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Trump Is Going To Declare The US Opioid Crisis A ‘Public Health Emergency’
On Thursday, US president Trump will announce a major move in the battle against America’s opioid crisis: He will direct that the Department of Health and Human Services declare it a public health emergency.
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Hypocritical Ted Cruz Attacks Apple’s Hypocritical Concession To Chinese Censors
US senator Ted Cruz, who just last year expressed his support for a governmental backdoor into the iPhone, is absolutely outraged that Apple would restrict the freedom and privacy of Chinese citizens by removing VPN apps from its App Store in China. And he’s sent a strongly worded letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook demanding…
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Chrome Developer Discussion Highlights Difficulties Of Built-In Blocking Of Cryptocurrency Mining Malware
Once you know hidden, browser-based cryptocurrency miners are a thing, grabbing an extension to block the behaviour isn’t a problem. Unfortunately, for the likes of Google and Mozilla, there’s no silver bullet for handling the general behaviour of sites that hijack your CPU (or even GPU) cycles for profit, as one ongoing discussion between Chromium…
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The AOL-Yahoo Merger Apparently Smells Like Grapefruit, Cedar And ‘Salty Ozone’
Oath isn’t just Verizon’s cultishly-named agglomeration of Yahoo, AOL, and 12 other legacy web brands of varying relevance — it’s also a fragrance.