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Takeaways from AP’s report on the business interests of Trump’s surgeon general pick
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. surgeon general has repeatedly said the nation’s medical and food systems are corrupted by special interests and people out to make a profit at the expense of Americans’ health. Yet as Dr. Casey Means has criticized scientists, medical schools and regulators for taking money…
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Judge weighs government’s request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., said during a hearing…
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Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot Claude
Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of millions of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so, and “intentionally trained on the personal…
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FBI tested by attacks, politically explosive investigations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days after federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home for classified documents, FBI Director Christopher Wray emailed bureau workers urging them to tune out criticism from those who “don’t know what we know and don’t see what we see.” The work was done by the book, the director wrote…
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MP Kurek talks environment, ethics, flood mitigation at town hall
Battle River-Crowfoot MP Damien Kurek held a town hall meeting with residents of Drumheller on Tuesday evening, February 28, drawing a full audience to the Town of Drumheller council chambers. This was the third town hall meeting MP Kurek held on Tuesday, having held town hall meetings in Three Hills and Morrin in the morning…
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Indigo employee data leak included sensitive info on immigration, medical leave
Indigo says the data leak that affected current and former employees of the bookstore chain included information on medical leaves and immigration applications, as well as other sensitive information not included when the company initially disclosed the leak. It has been a month since the retailer was hit by a cyberattack that brought down its…
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Timeline of the ransomware attack against Canadian bookstore retailer Indigo
TORONTO — It’s been one month since a ransomware attack hit Canada’s biggest bookstore chain. The hack kicked Indigo Books & Music Inc.’s website and payment systems offline and compromised the personal information of some current and former employees. Here’s a timeline of the cyberattack: Feb. 8: In a post on Twitter at 2:15 p.m.…
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Danish defense ministry bans TikTok on employee work phones
It’s the latest government-related ban over security and data privacy for the app, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. In a statement, the ministry said the Scandinavian country’s Center for Cyber Security had assessed there was a risk of espionage, and said that TikTok “asks for certain rights and access on the device.” The…
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Alberta Energy Regulator may have ignored law by not disclosing oilsands leak: lawyer
CALGARY — Alberta’s energy regulator may have ignored provincial law by not publicly disclosing that waste from a large oilsands tailings pond was escaping containment and seeping into groundwater, says a lawyer. Drew Yewchuk of the University of Calgary’s Public Interest Law Clinic is asking the province’s Information Commissioner to investigate how and why the…