Sixteen months into Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, citizens are gradually turning against the controversial leader amid fatigue with a drug war that has killed thousands and distracted the administration from other reforms. An Oct. 8 survey by the country’s top pollster, Social Weather Stations, revealed the president’s net satisfaction rating slid to 48 percent […]
Read moreIsraeli intelligence officials spying on Russian government hackers found they wereusing Kaspersky Lab antivirus software that is also used by 400 million people globally, including U.S. government agencies, according to media reports on Tuesday. The Israeli officials who had hacked into Kaspersky’s network over two years ago then warned their U.S. counterparts of the Russian […]
Read moreCategorize this under “one of the worst possible PR nightmares for a Google smart speaker.” According to Artem Russakovskii at Android Police, the Google Home Mini he was reviewing was randomly and near-constantly recording sounds in his home and transmitting them to Google. The company acknowledged the problem and is issuing a software update to […]
Read moreDallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said on Tuesday that he will be assessing the progress of the U.S. economy toward full employment and looking for more signs of upward inflation as he weighs potential interest-rate hikes. “I intend to keep an open mind about removing accommodation in upcoming (Fed) meetings,” Kaplan said in […]
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