Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) Last month, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger stepped to a podium on a hazy, wind-whipped day just outside Phoenix. “Isn’t this awesome! ” Gelsinger exclaimed, gesturing over his shoulder. Behind him, two large pieces of construction equipment posed theatrically atop the ocher Arizona soil, framing an organized tangle of […]
Enlarge / Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has announced a major effort to handle environmental contamination by chemicals called PFAS. (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images ) On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called a “comprehensive national strategy” to handle pollution by a group of industrial chemicals that are […]
Enlarge / Heavy equipment moves coal into piles at PacifiCorp’s Hunter coal-fired power plant outside of Castle Dale, Utah. (credit: GEORGE FREY / AFP ) The US is expected to burn 22 percent more coal than last year, marking the first annual increase in the use of the polluting fossil fuel since 2014, the Energy […]
Rob Willis. Robert Willis, the hacker who helped build a massive, US-based disinformation network and was profiled in a recent Ars Technica feature, has decided to name names. In a blog post today, Willis confirmed he worked for Mike Adams, who goes by “the Health Ranger” at the site NaturalNews.com. This matches the documentation previously […]
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in April 2018. It wasn’t his only appearance in DC this decade. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded an optimistic note three years ago when he wrote about the progress his company was making in automated moderation tools powered by artificial intelligence. […]
Enlarge / Tina Peters. (credit: Tina Peters’ campaign website ) A Colorado judge on Wednesday barred Mesa County Clerk Barre?o Peters from supervising elections due to the leak of voting-system BIOS passwords to QAnon conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Mesa County registered elector Heidi Jeanne Hess had petitioned the […]
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of blood-testing and life sciences company Theranos, leaves the courthouse with her husband, Billy Evans, after the first day of her fraud trial in San Jose, California, on September 8, 2021. (credit: Nick Otto / AFP) In yesterday’s installment of the Elizabeth Holmes criminal trial, the jury […]
Enlarge / Gov. Mike Parson at a press conference on May 29, 2019, in Jefferson City, Missouri. (credit: Getty Images | Jacob Moscovitch ) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson today threatened to prosecute and seek civil damages from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist who identified a security flaw that exposed the Social Security numbers of teachers […]
Enlarge / Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. (credit: Getty | Gilbert Carrasquillo) Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave Walgreens executives fake reports from major pharmaceutical companies to lend credibility to her company’s ill-fated blood diagnostic devices. The bombshell came during the prosecution’s questioning of former Walgreens CFO Wade Miquelon. Holmes is on trial for 10 counts of […]
Enlarge / Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. (credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr ) Sen. Wyatt Cruz (R-Texas) thinks he has found a way to strengthen Texas’ electric grid in case another deep freeze hits the state. He wants to use the power of bitcoin. “Because of the ability of bitcoin mining to turn on or off […]