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☆ 49-year-old lived on $3 a day when he first moved to the U.S.—now he's a billionaire tech CEO
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-13 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Nearly three decades ago, Tomas Gorny came to the U.S. as a Polish immigrant living on $3 a day, after rent and transportation costs. Today, the 49-year-old Gorny is the founder of multiple tech businesses, including a cloud-based business communications company called Nextiva that was most recently valued at $2.7 billion. Gorny, the company's CEO, has a net worth exceeding $1 billion, according to a Nextiva spokesperson. After rent and transportation costs, he had only a few dollars per day for food and other necessities, he says. Two years later, his $3 per day turned into a net worth above $1 million, he says.

Persons: Tomas Gorny, Gorny, — Organizations: CNBC, Internet Communications Locations: Germany, Los Angeles

☆ Elon Musk's secret talks with Putin ramped up during his Twitter takeover: WSJ report
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-25 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

watch nowTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has engaged in secret talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022, according to reporting published Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. Currently, the SpaceX website says that a "service date is unknown at this time," for Starlink in Taiwan for general customers. Musk and representatives for X, SpaceX and Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The conversations between Musk and Putin, who once ran the KGB, reportedly occurred as Musk was in the midst of a leveraged buyout and takeover of Twitter. He continued to promote the idea, via X (formerly Twitter) that some Ukraine citizens would prefer to join Russia.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Brown University have recently taken swift and decisive action against student protesters, including making arrests. And on Thursday, Columbia University hit its limit with student protesters who had set up dozens of tents on campus, sending in the New York Police Department to make arrests. Image At Columbia, officials cracked down on students who had erected tents on campus. Muncy for The New York TimesImage The New York Police Department arrested protesters at Columbia University. “But now we’re seeing that as an immediate response.”In her congressional testimony, Dr. Shafik revealed that 15 Columbia students have been suspended in recent weeks.

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☆ What Is the Powerful Surveillance Law That Divided Lawmakers?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The House on Friday passed a two-year reauthorization of an expiring warrantless surveillance law known as Section 702, reversing course after the bill collapsed days earlier when former President Donald J. Trump urged his allies to “kill” it. But disappointing privacy advocates, the House narrowly rejected a longstanding proposal to require warrants to search for Americans’ messages swept up by the program. Here is a closer look. It is a law that allows the government to collect — on domestic soil and without a warrant — the communications of targeted foreigners abroad, including when those people are interacting with Americans. Under that law, the National Security Agency can order email services like Google to turn over copies of all messages in the accounts of any foreign user and network operators like AT&T to intercept and furnish copies of any phone calls, texts and internet communications to or from a foreign target.

Persons: Donald J, Trump Organizations: National Security Agency, Google

☆ The NSA buys Americans’ internet data, newly released documents show
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Washington CNN —The National Security Agency has been buying Americans’ web browsing data from commercial data brokers without warrants, intelligence officials disclosed in documents made public by a US senator Thursday. The purchases involve what Nakasone described as netflow data, or the technical information generated by devices as they use the internet. Nakasone added that the NSA does not purchase cellphone location data of Americans or location data generated by automotive infotainment systems in the United States. “NSA purchases commercially available Netflow data for its cybersecurity mission, to include but not limited to inform the Agency’s collection, analysis, and dissemination of cyber threat intelligence,” an NSA official said. As part of Thursday’s announcement, Wyden wrote a letter to the Biden administration urging it to stop the warrantless surveillance of Americans through the purchases of internet data.

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☆ N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The National Security Agency buys certain logs related to Americans’ domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers, according to an unclassified letter by the agency. The letter, addressed to a Democratic senator and obtained by The New York Times, offered few details about the nature of the data other than to stress that it did not include the content of internet communications. Still, the revelation is the latest disclosure to bring to the fore a legal gray zone: Intelligence and law enforcement agencies sometimes purchase potentially sensitive and revealing domestic data from brokers that would require a court order to acquire directly. It comes as the Federal Trade Commission has started cracking down on companies that trade in personal location data that was gathered from smartphone apps and sold without people’s knowledge and consent about where it would end up and for what purpose it would be used.

Organizations: National Security Agency, Democratic, The New York Times, Intelligence, Federal Trade Commission

The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador returned to the Statehouse where her political career took off for a signing ceremony. Those numbers will only continue to dwindle after the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus and subsequent New Hampshire primary, Haley said. “Then we’ll come to the sweet state of South Carolina, and we’ll finish it,” Haley said. Political Cartoons View All 1223 ImagesWith Israel deepening its offensive into Gaza, Haley positioned herself as a strong candidate on foreign policy. I've seen what happens in Gaza," Haley told supporters on Monday.

Persons: — Nikki Haley, Donald Trump, Haley, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Mike Pence, ” Haley, Biden, ”, I've, ” —, Pollard Organizations: COLUMBIA, South Carolina Republican, South, United Nations, Statehouse, Trump, Des Moines Register, Florida Gov, Associated Press, America Statehouse News Initiative, America Locations: South Carolina, Iowa, New Hampshire, Israel, Gaza, Iran, United States, Lebanon, Syria

☆ Blackout disconnects bombarded Gazans from world and each other
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Smoke rises over Gaza, as seen from Israel's border with Gaza, in southern Israel October 28. If you are struck, whatever happens, you can't communicate with anyone," said Plestia Alaqad, a freelance journalist in Gaza. "I'm supposed to tell the world what is going on, well I am in Gaza and I don't know what is going on. The Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday 7,650 people had been killed and 19,450 injured in Gaza since Israel's bombardment began. Reporting by Henriette Chacar in Jerusalem and Estelle Shirbon in London; Editing by Alison WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Amir Cohen, Plestia Alaqad, Yoav Gallant, Israel, Mohammed Zaanoun, Henriette Chacar, Estelle Shirbon, Alison Williams Organizations: REUTERS, International, Israel's, Saturday, West Bank, Food, World Health Organization, Sans Frontieres, Norwegian Refugee Council, Reuters, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Saturday, Egypt, Jerusalem, London

☆ Long-serving US Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein dead at 90
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Feinstein was a Washington trailblazer who, among other accomplishments, became the first woman to head the influential Senate Intelligence Committee. Feinstein joined the Senate in 1992 after winning a special election and was reelected five times, including in 2018, along the way becoming the longest-serving woman senator ever. Health issues slowed Feinstein late in her career, when she was the oldest senator at the time. She ran for governor in 1990, winning the Democratic primary but losing to Republican Pete Wilson in the general election. Feinstein then ran in 1992 for the Senate seat that Wilson had previously held, easily defeating the Republican appointed to the seat.

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☆ Russia imposes 'military censorship' on the internet, ban on public gatherings and strikes in occupied Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Russia, via a local proxy, is imposing a ban on public gatherings and strikes in occupied Ukraine. A decree published Sunday also announces that "military censorship" will be imposed on the internet. In a decree published Sunday, Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People's Republic, "imposed military censorship on mail, Internet communications and phone conversations," Russian state media reported. The decree also prohibits public gatherings that have not received prior approval from military authorities, according to Reuters. The order comes as Ukrainian and Russian forces clash along the borders of Donetsk, which Moscow formally (and illegally) annexed last year.

Persons: Donestk, Denis Pushilin Organizations: Service, Donetsk People's, Reuters, Civilians, Pravda, Russia's Ministry of Defense, Institute for Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Donestk People's Republic, Wall, Silicon, Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic, Russian, Moscow, Donestk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Washington, Bakhmut

☆ The CEO of a $2.2 billion tech startup—who’s sold companies to Yahoo and Google—shares the common mistake he’s avoided
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Craig Walker has sold startups to Yahoo and Google, and his current business, cloud communications company Dialpad, is valued at $2.2 billion. Still, the CEO says he learned his most important business lesson watching a "goofy" 1970s racing comedy, called "The Gumball Rally." But, Walker has been running internet communications companies for more than two decades, and he says he's seen "a lot of entrepreneurs" make the mistake of reacting to their competition: "They'll change their roadmap. When the internet bubble burst, an internet communications company he'd backed was floundering and in need of a steady hand. This time, Walker stayed on at Google for nearly four years, leading the transition of his former business into the Google Voice platform.

Persons: Craig Walker, Walker, Raul Julia's, I'm, he's Organizations: Yahoo, Google, CNBC, Microsoft's, Dialpad Communications, GrandCentral Communications, ICONIQ Capital Locations: Raul Julia's Italian

☆ Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance Program
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Jan Wolfe | Dustin Volz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The surveillance program permits the National Security Agency to collect intelligence from international phone calls, emails and other digital content. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court declined to hear a constitutional challenge to a secretive government surveillance program, dealing a setback to privacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union ahead of a looming debate in Congress over whether to renew the law that authorizes the intelligence tool. In a brief order issued on Tuesday, the high court said it wouldn’t hear arguments challenging the legality of the National Security Agency program known as “Upstream,” in which the intelligence agency collects and monitors internet communications without obtaining search warrants. Classified details about the program were among those exposed a decade ago by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has been charged with theft of government property and violating espionage laws and lives in Russia.

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