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Sixty percent of all world wide web applications attacks targeted the United States in the first quarter of 2016, with the majority coming from China, USA and Turkey.

After former CalPERS chief executive officer Fred Buenrostro, was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for taking $250,000 in bribes from a private equity broker who committed suicide, the U.S. Attorney Office told a federal court the probe is continuing.

Among campaign donors working for the 200 major tech companies, Bernie Sanders picked up 33,094, Hillary Clinton pocketed 2,087, while Donald Trump received only 52, CNN Money and Crowdpac report.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and LinkedIn were allegedly hacked Sunday by a group believed to be from Saudi Arabia as a demonstration of the vulnerability of social media accounts, even for top tech leaders.

Microsoft has sold 1,500 patents to Xiaomi Corp. in a move that will allow China to export a $400 “iPhone Killer” to Western markets — legally.

The VoteVets.org group that attacked Donald Trump last week as a “cheap fraud” receives millions of dollars from six unions to support two employees and no volunteers.

Despite Apple pouring $1 billion into Chinese domestic ride-share leader Didi Chuxing, Uber promises to topple China’s most popular ride-share service within a year.

Despite a forecast of 160,000 new jobs, the Obama Department of Labor announced that job creation in May plunged to 38,000, the worst monthly performance in 6 years.

U.S. labor productivity has been stagnating over the last few years and is expected to decline this year for the first time in three decades, according to the Dallas Federal Reserve, and some employers are blaming the stalled productivity on millennials playing on their smartphones.

The California Assembly approved a bill on Tuesday that would permit up to 390,000 illegal aliens to buy Covered California health insurance.

Despite Tesla Motors Inc. never meeting any unit production targets or making a profit in the last five years, CEO Elon Musk told shareholders this week that through the magic of physics, he will revolutionize the auto industry to increase production by 1,100 percent, and profitably.

Despite a $10.2 million budget deficit, 12 percent unemployment, 17 percent poverty rate, and a $25,769 average annual income, Richmond, California’s fire chief made $560,000 in salary and benefits in 2014.

Planetary Resources has raised $21.1 million in Series A Funding venture capital funding to develop the ability to mine asteroids.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s distant vice presidential prospects may be more remote than ever, as a state appellate court appears ready to strike down California’s “cap-and-trade program as an unconstitutional tax.

Billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is planning to help Gawker’s appeal of a $140 million jury award to former wrestler Hulk Hogan in a lawsuit secretly funded by billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel.

In a hard fought second ballot, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson’s pragmatic message secured the Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party with the support of 55 percent of the delegates.

No candidate received a majority on the first ballot in a nail-biter election at the Libertarian Party National Convention in Orlando, Florida.

Whole Foods may still be seen by shoppers as an alternative to corporate grocery chains, but the highly-profitable corporation just opened its first “365 by Whole Foods” in Los Angeles in an effort to use kiosks and robots to cut 60 percent of staffing costs and maximize profitability.

With the FBI and NSA demanding that tech companies surrender encryption back doors to access customer data, Silicon Valley start-ups and established companies are giving customers exclusive possession of encryption keys to access their data.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule change that expands overtime for salaried employees earning $23,660 to $47,476 will cleverly hammer the private sector and generally exempt the unionized public sector.

Gaining the worldwide rights to stream 10 NFL Thursday Night games is a positive for Twitter, but it does not address the erosion of its Monthly Average User (MAU) numbers, and competition from Facebook, YouTube and WeChat.

Despite Hillary Clinton raising $264,973,438 to Donald Trump’s $51,393,537, the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll found Trump winning among registered voters by 46 to 44 percent over Clinton.

The United Auto Workers union announced that it will be targeting Tesla Motor’s Fremont, California factory for unionization efforts, now that the electric vehicle maker plans to ramp up production to over 500,000 units a year.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims to be a man of the people by continuing to live in the first house he ever owned, but he just bought, and is now set to demolish and redevelop, the four surrounding homes to his liking.

A new study documents that “regulatory drag” has eliminated about a third of economic growth in America since 1980, and explains why the top one percent’s inflation-adjusted share of income has tripled, while the middle class has lost income.

With the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSR) announcing another four-year delay in building the first link of its system, the cost for California’s ultimate boondoggle may increase by another $15 billion, to $79 billion.

The once $9-billion-valued Theranos appears to have admitted that its blood test data was faulty and is moving to restate two years of test results for 3 million patients.

To address the huge insurance risks associated with self-driving cars committing suicide to avoid hitting pedestrians, Google has filed a patent that would glue any pedestrian that is hit onto the hood of a car.

With liberal billionaire Tom Steyer’s “Save Lives Coalition” gathering more than the 585,407 signatures required to put a $2-per-pack cigarette tax on the November ballot, California is poised to become the smuggling capital of America. By contributing $74 million to Democrats

First Digital’s Bay Area News Group investigative reporters have accused Tesla Motors of employing foreign contract laborers at $5-per-hour, 10 hours a day, six days a week to expand its government-subsidized California auto plant.

Democrats’ idea of unity fragmented in Nevada over the weekend as establishment party officials decertified just enough of Bernie Sanders’ elected delegates to deliver Hillary Clinton’s first victory in 10 states.

With Apple’s relationships in China imploding, the company has announced that it will invest $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, known as “The Uber of China,” in what seems to be an effort to mend fences after a communist court allowed a local company to use the “iPhone” trademark.

This year’s powerful El Niño weather system brought Northern California about 130 percent of normal precipitation, but only about 60 percent of normal in the heavily populated Southern California coastal plain.

When the Los Angeles Superintendent of Schools applauded Democrat President Barack Obama’s demand that schools honor transgender bathroom rules, she knew the original authority came from Republicans: former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former President George W. Bush.

Tom Steyer, America’s biggest individual political contributor, just formed a $50 million Super Pac with public employee unions and the AFL-CIO to elect a Democrat President and to build a permanent liberal spending infrastructure.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is testing $105,000 Tesla Model S as a future police cruiser, in another sign of California’s commitment to subsidize “green” jobs and provide luxury to public employees.