Author: Pen Drake

Oracle Quietly Closes $28B Deal To Buy Electronic Health Records Company Cerner

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Oracle Quietly Closes $28B Deal To Buy Electronic Health Records Company Cerner
TechCrunch reported on June 7: At the end of last year, just before Christmas, Oracle made a big move when it announced it was acquiring electronic health records company Cerner for $28 billion, thrusting it quickly into the top enterprise deal for 2021, just under the wire. Today, the company announced it has closed the deal, effective tomorrow. The announcement was anticlimactic in a way, full of corporate financial speak: “Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) announced that a majority of the outstanding shares (the “Shares”) of Cerner Corporation (Nasdaq: CERN) were validly tendered, and the other conditions to the tender offer have been satisfied or waived.… Read the rest

Will Anti-Abortionists Use ‘Uterus Surveillance’ Against Women in the U.S.? Weaponizing Fertility Trackers

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Will Anti-Abortionists Use ‘Uterus Surveillance’ Against Women in the U.S.? Weaponizing Fertility Trackers
Will Anti-Abortionists Use ‘Uterus Surveillance’ Against Women in the U.S.? The Guardian reported: If you are looking for a cheerful column that will make you giggle and distract you from everything that is wrong with the world, click away now. This week I have nothing but doom, gloom and data trackers for you. If you are hoping to sink into a well of existential despair, maybe let out a few screams into the void, then you’ve come to the right place.… Read the rest

CDC Says You Should Wear a Mask While Traveling — for Monkeypox, Contact Tracing

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CDC Says You Should Wear a Mask While Traveling — for Monkeypox, Contact Tracing
CDC Says You Should Wear a Mask While Traveling — for Monkeypox Gizmodo reported: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping up its guidance concerning monkeypox. While the risk of monkeypox is still thought to be low for the general public, the agency is now warning people to take more precautions while traveling. These precautions include avoiding contact with visibly sick people as well as wearing a mask.… Read the rest

Apple Just Killed the Password — For Real This Time

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Apple Just Killed the Password — For Real This Time
WIRED reported: Your passwords are terrible. Year after year, the most popular passwords leaked in data breaches are 123456, 123456789, and 12345 — “qwerty” and “password” come close behind — and using these weak passwords leaves you vulnerable to all sorts of hacking. Weak and repeated passwords are one of the most significant risks to your online life. For years, we’ve been promised a more secure, password-free future, but it seems like 2022 will actually be the year that millions of people start to move away from passwords.… Read the rest

Technocracy’s High Tech War Is Just As Effective as Rockets, Bullets, Tanks

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Technocracy’s High Tech War Is Just As Effective as Rockets, Bullets, Tanks
Technocracy News reported: The object of war is to kill or maim as many people as possible, by whatever means. However, outright killing is often less efficient than wounding because more of the enemy’s resources are consumed in caring for the wounded than burying dead bodies. The overall goal of war is to conquer and subdue a people. In the process of conquering, the enemy must be psychologically and physically broken to the point that they give up their will to fight and their will to assert self-determination.… Read the rest

Our Country Moves Closer to a Federal Privacy Law, and I Move Closer to Losing My Mind

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Our Country Moves Closer to a Federal Privacy Law, and I Move Closer to Losing My Mind
  Gizmodo reported: After years of fizzled talks and stalled negotiations on a federal data privacy bill, House and Senate committee leaders finally set aside enough of their differences to release a draft of a new bipartisan tech privacy bill this past Friday. The legislation, called the “American Data Privacy and Protection Act,” is being spearheaded by House Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.),… Read the rest

Big Tech Calls for Biden Administration To Let Foreign Workers’ Adult Kids Stay in the U.S.

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Big Tech Calls for Biden Administration To Let Foreign Workers’ Adult Kids Stay in the U.S.
CNN Business reported: A backlog of U.S. green card applications has Silicon Valley giants calling on the Biden administration for new measures to keep adult children of high-skilled immigrant workers from being deported. Tech titans led by Google (GOOG) and including Amazon (AMZN), IBM, Salesforce (CRM), Twitter and Uber sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security on Monday urging the agency to extend the immigration benefits of green card applicants to the applicants’ children who are turning 21.… Read the rest

Pfizer CEO, Head of CIA, Facebook VP & Other Elites Secretly Meeting in DC — Corporate Media is SILENT

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Pfizer CEO, Head of CIA, Facebook VP & Other Elites Secretly Meeting in DC — Corporate Media is SILENT
By Matt Agorist The world’s ruling elite will meet in secret this week. No press will be allowed in, no one will be interviewed about it, and Bilderberg will not even register as a blip within the mainstream media’s radar. As the media hypes gun control and abortion debates, bankers, politicians, military leaders, and information controllers will be discussing their plans for the world behind closed doors and with zero transparency.… Read the rest

Aussie Primary School Sees “Microchips In Students Brains” In 10 Years

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Aussie Primary School Sees “Microchips In Students Brains” In 10 Years
  By Paul Joseph Watson An Australian primary school predicted “microchips in students brains” [sic] within 10 years before subsequently deleting the newsletter that contained the creepy prophecy. The bizarre entry was featured in the May 26 edition of the Preston West Primary school’s newsletter, which listed a number of prosaic things the school envisages will be helpful to educating children in a decade.… Read the rest