Showing posts with label bezos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bezos. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Amazon workers demand time off to ‘grieve’ SCOTUS abortion ruling: report.

NY Post: Amazon workers demand time off to ‘grieve’ SCOTUS abortion ruling: report.

Amazon employees upset over the recent decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade asked the company for “space and time” to “grieve” and “protest against this assault on our rights,” according to a leaked letter.

The petition was reportedly signed by hundreds of employees at the Seattle-based retail giant, according to Insider. A copy of the petition was posted online by the Twitter account “Libs of TikTok.”

The letter also demands that Amazon “cease operations in states that enact laws that threaten the lives and liberty of abortion seekers, either by denying healthcare in life threatening circumstances or by criminalizing abortion seekers and providers.”

The Letter at Libs of Tik Tok.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Facebook Messenger Kids app flaw let thousands of children chat to strangers online. Facebook 2Q lobbying spends more than Amazon and Google.


It’s promoted as a ‘safe kids’ chat app’, but new findings may put you off letting your children use the Facebook Messenger Kids app.

A design flaw has been discovered within the app, that allowed thousands of children to chat to strangers online.

A report by The Verge revealed that Facebook has quietly been closing down these group chats and alerting users, but did not make a public statement about the issue.
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...the flaw meant that children could be added to group chats with strangers, as long as one of their trusted contacts had added them.
MarketWatchFacebook tops Amazon and Google in 2Q lobbying spending.
Facebook Inc. shelled out $4.1 million on lobbying Washington in the second quarter, topping the outlays by other so-called FAANG companies and keeping the tech giant on pace for another record year of spending to influence lawmakers and regulators.
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Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.00%  wasn’t far behind with $4 million[.]
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Google business spent $2.9 million from April through June[.]
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Netflix Inc.,...spent a relatively modest $200,000.
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Monday, January 21, 2019

Covington Catholic High School - Indigenous Peoples March - Black Hebrew Israelites: Social Media Judgment in Nanoseconds.

Nathan Phillips, Native American or Agent Provocateur?

In a previous post I noted that in the Liberal manufactured non-altercation altercation, American Native, Nathan Phillips, deftly executed de-escalation between the law-abiding MAGA-cap wearing students of Covington Catholic High School and the Black Hebrew Israelites. Maybe the motives of Mr. Phillips weren't entirely the altruistic intentions to de-escalate a potential and  explosive confrontation. Maybe some, part, or all of his agenda was pure Liberal activism. He has a history of activism.

Mr. Phillips served our country in Viet Nam. I Thank Mr. Phillips for his service to our country. He is the only one who knows his true intentions. Did he make his move to de-escalate based on sincere motives in attempts to prevent physical mayhem or was it a political calculation? He's the only one who holds the true answer. Does it matter, really, either way?

It was the Black Hebrew Israelites instigating the Covington, Kentucky students. Some of the students had the gall to wear MAGA hats in public. Should we line them up before a firing squad? Remove their MAGA hats, blindfold them, let them smoke a final cigarette?

Why would anyone expect anything based from social media to be true or even near accurate, without first making efforts to verify? And even then, we don't know the true story. Look how long it took before it was discovered that the Homeless Vet-GoFundMe story was a scam. The U of Virginia fake rape story is another example of many.

Those of us holding dissimilar political ideology from The Deranged Left are asked to be tolerant of Trump-haters wearing vagina hats, representations of "art" depicting the slicing President Trump's throat, calls to lock the Trump children in cages, elected officials referring to Trump saying "we're going to impeach the motherfucker", countless hours devoted to fake news about Trump and is administration and a list as long as the Great Wall of China of one, negative, slanted story after another about Trump and his admin.

I hate to even mention them, (you can search for them), but spend some time reading at Raw Story or Vox. They're a joke. Fiction. Their stories read all the same:
"[Insert any imaginable impeachable offense] IF TRUE, could pose big problems for Trump."

"An anonymous former White House insider confides that [insert horrible thing about Trump]. IF TRUE, this is the end of Trump."
And people believe this.

Here's the perfect example. The fake front page of the Washington Post from last Thursday saying "Trump Leaves Office."
Liberal activist group Code Pink posted a video on Facebook of the organization's founder, Madea Benjamin, passing out copies of the paper at what appears to be a Capitol Hill office building.

In the video, Benjamin tells people, "The crisis is over - Trump has left the White House." Later, she adds, "You gotta believe in the Washington Post."
Benjamin reads a headline, without hesitating concludes "you gotta believe in the Washington Post", and proceeds to disseminate inaccurate information. Genius! Liberals now "Question Nothing" as opposed to not so long ago where they encouraged everyone to "Question Everything."


Technology provides us the luxury of an amazing amount of online information and resources on all subjects and stories. We have ample opportunity to look at multiple sides of any story, and then assessing - with as much information as we can learn from all sides - a conclusion based on what our searches gathered. Instead, technology as hastened knee-jerk reaction to an all-time high with no one looking beyond the first three search results, let alone pages two or three.

Read something from one source (especially the one that reinforces your preformed "beliefs"). Assume it's true. Immediately publish a comment on social media, throw up a clip on YoutTube, text someone dis/misinformation, mass email the news to your Antifa members. All within seconds.

Your character, of lack of it? Assessed in nanoseconds based on your skin color, gender and if you're wearing a MAGA hat. This, from the Liberal mindset that prides itself on "how can you KNOW ME based on my appearance?"

Don't expect the MSM or social media, in future similar instances like the above, to take time and research the backstory. "Instant News", verified or not, will continue. Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, I'm guessing it will get increasingly ugly and more disgusting than we can imagine. Intolerant behavior from The Left will reach heights exceeding our wildest imagination.

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Fake editions of Washington Post Circulated in DC; claim Trump resigned.

Chicago Tribune: Fake Editions of The Washington Post handed out in D.C.
Fake editions of The Washington Post claiming that President Donald Trump was leaving office were handed out Wednesday morning at multiple locations in Washington, D.C.
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...the fake newspaper's lead story said that Trump had left a resignation message on a napkin in the Oval Office and left Washington for Yalta, the famous Crimean resort as the site of a meeting of Allied heads of state during World War II.
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Liberal activist group Code Pink posted a video on Facebook of the organization's founder, Madea Benjamin, passing out copies of the paper at what appears to be a Capitol Hill office building.

In the video, Benjamin tells people, "The crisis is over - Trump has left the White House." Later, she adds, "You gotta believe in the Washington Post."
Thursday's real front page of the Jeff Bezos Peoples' Republic is below.


Contributing author: Anthony Curtis

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Ex-Mrs. Bezos Just Became the Richest Woman in World. (Unless there's a Prenup).

BBC: Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie to divorce.
"After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends," the couple said in the statement.
The news even made it into the Jeff Bezos Peoples' Republic.

Bezos: Successful Alien-Human Hybrid

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Tech News

Data breach at Amazon - ITPro Portal:
Amazon may have suffered a data breach that saw customer names and email addresses leaked.
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...users confirmed on Twitter that they had gotten an email from Amazon, which the retailer later confirmed to be genuine, notifying them that the data has been shared, accidentally.

We don't know how it happened, exactly when it happened, or who the information was shared with / to. 
Who knew? No one saw this coming.
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No one saw this coming either: Is your CPAP machine spying on you? ArsTechnia:
Tony Schmidt discovered something unsettling about the machine that helps him breathe at night. Without his knowledge, it was spying on him.
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A multimillionaire businessman from South Sudan’s capital city reportedly won the auction after offering a record “price” — of 530 cows, three Land Cruiser V8 cars and $10,000 — to marry the child, Nyalong Ngong Deng Jalang.
Disgusting. FB needs to be held accountable.
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C|NetLeather clad, luxury laptop:
Instead of taking a slim laptop and sticking it in a leather sleeve, as one might do with any other similar system, the leather case here is built right in. No, it's not Corinthian leather, but it's still pretty nice.

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ZD Net - Everything you need to know about the cannabis industry:
...marijuana is one of the most exciting growth industries in the US as it becomes legal in some states, attracts investment, and becomes a vertical that can utilize multiple technologies ranging from the internet of things to cloud to analytics.
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When to hire a cyber security expert? Tech News World:
[Cyber security] itself is increasing in importance, it remains a truism that many smaller organizations (and in fact, some mid-sized ones) don't have specialized security expertise on staff.
Is is too late for Amazon?
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Time-travel into the past. 13 years ago, Microsoft trashes Linux. BetaNews:
Linux bashing is nothing new for Microsoft, which has set up a dedicated Web site to detail why customers should choose Windows Server over the open source operating system. This week at the IT Forum, Microsoft announced the results of a new study that shows Windows as more reliable and easier to manage than Linux.
What a joke. Keep releasing "patches", MS, for your wonderful OS.
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'Smart Watch' tracker of children easy to hack. TechDirt
A location-tracking smartwatch worn by thousands of children has proven... you guessed it... rather trivial to hack. The MiSafes Kid's Watcher Plus is a "smart watch for kids" that embeds a 2G cellular radio and GPS technology, purportedly to let concerned helicopter parents track their kids' location at all times. But security researchers at UK's Pen Test Partners have issued a report calling the devices comically unsecure.
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Technology.Org64 SpaceX satellites ready to launch:
...the U.S. kicked around the idea of putting large reflectors in orbit during the Vietnam war, effectively abolishing night over southeast Asia. There have also been ideas to put advertising in space… though for now, you won’t have to worry about Pepsi or McDonald’s logos drifting through your astrophotos.
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Five songs that could make you a dangerous driver. The Drive:
British car loan financier Moneybarn recently released a study outlining how our choice in music can affect our driving. It found that songs with tempos that exceed 120 beats per minute (bpm) can make people subconsciously drive faster, which makes them more liable to draw negative attention from law enforcement.
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...the 12th most common song on driving (or riding) playlists, AC/DC's "Back In Black" has the misfortune of being the cliche soundtrack for Baby Boomers on Harley Davidsons. Again, it doesn't tip the scales for high-energy lyrical content, but its tempo of 188 bpm is eclipsed by just one song on the chart.
Make it so loud that my ears bleed! 
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Bleeping Computer - Firefox 65 improvements in Content Blocking settings:
Firefox 65, Mozilla is overhauling how users can configure the Content Blocking settings. With this version, the previously confusing configuration is replaced by three different modes that a user can select that offer varying degrees of blocking and customization.
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Technocracy - Are Smart-Meters spying on you?
“What limits have been placed on data collection and permissions for data collection beyond monthly billing cycle totals?” [asks Smithfield Township supervisors in a] letter dated Nov. 14, to FirstEnergy’s president, regional president, state president, the state Office of Consumer Advocates and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. “The notice sent to our residents makes no mention of this, yet is it is of prime concern to us in order to protect and secure data of our residential households.”
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UbergizmoFuture Apple watches may monitor UV exposure.
Apple has filed for a patent that describes how future Apple Watches could come with a built-in UV sensors that are embedded around the frame of the Apple Watch. These sensors will alert the wearer when they’ve been exposed for too long.
Because...everything is dangerous and we need Apple to save us.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

World News - July 17, 2018

He appears to have a lot of practice sucking co... eating snow-cones.

Former US president Barack Obama has arrived in Kenya for a lower-profile visit than the ones he made to the country as senator and president, still he is making headlines and meeting leaders.
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GlobalNews.caThai cave rescuer called ‘pedo-guy’ by Elon Musk suggests he might take legal action. 
The British cave diver publicly called a “pedo” by tech billionaire Elon Musk is considering taking legal action against the Tesla CEO.
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Musk gave no evidence for alleging [rescuer] Unsworth was a pedophile. Unsworth said he would consider taking legal action against Musk over the remarks[.]
I like, and have a lot of respect for, Musk, and I think we need to listen to what he says about AI and its potential to be used for harm. But his pedo comment is his ego leaping ahead of his intellect. C'mon Elon, you know better.
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Dying RINO John McCain still bitter he's not the president and that he still hates President Donald TrumpAZ Central:
McCain's issued statement was among a number of Republican lawmakers who were condemning Trump's appearance in Helsinki, Finland.
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McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a frequent Trump critic, said in a statement that "no prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant."
Yeah, well, fuck you John. I'll take "Word Phrases That We'll Never Hear For $500:" The Answer is: President John McCain. "What are words that John McCain will go to his death never hearing?" I am correct.
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GNewt GNingrich (who, IMO has never been able to decide what side of an issue he is on or for what length of time) and Lindsay Grahamcrackhead had apoplectical hissy-fits over Trump's words at the Trump-Putin Summit. BBC:
President Trump must clarify his statements in Helsinki on our intelligence system and Putin. It is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected—-immediately.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 16, 2018

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Senator Lindsey Graham...called the summit a "missed opportunity", a "bad day for the US" that will be sign of weakness to Russia."
Yeah, fuck these two dinosaurs. Both are irrelevant and long ago obsolete. And Lindsay...well, when one thinks of a "Strong America", the first person that pops into my mind is Lindsay. He's got that Bruce Willis/Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood aura working for him. Am I wrong?
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France24The EU continues enabling Iran:
... the (European) Council has endorsed the update of the blocking statute annex on the nuclear deal with Iran[.]
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The "blocking statute" forbids EU firms from complying with US sanctions, allowing them to recover damages from such penalties and nullifying any foreign court rulings against them.
And when Iran chomps the ass of any part of the EU...gee, I wonder who the EU will go whining to for protection and assistance?
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Google engineer was beaten to death . Deutsche Welle:
A 32-year-old Google engineer was beaten to death and three others were severely injured... on Friday in the latest incident of mob violence fueled by fake social media messages.
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Since May, at least 25 people have become victims of vigilante justice triggered by fake warnings of kidnappers or organ harvesters circulated on the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp.
Maybe Elon Musk has a plan to solve this problem.
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The ever-competent IMF says trade tensions could pose risks to global economic growth. Italy News Net:
'But the risk that current trade tensions escalate further - with adverse effects on confidence, asset prices, and investment - is the greatest near-term threat to global growth,' IMF Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld said.
And then again, maybe not. I love it when organizations like the IMF, or the World Bank, or the UN put out generalized statements that have as much value as saying, "you know, gambling in Las Vegas could harm you financially." Wow, would anyone think of this shit if it weren't for the IMF, WB or UN? And of course...the EU.
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New Zealand HeraldVaping airline pilot causes plane to plunge 10,000 feet:
Air China Boeing 737 aircraft was flying to the Chinese city of Dalian from Hong Kong when it went down to 10,000 feet (3048m), with oxygen masks deployed.
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"In the preliminary investigation, the co-pilot was found to be smoking an e-cigarette," state-owned China News said[.] 
See, in the U.S. we go and pay good money at amusement parks in order to experience the same kind of thing. With Air China you get two-for-one; one from Corrumn A and one from Corrumn B. It's a Win-Win!

Image: CBC
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China cozies up to, and wants to be BFF with EU. Xinhua Net:
Chinese President Xi Jinping said], "China stands ready to work with the EU on the basis of mutual respect, fairness, justice and win-win cooperation, to make still further progress in the China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership and promote bilateral economic and social development and people's welfare.
No doubt China and the EU will get along...fabulously.
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Coming soon - Carnivore Free Menu? The Politicalization of Food. Globe and Mail:
Plant-based choices will be strongly encouraged and eating more animal proteins will be frowned upon. Switzerland just released a new food guide that encourages consumers to reduce their meat consumption by 70 per cent. It’s happening everywhere.

"When they take the bacon from my cold, dead hands."

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All the little critters living in your house. CBC:
... a team of entomologists spends a week delving into the dark crevices of a typical Toronto house, finding a whopping 112 distinct species. But they say that's no cause for concern; an insect census taken in homes all over the United States revealed that number is about average.
Well, there are worse things, I guess, that could be living in our homes.  (Fast-forward to the 2:30 time mark).
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NDTV -  Striking workers put dent in Amazon's Prime Day Shopping Bonanza
Nearly 1,800 Amazon workers in Spain went on strike Monday during Prime Day, the company's biggest sales day of the year, according to labor activitists [sic]. Thousands more Amazon employees in Germany are expected to walk off the job Tuesday, the second day of the 36-hour sale, for similar reasons. 
CNBCAmazon's Jeff Bezos wealthiest man in modern history.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos’ fortune just crossed the $150 billion mark. That’s $55 billion richer than Bill Gates, at number two.
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Hmmmm...interesting.

Property owned by Pervez Musharraf seized. News Internationalist Pakistan:
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to seize [five luxury properties held] by General (retd) Pervez Musharraf after he failed to appear before the anti-corruption watchdog over allegations of Rs1,000 billion corruption and owning assets beyond means.
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TesFa News - it's a love fest now: Eritrean Embassy in Ethiopia Reopened:
“I feel boundless joy as I convey to you the message of peace, love and good wishes of the people of Eritrea. And, I congratulate you warmly for the successful and historic changes that you have brought about,” President Isaias said at a concert celebrating the peace process at the Millenial Hall in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.
One. More. Time.
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The Week - Donald Trump's Weird Eating Habits:
The president’s diet has been ridiculed as childish and unhealthy. Here is what he eats and some of the weird ways he does it. He normally doesn’t eat breakfast.
OMG - what a heathen. He skips breakfast. (GAAAAASSSSP!) He must be the only one.  Why, I bet Trump wasn't even born in the United States.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Tech News

(I've been updating less over the last few days. I just don't have it in me right now to write on current events, politics and serious stuff.)

My heart and prayers go out to those affected by hurricane Maria.

How to help those affected by Maria and the other hurricanes. 

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Extreme Tech: The World is not ending this coming Saturday, nor is it the beginning of the countdown to 'Doomsday'.

In the extreme case, yet tiny percent chance that it does happen, we know who to blame: Russia.
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I LOVE BetaNews. (It's Tech dopamine for the IT crowd.) The Librem 5 smart phone has both GNOME and Purism in its corner in developing a PRIVACY BASED cell phone.

Via: Beta News
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GizmodoEquifax Has Been Sending Consumers to a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks.
Equifax’s response to its data breach has been a total shitshow, [sic] something the company seems determined to remind us of each and every day.

For nearly two weeks, the company’s official Twitter account has been directing users to a fake lookalike website, the sole purpose of which is to expose Equifax’s reckless response to the breach.
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After announcing the breach, Equifax directed its customers to equifaxsecurity2017.com, a website where they can enroll in identity theft protection services and find updates about how Equifax is handing the “cybersecurity incident.”

But the decision to create “equifaxsecurity2017” in the first place was monumentally stupid. The URL is long and it doesn’t look very official—that means it’s going to be very easy to emulate. Fake versions of the site could be used to phish Equifax customers and steal their personal information, again. A much safer choice would have been to create a subdomain on the Equifax website (equifax.com) and direct users there.

To illustrate how idiotic Equifax’s decision was, developer Nick Sweeting created a fake website of his own: securityequifax2017.com.
(I can't see Equifax being a viable company for much longer. And - if I were TransUnion and Experian - I'd be target marketing businesses that use Equifax and make every attempt to make that customer mine.)
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Via TechNews World,  from E-Commerce Times The Internet of Things is a Boon for B2B business. No doubt - this is a hugely untapped market.
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Attention Gamers...From PC World: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about the new XBox One X.
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Security Week: Apple issuing security patches.   (Looks like Apple is going to give MicroSoft some competition in issuing patches):  
Apple this week announced the availability of 8 security patches for its iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation users, released as part of the iOS 11 platform upgrade.

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 C|Net: $126,000 and change will buy you the 2017 Jaguar F / SVR. Full review of the Jag HERE.
I keep my distance until a straightaway comes up, then cross over the dashed line and unleash the 575-horsepower fury of the F-Type SVR's supercharged V8, sport exhaust turned on for maximum effect.
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 It manages to mute vibration even on rough back roads, letting me enjoy the beautiful diamond upholstery on seats and door panels, along with the excellent audio quality from the Meridian-branded 12 speaker 770-watt audio system.
The Jag. Image via C|Net.
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...in a lab-kitchen hybrid in a Silicon Valley office park, [a] company called Impossible Foods has over the last six years done something not quite impossible, but definitely unlikely: Engineering a plant-based burger that smells, tastes, looks, and even feels like ground beef.
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C|Net: Facebook enabled marketers to target ads to "Jew-Haters."
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TechCrunch: Tech giants asked to remove extremism content at a faster pace.
...fining social media firms which fail to meet collective targets for illegal content takedowns has also been floated by the heads of state. Earlier this year the German government proposed a regime of fines for social media firms that fail to meet local takedown targets for illegal content.

The Guardian reports today that the UK government would like to see the time it takes for online extremist content to be removed to be greatly speeded up — from an average of 36 hours down to just two.

That’s a considerably narrower timeframe than the 24 hour window for performing such takedowns agreed within a voluntary European Commission code of conduct which the four major social media platformed signed up to in 2016.
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NextgovFederal Agencies bewildered by Blockchain. Good!
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New Atlas: Hypersonic flight. Threat or opportunity?

Fly faster! Image: NASA
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1.9 Billion Data Records Exposed in First Half of 2017
Every second, 122 records are exposed in breaches around the globe, a new report shows. And that's doesn't even include the new Equifax breach data.

More than 10 million data records are pilfered or lost every day around the world, a rate of more than 7,000 per minute: and that's only the numbers from breaches that go public.
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WebProNews: Amazon foments bidding wars in 100 cities.
Amazon has publicly solicited bids from cities to become the location of its second home, dubbed as “HQ2.” As a result, cities are now trying their best to outdo each other to come up with enough enticing perks to woo the internet firm.
Yeah, that tiny, small market, start-up company...Amazon and it's alien-human hybrid leader Jeff Bezos, need financial business incentives and perks in order to be profitable.

Bezos. A human-appearing robot made in Westworld.
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ArsTechniaMan holds website hostage, demands $10 Grand. They don't pay so he re-directs their URL to a gay p0rn site.
An Arizona man was sentenced Monday to four years of federal probation after he pled guilty to effectively holding a corporate website hostage and redirecting it to a gay porn site for several days in 2015. The defendant, Tavis Tso, was also ordered to pay over $9,000 in restitution.
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...Tso told company staffers that he could help them fix the problem—for the low price of $10,000.

When they refused, he redirected the site to a gay pornographic website. Somehow, after several days—court documents are vague on this point—the company’s site was returned to normal.
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ArsTechniaMysterious flesh-eating bacteria in Australia on the rise. Big Time.
The infections are caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, a slow-growing bacterium that causes gaping, palm-sized ulcers. Sometimes called Buruli ulcers, the lesions seem to dissolve skin and gnaw away at tissue. The bacteria are known to lurk around Victoria, but experts don’t know where it lives or how it spreads.
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TechCrunch link fixed 9/21/2017