NEW YORK — The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T‘s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend. In a Saturday announcement addressing the data breach, AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and passcodes […]
A Nigerian woman faces seven years in prison for writing a negative online review of a brand of tomato paste product. Chioma Okoli, who owns a business in Lagos, took to social media to express her dissatisfaction with Erisco Foods‘ Nagiko Tomato Mix. After posting a photo of an opened can and commenting that the […]
One of the truly great joys of this job – besides all of YOU, of course – has been the immense privilege of getting to personally know some of the people who have been at the forefront of the fight against the climate cult from the very beginning. Names that at one time, thanks to […]
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case with far-reaching consequences for online free speech and content moderation. The issue is social media’s kowtowing to the federal government’s efforts to combat “misinformation” about COVID-19, the government’s response to the pandemic, and the vaccines developed to fight it. Did […]
NEW YORK — When New York City officials got wind of the major winter storm headed their way, they rewound the clock four years, reopened their coronavirus pandemic playbook, and announced that instead of canceling school, teachers and students would once again meet online. No snow day. Mayor Eric Adams said it was important to […]
JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi House passed a bill Thursday that would legalize online sports betting, bringing the state one step closer to joining 29 other states that already allow the practice. The Mississippi Mobile Sports Wagering Act, which would legalize mobile sports betting while requiring gambling companies to contract with brick-and-mortar gambling establishments, passed […]
Is the Joker a homicidal, nihilistic supervillain, or a prankster lashing out to mask his insecurities? Most comic book fans would opt to describe him as the former. Despite that commonly accepted interpretation, the upcoming video game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League portrays the famed Batman arch-nemesis as the latter. The game is famously […]
SEOUL, South Korea – Japan’s lunar module resumed operations on the moon late Sunday, overcoming problems with its solar panels, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, quoted by Japanese media on Monday. While the reset will enable it to conduct research on the moon’s origins, its primary mission has already been achieved […]
We are all familiar with the standard form of censorship–simply preventing the dissemination of ideas that are not approved. But that is only one of several forms that censorship can take. I have occasionally been outright censored online–on Twitter 1.0, I was temporarily suspended because the censors didn’t like what I said, and I was […]
The NY Times published a lengthy opinion piece yesterday under the headline “When the Culture Wars Came for Dog Training.” If you click on the link you get a different much less interesting headline “My Year of Being Extremely Online About Dogs.” The story is told from the point of view of the author, Alicia […]
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