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Starbucks Corp. is voluntarily recalling a coffee press it sold for more than two years after receiving reports about it breaking during use, causing cuts and puncture wounds. The Seattle-based coffee chain is recalling about 263,200 of the presses in the U.…

[Matt Polotsky's new book, The National Security Sublime, is a tour through the look-and-feel of mass surveillance, as practiced by the most unlikely of aesthetes: big data authoritarian snoops and the grifter military contractors who wax fat on them. This is…

Media captionAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not been seen on video for five years He is the world's most wanted man. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the fugitive leader of the Islamic State (IS) group and its self-styled "caliph", has a $25m (£19m) US government bounty on h…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching bail while awaiting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault accusations in 2012. Judge Deborah Taylor on Wednesday said it was hard to envisage a more serious example of th…

from the DNR-please dept Early last month, it appeared the NSA was ready to shut down its bulk phone records collection. The subject of the first Snowden leak was argued to be an essential part of the national security process, but as it underwent significan…

The Democrats under Obama used the NSA to spy on Trump during the election, and recently it was also revealed that they spied on Romney 4 years earlier.So maybe after 2 years Trump finally established some control over the NSA and now its going to do his bidd…

The National Security Agency released or unmasked the identities of over 16,000 U.S. persons referenced in intelligence reports on foreign targets to other agencies in 2018, nearly doubling the number disclosed the previous year, according to an annual report…

The National Security Agency revealed to federal agencies the identities of almost 17,000 U.S. residents or corporations whose information was collected under a foreign surveillance law in 2018, registering about a 75% increase in unmaskings over the previous…

NSA says the number of warrantless search queries conducted by the NSA of Americans' data rose 28% in 2018 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

CR Note: This is a repeat of earlier posts with updated graphs. A few key points:1) There is a clear seasonal pattern for house prices.2) The surge in distressed sales during the housing bust distorted the seasonal pattern.3) Even though distressed sales are…