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From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators. Graphs and excerpts reprinted with permission. Total U.S. rail carloads in June 2019 were down 5.3% (57,173 carloads) from June 2018, as just 4 of the 20 carload commodities the AAR trac…

More than 50 people have been arrested so far in connection with the protest. (Express photo by Pavan Khengre) Internet services were shut on Friday as Meerut remained under heavy police deployment amid tension, days after a police lathi-charge on a group of…

In what is a busy week of labor data, results so far have been mixed. Ahead of Friday's Nonfarm Payroll Report for June, ADP payroll data released this morning missed forecasts of 140K, coming in at just 102K. While this set the stage for a potentially weaker…

Once upon a time, companies were able to insist -- with a straight face -- that the real problem with the security defects in their products was the researchers who went public with them, warning customers and users that the products they were trusting were n…

Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for May. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for April. The CoreLogic HPI is a three month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA). From CoreLogic: U.S. Home Price Insights Through May 201…

A single court-authorized wiretap order resulted in authorities in the Southern District of Texas scooping up more than 9.2 million communicationsbecoming the federal wiretap with the most intercepts in 2018, TechCrunch reported on Saturday, citing the federa…

Hackers believed to be working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex from October to November 2018, deploying a malware variant called Regin that is known to be used by the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance …

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The proliferation of end-to-end encryption services has been fantastic for end users and for privacy, but it has also been a huge problem for intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Ironically, it’s the Snowden revelations from a few years ago that shined …

from the too-much-of-a-useless-thing dept The NSA may have extremely belatedly decided to give up its bulk phone records collection, but that's only after years of dysfunction, abuse, and escalating uselessness. The problems with the NSA's collection of phon…