“Australia’s Liberal Party government says it’s ‘encouraging the transition to a digital society,’ and cracking down on tax evasion.”
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/australia-bans-cash-for-all-purchases-over-7-500-start-1825946888
“Boston Dynamics, the company known for its ‘nightmare-inducing’ backflipping robots, has unveiled two new videos that show them autonomously navigating through different terrains, including an office and a lab, and jogging in a grass field.”
“Around a dozen Google employees have already quit over the company’s involvement in an artificial intelligence drone program for the Pentagon called Project Maven.”
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/14/google-project-maven-employee-protest/
“A former Missouri sheriff has been charged with using an online service operated by law enforcement contractor Securus to track cell phones illegally.”
Read more: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/269259-your-cell-carrier-selling-your-location-data
“A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/07/cbp-alt-uscis-twitter/
“The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing.”
“In an industry where power and influence are measured in dollars and cents, this may be the most exclusive club in finance: The price of admission is at least $25 million.”
“False flag operations succeed because many people reflexively jump to accept official narratives. Conveniently timed attacks that give pretexts for war, however, are not always what they seem.”
Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/04/27/hoisting-false-flag/hRC63gFcq1zMUmd8UObqLM/story.html
“Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided that the two cops responsible for this horrifying incident will not be charged.”
Read more: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-killed-police-shower-taser/
“In the end, it wasn’t stakeouts or fingerprints or cell phone records that got him. It was a genealogy website.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/detectives-cracked-the-golden-state-killer-case-using-genetics/