The President claimed on Wednesday that he’d had a rapid “cure” from Covid-19, thanks to an experimental drug from Regeneron that’s “like, unbelievable!” Trump also said he has “emergency use authorization all set” for the treatment, and Regeneron quickly followed by requesting that approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. But the real miracle… Continue reading Let’s Get Real About the President’s Antibody Treatment
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A Facebook Ban Won’t Stop QAnon
QAnon, the conspiracy theory that claims President Trump is secretly battling a Hollywood-Jewish-Democrat-deep state-globalist cabal of Satanist-murderer-pedophile-human traffickers, is huge. In both the span of its reach and the depth of its ideas, the conspiracy has grown into a juggernaut of misinformation. (“We call it a superconspiracy,” says Antonis Papasavva, a data scientist at University… Continue reading A Facebook Ban Won’t Stop QAnon
The Superspreading Presidency of Donald Trump
So does that mean…? “I would say the president is a superspreader,” Scarpino says. “I’m happy to say that.” Things didn’t have to be this way. Have tight lockdowns, keep everybody from coming into contact with anybody, and R0 goes down. Even the people who are better at transmitting (they’re carrying more virus, they’re at… Continue reading The Superspreading Presidency of Donald Trump
Congress Unveils Its Plan to Curb Big Tech’s Power
Anyone who’s paid even slight attention to a Congressional investigation of the power wielded by tech giants won’t be surprised by the report released Tuesday by the subcommittee’s Democrats. They say four companies—Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google—have monopoly power that threatens core economic and political liberties. The report, which ends a 16-month investigation and includes… Continue reading Congress Unveils Its Plan to Curb Big Tech’s Power
Apple’s T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw
A recently released tool is letting anyone exploit an unusual Mac vulnerability to bypass Apple’s trusted T2 security chip and gain deep system access. The flaw is one researchers have also been using for more than a year to jailbreak older models of iPhones. But the fact that the T2 chip is vulnerable in the… Continue reading Apple’s T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw
Federal Executions During Covid-19 Put Innocent Lives at Risk
Christopher Vialva grew up on death row. In 1999, at age 19, Vialva, along with a few other teenagers, carjacked and killed Stacie and Todd Bagley; he was later convicted of murder and sentenced to die. At the time, a doctor assessed his mental age to be 16. He was nearly illiterate, struggling to read… Continue reading Federal Executions During Covid-19 Put Innocent Lives at Risk
How the Alleged Twitter Hackers Got Caught
On July 15, a Discord user with the handle Kirk#5270 made an enticing proposition. “I work for Twitter,” they said, according to court documents released Friday. “I can claim any name, let me know if you’re trying to work.” It was the beginning of what would, a few hours later, turn into the biggest known… Continue reading How the Alleged Twitter Hackers Got Caught
Trump May Soon Order TikTok’s Sale, as Microsoft Circles
Teens love TikTok, but the Trump administration fears it. Earlier this week, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin confirmed that the social app was subject to a national security review into whether it could be a conduit for interference by China. Friday, Bloomberg reported that Trump will “sign an order” directing TikTok’s Chinese owner Bytedance to sell… Continue reading Trump May Soon Order TikTok’s Sale, as Microsoft Circles
The Big Tech Hearing Proved Congress Isn’t Messing Around
Legally speaking, this is damning stuff. The Clayton Act of 1914, the main federal antitrust statute, explicitly prohibits corporate acquisitions if “the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.” As Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee of which the antitrust subcommittee is… Continue reading The Big Tech Hearing Proved Congress Isn’t Messing Around
The Facebook and Amazon Documents That Captivated the Hearing
The CEOs of four of the world’s biggest tech companies gathered in the same Webex room Wednesday for their first-ever joint appearance before Congress. The most fascinating revelations of the five-plus hour hearing came not from their testimony but from documents gathered by House investigators and released during the session. Committee members said the presentations,… Continue reading The Facebook and Amazon Documents That Captivated the Hearing