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I will unofficially update this website on random dates within any random time interval.

Monday, December 26, 2016

Google Adjusts Algorithm to Remove Holocaust-Denying Results and Other Fake News



After it was widely reported that the first Google search result for “Did the Holocaust happen?” was from Stormfront, a white supremacist website, Google decided to alter its algorithm to remove Holocaust denial sites all together. But Google had a change of heart.

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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Donald Trump Has No Clue About Nukes



Earlier this year, it became blatantly obvious that President-elect Donald Trump had no idea what the nuclear triad was. Earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump exposed himself once more as a know-nothing when it comes to nuclear weapons.

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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Russia hacked U.S. presidential election for Trump, says CIA



The Washington Post reported Friday evening that the CIA says Russia intervened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump win, rather than just to undermine confidence in the political system as was reported during the campaign.

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Thursday, December 1, 2016

FBI granted the right to hack the computers of any suspect running Tor, VPNs or anonymizing software



Starting today, the FBI will now have a much easier time hacking just about any computer it wants to. The use of VPNs and other anonymizing software such as Tor meant that it was previously difficult for the Feds to apply for the necessary warrant within the relevant jurisdiction.

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Children synthesize $2 version of Martin Shkreli's $750 malaria drug



The smirking, villainous pharma-hedge-douche-bro Martin Shkreli (previously) bought the rights to the anti-parasitic drug Daraprim -- used to treat malaria, a disease that disproportionately affects the poorest people in the world -- and jacked the price from $13.50/dose to $750/dose.

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