts on the current cycle is perhaps a non-obvious one: Jeff Bezos. Back in 2013 Bezos bought the Washington Post, whose coverage of the campaign has been exemplary. The august newspaper’s reporting,…

Late last year the U.S. Copyright office launched a series of public consultations to review critical aspects of the DMCA law. This includes a review of the anti-circumvention provisions ( section 1201 ), which prevent the public from tinkering with DRM protected content and devices. A lot has been…