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At the moment, a virtual private network (VPN) is a great way to protect your data from hackers. It offers sophisticated encryption that will keep your data hidden from third parties, including cyber criminals, government bodies, and advertisers.However, not even all the best VPNs offer protection that’s future-proofed. You may not be aware of them yet, but there are already highly sophisticated quantum computers that use quantum physics to render their computations significantly more efficient than those performed by classical computers. Because of their superior processing power, these quantum computers have the ability to break encryption methods used to protect...

[H/T bitt]In what experts are calling the largest data breach ever recorded, researchers have confirmed the exposure of a staggering 16 billion password leaks, affecting platforms including Apple, Facebook, Google, Telegram, GitHub, VPN services, and even government portals. This unprecedented breach is believed to be the result of multiple infostealer malware campaigns operating at a massive scale throughout 2025. If the recently reported 184 million credential leak was alarming, this latest development represents a full-scale cybersecurity disaster that demands immediate action.What Happened? Understanding the 16 Billion Credential LeakAccording to an ongoing investigation by cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews, led by analyst...

I did a review of my profile at my health clinic today when checking in for a video visit. I noticed some odd things in their Ethnic Background choices list. What do you see? This clinic is in a VERY liberal part of the San Francisco Bay Area. ETHNIC BACKGROUNDSelect all that apply Afghan African American/Black Alaska Native American American Indian Arab Armenian Asian Indian Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Australian Brazilian Cambodian Canadian Caribbean/West Indian (except Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico) Central American/Centroamericano Chinese, except Taiwanese Colombian Cuban Dominican (Dominican Republic/Republica Dominicana) Eritrean Ethiopian European Fijian Filipino Guatemalan Hmong Honduran Indigenous Canadian...

Illegal migrants could soon be held in a massive new immigration detention center in Florida, which has been dubbed the “Alligator Alcatraz.” The 39-square-mile plot of land — which is surrounded by alligators and pythons — was offered to the Trump administration by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. The “virtually abandoned airport facility” would have the capacity to “house as many as 1,000 criminal aliens,” Uthmeier said in a video sharing his offer with the White House. He added that it could be up and running within as little as 30 to 60 days. “Florida’s been leading on immigration enforcement,...

“Shots fired!” shouted Gen Michael Kurilla moments before charging towards the sound of gunfire to save two junior officers.Weaving through the rubble-strewn alleyways of war-torn Mosul, Iraq, the then-lieutenant colonel was pursuing a group of terrorist suspects when three more shots rang out.Taking bullets to the arm and both legs, one snapping his femur in half, he “performed a judo roll” and carried on firing his rifle, witnesses say. As the gunfire continued, he covered his troops and reeled off orders while bleeding on the concrete floor.Nearly 20 years later, Gen Kurilla, who was awarded a Bronze Star for valour...

A tense discussion over the motivations of Trump supporters saw “Squad” Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) sink to new lows, making remarks that has critics calling out her “nutty” denunciation of fellow Americans she looks down on. All supporters of President Donald Trump should seek help, Crockett said on Wednesday, because they are “mentally ill.” The politically incorrect comment came while the Texas lawmaker appeared as a guest on Katie Couric’s “Next Question” podcast. “We’ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone, no matter how you affiliate yourself, should be against Trump, period. This is not partisan for...

Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany ripped the “isolationist” right for embracing the “beachside foreign policy of Joe Biden” on Thursday’s edition of Outnumbered. McEnany’s comments came during a discussion about President Donald Trump and the strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow that he’s reportedly mulling over. “That would be a precision strike, which is what we’re talking about. President Trump, his doctrine is peace through strength. An optimal word in that is strength, and identifying the moments to show American strength as he did with Soleimani, al-Baghdadi ,when he acted in Syria in 2017,” began McEnany. “To the isolationist...

Once the king of smartphones, the BlackBerry is making a nostalgic comeback as Gen Z embraces retro tech for digital detoxes and vintage vibes. Before the iPhone, the BlackBerry was the “it” phone. At its peak in the early 2000s, BlackBerry commanded over 50% of the U.S. and 20% of the global smartphone market. But times changed. Physical keyboards gave way to touchscreens, and eventually, BlackBerry discontinued support for its classic phones in 2022. But this isn’t where the story ends. The 2000s have since made a comeback. As The New York Times recently reported, “Everything Millennial Is Cool Again.”...

Retired U.S. Admiral and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis predicted that President Donald Trump would order a military strike on Iran in the coming days during an appearance on CNN Thursday morning. After beings asked about the “factors” that might be “going into the president’s thinking” as he mulls his options, Stavridis weighed in. “I think all presidents begin with pros and cons. The pro is pretty obvious here. U.S. has the ability, using these big, bunker-busting bombs we’re talking about constantly, in all probability to take out definitively the beating heart of the Iranian nuclear program at...

The pilot of a small private jet that crash landed in southern California last month and killed everyone on board, including a famous drummer, clipped a power line during landing while flying too low a preliminary report has revealed. The Cessna 550 Citation plummeted into San Diego's Murphy Canyon neighborhood in the early hours of May 22 as it made its final approach for Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport. Daniel Williams, a former drummer for metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, and famed music producer Dave Shapiro - who is believed to have been the pilot - were among the six people...

1. Saudi Arabia seeks regime change in Iran. 2. US/Israel, EU, Arab neighbors seek (not always admmitedly in public) disarmed nuclear-Iran, especially Israel which has been threatened with annihilation by Islamic fascist Republic. 3. Phony-anti-war pro-war Tucker Carlson prefers nuclear Iran, emboldening head of terror snake. 4. All of the above does not mean there is a need (now) for '[boots] on the ground,' in today's drone age. 5. The vast contrast of Islamic Republic (just like Arab "Palestinian" regimes) targeting civilians VS Israeli warning for civilians to evacuate while operating against hostile targets, is as clear as ever. 6....

SNIPSpeaking to the Connecticut Forum in Hartford, the former president called for institutions, law firms, universities, members of both parties and even Justice Department figures to make “uncomfortable” sacrifices to defend a democracy he argued is increasingly under fire in President Donald Trump’s second term. He suggested, without ever using Trump’s name, that the US was “dangerously close” to a more autocratic government.“What’s happening is that we now have a situation in which all of us are going to be tested in some way, and we are going to have to then decide what our commitments are,” Obama said, according...

Not a big deal, but just a bit surprised at how little we see Ambassador Huckabee on TV during this Iran mess. I mean I see the Israeli Ambassador to the US, many Israeli leaders (military and civilian), and even Trey Yingst….lol…all the time. Just wondered about why our Ambassador is keeping such a low profile.

One of the most powerful figures at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has admitted she refused the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine while pregnant, even as her agency promoted it as “safe and effective” for all pregnant women. Dr. Sara Brenner’s explosive disclosure, made on May 15 at the MAHA Institute Round Table in Washington, D.C., is as revealing as it is troubling. Brenner, a preventive medicine physician, has worked at the FDA since 2019. As the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner — and briefly its acting commissioner — Brenner was at the center of decision-making. Prior to that, she was...

Iran is suffering blow after blow, and Russia, its most powerful supporter, is apparently not prepared to do much of anything about it. Not long ago, backing the West’s least-favorite power in the Middle East had its uses. In prosecuting his war of attrition in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has made confrontation with the West the organizing principle of his foreign policy. In that context, edging closer to Iran and its partners in the “Axis of Resistance” made sense. ........... A defenseless Iran will not respond well to Russian sticks, and in any case, Moscow is unlikely to take a punitive...

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., filed a House resolution Tuesday looking to block U.S. involvement in the Middle East conflict between Iran and Israel. Massie's resolution features numerous Democrat co-sponsors, including progressive legislators like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y.; Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. If passed, the resolution would block President Donald Trump from engaging in "unauthorized hostilities" with Iran.

A Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming care for minors can stand, the US supreme court has ruled, a devastating loss for trans rights supporters in a case that could set a precedent for dozens of other lawsuits involving the rights of transgender children. The case, United States v Skrmetti, was filed last year by three families of trans children and a provider of gender-affirming care. In oral arguments, the plaintiffs – as well as the US government, then helmed by Joe Biden – argued that Tennessee’s law constituted sex-based discrimination and thus violated the equal protection clause of the 14th...

As President Donald Trump privately mulled joining Israel’s campaign against Iran this month, one member of his Cabinet sent what he viewed as an audacious attempt to steer him in the opposite direction. At 5:30 a.m. on June 10, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a cryptic, three-minute video warning that “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers” — and that the world is “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.” Trump saw the unauthorized video and became incensed, complaining to associates at the White House that she had spoken out of turn, according...

The Texas Legislature cancelled the state’s program to build its own border wall as the legislative session came to a close, having spent more than $3 billion to build only about 65 miles of scattered segments. In December 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced the program at a press conference along the border, the first of its kind in the country, banging a mallet on one of the wall’s metal beams as he “declared the barrier to be impenetrable,” reported The Texas Tribune, but that bold declaration soon ran into challenges: “It’s heavy and it’s wide,” he said assuredly....

him preparing by putting his glasses away was like a scene from a movie