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I was a teenage Twitter hacker. Graham Ivan Clark gets 3-year sentence

(credit: Bob Jagendorf) A Florida teenager accused of orchestrating one of last year’s Twitter hacks—this one used celebrity accounts to make more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scam—pleaded guilty on Tuesday in exchange for a three-year sentence, it was widely reported. Authorities said that Graham Ivan Clark, now 18, and two other men used social […]

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Judge provides Trump admin. Friday deadline to postpone or shield TikTok prohibit

Expand / A stand of TikTok (Douyin) in The First International Artificial Products Expo Hangzhou on October 18, 2019, at Hangzhou, China. (charge: Long Wei | VCG | Getty Images) A federal judge gave the Trump government until Friday to {} its intended ban of short-form-video program TikTok in courtroom or hold off, including yet […]

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Court Cubes Trump’s WeChat Prohibit from taking effect Now

Expand / / There is and isn’t a ban in effect on WeChat. (charge: Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images) A federal judge in California set a temporary block to the White House’s attempts to ban WeChat within the USA, preventing this prohibit going into effect at midnight tonight. “The plaintiffs […]