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1. Red Hat Names Paul Cormier President and Chief Executive Officer
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Longtime Red Hat executive and open hybrid cloud visionary steps into leadership role succeeding Jim Whitehurst Read all

2. Federal prosecutors indict four Chinese military officers over Equifax hack
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The Justice Department has charged four Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers in relation to the 2017 Equifax hack that leaked the personal details of some 145 million US consumers -- nearly ...

3. A police dog is running against the goat incumbent mayor of a small Vermont town
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... soothe the concerns of Fair Haven's feline population, which has a long history of hostile relations with canine police officers. In response to Sammy's campaign, Lincoln has released a budget proposal ...

4. Somebody swiped weed from Chicago airport's "Cannabis Amnesty Box"
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... Tampering with them, or attempting to remove anything placed inside, is a crime, and detectives are investigating this matter,” said Anthony Guglielmi, the chief communications officer with the Chicago ...

5. Podcast: Quibi and Lioness on the future of streaming video and sex tech
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In this special interview episode from CES 2020, Devindra chats with the minds behind Quibi -- founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO Meg Whitman, Chief Product Officer Tom Conrad and CTO Ben Post -- to see how ...

6. Cop "fired" after fabricating story of insulting McDonalds coffee cup
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An anonymous police officer in Herington, Kansas, claimed he was given a coffee cup with "fucking pigs" written on it by staff at McDonalds. The story went viral, uncritically laundered by local media ...

7. This Christmas tree is so fucking metal
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... of the Aviation security officers at Vilnius Airport! A tree made of confiscated items. "Knives, scissors, lighters, blades, and all sorts of other dangerous goods – this Christmas tree has them all." ...

8. Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation
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... officers that they can tell when someone is lying to them with a high degree of accuracy. Read the rest Read all  ...

9. BREAKING: A quantity of those who labor in police departments are the same as those who ignite crucifixes
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... a photo emerged depicting a training class of roughly 30 correctional officers performing a Nazi salute. Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety Director Jeff Sandy sent a letter to all employees ...

10. Uber says 3,045 sexual assaults involving drivers and passengers reported in U.S. rides last year
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... Delivers U.S. Safety Report Written byTony West, Chief Legal Officer Doing the right thing means counting, confronting, and taking action to end sexual assault. My heart is with every survivor of this ...

11. Couple got engaged at Walmart hours after armed robbery stunt with 'ornamental sword', say police
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... allowed officers to search her cellphone, resulting in them finding videos of her and Moore getting engaged at Walmart early Tuesday morning after the robbery, the release said. Receipts seized during ...

12. Without right to repair, the military can't fix its own battlefield equipment
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Captain Elle Ekman is a US Marine Corps logistics officer; in a New York Times op-ed, she describes how the onerous conditions imposed my manufacturers on the US armed forces mean that overseas troops ...

13. NYC creates a high-level position to oversee ethics in AI
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... for an Algorithms Management and Policy Officer.... Read all  ...

14. Former CIA officer Jerry Lee sentenced to 19 years for handing U.S. info to China
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Today, a federal judge sentenced former CIA officer Jerry Lee to 19 years in prison. He was convicted of gathering United States defense information and other sensitive information, and handing it over ...

15. Microsoft delays Surface Earbuds until spring 2020
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... chief product officer, said the company needs a l... Read all  ...

16. Public treated to obfuscation at Waterfront Toronto meeting on negotiations with Google sister company over surveillance district
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... Chief Development Officer Josh Sirefman. Zegarac lays out in the letter how the two bodies will work closely together -- with Waterfront Toronto taking the lead in on such things as negotiations with all ...

17. Cat found in New Mexico 5 years after being lost in Oregon
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... fuzzy belly.” “When I last saw him, he was maybe the size of a large burrito and now I’m assuming he’s the size of four large burritos,” Usov added. And from the story in the Santa Fe New Mexican today: Officers ...

18. Hawaii cop "to plead guilty" after forcing homeless man to lick public urinal
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KHQ6 reports that John Rabago, a Hawaii cop accused of forcing a homeless man to lick a public urinal, plans to plead guilty on a civil rights charge. Another officer, Reginald Ramones, pleaded guilty ...

19. There is one remaining Woolworth lunch counter left
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... it’s still a real, thriving luncheonette counter called the Woolworth Diner, serving police officers, antiquers, and locals daily. Head over to Eater Los Angeles to see lots of photos of this fifties time ...

20. Video shows cop lied
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... video at the top of this piece, which was obtained by an investigator for [Pedro] Barbosa’s lawyer, backs all of this up. Barbosa did drive off, but at no time was either officer at risk of being struck ...

21. A racist cop bullies two black men for "acting suspicious," and he actually gets fired
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Crazed Indiana officer Daryl Jones was fired after bullying two black men for "acting suspicious" after they bought a bunch of goods from Nordstrom Rack. The unhinged officer came up to the men, who were ...

22. No one entered Jeffrey Epstein's cell the night he died
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... video shows that besides the two officers charged today, no one entered the SHU -- where Epstein was housed -- at anytime during the night he died, the indictment says. https://t.co/nEFKcWBT5U — ...

23. Dog stuck on fence makes a new friend
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Bodycam footage involving cops and dogs is rarely pleasant viewing, but this one--featuring an officer rescuing a dog snarled in a wire fence--has a great twist ending. I shalln't ruin it for you. Read ...

24. Girl kidnapped on street out of mother's arms, then rescued in dramatic hotel raid
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... police released heart-stopping video of the moment officers busted into the suspect's hotel room and rescued her. Michael Webb, 51, kidnapped the 8-year-old girl on May 18 as she was walking with her mom ...

25. Police thwart robbery at gallery that has already had the same Rembrandt painting stolen four times
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... two paintings, which were part of an exhibition. Officers arrived minutes later and, following the search of the area, challenged an intruder and an officer gave chase. The intruder then turned and used ...