An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Trump’s re-election campaign has accused Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile of “suppression of political speech” over the carriers’ blocking of spam texts sent by the campaign. The fight was described Wednesday in an in-depth article by Business Insider and other reports. “The Trump campaign has been battling this month with the biggest…
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America’s Daily COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 1,000 Again
AleRunner writes: The United States on Tuesday recorded more than 1,000 daily deaths from COVID-19 for the first time since May, according to Politico. This trend continued and actually increased on Wednesday with over 1,200 deaths. Whilst there have been suggestions that the increase in cases in the US was an artifact of greater testing, the new data on deaths makes…
Cloudflare’s 23-Minute Outage Today Also Took Down Major Web Sites
“Many major websites and services were unreachable for a period Friday afternoon due to issues at Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service,” reports TechCrunch: The outage seems to have started at about 2:15 Pacific time and lasted for about 25 minutes before connections began to be restored. Google DNS may also have been affected. Cloudflare at 2:46 says “the issue has been identified…
California Investigating Google For Potential Antitrust Violations
California has opened its own antitrust probe into Google, leaving just one state that has yet to do so. “In September, attorneys general from 48 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia announced an antitrust investigation into Google focused on the company’s dominance of the advertising technology market,” reports Politico. “Over the past 10 months, that investigation — led by…
Microsoft Says Antitrust Regulators Need To Review App Stores
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith said it’s time for antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe to discuss tactics that app stores use to take advantage of those who want to distribute their software. Some app stores create a far higher barrier to fair competition and access than Microsoft’s Windows did when it…
Some States Have Embraced Online Voting. It’s a Huge Risk.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: On Sunday, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan revealed numerous security flaws in the product that West Virginia and Delaware are using, saying it “represents a severe risk to election security and could allow attackers to alter election results without detection.” In fact, it may be a…
As Coronavirus Hospitalizations Rise in the US, Many States Hide Their Data
In America, “Federal and state officials across the country have altered or hidden public health data crucial to tracking the coronavirus’ spread, hindering the ability to detect a surge of infections as President Donald Trump pushes the nation to reopen rapidly,” reports Politico: In at least a dozen states, health departments have inflated testing numbers or deflated death tallies by changing…
Health Officials Worry About Possible Lack of Cooperation on Coronavirus Vaccines
Global health officials and diplomats are “alarmed” by America’s “apparent lack of interest in cooperation” on international efforts for a vaccine against Covid-19. Slashdot reader Charlotte Web quotes this report from Politico:
The fear is that Trump will be content with allowing the race to develop and distribute the vaccine to devolve into a global contest — and that poorer countries will…
President Trump Just De-Funded a Research Nonprofit Studying Virus Transmissions
Charlotte Web writes: The U.S.-based research non-profit Ecohealth Alliance has spent 20 years investigating the origins of infectious diseases like Covid-19 in over 25 countries, “to do scientific research critical to preventing pandemics.” America just cut it’s funding. Trump’s reason? “Unfounded rumors” and “conspiracy theories…without evidence,” according to reports in Politico and Business Insider. The group had received a total of…
The Story of The Doctor Who Ordered America’s First Covid-19 Lockdown
Long-time Slashdot reader bsharma shared the story of doctor/public health officer who “went first,” ordering America’s very first coronavirus lockdown in six counties on March 16th after the identification of only the 7th known case of Covid-19 in the United States. The Bay Area Newsgroup reports that on January 31st, Cody’s cellphone rang at 6:49 a.m. “You’ve got your first positive,”…