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.entry-header A Harris County grand jury has declined to indict Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Inc. after a two month investigation. The announcement from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office adds that two people involved in making undercover videos of the clinic were indicted. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt have both been indicted by the grand jury for…
Amazon’s customer service backdoor As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able to spot phishing attacks from a mile away, I would have thought my accounts and details would be be pretty safe? Wrong. Because when someone has gone after…
cache hit 2034:single/related:7ee91088b05aceb470bc04e250c3b444 empty Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently launched a new section that lets users easily browse vulnerable webcams. The feed includes images of marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash…
Remember that viral video from 2011 where a honey badger trots around, aggressively not caring about things? Well, the guy who made it—Christopher Gordon, who goes by the pseudonym “Randall”—is suing Papyrus and design company Drape Creative over some greeting cards that use the phrase HONEY BADGER DON’T GIVE A SHIT. Just a quick…
Sends you a push notification every time the police kill someone in the United States. Archives + Absences | An iPhone App by Josh Begley. Source: Archives + Absences | An iPhone App by Josh Begley
Rep. Mike Pitts, R- Laurens. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) file An Upstate lawmaker who tried to keep the Confederate flag flying and whose campaign spending habits were part of a Post and Courier examination of Statehouse money trails says it’s time to register journalists in the state. State Rep. Mike Pitts, R-Laurens, Tuesday introduced a…
On Thursday afternoon, hackers accessed the Twitter and email accounts of infamous “playboy” Dan Bilzerian due to a flaw, the attackers say, in AOL customer service. A professional poker player, Bilzerian is “Instagram famous” for frequently posting pictures of himself with stacks of cash or half-naked women, sometimes both. The reason hackers chose to access his account,…
Confederate-flag sympathizers rallying at Stone Mountain Park, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, in August, 2015. Credit Photograph by John Amis / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the winter of 1999, the Kansas City Star asked several local dignitaries and writers to herald the upcoming century by writing predictions, replicating an exercise that the…
The Powerball lottery has swollen to $1.3 billion. “Biggest jackpot in the history of the world. Absolutely confirmed,” Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery, which is part of the Multi-State Lottery Association that runs Powerball, told the Associated Press. Meanwhile, the Association is quietly trying to deal with a multi-state jackpot rigging scandal…
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