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Enlarge (credit: Mike Mozart) AT&T is fighting back against the Trump administration’s attempt to block its proposed purchase of Time Warner Inc. One week after the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued to block the deal, AT&T filed its first answer to the lawsuit yesterday. AT&T denies the DOJ’s allegations that a combined AT&T and Time Warner […]
Published time: 29 Nov, 2017 14:16 NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has criticized the jaw-dropping security flaw that allows users to log in as an administrator on an Apple Mac operating on High Sierra without even entering a password. READ MORE: Lawmakers endorse renewing NSA’s most controversial spying powers The vulnerability, which involves simply entering ‘root’ […]
Enlarge (credit: Patrick Wardle) In one of Apple’s biggest security blunders in years, a bug in macOS High Sierra allows untrusted users to gain unfettered administrative control without any password. The bypass works by putting the word “root” (without the quotes) in the user name field of a login window, moving the cursor into the […]
After Israel’s Jerusalem affairs minister called for a million Jewish settlers to occupy the West Bank, the US is reportedly putting Palestine on notice. Its Washington office may be closed unless it enters into serious peace talks with Israel. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has determined the Palestinians violated an obscure US law that would […]
Published time: 24 Oct, 2017 21:04 Edited time: 24 Oct, 2017 21:45 The Trump administration is temporarily halting a program to reunify refugees with their family members until more security measures are added, according to a memo obtained by Reuters. The order temporarily delays the processing of refugee applications from 11 countries deemed to be […]
Published time: 21 Oct, 2017 03:34 The Trump administration has until the end of October, less than two weeks away, to find a private sponsor for a 17-year-old illegal immigrant seeking an abortion, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday. The teenage girl is 15 weeks’ pregnant and in US […]
Enlarge / Alaska, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, ANWR, Brooks Range across Coastal Plain. (Photo by: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is moving to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, which could reverse 30 years of conservation efforts in the far north […]
Published time: 11 Sep, 2017 22:18 Legislation seeking to replace Andrew Jackson’s portrait on 20-dollar bills with that of slavery abolition icon Harriet Tubman was introduced in the House of Representatives, after the treasury secretary said the change was not a priority. Lawmakers John Katko (R-New York) and Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) have proposed a legislation […]
Enlarge / ShareBeast piracy site visitors are greeted with this FBI anti-piracy warning today. The admin for a prolific file-sharing site that helped pirates score more than 1 billion tracks now faces five years in prison after pleading guilty to a single count of criminal copyright infringement. Artur Sargsyan, the 29-year-old owner and operator of […]
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