Collaborate Disseminate
Peter Thiel’s support for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has given Silicon Valley a headache. This past weekend, Thiel donated $1.25 million to his campaign, which is driving away partners from Thiel’s Silicon Valley accelerator, Y… Continue reading Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump
After Newsweek published a report titled “How Donald Trump’s Company Violated The United States Embargo Against Cuba,” the site found itself on the receiving end of a “massive” denial-of-service attack that managed to shut down the site for several hou… Continue reading Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo
In an effort to appeal to more young voters, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has unveiled a “geofilter” ad campaign for Snapchat that slaps on the banner phrase “Donald J. Trump vs. Crooked Hillary” to a user’s photo and video Snaps. … Continue reading Trump Takes On ‘Crooked Hillary’ With Snapchat Geofilter
The founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, has backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America that is dedicated to “shitposting” and spreading inflammatory memes about Hillary Clinton. In 2014, Luckey’s virtual-reality company, Oculus, was … Continue reading Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump opposes a long-planned transition of oversight of the internet’s technical management from the U.S. government to a global community of stakeholders, hi… Continue reading Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The two Republican members of the Federal Communications Commission have refused to give Congress documents needed to complete an investigation into the FCC’s net neutrality rule-making process, ac… Continue reading FCC Republicans Refused To Give Congress Net Neutrality Documents
The FCC suffers a blow, but the battle goes on in Congress and the states. Continue reading After Legal Defeat, US Mayors Vow to Continue Municipal Broadband Fight
jIyajbe writes: From Electoral-Vote.com: “A theory has been circulating that the Donald Trump tweets that come from an Android device are from the candidate himself, while the ones that come from an iPhone are the work of his staff. David Robinson, a d… Continue reading Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets
Avast conned more than 1,200 people into connecting to fake wi-fi hotspots set up near the Republican convention and the Cleveland airport, using common network names like “Google Starbucks” and “Xfinitywifi” as well as “I vote Trump! free Internet”. A… Continue reading Avast Suckers GOP Delegates Into Connecting To Insecure Wi-Fi Hotspots
An anonymous reader writes from a report via CNBC: The Republican National Convention will be a popular target for cyberattacks. An official in charge of securing the network has said the RNC already had to fend off a wave of cyberattacks before the co… Continue reading RNC Is Preparing For Cyberattacks