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Chaos Erupts Inside Facebook HQ As Employees Blocked From Opening Apps On Their iPhones
It has been a tumultuous day for Facebook and its investors after Apple revoked the company's iOS enterprise developer certificates due to damning revelations about Facebook bribing teens into supplying the company with reams of personal data, which it is believed to have used to improve its ad microtargeting and keep tabs on its rivals. This news, and the slight hit to FB stock that followed, was soon followed by a solid earnings report, which sent FB shares higher in after-hours trading.
But employees at Facebook's office may have been distracted from all of the goings-on on Wednesday. Why? Because Apple's ban reportedly unleashed chaos inside FB HQ as employees suddenly found it impossible to open the company's internal apps on their iPhones, according to Business Insider.
Facebook's thousands of employees are reportedly unable to use the company's internal iOS apps after it was caught running a data-gathering research app that violated Apple's developer policies.
Apple said on Wednesday that it had revoked Facebook's certificates giving it access to a special enterprise program that companies can use to distribute internal apps and tools outside the public App Store.
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While that has made for a hectic day for Facebook employees, Apple's revocation of Facebook's enterprise certificates hasn't affected the public's ability to download and use the Facebook app on iOS devices.
That followed an initial report from the Verge claiming that the revocation of FB's developer certificate - in retribution for abusing the license, which is supposed to be for employee-only internal apps, to bribe kids into handing over all their private data - included shutting down all of Facebook's internal apps.
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release "dogfood" (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.
The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a "research" app.
Facebook initially defended the research app that was at the center of TechCrunch's report, but later opted to shut down the iOS version of the program.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-30/chaos-erupts-inside-facebook-hq-employees-blocked-opening-apps-their-iphones
US-China Trade Talks Kick-Off
China promises changes to foreign investment law hours before the two-day negotiations start
High stake trade talks between the United States and China started Jan. 30 in Washington in a bid to resolve differences and reach an agreement before the March deadline.
The U.S. and Chinese officials met at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building located next to the White House, opening two days of high-level talks. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer leads the American delegation, while the Chinese team is headed by Vice Premier Liu He. President Donald Trump will also meet Liu on Jan 31.
As part of the truce deal between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in early December last year, China agreed to deliver structural changes that Washington has been demanding for years. Both sides agreed to start talks on reforms with respect to forced technology transfer, intellectual property protection, non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and cyber theft, and opening the Chinese market to U.S. services as well as agriculture.
In an effort to ease negotiations in Washington, Beijing announced that it would pass a new foreign investment law to end forced technology transfers and other restrictions imposed by the state. The announcement came hours before the start of two-day talks. State-run Xinhua news agency reported that the National People’s Congress would vote on the new investment law, when it holds its first annual session on March 5.
“Once adopted, the unified law will replace three existing laws on Chinese-foreign equity joint ventures, non-equity joint ventures (or contractual joint ventures) and wholly foreign-owned enterprises,” stated the Xinhua report.
The report also said that the law would help attract more foreign investment to China, protect foreign investors’ legal rights and interests, and provide a favorable business environment.
The draft legislation, which was first reviewed by the NPC’s Standing Committee in December is said to ban compulsory technology transfer, guarantee equal treatment of foreign companies, and protect their intellectual property rights.
According to critics, however, some of the details of the draft law are vague and hence Beijing’s move will not play a significant role in the negotiations.
The Chinese Communist Party’s expedited review of the foreign investment law intended to serve as a bargaining chip for trade negotiations, according to Xie Tian, a professor at the University of South Carolina.
“The most crucial issue is that no matter what the CCP does, the international community does not believe it,” he told NTD, a media partner of The Epoch Times.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-china-trade-talks-kick-off_2785174.html
So what if Israel stage a FF attack on the dome of the rock, destroy the dome and then blame Iran and kick off a big ass war.
This literally just popped into my head but was unusually vivid so I thought I'd share!
makes sense, weird af tho
Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Efforts to Map and Disrupt Botnet Used by North Korean Hackers
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-court-authorized-efforts-map-and-disrupt-botnet-used-north
Senior DOD Official: Three Migrant Caravans Headed to U.S., One with 12,000
There are three migrant caravans headed to the United States’ southern border with Mexico, according to top Pentagon official John Rood.
Rood testified to the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that one of the caravans contains over 12,000 migrants.
“Current information shows that a caravan of over 12,000 people — there’s three that we are tracking, that the DHS is tracking en route, one that is over 12,000 by the latest estimate,” said Rood, who is the under secretary of Defense for policy.
Rood said there are currently more than 2,300 active duty troops at the southern border, down from a high of 5,900 in November.
But he says several thousands more active duty troops are expected to head to the border in the coming weeks, to assist the Department of Homeland Security with laying down more concertina wire, and helping to monitor the border between points of entry.
Democrats, who now control the House, called Pentagon officials in to testify on President Trump’s order of active duty troops to the border in October, which they have called a political stunt by the White House before midterm election.
But defense officials testified that it was the Pentagon — not the White House — decided that active duty troops were able to deploy faster and were better resourced to deal with the caravans headed to the border than National Guard and reserve forces.
“That was a decision made inside the Department,” said Navy Adm. Michael Gilday, the director for operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Democrat lawmakers also questioned whether there was a crisis that necessitated the deployment of troops, when the number of illegal immigrants coming across the border have been higher in previous years.
“The difference is really the caravans and really the nature of the asylum seekers,” Rood said.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/30/senior-dod-official-three-migrant-caravans-headed-to-u-s-one-with-12000/
Judicial Watch Sues for Records of Former FBI Counsel Baker’s Communications with Anti-Trump Dossier Author
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-for-records-of-former-fbi-counsel-bakers-communications-with-anti-trump-dossier-author/
60 Percent of Students Value Tolerance Over Free Speech, Survey Finds
On Wednesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a survey showing that college students in Generation Z or iGen are conflicted on free speech and seem to value tolerance and inclusion more than this important First Amendment liberty.
Sixty percent of students say "promoting an inclusive environment that is welcoming to a diverse group of students" is more important than "protecting students' free speech rights, even if it means allowing hurtful or offensive speech," the FIRE/YouGov poll found.
More than half of students (57 percent) either agree or strongly agree that "colleges and universities should be able to restrict student expression of political views that are hurtful or offensive to certain students."
Even worse, more than two-thirds of students (70 percent) agree with this statement: "students at my college or university should be excluded from extracurricular activities (ex: sports, Greek life, student organizations) if they publicly express intolerant, hurtful, or offensive viewpoints."
In other words, the vast majority of iGen kids — these are not millennials, by the way — in college in believe a student's offensive speech should get that student kicked out of campus clubs. Even statements such as "America is a land of opportunity" have been designated "microaggressions." If a student praises the U.S. as a place where anyone can get ahead, he could find himself exiled from fraternities, sports, and clubs.
Yet at the same time, iGen college kids insist on the importance of free speech. Almost nine in ten students (89 percent) agree that "it is important that my college or university encourages students to have a public voice and share their ideas openly." Three-quarters of students (75 percent) say students should have the right to free speech on campus, even if their speech offends others.
Apparently, iGen kids do not see the contradiction between these statements and the idea that any offensive speech should get a student kicked out of campus clubs.
Almost all students (96 percent) say it is important for their civil rights or civil liberties to be protected, and the largest proportion of students (30 percent) identify freedom of speech as the most important civil right or civil liberty.
Wheaton College Students Say Black Pro-Life Speaker Made People of Color 'Feel Unsafe'
https://pjmedia.com/trending/60-percent-of-students-value-tolerance-over-free-speech-survey-finds/
Looks like the indoctrination is going as planned!
yep so fucking retarded and they don't even see it
Billionaire Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong
Last week, as world leaders and business elites arrived in Davos for the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates tweeted an infographic to his 46 million followers showing that the world has been getting better and better. “This is one of my favourite infographics,” he wrote. “A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the past two centuries.”
Of the six graphs – developed by Max Roser of Our World in Data – the first has attracted the most attention by far. It shows that the proportion of people living in poverty has declined from 94% in 1820 to only 10% today. The claim is simple and compelling. And it’s not just Gates who’s grabbed on to it. These figures have been trotted out in the past year by everyone from Steven Pinker to Nick Kristof and much of the rest of the Davos set to argue that the global extension of free-market capitalism has been great for everyone. Pinker and Gates have gone even further, saying we shouldn’t complain about rising inequality when the very forces that deliver such immense wealth to the richest are also eradicating poverty before our very eyes.
It’s a powerful narrative. And it’s completely wrong.
There are a number of problems with this graph, though. First of all, real data on poverty has only been collected since 1981. Anything before that is extremely sketchy, and to go back as far as 1820 is meaningless. Roser draws on a dataset that was never intended to describe poverty, but rather inequality in the distribution of world GDP – and that for only a limited range of countries. There is no actual research to bolster the claims about long-term poverty. It’s not science; it’s social media.
What Roser’s numbers actually reveal is that the world went from a situation where most of humanity had no need of money at all to one where today most of humanity struggles to survive on extremely small amounts of money. The graph casts this as a decline in poverty, but in reality what was going on was a process of dispossession that bulldozed people into the capitalist labour system, during the enclosure movements in Europe and the colonisation of the global south.
https://governmentslaves.news/2019/01/30/billionaire-bill-gates-says-poverty-is-decreasing-he-couldnt-be-more-wrong/
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