The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well. Powered by WPeMatico
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Facebook says it will ban QAnon, full stop.
The news: Facebook announced on Tuesday that it will remove “any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content.” QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory centering on the belief that the president of the United States is at war with a secret satanic pedophile ring run by liberals, has […]
Dolly Parton Thinks Her New Album Title Is ‘Corny’
It’s called A Holly Dolly Christmas. Powered by WPeMatico
Texas’s war on drop-off votes gets almost everything wrong
Last week Texas governor Greg Abbott became the latest Republican to attack America’s vote-by-mail system. A proclamation he issued claimed that the threat of “illegal voting” justifies a dramatic decrease in the number of places that voters can hand-deliver their mail-in ballots. His announcement limited each county to just one drop-off point, forcing vast areas […]
How much more abuse do female politicians face? A lot.
The context: When Twitter announced it would start removing tweets expressing hope that President Trump would die of covid-19, a number of users—notably, women and people of color in politics— openly asked why Twitter didn’t seem to be enforcing the same rules against abuse and threats in their own mentions. So… you mean to tell us […]
The CDC has finally acknowledged that the coronavirus can be airborne
The news: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines to acknowledge that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles that linger in the air. The agency said it took the decision due to the mounting evidence that people with covid-19 can infect people even if they are more than […]
A Literal Child and His Mom Sue Nintendo Over ‘Joy-Con Drift’
The class action lawsuit alleges that the video game company hasn’t done enough to address a known problem with its controllers. Powered by WPeMatico
What’s next for Trump? Ten days of isolation or the campaign trail?
US President Donald Trump tweeted today that he’ll leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at 6:30 p.m. after a three-day stay. The question now: With the campaign in full swing, will Trump remain isolated in the White House as government scientists advise, or will he exempt himself from the rules? According to the Centers […]
We need to shield the US space program from election cycle chaos
Space exploration is a long-term endeavor. It takes many years and boatloads of money to get a single spacecraft off the ground and out of Earth’s atmosphere. Getting it to destinations outside the planet’s orbit is even trickier. And if the plan is to send humans along for the ride, you can expect development to […]
A Dangerous Year in America Enters Its Most Dangerous Month
Seven distinct factors between now and the election threaten to combine, compound, and reinforce each other in unpredictable ways. Powered by WPeMatico