Enlarge / NASA chief Jim Bridenstine has been looking for a new Associate Administrator for human spaceflight. NASANearly two months have now passed since NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine essentially fired Bill Gerstenmaier, the agency's chief…
Chinese professor stole hard drive secrets for Huawei,…
Enlarge / Visitors check out new Huawei smartphones at the 2019 IFA home electronics and appliances trade fair Berlin. Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesA Chinese computer science professor named Bo Mao is facing wire fraud charges after…
Apple, Foxconn caught breaking Chinese labor laws while…
Enlarge / A Foxconn facility. Apple and Foxconn violated a Chinese labor rule by using too many temporary staff at a major factory that makes iPhones. As reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the two companies…
50 states and territories launch massive joint probe…
Enlarge / District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine (L) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speak during the launch of an antitrust investigation into large tech companies, outside of the US Supreme Court in…
Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court…
Enlarge / LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. Scraping a public website without the approval of the website's owner isn't a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling…
Some Chromebooks mistakenly declared themselves end-of-life last week
Enlarge / If your new Chromebook told you it's past EOL, don't panic—as long as you were running Canary or Dev, that is. (If you were running Stable or Beta, you may continue panicking.) A…
Revised CA vaccine bill would revoke exemptions from…
Enlarge / Dr. Robert Sears examines 2-month-old twins. Sears is among the doctors who have been found to have issued fraudulent medical vaccination exemptions. Hundreds of dubious medical exemptions handed out by California’s infamous anti-vaccine…
Activist Investor Elliott Calls for AT&T Shakeup
One of Wall Street’s most powerful activist investors is challenging AT&T Inc. ’s ambition to build a media conglomerate and is pushing the company to refocus on its telecommunications roots. Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp.…
Lets Stop Pretending That Good Plans Have Been…
Jonathan Franzen wrote an article at the New Yorker called “What if We Stopped Pretending – We need to Admit we cannot prevent the climate apocalypse”. This article is full of incorrect beliefs and statements.…