The Justice Department’s internal watchdog launched an investigation Friday after revelations that former President Donald Trump’s administration secretly seized phone data from at least two House Democrats as part of an aggressive leaks probe. Democrats called the seizures “harrowing” and an abuse of power.The announcement by Inspector General Michael Horowitz came shortly after Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco made the request for an internal investigation. Horowitz said he would examine whether the data subpoenaed by the Justice Department and turned over by Apple followed department policy and “whether any such uses, or the investigations, were based upon improper considerations.”Horowitz said…
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Electronic Arts was in the news recently for the recent reveal of the “Battlefield 2042” trailer, but shortly after, they fell victim to another data breach. And the hackers found their way in via a surprising method. (Photo : Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)UKRAINE – 2021/04/23: In this photo illustration, Electronic Arts (EA) logo of a US video game company is seen on a smartphone and a pc screen. GameRant reports that the recent Electronic Arts hack was achieved using the popular workplace management software Slack. The information about the hacking method apparently came from the hackers themselves, who spoke…
(Photo : Pixabay/StockSnap) YouTube update Replay Mix YouTube Music debuts another feature as the platform is now focusing more on its algorithmic auto-playlists. The new feature called Replay Mix is now appearing for a lot of YouTube Music users that includes their most commonly played songs from the past weeks. The Replay Mix feature is an upgraded version of YouTube Music’s original feature called Your Mix, a playlist that uploads your daily mixes. YouTube Music Replay Mix Feature The playlist appears ahead of My Supermix under the “Mixed for you” section of the platform. It features the standard record-inspired cover…
The United States and other Group of Seven nations are considering reallocating $100 billion from the International Monetary Fund’s warchest to help countries struggling to cope with the Covid-19 crisis, the White House said.The issue will be on the table when G7 leaders discuss how to help steer the world’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic at a three-day summit in Cornwall, England, which began on Friday.”The United States and our G7 partners are actively considering a global effort to multiply the impact of the proposed Special Drawing Rights (SDR) allocation to the countries most in need,” the US president’s office…
GPU prices are still out of control, with no slowdown in sight. And this had made a lot of tech-starved PC gamers reminisce about the so-called “good old days,” when graphics cards didn’t cost an arm and a leg. Well, you can obviously do that at a certain museum in China, which NotebookCheck.net reports is the world’s first GPU history museum. It results from a collaboration between Chinese AIB company Colorful and NVIDIA and is located close to Colorful’s new headquarters in the Shenzhen New Generation Industrial Park. (Photo : Olly Curtis/PC Gamer Magazine/Future via Getty Images)A group of graphics cards, including…
Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed by a cop.And amid the national reckoning on policing, communities are questioning who should become a police officer today.Mass protests and calls for reforming or defunding the police, as well as the coronavirus pandemic, took their toll on officer morale. The rate of retirements at some departments rose 45% compared with the previous year, according to new research on nearly 200 law enforcement agencies conducted by the Washington-based…
Discord is having some connectivity issues again. Because of this, various users are now sharing their experiences on different social media sites such Facebook, Twitter, and other giant platforms. They are also asking the company if it will soon release the actual fix for the problem. (Photo : Photo grab from Alexander Shatov on Unsplash )Discord Users Experience Connection Issue: Here’s How You Can Fix This Problem Also Read: Panda Stealer Gets Hold of Cryptocurrency Details by Spreading Malware Through Discord Servers On the other hand, Down Detector also confirmed that the number cause of the current Discord issue is server…
In the call with Blinken, Yang Jiechi said, China supports cooperation but won’t tolerate what he said were attempts to smear China, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Agencies | , Washington, London UPDATED ON JUN 12, 2021 12:26 AM IST Secretary of state Antony Blinken pressed his Chinese counterpart in a phone call on Friday to allow a new expert-led study into the origin of Covid-19, but China’s top diplomat called theories that the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab an absurd story, according to readouts from both sides.In the call with Politburo member Yang Jiechi, Blinken “stressed the importance…
China is committing human rights abuses on Muslim minorities in the province of Xinjiang, a “dystopian hellscape” where brainwashing and torture in camps are commonplace, human rights group Amnesty International has said in a scathing report.“Uighurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) face systematic state-organised mass imprisonment, torture and persecution amounting to crimes against humanity,” the report said, quoting dozens of new testimonies from former camp detainees.“The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in XUAR,” Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general, said on Thursday.‘Tinted glasses’The Chinese foreign…
G7 leaders on Friday opened their first in-person talks in nearly two years, with an expected pledge to donate a billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to poor countries on the agenda in a show of Western democratic cohesion.The club of leading economies – Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and United States – says a joint approach is the world’s best chance for recovering from the global health crisis, and tackling climate change. Welcomed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the beachside summit venue in Carbis Bay, southwest England, the leaders posed for a family photo before opening their first…