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A Google spokesman says the company has notified an unspecified number of senators and aides that their personal email accounts continue to be targeted by state-backed foreign hackers. Spokesman Aaron Stein would not disclose further details such as who was behind the attempted break-ins, their timing or who was targeted.
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If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu - and if you have a seat but don't sit in it, you may be in just as much trouble. That's the lesson Google may have learned when legislators, dissatisfied with the company's offer to send its lawyer instead of a top executive to congressional hearings last week, theatrically answered by installing an empty chair instead.
Breitbart on Wednesday published leaked video of a town-hall-style meeting with employees shortly after the 2016 election, in which Google executives appeared dismayed at President Trump's win. Google co-founder and Alphabet President Sergey Brin described the results as "pretty upsetting," while Google Senior Vice President of Global Affairs Kent Walker described a global political environment of "tribalism."
The 3,300 word note Mark Zuckerberg published Thursday about Facebook's approach to election interference contained some surprisingly frank insight into why Facebook has made some of the business decisions that it has. For example, Zuckerberg shared that he considered banning political ads all together .
Right-wing media celebrities are perfecting a playbook against Silicon Valley, one forged by social media stars Diamond and Silk. On Wednesday afternoon, #WalkAway founder Brandon Straka tweeted that Facebook had "banned" him after he posted a link to the fringe conspiracy outpost InfoWars.
GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.
GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.
Paul Manafort held days of talks with Mueller's team about flipping while jury mulled his fate in first trial Google uses a complex algorithm to decide what a user sees in their search results, though its exact workings are a corporate secret The President unloaded on the tech firm in a pair of tweets on Tuesday morning which promised to 'address' the 'very serious situation'. Donald Trump launched into an attack on Google on Tuesday morning, accusing the web giant of rigging its search results to make him look bad Trump threatened to address what he called 'a very serious situation', though it is not clear how he intends to do this 'In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD.
President Donald Trump continued to publicly blast Jeff Sessions in a series of tweets on Saturday. The President's propensity for using Twitter to air his grievances against his attorney general is nothing new.
Fresno native Elizabeth Heng announcing her run for Congress, against Jim Costa, talks about long-overdue changes in the Central Valley that she envisions happening, while visiting her family's Rasmey Market, where she worked as a child. Elizabeth Heng, the Fresno Republican challenging Rep. Jim Costa in the 16th District, scored a victory Tuesday after blasting Facebook for refusing to approve a campaign ad that featured footage from the Cambodian genocide.
It's Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Here is some of what Sun staffers and other news providers are working on for lowellsun.com and Wednesday's edition: Reporter Chris Lisinski, clisinski@lowellsun.com, is in Westford, where local police have declared one of the town's many quarries a crime scene.
The world's biggest retailer has united a plucky band of tech companies-including Google, Microsoft and JD.com-over a shared fear of Jeff Bezos. Walmart has in recent years forged alliances with Google, Microsoft, China's JD.com and other tech players.
For almost a decade, Google has been conspicuously absent from China. This includes all of Google's products and services such as search, Gmail, and so on, and to a certain extent even Android where Android devices in China are essentially forked versions of Android with Google's services stripped from it.
U.S. states are tightening rules for online political advertising ahead of the November midterm elections as prospects dim that federal rules will be in place to prevent a repeat of the Russian interference seen in 2016. As political campaigns dump millions of advertising dollars into Facebook, Twitter and Google, states including Maryland, Washington and New York are putting more pressure on tech companies to keep tabs.
He has visited all 254 counties in the state at least once, posting parts of his journey on Facebook where he has 354,000 followers. O'Rourke has 255,000 followers on Twitter, and a very active Instagram account.
Google refused to confirm if it's truly been developing a censored search engine for China after reports about the project's existence came out , but it might soon have no choice but to come clean. A group of six Democratic and Republican Senators led by Marco Rubio has penned a letter addressed to Google chief Sundar Pichai demanding concrete answers.
The Russian pop star who helped set up the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on then-White House rival Hillary Clinton is making headlines again. But in a testament to how bonkers the news lately, it's not for the Trump-trolling video for his bossa nova cheese-pop single, "Got Me Good," which giddily sends up President Trump's hydra-headed scandals tied to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Every month for the last 18 months, her office has discovered on average between three and five fake Facebook profiles pretending to be hers, according to a Harris aide. It's unclear who creates the pages, which are often designed to mislead American voters about the ambitious Democratic senator's policies and positions.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has denied an emergency request by Catholic Social Services for the immediate resumption of foster-child referrals to the agency while it appeals an unfavorable lower-court ruling. CSS provides foster-care services for about 100 children in city custody.