Requested Re-Post “Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.” Public release date: 6-May-2011 Microsoft founder and one of the world’s wealthiest men, Bill Gates, projects an image of a benign philanthropist using his billions via his (tax…
Published time: March 01, 2014 01:31 Reuters / Kacper Pempel A cyber security firm has reported a “mind boggling” cache of stolen credentials which has been put up for sale on online black markets. A total of 360 million accounts were affected in a series of hacks, one of which seems to…
English and Chinese language queries for terms such as ‘Dalai Lama’ return radically different results on Microsoft search engine Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Tuesday 11 February 2014 16.36 EST A Bing search in Chinese for Bo Xilai, the former Chinese government official, shows different results from an English search. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters…
• Tech giants turn over data from tens of thousands of accounts • Limited disclosure part of transparency deal made last month Spencer Ackerman in Washington and Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Monday 3 February 2014 16.40 EST Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Facebook all participate in the NSA’s Prism effort. Photograph: Pichi Chuang/Reuters Tens…
Microsoft to cease support for Windows XP on April 8th Experts believe only 95% of ATMs run the software Could leave machines vulnerable to hackers By Mark Prigg PUBLISHED: 19:42 EST, 17 January 2014 Cashpoints around the world could be left vulnerable to hacker attacks. It is believed millions are still running Microsoft’s Windows XP,…
– It’s not as bad as you thought – it’s much worse By Iain Thomson 31st December 2013 04:29 GMT Analysis A leaked NSA cyber-arms catalog has shed light on the technologies US and UK spies use to infiltrate and remotely control PCs, routers, firewalls, phones and software from some of the biggest names…
As requested we have posted the list in preparation for archiving: ‘Assassination market’: Bernanke tops ‘kill-list’ in crowd-sourced bitcoin fundraiser for wannabe hitmen Current Black Market Prices for People and Organs Dangerous experiment in fetal engineering Hackers publish CIA Director Brennan’s financial records Hackers release financial records for vice president, attorney general, FBI director and…
Millions of American taxpayer dollars were allocated to businesses owned by 50 billionaires between 1995 and 2012, according to a study from the Environmental Working Group. The left-leaning organization points out that the subsidies made their way to the billionaires, which Forbes calculates to have a collective net worth of $316 billion, at the same…
NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows • Tapping fibre-optic cables – see the NSA slide Ewen MacAskill and Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Friday 1 November 2013 17.40 EDT Yahoo, Microsoft and Google deny they co-operate voluntarily with the intelligence agencies. Photograph:…
Unnamed investors said to be lobbying the board for the departure of Microsoft’s co-founder Reuters in New York theguardian.com, Tuesday 1 October 2013 21.12 EDT Bill Gates: hints of pressure for him to step down. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates…
Sunday, September 22, 2013 – 10:36 Reuters BOSTON – Harvard, the richest university in the United States, said on Saturday it would seek to raise some $6.5 billion in donations to fund new academic initiatives and bolster its financial aid programme. The fundraising drive by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution is the university’s biggest and believed…
Bill Gates crowned America’s wealthiest person for the 20th-straight year with $72 BILLION fortune… and elite are now worth a combined $2 TRILLION Microsoft co-founder is once again richest man in U.S. with $72 billion Total worth of 400 people on the list is $2 trillion, their highest total ever 61 U.S. billionaires didn’t make…
Yahoo CEO fears defying NSA could mean prison 12 Sep 2013 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer said she feared winding up in prison for treason if she refused to comply with US spy demands for data. Her comments came after being asked what she is doing to protect Yahoo users from “tyrannical government”…
Microsoft: You can still buy an ‘insecure’ Win 8 machine sans TPM chip By Jasper Hamill 23rd August 2013 10:38 GMT Microsoft’s new touchy Windows 8 operating system is so vulnerable to prying hackers that Germany’s businesses and government should not use it, the country’s authorities have warned in a series of leaked…
• Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship • Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA • Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling Ewen MacAskill in New York The Guardian, Thursday 22 August 2013 The material provides the first evidence of a financial relationship between the tech companies and…
