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Tech Workers Pledge Not To Help Trump Build Muslim Database
More than 1,200 software engineers and tech workers from a veritable who’s who of the tech world have signed an on-line pledge not to participate or help any Donald Trump administration initiative to design or build a proposed database to track people in the US based on their race, religion... Read more
UK Law Makes Big Brother A Reality
Until now, it was only your crazy brother-in-law who tried to convince you that the government was spying on your computer, but go ahead and grab yourself a tinfoil hat: the UK has just passed a law that gives them the authority to monitor all citizens’ internet use, including... Read more
Twitter Suspends Alt-Right Accounts…And Its CEO
You gotta love the foibles and missteps that go along with any tech company, but this one is near the top of the list for ironic–and hopefully laughter-inducing–mistakes. Twitter has been on a rampage suspending accounts that now violate its “play nice” rules, and according to TechCrunch, its own... Read more
Obama Says He Is Unable to Pardon Edward Snowden
Outgoing US President Barack Obama has said that he cannot pardon 33-year-old former NSA contractor Edward Snowden currently in exile from US authorities in Russia. The statement came in response to mounting pressure from vocal advocates of Snowden, including prominent privacy groups, civil libertarians, and well known writers. While... Read more
Canada Immigration Website Traffic Surges And Crashes In Wake Of Trump Victory
The official Canadian website for ‘Citizenship and Immigration Canada’ has stopped working. Speculation across the internet seems to point to the sheer number of people from the USA investigating the idea of moving to their northern neighbour’s country. Data from Google seems to indicate that searches for ‘move to... Read more
Software Issues Plague Government Agencies
There’s no arguing the fact that government offices at every level are strapped with very limited budgets, which often results in a reliance on vastly outdated software and hardware. When one agency finally comes up with the funding to invest in a new administrative software, it doesn’t mean the... Read more
USA Hands Out New Toddler Screen Time Advice
The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has announced new screen time guidelines for children under three years old While previously the AAP had advised no screen time for at all for children under the age of 2, the advice has now changed. The AAP which first issued that recommendation back... Read more
Google Launches ‘Fact Check’ Feature In Time For US Elections
With the US Presidential elections just around the corner, Google has introduced a fact checking category to its news service so that users can separate fact from fiction in a ‘post truth’ world. “Today, we’re adding another new tag, “Fact check,” to help readers find fact checking in large... Read more
President Obama on AI: Great Hopes And Great Concerns For The Future
He also likes Star Trek, and says it does influence his world view. As both guest Editor-In-Chief and interviewee in this month’s edition of Wired magazine, Obama has outlined both optimism and cynicism about the future of technology, its impact on the world at large, and the growth of... Read more
US Officially Accuses Russia Of Hacking DNC Network
Russia has been formally accused by the US government of hacking the US Democratic National Committee’s computer network (DNC) in order to ‘interfere’ with the US presidential race. On Friday, the Obama administration firmly placed the blame for the stealing and disclosing of emails from the DNC, and from... Read more
Yahoo Secretly Scanned User Emails For US Government
According to a news report from Reuters, Yahoo last year designed custom software that searched all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials. Yahoo is currently in the process of being taken over by Verizon Communications in a $4.8bn (ÂŁ3.8bn) deal. “Yahoo is... Read more
Moscow Dumps Microsoft

Moscow Dumps Microsoft

EmailNews September 29, 2016

Moscow has announced that it is to begin moving the email software on thousands of the city’s computers away from Microsoft towards home grown options. The city is to start by removing Microsoft Exchange server and Microsoft Outlook on 6,000 computers. According to a report by Bloomberg.com, email systems... Read more
EU Wants Free WI-FI For All By 2020
Free WIFI for everyone was just one of the major proposals from the European Commission annual State of the European Union address on Wednesday made by President Jean-Claude Juncker. The idea is to try and ensure that free Wi-Fi European Commission will be available across all public spaces throughout... Read more
Facebook Co-Founder Donates $20 million to Clinton Campaign
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of social media giant, Facebook, has given a ‘number of organisations’ a $20,000,000 boost for the sole purpose of helping Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election. Announcing the multi million dollar contribution in a blog post on Medium, entitled “Compelled To Act“,... Read more
EU Considers Relaxing Broadband Regulations For Telecom Companies
The EU may be considering slashing the regulations that Internet Service Providers have to abide by in order to increase the roll out of fibre optic networks across Europe. At present, any company that installs fixed line fibre broadband infrastructure is legally obliged to grant access to other broadband... Read more
More Suspicious Election Issues Blamed On Software
This is perhaps one of the most controversial election cycles in US history, with a nation firmly divided and the glimmer of potential for a viable third-party candidate finally being bandied about. With the chaos–and yes, embarrassment–that has embodied the campaigns, the November election promises to be a spectacle.... Read more
Hackers Breach US State Election Boards
In the Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis comedy “The Campaign,” the quintessential good guy loses the election. He bemoans the results by saying he doesn’t understand what happened since he was ahead in the polls. The POV switches to the stickers on the voting machines; they were made by the victorious... Read more
Russian “Pizza Hacker” Found Guilty In US Court
Roman Seleznev, the son of a prominent Russian politician, and fabled “Pizza Hacker,” has been convicted in a US court of hacking into U.S. businesses, mainly in the Washington area, to steal credit card information in an international online theft scheme that netted him millions of dollars before he... Read more