November 29, 2016

Thousands of xHamster login credentials surface online

password-balloon@2x Members of the porn site xHamster should be changing their passwords today after a set of nearly 380,000 usernames, emails and poorly-hashed passwords appeared online. The subscription-only breach notification site LeakBase has published the set of login credentials, which Motherboard reports were being traded online. It's not clear exactly where the database originated, but it… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Trump Picks Obamacare Critic Rep. Tom Price for HHS

On "With All Due Respect," Mark Halperin and John Heilemann discuss the implications of President-Elect Donald Trump's choice of Georgia Congressman Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. (Source: Bloomberg)

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Ben Rhodes, U.S. Diplomat Will Attend Castro Memorial Service

The White House announced on Tuesday that they would be sending two senior administration officials to attend the memorial service for deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

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College Conservative Group Blocked Due To Anti-Communist Position

Worried group doesn't respect Communists as people

Via: The Daily Caller

San Francisco Muni hacker gets hacked back

muni-mrfraley-flickr Revenge is sweet, but irony is sweeter. Apparently, the hacker who infiltrated San Francisco's Muni transportation system late last week fell victim to his own horrible personal cyber hygiene. According to security reporter Brian Krebs, a separate individual infiltrated the Muni hacker's own email using nothing more than the ransom note provided by the hacker himself. And he pulled… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Trump Meets With Goldman's Cohn as Dinner Set With Critic Romney

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney were meeting Tuesday with Donald Trump as the president-elect and his team consider candidates to fill out key roles in the administration.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Dems concerned about Sessions, but have little recourse

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans are hoping to move quickly to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, but Democrats say they have concerns about Sen. Jeff Sessions' views on civil liberties, voting rights and immigration and are asking for time to review his decades of work as a ...

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Tom Cruise Pressured Another Celebrity To Kill '60 Minutes' Scientology Story

She left the church and they're coming after her

Via: The Daily Caller

Yes the UK now has a law to log web users' browsing behavior, hack devices and limit encryption

keyboard surveillance 2016 has been a very good year to bury very bad news. And political distractions perhaps explain why a bill that has been described as the most extreme surveillance legislation every passed in a democracy has today passed into law in the UK never having faced substantial opposition. Read More

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Trump Transition Takes Hold: What to Expect Next

Bloomberg Politics' Ben Brody takes a look at the latest news on the Trump transition and what to expect next. He speaks with Bloomberg's Oliver Renick and Julie Hyman on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)

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An uninspired choice for DOT Secretary

(Paul Mirengoff) The buzz phrase "drain the swamp" has been overused in recent days, I think. However, it applies nicely to the Department of Labor. For decades, the DOL has been a bog of oppressive regulations which, among other things, sometimes promote racial discrimination in favor of minorities. Elaine Chao presided over that swamp for eight years during the George W. Bush administration. She did little to drain, or even disturb, it.

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Report: German Intelligence Officer Arrested Over Suspected Terrorist Attack

A German intelligence officer was recently arrested over a suspected terrorist plot to bomb the domestic spy agency's headquarters in Cologne.

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Bob Corker meets with Trump about State Department gig

Sen. Bob Corker emerged from an interview Tuesday with Donald Trump and said he believed the president-elect had narrowed the list of candidates for secretary of state to "a very small group."

The selection process for who will run the State Department in the Trump administration has been grueling, including ...

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This Skyscraper Is Sinking Into The Ground So Fast It's Visible From Space

Its residents have already filed a $500 million dollar lawsuit

Via: The Daily Caller

Intel creates a dedicated autonomous driving technology group

Automobility-Intel-5.JPG Intel is following up on news early Tuesday about its partnership with Mobileye and Delphi on self-driving tech with more autonomous vehicle news: it's creating a whole group dedicated to pursuit of self-driving solution development, called – you'll never guess – the Automated Driving Group (ADG for short). The new Intel ADG will be headed up by Intel vet Doug Davis,… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

BET Founder Says He Turned Down Donald Trump Cabinet Position

BET founder Bob Johnson said on Tuesday he turned down a cabinet position offered by Donald Trump during a meeting with the president-elect earlier this month.

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Some voters, stung by election result, stirred to new action

NEW YORK (AP) - Three weeks out from a presidential election result that left them deeply dejected, many liberals now say they've been roused to action in new ways, from making donations and volunteering to considering political runs themselves.

Around the country, even as protests have waned, Democrats say the ...

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Kate Mara Broke Up With Her Boyfriend After He Dented The Lombardi Trophy

Her ex-boyfriend has to regret this

Via: The Daily Caller

Ford will begin testing self-driving cars in Europe in 2017

Taking the next step in its Blueprint for Mobility, Ford today †Ford's pushing forward in its efforts to get autonomous cars on the road, with a plan to begin testing self-driving vehicles in Europe next year. The testing is in advance of extending its plans to debut an autonomous car specifically for ride-sharing fleets in the U.S. in 2021 to Europe, sometime in the future following that initial launch. Ford tells TechCrunch it will be testing… Read More

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GOP in Congress Seeks Action on Border Security, Not Immigrants

Republican leaders in Congress say they want to advance legislation next year to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, but they don't favor addressing the status of 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Ohio State Attack

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University in Columbus on Monday.

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White House avoids phrase 'radical Islam' in Ohio State attack

When it comes to radical Islamic terrorism, the Obama White House is going out on a consistent note.

President Obama's spokesman acknowledged Tuesday that an attack by a Muslim student at Ohio State University may have been motivated by extremism, but he cautioned against blaming it on radical Islam — ...

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Donald Trump: There must 'consequences' for burning American flag

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said there must be "consequences" for burning the American flag, suggesting jail time or the loss of citizenship as possibilities.

"Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in ...

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Hyundai UK picks up a trick from Tesla with new online car sales

screen-4-copy Hyundai is launching a new website called "Click to Buy" in the UK, where customers can purchase its cars directly with fixed pricing and no haggling. The online model of car sales is one that Tesla employs widely for its own vehicles, owing in part to its inability to run its own physical dealerships in many places. The new Hyundai UK direct sales start January 6, 2017, and… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

COMMENTARY: Progressivism – The New Religion

protestsThe leftist zealots

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Donald Trump to nominate Tom Price for Health and Human Services secretary

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he plans to nominate Rep. Tom Price to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, saying Mr. Price has earned a reputation for being a "tireless problem solver" and "the go-to expert on healthcare policy."

"He is exceptionally qualified to ...

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Mojiworks is a new UK startup building games for iMessage

Mojiworks Mojiworks, new startup from the founders of Wonderland, the UK gaming startup acqui-hired by Zynga back in 2011, is on a mission to turn Apple's iMessage into a social gaming platform. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Bill Walton, Old Einhorn Enemy, Makes a Comeback With Trump Role

Bill Walton was at the top of Washington's finance establishment when he ran Allied Capital Corp. and sat on the Riggs Bank board alongside the city's titans. Then the trouble began.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Recent Missouri Editorials

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 28

Incoming President Donald Trump has been quiet about immigrants and deportation lately, but that hasn't quelled the fears of 750,000 immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally by their parents as children and won protection to stay here under President Barack Obama's Deferred ...

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Department of Homeland Security Overwhelmed by Green Card Catastrophe

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) bureau has issued thousands of duplicate green cards to immigrants, including many that include incorrect information and allow these individuals to overstay in the United States, according to a new government oversight report warning that the Department of Homeland Security is incapable of tracking immigrants who may post a security risk to the United States.

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