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šŸ  Unauthorized satellite dish on warship lands Navy chief in hot water, demoted ą¹„

ź¦ A U.S. Navy official was relieved of her duties and demoted, after having an unauthorized Starlink High Performance satellite dish installed on a warship and lying about it to her...

Apparent cyberattack leaves major US airportšŸŒ± facing massive internet outages

 In a FašŸ¤”cebook post on Sunday, the airport said port teams were making progressšŸ§ø but that there wasn't an estimated time for when systems would return to normal operations.

ź¦• Background check company admits hackers stole Social Security numbers in massive breach that affects nearly all Americans

Thź¦e company that was named in a class-action lawsuit filed by internet users who claim that the Social Security number of every American was stolen from its servers has confirmed...

Breakdancing Raygun stands to make ā€˜millionsā€™ as brand soars after viral Olympics routine šŸ’œ

Gunnā€™s unexpected ā™rise to fame, āœØor infamy, depending on who you ask, came during the Paris Olympics as her eccentric womenā€™s breakdancing performance left audiences both bewildered and captivated.

 NYC cyber squatter hopes to cash in big on Harris-Walz website he bought in 2020šŸŽ€

ā€œThe Harris campaign has hundreds of millions of dollars, so if they donā€™t buy their own domain, that is kind of on them,ā€ he šŸ»said. ā€œIā€™ve got to sź¦‘ell it...

Court blocks FCC's reinstatement of net neutrality rules that were scrapped by Trump admin

The FCCĀ voteą“œd in April along party linesĀ to reassume regulatory oversight of broadband internet and reinstate open internet rules.

Take Friday's IT nightmare as a warning of what a cyberattack could do

 The global Microsoft computer outagešŸ¼ initiated by a faulty ā›„CrowdStrike security update gave us a taste of what actual cyberwarfare could do.

Why is the internet down? What to know about the global Microsoft outaā™›ge linked tź¦o CrowdStrike

Major cybersecurity provider Crowdstrike issued a faulty software updated that impacted users of Microsoftā€™s Windows operating system, many of whom were grešŸŒ eted with crashing computers and the so-called ā€œblue screen...

Panicked search tešŸ“–rms spike online after Trump rally shooting: ā€˜Civil Wš“ƒ²ar 2ā€™ 

The day of and after the assassination attempt on formešŸ§”r President Donald Trump saw major usage spikes on Google for search terź¦¦ms such as ā€œCivil War 2ā€ and ā€œAmerican Civil...

Scammers get away with billions from elderly AmerišŸŒŗcans every year, FBI powerless to stop them

Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billionsā™” of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the U.S. populašŸ»tion ages and technology like AI...

'Hawk Tuah Girl' sells more than $65,000 in merch after viral interview

"Hawk Tuah Girl" Hailey Welch went viral when šŸ­she shared her explicit thoughts on oral sex during a woman-on-the-street spot with Tim & Dee TV.

Wikipedia's lefty slant measured in new study ā€” but I've felt its bias firsthand

Being a conservative with a šŸƒWikipedia entry means that everyone who meets you has already read a hit piece about you, crowdsourced by potentiallyšŸ™ˆ hundreds of people determined to promote...

Caribbean island benefiting from AI boom in a 'totally incidental' way

 Haydn Hughes, Anguillź¦°a's minister of tourism and infrastructure, said it was "totally incidental" that Anguilla was granted tļ·ŗheĀ .ai domainĀ code in 1995.

New York teen's murder photos went viral, prompting mom to help change law: 'Can't let that picture be online'

Kim Devins campaigned to get Bianca's Law passed in 2022 after photos of her daughter's murder were circulated online by the kiįƒ¦ller.

 Hooray for Hš”‰ochul: New ā˜‚York leads nation in protecting kids on social media

Hand it to Gov. Hochuāœ¤l for wrangling the Legislature into passing first-in-the-nation legislation tšŸŒŸo regulate social-media feeds for younger kids. 

ź¦• Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet ā€” only to wind up hooked on porn, social media

ā€œWeā€™re worried young people are going to want to try itš“”,ā€ on tribe leader said of the kinky sex acts they've suddenly been exposed to on screen.

'China's Kim Kardashian' banned by Beijing from social media for flaunting his wealth

Wang Hongquanxing, who has earned the moniker "China's Kim Kardashian" for his overt disšŸ… plays of wealth, was abruptly taken off China's social media sites for bragging about the large amounts...

Save our kids from sociš’ŠŽal media despair

We have an opportunity to set an example for generations to come, and we wonā€™t back down from this fight ā€” our kids deserš’‰°ve nothing less.Ā 

šŸ¼  Google, Meta warned that undersea internet cables at risk for Chinese espionage: report

 The concerns are reportedly centered on underwater fiber-optic cables in thšŸŒ±e Pacific Ocean that are partially owned by the Big Tech firms and used to maintain thš’ƒe flow of data...