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Researchers say Voatz voting app has big security flaws, 4 states using it for 2020 elections anyway Mexico Border Wall

Researchers say Voatz voting app has big security flaws, 4 states using it for 2020 elections anyway

Hackers. Researchers at MIT say the voting app Voatz, which is being used by at least 4 states in the 2020 elections, has major security flaws that could allow an attacker to intercept and alter votes, while making voters think their votes have been cast correctly, or trick the votes…
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February 13, 2020
California school changes its name from Woodrow Wilson to Michelle Obama Michelle Obama

California school changes its name from Woodrow Wilson to Michelle Obama

The Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Northern California will close for extensive renovations and open next year as Michelle Obama Elementary.“We have the opportunity to have a beautiful new school named after a person who really represents our diversity and values," Claudia Velez, the school's principal, told CNN on Thursday.The proposal — which…
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February 13, 2020
Trump is considering barring all officials from listening to his phone calls with foreign leaders, which could be ‘catastrophic’ for national security Putin

Trump is considering barring all officials from listening to his phone calls with foreign leaders, which could be ‘catastrophic’ for national security

President Donald Trump is weighing blocking all officials from listening in on his phone calls with foreign leaders."I may end the practice entirely," Trump told the Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera in a radio interview that aired on Thursday.There are serious risks associated with barring officials from listening in on…
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February 13, 2020
Moscow: Twitter and Facebook fined 4 million rubles each for refusing to store data on Russian citizens in Russia Putin

Moscow: Twitter and Facebook fined 4 million rubles each for refusing to store data on Russian citizens in Russia

Shutterstock/2018 A court in Moscow today issued fines of 4 million rubles each against Twitter and Facebook for the social media companies' refusal to store data about Russian citizens inside Russia. The fines of nearly $63,000 are, as the saying goes, barely a rounding error for either of those massive…
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February 13, 2020
Trump to Transfer $3.8B from Military to Fund Border Wall Mexico Border Wall

Trump to Transfer $3.8B from Military to Fund Border Wall

The move by the Pentagon would transfer money from National Guard units, aircraft procurement and shipbuilding to anti-drug accounts that can finance construction of new wall. Published 13 February 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is transferring $3.8 billion in recently passed military funding to finance construction of the…
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February 13, 2020