Articles by Gizmodo
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Chelsea Manning Attempted Suicide in Jail, Is Recovering, Lawyers Say
Dell Cameron | Gizmodo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
11 Mar 2020 – Imprisoned activist and former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning attempted suicide today in the Alexandria, Virginia, jail where she’s been held for a year following her refusal to testify before a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
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Morbid Researchers Imagine a ‘Best-Case Scenario’ for Nuclear War, and the Results Are Grim
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – New research published today in the peer-reviewed journal Safety suggests no nation should possess more than 100 nuclear warheads. This is the maximum number, beyond which the blowback from a nuclear strike will affect the aggressor nation in the form of environmental, socioeconomic, and agricultural devastation, in addition to serious losses of life at home—even in the event the enemy doesn’t retaliate with its own nuclear missile strike.
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How to Find Out If Your Facebook Data Was Stolen by Cambridge Analytica
Matt Novak | Gizmodo – TRANSDEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
9 Apr 2018 – Roughly 87 million people had their Facebook data stolen by the political research firm Cambridge Analytica. And starting today, Facebook will finally notify the people who had their information scooped up.
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Maddie Stone, Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
7 Dec 2015 – Last week, Hawaii’s Supreme Court voided a construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a $1.4 billion observatory that would peer into distant corners of our universe and back in time, exploring new cosmic landscapes with a resolution twelve times sharper than that of Hubble.
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Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now.
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Chris Mills, Gizmodo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
One of the key things Anonymous has highlighted from the documents is the existence of an “intelligence-sharing network” that shares data gleaned from PRISM with “intelligence partners” around the world.
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