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The Qatar-funded Al Jazeera news network published a video questioning the Holocaust and implying that Jews have benefited from it.

Then, when Western media caught them and published translations, Twitter agreed to censor the westerners’ translated versions, invoking Al Jazeera’s copyright.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/20/twitter-al-jazeera-holocaust/

A transgender woman who was beaten in a Dallas parking lot last month was fatally shot on Saturday, according to police.

Dallas Police Major Vincent Weddington said that the woman, who was identified as Muhlaysia Booker, was found dead after police responded to a reported shooting at approximately 6:40 a.m. on Saturday.

“Upon arrival, officers found the complainant lying face down in the street — deceased from homicidal violence,” Weddington said at a press conference Sunday.

A transgender woman who was beaten in a Dallas parking lot last month was fatally shot on Saturday, according to police.

Dallas Police Major Vincent Weddington said that the woman, who was identified as Muhlaysia Booker, was found dead after police responded to a reported shooting at approximately 6:40 a.m. on Saturday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/transgender-woman-assaulted-in-dallas-last-month-shot-dead

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a deadly overnight attack in an area of eastern Congo hit by an Ebola epidemic, although its account of the violence differed from local reports.

The deputy mayor of Beni in the eastern Democratic of Congo said 13 civilians were killed late on Monday in an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) - a group thought to be linked to Islamic State.

"The victims were killed by bullets and others by bladed weapons," Mayor Modeste Bakwanamaha told Reuters.

In a statement on the messaging website Telegram, Islamic State said it was behind the attack. It said it had targeted the Congolese army in Beni, killing or wounding 25 people.

more here:

http://news.trust.org/item/20190604191037-ap8pc

Apple has pulled back the curtain on an all-new Mac Pro with something of a throwback design. Goodbye garbage can, hello tower.

The new design will dissipate heat better than the 2013 Mac Pro and will also be more modular and easier to customize. It features a removable aluminum enclosure that lifts up to reveal the innards.

The new Mac Pro promises to be incredibly powerful with support for Xeon processors up to 28 cores, 1.5TB of memory, eight PCIe expansion slots and a new graphics architecture and new accelerator card that enables playback of three streams of 8K ProRes video simultaneously.

more here:

https://www.pdnonline.com/gear/apple-trashes-trash-can-reveals-new-mac-pro-pro-display/

After Microsoft warned Windows users on two separate occasions to patch a severe security flaw known as BlueKeep, now, the US National Security Agency has echoed the OS maker's warning in the hopes of avoiding another WannaCry-like incident.

The NSA's alert, authored by the agency's Central Security Service division, is about the security flaw known as BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708).

This vulnerability affects the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service included in older versions of the Windows OS, such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.

Microsoft released patches for all these operating systems on May 14, during the company's monthly Patch Tuesday event, but the company also warned that the vulnerability is extremely dangerous because it can be weaponized to create a self-spreading exploit.

more here:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows-users-to-patch-bluekeep-cve-2019-0708/

Spotify Stations, the streaming service’s lightweight listening app offering easy access to curated playlists, has arrived in the U.S. The app has been considered an experiment by Spotify and by some others, a Pandora copycat, due to its support for instant music playback at launch.

The Stations app is designed for those who want a more radio-like experience, rather than having to seek out music or customize their own playlists — both of which take time and effort. It could also appeal to those who want a simpler user interface, as Spotify’s flagship app’s look-and-feel isn’t something that everyone likes.

Instead, Stations keeps things minimalist with a scrollable list of playlists and easy tools to customize your own.

In Stations, free users will hear ads and be able to thumbs up and down songs, but don’t have unlimited skips. Spotify Premium users will get unlimited skips and ad-free listening.

more here:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/04/spotify-launches-its-lightweight-listening-app-stations-in-the-u-s/

Google has made headlines in recent months, both here and elsewhere, for its crackdown on malicious apps in its proprietary app marketplace, as well as on apps that cross all kinds of lines regarding appropriate practices. Back towards the end of April, you may recall, it came to light that Google was moving to ban one of the biggest Android app developers (DO Global) from the Google Play Store after several of its apps were caught sharing data they collect with the Chinese government, among other concerns.

Unfortunately, we have to again report a similar turn of events. Researchers from the mobile security firm Lookout announced that 238 apps that had been downloaded in aggregate more than 440 million times from the Google Play Store were found to contain the BeiTaAd Plugin. That’s a strain of adware that can apparently render a mobile device almost unusable.

more here:

https://bgr.com/2019/06/04/google-play-store-apps-adware-android/

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized former vice president Joe Biden’s climate change plan Wednesday, while praising that of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee as the “gold standard,” the best in the presidential field.

Ocasio-Cortez co-authored the “Green New Deal” earlier this year. It calls for the total elimination of fossil fuels as an energy source in the United States by 2030. (Previously, the most ambitious plan, adopted by California, aimed to do the same by 2045; critics have pointed out that no one is quite sure how the state will achieve that aggressive goal.)

Biden’s plan, released Wednesday morning, calls for fossil fuels to be eliminated by 2050, after spending $1.7 trillion in federal funds and $5 trillion in state, local, and private funds. The former vice president also called for building “small modular nuclear reactors at half the construction cost of today’s reactors” to help replace fossil fuel energy.

But 2050 is too late, Ocasio-Cortez said, according to The Hill. “Scientifically, anything that is less than helping us cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 is going to be too late,” she reportedly said.

more here:

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/06/04/aoc-pans-joe-biden-climate-change-plan-praises-jay-inslees/

Former hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone has sold a New York townhouse for close to $80 million, making it the most expensive residential townhouse ever sold in the city, according to people familiar with the deal.

The property is one of two he and his wife, Lisa Falcone, own on the same street on the Upper East Side. Another smaller property they own is still for sale asking $29.5 million, according to listings website StreetEasy.

The larger double-wide townhouse is well known as the former home of “Penthouse” magazine founder Bob Guccione. The Falcones bought it for $49 million in 2008 and have invested millions in a multi-year renovation, Mr. Falcone told The Wall Street Journal in March 2018. He said they expanded the property to almost 30,000 square feet and added a pool and a movie theater below ground level.

The house was built as two buildings in 1879, according to city records.

more here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/philip-falcone-sets-nyc-record-with-nearly-80-million-townhouse-sale-11559688915

Earlier this year, we reported on a situation regarding Chrome and proposed changes to ad blocking that would greatly limit the ability of modern adblockers to filter content. Under Google’s new rules, extensions would be limited to a list of 30,000 items to be filtered. uBlock Origin, a popular ad blocking utility, currently ships with 90,000 filters, and supports up to half a million. But then, after massive user outcry, Google seemed to reverse course. The company announced that new dynamic lists would also be supported, implying this would be a partial solution to the 30K static list limit.

The discussion about what kind of rules the extension community needs versus what Google wants to enable has been ongoing, and Google has published a major response to a prepared document summarizing the extension communities’ concerns that raises new fears about what the company is planning to do. You can read the company’s full response here, but one particular sentence is causing frustration:

“Chrome is deprecating the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API in Manifest V3, not the entire webRequest API (though blocking will still be available to enterprise deployments).”

more here:

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/292320-future-chrome-changes-may-make-normal-ad-blocking-an-enterprise-only-feature

Virginia Tech offered ten separate graduation ceremonies this year for different student groups based on identity.

Virginia Tech hosted ten separate graduation ceremonies for students based on their identity. In May, the university held separate ceremonies for Black, Asian, Latino, Muslim, and LGBTQ students. Breitbart News reported in May that many American colleges offer separate graduation ceremonies for Black students.

The College Fix reported this week that Virginia Tech is one of many universities that have adopted separate ceremonies for student groups based on identity. For example, The Donning of Kente Ceremony is held to commemorate the graduation of Black and African American students.

more here:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/03/virginia-tech-offers-10-different-graduation-ceremonies-for-black-lgbtq-asian-students/

French self-produced rapper of Cameroonian origin Nick Conrad did not enjoy much interest before he entered the spotlight with a music video titled “Hang White People”; however, shortly after a trial over the notorious clip, he released another creation that featured him strangling a white woman, apparently representing France.

French rapper Nick Conrad, who has prompted outrage with his new release "Sweet Country" with the lyrics “I F**k France until agony”, was questioned by Paris judicial police, but walked away free for the time being, French broadcaster LCI (La Chaîne Info) reports. Investigators summoned him due to a probe that was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office following a report by Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.

At the end of his recently released music video, the rapper of Cameroonian origin acted out strangling a white woman. Throughout the song, he also repeated the chorus "I f**k France until agony” and “I burn France”, as well as voiced a wish to plant a "bomb under the Pantheon".

The clip has been condemned by French politicians, including Castaner, who filed an official complaint, as well as by Republican top candidate in the European elections François-Xavier Bellamy. At the same time, the president of the Volunteers Pour la France, General Antoine Martinez, launched a petition, demanding that the rapper be stripped of his French passport.

Netizens also slammed the rapper, as well as social media platforms for letting his video remain online.

more here:

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905301075472395-rapper-burn-france/