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Senate Democrats Support End of Bulk Phone Record Tracking

Under a proposal expected to be formally unveiled by the Obama administration this week, the NSA will no longer keep broad records of Americans’ phone calls. Instead, that data would remain under the control of the phone companies. The NSA would need to go to a federal judge and obtain a court order to access the records. @onesmile @dillonk this is good news based on our discussion
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Medical Marijuana good for MS

There is strong evidence that medical marijuana pills may reduce symptoms of spasticity and pain reported by multiple sclerosis patients, but little proof that smoking pot offers the same benefit, according to new alternative treatment guidelines released by the American Academy of Neurology.
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IRS Declares Bitcoin is Not a Currency

The federal government will tax digital money such as Bitcoin like property, not currency, IRS said Tuesday in its first significant guidance on the virtual coin. Although Bitcoin may operate like coin and paper currency and can be used to pay for goods and services, no country accepts it as "legal tender," the Internal Revenue Service said in its notice.
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NSA Hacks Chinese Companies

Amer­i­can of­fi­cials have long con­sid­ered Huawei, the Chi­nese telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions gi­ant, a se­cu­rity threat, block­ing it from busi­ness deals in the Unit­ed States for fear that the com­pa­ny would cre­ate “back doors” in its equip­ment that could al­low the Chi­nese mil­i­tary or Bei­jing-backed hack­ers to steal cor­po­rate and gov­ern­ment se­crets. But even as the Unit­ed States made a pub­lic case about the dan­gers of buy­ing from Huawei, clas­si­fied doc­u­ments show that the Na­tion­al Se­cu­rity Agency was cre­at­ing its own back doors — di­rect­ly in­to Huawei’s net­works.
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Obama's Worried About the Midterms

In 2006 the electorate was 79 percent white. Didn't hurt the party; boosted by the Iraq War backlash, Democrats won 47 percent of the white vote, up from 41 percent in 2004. Then came 2008, the best Democratic election in a generation. Barack Obama won only 43 percent of the white vote in an electorate that was 74 percent white. In 2010 the electorate vanilla'd up again—77 percent white this time—and the white vote for Democrats collapsed. They won only 37 percent of it, and only 34 percent of white men.
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Search for Missing Plan Continues

This is the second time China has told us they have found something, hopefully real. China announced that it has satellite images of a large object floating in the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, but Australian-led search teams in the southern Indian Ocean found no sign of it Saturday. Another day of intense searches by air and sea concluded for the night with no new clues to give families answers about the fate of the passengers and crew.
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Alaska to Vote on Legalizing Recreational Cannabis

This means that this summer, voters in Alaska will decide if the state will become the third U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana. If passed, Alaska will have similar laws and regulations to Colorado and Washington, where voters became the first to legalize recreational use and sale in 2012.
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World's biggest cyberattack detected, 360 million accounts, 1.25 billion email addresses hacked

"But this month we exceeded all expectations. In the first three weeks of February we identified nearly 360 million stolen and abused credentials and 1.25 billion records containing only email addresses. These mind boggling numbers are not meant to scare you and they are a product of multiple breaches which we are independently investigating. This is a call to action," it added. This comes just months after details of 2.9 million people across the globe were stolen in a highly sophisticated cyberattack on Adobe. Hopefully no one on here's emails got got.
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