This site will give a 7 day moving average which filters out the fluctuations and makes it easier to see.. In theory deaths should stop going up soon since infections have seemingly plateaued.
If you trust any of the politicized data. Likely in the future -cough cough, after the election- researchers will discover that the deaths from the 'summer flu' will be an order of magnitude above any of the previous decades' maximums.
Trump will apparently sign an executive order tomorrow banning TikTok from the U.S. I assume it's because of all those kids who used it to sabotage his rally in Tulsa a few weeks ago, lol.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns.
Trump's comments came after published reports that the administration is planning to order China's ByteDance to sell TikTok. There were also reports Friday that software giant Microsoft is in talks to buy the app.
"As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States," Trump said.
The company's operations in the U.S. have been under review by the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
Trump said he could use emergency economic powers or an executive order to enforce the action, insisting, "I have that authority." He added, "It's going to be signed tomorrow."
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There have been reports of U.S. tech giants and financial firms being interested in buying or investing in TikTok as the Trump administration sets its sights on the app.
The New York Times and Fox Business, citing an unidentified source, reported Friday that Microsoft is in talks to buy TikTok. Microsoft declined to comment.
TikTok issued a statement Friday saying that, "While we do not comment on rumours or speculation, we are confident in the long-term success of TikTok."
I read something where iOS 14 has a feature where it notifies you when your clipboard has been pasted, and they found that TikTok was pasting your clipboard contents constantly.. so if you had copied your password from a password app to use somewhere else it would copy it. Which seems kind of sketchy. But I don't know how much actual proof there is of TikTok spying for the state.
That said it is mildly amusing that Trump is going to use a common Chinese tactic of banning its citizens from doing something in the Internet to block a Chinese app.
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I read something where iOS 14 has a feature where it notifies you when your clipboard has been pasted, and they found that TikTok was pasting your clipboard contents constantly.. so if you had copied your password from a password app to use somewhere else it would copy it. Which seems kind of sketchy. But I don't know how much actual proof there is of TikTok spying for the state.
That said it is mildly amusing that Trump is going to use a common Chinese tactic of banning its citizens from doing something in the Internet to block a Chinese app.
Yeah I'm using the iOS 14 beta and it shows you when something is pasted from the clipboard. It wasn't always nefarious. The Canada Post app checks the clipboard to see if you have a tracking number copied.
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Looks like the DHS has fired the guy who was compiling intelligence on journalists covering the Portland protests. I assume Trump will now fire the guy who did the firing.
The Department of Homeland Security is removing its top intelligence official from his post amid criticism of his office's role in the civil unrest in Portland, Oregon.
Brian Murphy, who has been the acting chief of DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, is being removed from that role, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to POLITICO. The person said acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf made the decision.
Murphy’s removal comes in the wake of a string of bruising reports about the office he runs. Over the last week, news has broken that I&A compiled intelligence reports about journalists covering protests in Portland, including a reporter for the New York Times. And on Friday, The Washington Post reported it also monitored protesters’ electronic communications. Both stories raise legal concerns.
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It's not the first time the I&A office, which shares intelligence with state and local partners, has come under scrutiny. When Murphy was second in command there, I&A shut down a team that focused on domestic terrorism, including white supremacists. The small office, which is one of the intelligence community’s 17 agencies, has struggled with morale problems for years.
Murphy, a veteran of the FBI before moving to DHS, had been helming the office in an acting capacity since May. His removal is unlikely to quell the scorching criticisms DHS faces for its response to the protests, but is still a significant step. Murphy did not respond to a quest for comment on his removal.
Yeah I'm using the iOS 14 beta and it shows you when something is pasted from the clipboard. It wasn't always nefarious. The Canada Post app checks the clipboard to see if you have a tracking number copied.
This is pretty much what apps do with clipboard data especially on iOS, they usually have some means of using that clipboard data to make the experience better for the user. Browsers will automatically check the clipboard when you open them to see if the clipboard content is a URL so they can present 'Paste and go' functionality on the address bar. My parcel tracker apps will detect strings in the clipboard that match a certain length and ask if I want to track them.
Not everything is nefarious as you said, but I have yet to hear any justification for something like TikTok doing it.
In the video the app was copying the contents of the clipboard on every keystroke, and not copying it to the text field, so copying it to some internal storage.
Another article I saw today (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ate-shows-app/) said that other apps were doing it too so maybe it's just a coding thing, someone using copied code they don't fully understand or some SDK that's doing it.
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