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Jerome Hudson, filling in for host Alex Marlow, begins today’s podcast with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell caving to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer by allowing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include the highly controversial media cartel bill (aka the JCPA). Then, the New York Times still lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, calling it “stolen.” Plus, the Biden White House has dismissed documents showing collusion between the Biden campaign and Twitter executives to bury the “laptop from hell” as a distraction. Also, Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) announced that he will seek to ban the Chinese-owned app TikTok from state government devices, citing security concerns. Finally, it’s election day for the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff race. Today’s guest is Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), who discusses an amnesty deal for 2 million DACA illegal aliens making its way through the swamp; Dr. Anthony Fauci playing dumb about public health officials colluding with social media … [Read more...] about Breitbart News Daily Podcast Ep. 275: Mitch Keeps JCPA Alive, Fauci Doesn’t ‘Recall,’ DACA Amnesty Next? Guest: Rep. Greg Murphy

Meta-owned social media platform Facebook is known to threaten to ban news content. It did so in Australia and in Canada and now it is doing the same in the US — which is one of the key markets for the company. Facebook is at loggerheads with the US Congress over a journalism bill — The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act . In a tweet, Andy Stone, head of communications, Meta said that Facebook will be “forced to consider” removing all news from its platform “if Congress passes an ill-considered journalism bill as part of national security legislation.” Meta says that Facebook will not be willing to submit to government-mandated negotiations that “unfairly disregard any value we provide to news outlets through increased traffic and subscriptions.” What is Facebook’s problem with the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act? In the tweet, Meta says that the Act completely fails to “recognise the key fact: publishers and broadcasters put … [Read more...] about Why Facebook is threatening to ban all news in the US

Audio player loading… New research has claimed computer sales have fallen as we head into the festive period, but there can be some positives which may indicate an overhaul to the way we think about computing. Findings from analyst firm Canalys suggest that US shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations were down by 12% in Q3 2022 compared with the same time period last year. Notebooks saw the most significant decline which Canalys attributes to “cautious business spending”, on top of a decline in consumer demand. PC sales 2022 The report claims fewer people were also looking to buy tablets, too, which could be thanks in part to the largely inflated prices in recent months. While Apple’s updated flagship 12.9-inch iPad Pro remained unchanged at $1,099 in the US, other markets saw costs rise significantly with the introduction of the M2 model, with UK prices rising from £999 to £1,249. Canalys research analyst Brian Lynch explains that “the … [Read more...] about PC sales slumped in the US – but it wasn’t bad news for everyone

Laura Ingraham, host of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News, slammed Democrats and establishment Republicans on the hill for their last-ditch efforts to secure a corporate welfare package for their cronies in the corporate establishment media by attaching the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) to the “must-pass” National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Citing Breitbart News’ reporting on the issue, Ingraham slammed the JCPA as “disturbing” in a segment on her nightly Fox News show, noting Breitbart’s analysis of the bill as a means for the media industry to secure special favors from Silicon Valley tech giants. “Now this defense bill will as usual be so long, and the text released so late that few members will actually read it, and even fewer tally up all the waste,” said Ingraham. “But Breitbart uncovered something disturbing tucked inside it — something called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act in the National Defense Authorization Act. Now, it … [Read more...] about Laura Ingraham Slams ‘Disturbing’ Push to Add JCPA to NDAA

The next blue moon will occur on the last night of August. Although it will appear no bluer than on any other night, it will nonetheless fit the modern definition of the term by being the second full moon in a calendar month. But this technical meaning of "blue moon" arose fairly recently. The phrase has undergone a strange evolution over the past 500 years. The notion of a blue moon first appeared in writing in the 16th century, according to folklorist Phillip Hiscock, a professor at Memorial University in Newfoundland who has traced the meaning of the phrase through the centuries. "In the English language, the first use that we have is by Cardinal Wolsey" — Henry VIII's notorious advisor, Hiscock said. "Cardinal Wolsey writes about his intellectual enemies who 'would have you believe the moon is blue.'" Aside from the occasional blue-tinged moon that can peak through a volcanic ash cloud, moons almost always hover between white and yellow, and so to call the moon blue was to … [Read more...] about Blue Moon: The Strange Evolution of a Phrase

Audio player loading… Footage of people taking to the streets in China have been filling the news for over a week. The nationwide wave of demonstrations against the strict zero-Covid policy is considered to be the biggest since the 1989 massacre of Tiananmen Square. It's not confined to the streets, though - the internet is an important battlefield too. Digital protestors are using software like the best VPN services to break through China’s Great Firewall and spread information outside the country's borders. While Chinese authorities might be the most equipped in the field, online censorship is on the rise everywhere across the world. In Iran, for example, the government recently restricted Instagram and WhatsApp in an effort to silence protesters. The same happened in Turkey after the Istanbul blast . According to the latest report from Freedom House , in 2022 two-thirds of the countries analyzed "cut residents off from the flow of news and information … [Read more...] about Meet the tech making online censorship “a very difficult thing to achieve”

Audio player loading… The Witcher showrunner Lauren Hissrich says she "fully understands" why fans are furious over Henry Cavill's forthcoming departure. Speaking exclusively to TechRadar at The Witcher: Blood Origin 's UK junket, Hissrich said she sympathised with viewers over Cavill leaving the hit Netflix show. However, Hissrich simultaneously appealed to fans to stick with the TV series, even if Cavill won't be part of its cast for much longer. Hissrich's response comes five weeks after it was revealed the show's lead actor won't return as Geralt of Rivia after The Witcher season 3 . The fantasy series, which returns in Q2 2023 , will bring the curtain down on Cavill's reign, with Liam Hemsworth – brother of Marvel movie star Chris Hemsworth – replacing Cavill from season 4 onwards . In the days that followed, The Witcher's fanbase expressed their shock and dismay that Cavill was walking away from one of his dream roles. A Change.org petition … [Read more...] about The Witcher showrunner ‘fully understands’ fan concerns over Henry Cavill’s departure

Audio player loading… The days of bringing home a note from your teacher to your parents (or vice versa) will soon be at an end thanks to a new update to Microsoft Teams . The video conferencing service is working on a new feature that will make parent-teacher communication much more tech-savvy, allowing messages to be sent either by email or SMS to set up a Microsoft Teams call. In an update (opens in new tab) on the official Microsoft 365 roadmap, the company says that the new "Parent Connection" tool will allow teachers to directly communicate with the guardians of a student. I'm telling "Sending messages in an SMS-heavy market makes it easier to connect with Parents while keeping teachers' experience simple," Microsoft wrote in the entry, entitled "Invite Parents via SMS for Communication". The company added that messages sent to parents and guardians will be in plain text, without HTML, formatting, or styles applied. The tool is still … [Read more...] about Microsoft Teams might start telling on you to your parents

Disgraced biotech founder Elizabeth Holmes has appealed her criminal fraud conviction and federal prison sentence—a move that was widely anticipated but is seen as unlikely to succeed. Holmes was convicted in January on four counts of defrauding investors of her now-defunct blood-testing startup, Theranos, resulting in millions of dollars in loss. Holmes, along with her former romantic partner and Theranos COO, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, falsely claimed that their technology could perform more than 200 medical tests with just a few drops of blood. Balwani's sentencing is scheduled for December 7. Two weeks ago, Judge Edward Davila of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, who proceeded over the exhaustive trial, sentenced Holmes to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison. Holmes' three-page notice of appeal , filed December 2, did not indicate on what grounds she will appeal her case. She has until March 3 to file legal briefs for her appeal effort in … [Read more...] about Elizabeth Holmes appeals conviction, 11-year sentence despite bleak outlook

The Orion spacecraft swung by the Moon on Monday, flying to within 130 km of that world's surface as it set course for a return to Earth this weekend. In making this "powered flyby burn" to move away from the Moon, Orion's service module performed its longest main engine firing to date, lasting 3 minutes and 27 seconds. After successful completion of the maneuver, NASA's mission management team gave the "go" to send recovery teams out into the Pacific Ocean, where Orion is due to splashdown on Sunday, during the middle of the day. By getting into an orbit around the Moon, and back out of it again during its deep space mission, Orion has now completed four main propulsive burns. This completes a big test of the spacecraft and its propulsive service module, which was built by the European Space Agency. Although a boilerplate version of Orion made a flight in 2014, it did so without a service module. As part of this Artemis I mission, NASA is now three weeks into a 25.5-day test … [Read more...] about After lunar flyby, NASA’s Orion spacecraft is set to splash down on Sunday