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North Korean Military Hackers Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Deploy Multiple Malicious Cryptocurrency Applications

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Washington DC, a federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.

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Americans More Pessimistic About Economic Future

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Ridgewood NJ according to Rasmussen Reports more Americans are pessimistic about the future of the U.S. economy, and a majority don’t think today’s children will be better off than their parents.

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U.S. Leads World in Greenhouse Gas Reductions Without the Paris Climate Accord

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Ridgewood NJ, in the latest analysis from the International Energy Administration on CO2 emissions for 2020:

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Bergen County Code Ninjas offering President’s Day Activities for Kids

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Saddle Brook NJ,  are you looking for something for your kids to do during President’s Day break? Code Ninjas in Saddle Brook is offering two virtual camps on February 15 and 16. The half day camps are $179 each for ages 7 – 14.  

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Tesla Inc. Buys $1.5 billion in Bitcoin

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Ridgewood NJ,  Laszlo Hanyecz said he wouldn’t spend his Bitcoins on a Tesla. Laszlo Hanyecz knows what he’s talking about, in 2010, Hanyecz paid 10,000 Bitcoins, worth about $446 million at current prices, for two pizzas.

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Drones Deliver Covid Vaccine in Africa

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Democratic Republic of the Congo , first it was pizza now its vaccine , according to Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Drones have previously been used for the delivery of medical supplies, including vaccines, to areas that are remote or difficult to access. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently announced a partnership between VillageReach, Swoop Aero, and the DRC Ministry of Health—“Drones for Health”—will use drone to promote equitable access to healthcare for half a million people in remote communities of the Equateur province. In addition to standard medical supplies, the new program is expected to support SARS-CoV-2 vaccination efforts in the country. These drones will be used to deliver medicine and other supplies to 75 health facilities in the province.

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PSE&G to Jump-Start Electric Vehicle Charging in New Jersey

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Ridgewood NJ,  the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities today approved a settlement that will enable PSE&G to develop electric vehicle charging infrastructure in New Jersey. With this approval, the state’s largest utility is expected to invest $166 million over an expected six years and create about 270 direct clean energy jobs while helping to build out the state’s EV charging infrastructure.

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Department of Justice Launches Coordinated International law Enforcement Action Against NetWalker Ransomware

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Washington DC, the Department of Justice today announced a coordinated international law enforcement action to disrupt a sophisticated form of ransomware known as NetWalker.

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Former Director of a New Jersey Pharmaceutical Company was Arrested on Charges of Stealing Trade Secrets

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Newark NJ, A former director of medical and scientific affairs at a New Jersey pharmaceutical company was arrested today on charges of stealing and illegally transmitting trade secrets, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.

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Sacrebleu : European Governments now calling for regulating “the digital oligarchy” and asserting that Big Tech is a threat to democracy

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Ridgewood NJ, the backlash on social media censoring continues with several European Governments now calling for regulating “the digital oligarchy” and asserting that Big Tech is a threat to democracy.

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AWS Banning Rekindles Debate on the Public Cloud

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Ridgewood NJ, The Parler app is non-functional, and parler.com has gone offline, as Amazon Web Services discontinued service to the company. Both the website and the app relied on AWS for content distribution.

AWS banning rekindles debate on the public cloud. When asked ,where is the “cloud”, its best to assume North Korea .

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Technology companies try to contain a mounting backlash against their social media sites

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Ridgewood NJ, Twitter’s stock price tumbled Monday as investors appeared to balk at the social network’s decision to ban President Trump from posting. Technology companies tried to contain a mounting backlash against their social media sites, with shares of Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. falling in early trading and rival platform Parler forced offline by Amazon.com Inc.

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De-platformed , Where is Independent Thinker to go ? 

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Ridgewood NJ, de-platformed where is independent thinker to go ?  Gab, a popular social networking site amongst conservatives and free speech advocates on the internet, has claimed that it received 10,000 new user signups on an hourly basis ever since Twitter permanently suspended USA President Donald Trump’s account, Fox Business reports. The Ridgewood blog attempted to open an account on Sunday and there servers were on over load.

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Less than 24 hours after Apple Threatened to Remove Parler from its App Store, the Social Media App Jumped to Number One Download

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Ridgewood NJ, Less than 24 hours after Apple threatened to remove Parler from its App Store, the social media app favored by conservatives for its lax content-moderation policies shot to the top of the download charts. Saturday afternoon, mere hours before the reported deadline was set to expire, the previously fringe alternative to Twitter had been infused with new life.

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Tech Tyrants Attempt to Squash upstart “Parler “

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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood blog was not the only social media company having issues last night .Social media platform Parler jumped to the top downloaded app this weekend, as conservatives rally support to leave Facebook and Twitter over censorship.

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