On December 2nd, 2025 with 24 comments
The UK government plans to ban political donations made in cryptocurrency over fears of anonymity, foreign influence, and traceability issues, though the ban...
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On July 8th, 2025 with 45 comments
An impostor pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress by sending them voice and...
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On April 19th, 2025 with 213 comments
"There has never been a consensus or a 'smoking gun' to explain what started the pandemic," writes ABC News.
Yet the Associated Press reports that "A federal...
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On January 26th, 2025 with 196 comments
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: "Every US intelligence agency still unanimously maintains that Covid-19 was not developed as a biological weapon," CNN...
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On January 6th, 2025 with 75 comments
As America begins a six-day state funeral for former president Jimmy Carter, Microsoft co-founder/philanthropist Bill Gates shared "my fondest memory" this...
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On December 29th, 2024 with 76 comments
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. Born in 1924, he had just celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1st.
If you want to catch a glimpse of his...
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On October 8th, 2024 with 30 comments
A long-shot congressional challenger in Virginia is so determined to debate the Democratic incumbent one more time that he created an AI chatbot to stand in...
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On September 1st, 2024 with 203 comments
To make America the "crypto capital of the planet," former U.S. President Donald Trump promised crypto-friendly policies, writes Politico, which "could have a...
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On August 13th, 2024 with 189 comments
Hackers at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas identified vulnerabilities in voting machines slated for use in the 2024 U.S. election, but fixes are unlikely...
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On July 21st, 2024 with 687 comments
"It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President," U.S. President Joe Biden announced today. "And while it has been my intention to seek...
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On July 10th, 2024 with 211 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: US officials say they have taken action against an AI-powered information operation run from Russia,...
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On July 5th, 2024 with 283 comments
Britain's Labour Party was projected on Thursday evening to win a landslide election victory, sweeping the Conservative Party out of power after 14 years, in a...
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On March 1st, 2024 with 36 comments
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled today that police must now have a warrant or court order to obtain a person or organization's IP address. CBC News reports: ...
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On October 2nd, 2023 with 173 comments
MacKenzie Sigalos writes via CNBC: Sam Bankman-Fried, the alleged crypto criminal who stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest financial frauds in...
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On February 22nd, 2023 with 19 comments
Tech privacy advocates frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill are looking to mine state capitals for legislative victories. From a report: A broad bipartisan...
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On February 10th, 2023 with 143 comments
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., intends to make his focus in the current Congress a legislative package aimed at protecting children online -- including by setting...
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On January 9th, 2023 with 312 comments
House Republicans plan to launch a new investigative panel this week that will demand copies of White House emails, memos and other communications with Big...
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On October 24th, 2022 with 173 comments
Rishi Sunak will become Britain's next prime minister, prevailing in a chaotic Conservative Party leadership race on Monday after his remaining rival for the...
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On August 7th, 2022 with 401 comments
Slashdot reader Charlotte Web writes: At 3:02 p.m. EST, vice president Kamala Harris began presiding over the U.S. Senate.
After a vote on the very last...
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On August 3rd, 2022 with 4 comments
White House adviser Tim Wu, who worked to shape the Biden administration's agenda to increase economic competition, is set to leave his position in the coming...
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On July 30th, 2022 with 141 comments
This week U.S. lawmakers drew closer to passing a $369 billion bill with wide-ranging climate provisions.
It helps U.S consumers buy electric vehicle...
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On July 24th, 2022 with 129 comments
A long-awaited bill in the U.S. Congress proposes $79 billion (over 10 years) to boost U.S. semiconductor production, reports the Associated Press, "mostly as...
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On May 26th, 2022 with 79 comments
A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the nation's largest tech companies is facing fresh resistance from a faction of Senate Democrats over complaints...
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On May 12th, 2022 with 406 comments
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing legislation that would strip the Walt Disney Company of special copyright protections granted to the corporation by...
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On May 11th, 2022 with 55 comments
The Senate has voted to confirm privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission. The confirmation secures a Democratic voting majority at the...
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On April 18th, 2022 with 23 comments
Boris Johnson has been told his Downing Street office has been targeted with "multiple" suspected infections using Pegasus, the sophisticated hacking software...
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On November 11th, 2021 with 16 comments
The U.S. is now part of an international agreement on cybersecurity that the Trump administration declined to sign up for, Vice President Kamala Harris...
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On November 8th, 2021 with 116 comments
So apparently three Stanford professors are offering some tough-love to young people in the tech community. Mehran Sahami first worked at Google when it was...
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On June 9th, 2021 with 73 comments
The White House announced this week that it will establish a task force to address supply chain challenges in key sectors where "a mismatch between supply and...
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On April 23rd, 2021 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A series of senior European MPs have been approached in recent days by individuals who appear to be...
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