April, 2019

"We're in touch with the New York State attorney general's office and are responding to their questions on this matter," a spokesperson for Facebook told Business Insider.

Rosenstein, who was speaking in New York at the Public Servants Dinner of the Armenian Bar Association, defended his handling of the probe and criticized former officials in the process. He called out former FBI Director James Comey for alerting Congress about the investigation into Russian collusion at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign.

“I can absolutely make a big traffic problem all over the world,” the hacker said. A hacker broke into thousands of accounts belonging to users of two GPS tracker apps, giving him the ability to monitor the locations of tens of thousands of vehicles and even turn off the engines for some of them while they were in motion, Motherboard has learned...

This is the third year in a row that Taobao has been called out by the U.S. government over IP theft, despite measures the company claims it has taken to root out fakes, including the arrest of 1,752 suspects and closure of 1,282 manufacturing and distribution centers.

“Although Alibaba has taken some steps to curb the offer and sale of infringing products, right holders, particularly SMEs, continue to report high volumes of infringing products and problems with using takedown procedures,” noted the USTR in its report.

Gab is creating its own web browser using Brave’s open-source code, scrapping the BAT token, and replacing it with Bitcoin Lightning Network integration. Brave is not amused.

Southern Poverty Law Center is co-sponsor of event.

Police said on an official Twitter account that Mohamed Zahran, the leader of local militant group National Towheed Jamaat known for his vitriolic extremist speeches on social media, had been killed in one of the nine suicide bombings. Police also said they had arrested the group’s second-in-command.

Just how far can you get in the New York City socialite scene without a real fortune of your own? Incredibly far, in the case of Anna Delvey - real name Anna Sorokin - who allegedly tricked the city's elite into thinking she was a billionaire heiress. She reportedly hired a private jet, went to all the best parties, and threw cash at everyone she saw - a $100 (£78) tip if you carried her bag or were her Uber driver. Yet, ultimately, her time at the top was short-lived. And it unravelled spectacularly...

Peace on the Korean Peninsula "will entirely depend on the US future attitude," Kim Jong Un was quoted as saying by North Korea's official news agency KCNA on Friday... "The situation on the Korean peninsula and the region is now at a standstill and has reached a critical point where it may return to its original state as the "US took a unilateral attitude in bad faith at the recent… summit talks," Kim said...

The Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh unwrapped its Geneva Bible, dating back to 1615, on Thursday, two years after it was stolen. The Bible was recovered in the Netherlands -- purchased by the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden -- and sent neatly to the U.S. in a small metal box and tucked in a decidedly post-17th century invention: bubble wrap. The owner of the museum, dedicated to the refugees who fled England over religious persecution, discovered the book had been stolen when it was announced last year.

• Amazon employs a system that not only tracks warehouse workers’ productivity but also can automatically fire them for failing to meet expectations.
• Amazon confirmed that it fired hundreds of people for productivity reasons in just one facility over one year’s time.
• It said that the rate at which it is firing people from its warehouses has decreased.

The latest catch and release totals obtained by Breitbart News revealed that, currently, DHS is releasing about 1,400 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S. every day. Between April 18 to April 22, DHS released about 7,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the country.

British Columbia's Supreme Court declared a father guilty of 'family violence' for giving interviews to publications including The Federalist in which he used female pronouns for his daughter.

American Egyptologist Ray Johnson, a specialist at Luxor Temple who restored the colossus in collaboration with Egyptians counterparts, says that the statue has been placed in its correct location and has the right body pose. With the last colossus of Ramses II restored and erected to rejoin its five counterparts at Luxor Temple, debate on its location and restoration was sparked among Egyptologists...

In the evolving story of a so-called "stablecoin" the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James accused iFinex Inc. -- operator of the Bitfinex exchange and the Tether cryptocurrency -- of trying to cover up "the apparent loss of $850 million dollars of co-mingled client and corporate funds." While researchers have tied Tether transactions to the spike in Bitcoin value that occurred between March 2017 and March 2018, this issue of the missing money is allegedly tied to a transfer of $850 million in funds to Crypto Capital Corp., a payment processor based in Panama.

Maria Butina pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to act as a Russian agent in the U.S. without registering with the Justice Department. She faces up to five years in prison, although the final decision on sentencing rests with U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan. Butina's case has been handled separately from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation...

The organization is still reeling from disclosures that Russian operatives tried to use contacts in the NRA to influence US elections. Its leaders have been accused of straying from the association’s original mission of gun safety and shooting sports by wading into politics and “culture wars”. And, plagued by financial troubles, the NRA is suing its longtime public relations firm over its refusal to hand over financial records to account for bills worth millions of dollars...

Three people — a mother and her two children — died in Erath County, Texas, early Wednesday when their car was swept away by what The Associated Press reported was flash flooding. Two people are also confirmed dead in the Louisiana city of Ruston after a tree fell on a home.

As of Wednesday morning, there were more than 15,000 power outages in Louisiana and more than 2,700 in Texas.

At the Beijing Forum, the president promises more cooperation with countries worldwide, without devaluing the yuan, defending copyrights, expanding sectors for foreign companies' investments. 37 world leaders and hundreds of representatives of international companies in attendance. In praise of multilateralism.

... two students contracted measles, potentially exposing over 200 students and staff to the disease. UCLA said that 117 of its students and staff have been ordered to stay home after they failed to provide medical records proving that they had been vaccinated... CSU, a sprawling public university with 23 campuses, has enforced similar guidelines in a bid to mitigate the risk of its thousands of students and staff catching measles... 71 student employees and 127 staff employees to hunker down at home and minimize their contacts with the outside word...