Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported Facebook was rolling out a new feature called “Town Hall,” which would allow the social network’s users to easily locate, follow and contact their local, state and federal government representatives. The company today confirmed the feature is available to all U.S. users on desktop and …
Read More »The government’s public evidence falls short of proving Russian involvement in the DNC hack
On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an updated report on whether or not Russia was responsible for both hacking the Democratic National Committee and aiding in the distribution of the stolen material. The report pulls no punches and argues that, in both cases, the answer …
Read More »‘Lost’ Aboriginal art found on government office wall
Image copyright Northern Territory Government Image caption The piece depicts two ceremonial men singing a bush tucker song while two others listen. The radiating lines indicate a journey An Aboriginal painting that went missing in 1981 has been found by chance hanging in the office of a tourism official …
Read More »UK government ‘must take action’ on 5G
Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption More communications masts will be needed to facilitate 5G The rollout of the UK’s future 5G mobile network must be handled better than 4G was, according to a new report. The current 4G network ranks only 54th in the world in terms of coverage, a …
Read More »Belgian porn photos prompt suspension of government worker
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The woman was said to have posed naked on the fifth floor of the interior ministry A woman working for the Belgian interior ministry has been suspended because of pornographic pictures of her taken in the office and ministry lifts. The woman has worked …
Read More »Yahoo asks government to explain email scanning order
Yahoo secretly scanned its users emails at the behest of a U.S. government agency — and now it wants the government to explain why. In a letter to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, Yahoo carefully avoids admitting that it scanned users’ email or that it received an order …
Read More »Jolla’s Sailfish OS now certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’
The future for one of the few remaining alternative mobile OS platforms, Jolla’s Sailfish OS, looks to be taking clearer shape. Today the Finnish company which develops and maintains the core code, with the aim of licensing it to others, announced Sailfish has achieved domestic certification in Russia for government and corporate …
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