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 While questions about Russia attracted more initial scrutiny at his Senate confirmation hearing today, Trump’s proposed James Comey replacement Chris Wray did offer a few clues on his ideas about the digital privacy of American citizens. On encryption: “There’s a balance that has to be struck between the importance of encryption, which we can all respect when there are so… Read More from TechCrunch via April 30, 2018 at 01:00PM

 In a new study published in Nature, a group of scientists at Harvard have successfully stored a GIF— yes, like a moving meme — into live bacteria (E. coli to be specific). It’s a weird idea, but scientists have actually been using the genetic wonder tool known as CRISPR or “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” for data storage parlor tricks… Read More from TechCrunch via April 26, 2018 at 01:00PM

 According to a new report from the Washington Post, Trump Hotels has been hacked again. The 14 affected properties include Trump Central Park, Trump Chicago, Trump Las Vegas and Trump DC with most of the hacks occurring between November 2016 and March 2017. The hack, confirmed by the luxury hotel chain, reportedly compromised the credit card numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers of… Read More from TechCrunch via February 27, 2018 at 01:00PM

 In a lawsuit filed today, a small cluster of Twitter users is suing the president for blocking them on the platform. The case, brought forward by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, argues that by blocking the users the Trump administration is in fact suppressing speech and that the act “imposes a viewpoint-based restriction on the Individual Plaintiffs’… Read More from TechCrunch via February 17, 2018 at 01:00PM

 The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s newest “Who Has Your Back?” report details what exactly tech giants are doing — or failing to do — in order to protect their users from potentially invasive government data requests. This time around, the annual report includes all four big U.S. wireless carriers and a solid who’s who of tech’s most established players. Read More from TechCrunch via February 10, 2018 at 01:00PM

 With a tweet, Elon Musk just confirmed that he is the proud new owner of X.com, an admittedly very cool domain that he owned all the way back in 1999. Thanks PayPal for allowing me to buy back http://bit.ly/2sYTmkT! No plans right now, but it has great sentimental value to me. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2017 The Whois change seems to have first been spotted by blogger… Read More from TechCrunch via December 25, 2017 at 01:00PM

 In a new letter addressed to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Hawaii’s Brian Schatz asked the commission to confirm that it won’t be caught flat-footed during Wednesday’s net neutrality Day of Action. The two pro-net neutrality Senate Democrats cited an incident in May during which the FCC’s comment portal crashed due to what Pai described as a… Read More from TechCrunch via December 24, 2017 at 01:00PM