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CrowdStrike, the third-party company relied upon by the FBI to make its assessment about alleged Russian hacking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was financed to the tune of $100 million from a funding drive last year led by Google Capital. Google Capital, which now goes by the name of CapitalG, is an arm of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company. Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Alphabet, has been a staunch and active supporter of Hillary Clinton and is a longtime donor to the Democratic Party. On Thursday, a senior law enforcement official told CNN that the DNC “rebuffed” the agency’s...

The FBI may have been forced into a misstep when investigating whether Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee -- the agency never directly examined the DNC servers that were breached. Instead, the FBI had to rely on forensic evidence provided by third-party cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which the DNC hired to mitigate the breach. “The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the necessity of obtaining direct access to servers and data, only to be rebuffed,” the agency said on Thursday in a statement....

No One Cared About Hacking until We found Out How Corrupt Liberals Are By S. Noble - January 6, 2017 US major government and military organizations are hacked all the time by endless numbers of foreign and domestic actors. Nothing was done to fix our cybersecurity. But let a privates organization like the DNC get hacked or careless John Podesta’s emails get hacked and all hell breaks loose. John Podesta left his smart phone in a cab, he fell for a phishing incident and his password was ‘passwØrd”. Hillary put our state secrets on a personal server she kept in...

A bill backing key changes in the H1-B programme that allows skilled workers from countries like India to fill high-tech jobs in the US has been re-introduced in the US Congress by two lawmakers who claim that it will help crack down on the work visa abuse. The ‘Protect and Grow American Jobs Act’ makes important changes to the eligibility requirements for H1-B Visa exemptions was re-introduced on Wednesday by Republican Darrell Issa and Scott Peters—both from California. The bill among other things increase the minimum salary of H-1B visa to $100,000 per annum and eliminate the masters degree exemption....

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange made the shocking revelation and said a 14-year-old could have hacked into John Podesta’s computer. Assange also claimed Clinton made “almost no attempt” to secure her private emails Speaking to Fox News, Mr Assange, said: “We published several…emails which show Podesta responding to a phishing email. “Podesta gave out that his password was the word ‘password’. “His own staff said this email that you’ve received, this is totally legitimate. “So this is something….a 14-year-old kids could have hacked Podesta that way.” Mr Assange also claimed Clinton made “almost no attempt” to keep her private emails secure...

Charles Krauthammer reacts to newly-minted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) remarking "making America great again" requires more than a tweet from President-elect Trump. BRET BAIER: On the Senate side, the top Democrat there, Chuck Schumer, took to the floor for his first speech talking about the president-elect's communication. SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER: These issues are too important for mere words. Our challenge is too entrenched for mere tweeting. Making America great again requires more than 140 characters per issue. With all due respect, America cannot afford a Twitter presidency. BAIER: Charles. CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Sore loser. The tweets are...

Journalist-turned-political gadfly Charles Jaco pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing President-elect Donald Trump. But he will pull a Twitter post every now and then. About 9 a.m. Monday, in response to a Salon magazine article that wondered if Trump could become a "JFK-like president," the former KTVI (Channel 2) reporter wrote: (TWEET-AT-LINK) "Does this mean we can look forward to a November drive through Dallas?" (For the young and/or uninformed, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas.)[continued]

Just when you thought we had left the US election back in 2016, it comes back to haunt us again in the headlines. Remember back during the US election campaign when WikiLeaks released emails relating to Hillary Clinton? Well, if you’ve been watching the news lately you’ll know US President Barack Obama and the FBI have pointed the finger at Russia, saying the Russians tried to interfere with the election result. But there’s one person who is certain that’s no the case, and it’s not Donald Trump. It’s WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has sat down for an interview with...

Bjorn Nyland has just posted a glowing review of the Hyundai Ioniq Electric. Bjorn is a video blogger who has made an international reputation by creating videos about road trips he has taken in his Tesla Model S and Model X. In fact, creating content for this YouTube channel has become nearly a full time job for him. Earlier this year, he won a Tesla Model X in a Tesla referral contest by generating more Model S referrals than anyone else in the European area. Nyland is committed to the electric car lifestyle and is now branching out to cover...

Rosie O’Donnell made an ominous threat against Donald Trump when she sent out a tweet writing that he’s “MENTALLY UNSTABLE” and urged Americans to “STOP HIM” before it’s too late. “LESS THAN 3 WEEKS TO STOP HIM AMERICA,” Rosie O’Donnell tweeted. O’Donnell added a CNN report to the message having to do with a biographer being “booted off” Trump’s golf course because the president-elect was unhappy with something he wrote about him. (TWEET-AT-LINK)

Are Apple products not to be transferred? My step daughter gave me her old Iphone. I had no problem getting service for it. I was told Apple does in store classes/tutorials on the product. When I inquired about them I was asked about my Apple code or ID and other like information. This made me wonder if I wold be denied assistance with this product as it was originally registered in her name? Cannon was like this on a printer I could not prove ownership on (who retains purchase info from years ago?). Thanks

There’s no standing allegation by U.S. officials that the Russians (or anyone else) “hacked” into our elections system or altered vote counts. So what are the allegations and facts as we know them? The FBI and DHS released a brief joint report Thursday describing “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity.” It doesn’t include forensic proof of Russian government involvement in hacking efforts, but the administration is rushing a detailed, classified report to be delivered, at President Obama’s request, prior to President Trump taking office January 20. The joint report can be summarized this way: •The U.S. believes two hacking groups tied to...

As new research reveals, right wingers understand far better than liberals how cyberspace can connect like-minded souls Before we finally let go of 2016, it’s worth reflecting on what we learned from it. For me, the most striking lesson was the way it demonstrated how the internet has changed democratic politics. While there is no single, overarching explanation for Donald Trump’s election, his ascendancy would have been unthinkable in a pre-internet age, for two reasons. The first is that much of Trump’s campaign rhetoric would never have got past the editorial “gatekeepers” of an earlier era – the TV network...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said he has unrevealed information about alleged Russian hacking during the presidential election that he plans to present next week. Speaking briefly to reporters on his way to a New Year’s party in the U.S. state of Florida, Trump responded to a query about the alleged hacking by saying: “I know things that other people don’t know” and “you will find out on Tuesday or Wednesday [January 3 or 4].” He also said that he still believes the hacking of emails of U.S. Democratic Party officials could have been carried out by “somebody else” other...

A watchdog group contends that even though former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lost the election, the American public still has a right to know the contents of her official emails from her time as secretary of state under President Barack Obama’s first term. Judicial Watch maintains that it has won a major court ruling from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in a case that would require Secretary of State John Kerry to seek the help of the Attorney General in recovering Clinton’s additional emails. Chris Farrell, who serves as director of Research...

When you spend a lot of time thinking about emerging technology, you begin to notice certain things that are naturally just assumed to be true about the future, as if everyone just knows them. These ideas are so widespread and infrequently challenged that they come to seem inevitable. These are also things that a lot of people really want to be true. What a coincidence. So we take for granted that electric cars are the future, and the internal combustion engine is on the way out. That we're going to power everything with renewable energy, especially solar, and oil is...

Talk about bad timing. After the election, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have stoked hysteria over Russian hacking of the DNC and John Podesta’s e-mails. Obama just kicked 35 Russian diplomatic officials out of the country over the allegations, turning it into a major diplomatic rift. Just as this contretemps appears to have reached its zenith, two notorious figures who stole massive amounts of diplomatic and national-security data and exposed it to the world have asked Obama to pardon them, as Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports — one of whom now lives under Vladimir Putin’s grant of asylum: Four of...

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In an extraordinary development Thursday, the Obama administration announced a series of sanctions against Russia. Thirty-five Russian nationals will be expelled from the country. President Obama issued a terse statement seeming to blame Russia for the hack of the Democratic National Committee emails. "These data theft and disclosure activities could only have been directed by the highest levels of the Russian government," he wrote. Russia at first pledged, darkly, to retaliate, then backed off. The Russian press today is even reporting that Vladimir Putin is inviting "the children of American diplomats" to "visit the Christmas tree in the Kremlin," as...

As 3D printing continues to develop and evolve, we’ve begun to see it branch off quite a bit from the typical image of a machine depositing layers onto a flat build platform. 3D printing has been adapted to print onto preexisting objects, onto fabric, and in multiple directions. Machines capable of doing these fancy tricks are still rare and expensive, though, and not quite accessible to the average maker, but that may not be the case forever. A group of UK researchers recently published a paper about their efforts to develop an affordable system that can 3D print onto uneven,...