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The ODNI also hasn’t delivered a congressionally mandated report on domestic activities of the intelligence community that was due on June 13.

If the program isn't extended in a different bill, Afghans won't be able to apply for the visas after the program expires Dec. 31, 2023.

The Google computer scientist who was placed on leave after claiming the companys artificial intelligence chatbot has come to life tells NPR how he formed his opinion.

There are a fair amount of countries that are becoming much more aggressive about internet controls. that being said, rewind ten years ago, 11 years ago now to 2010, google rather famously left china. it pulled its search engine, youtube. youtube was never there, but a lot of its main services left the country. google came out and they sort of presented this as we are standing up to totalitarianism. in fact, sergey brin, who was one of googles co-founders who was born in soviet russia, was the o...

The very intentioned organizd people who did that is, criminal. turning it into an instrument for seizure of power. joining us now is reporter mark bergen who has been covering this story for bloomberg and helped bring out the story over googles own disquiet in the matter. i appreciate you being here, mark. thank you. >> thank you. >> so you cover these things more closely than i do. let me ask if i misconstrued any of that or missed anything important there? >> no. thats spot on. and the meme g...

Both google and apple here, is that the kind of pressure that google and apple have previously resisted? and now theyre caving? or was this some sort of new upping of the game where they really had no choice and their employees shouldnt have expected that they might have taken a more courageous stand? >> yeah, ive heard two different versions of this in talking to both people inside and people who have been at the company. and i should note that google has not said anything officially. they have...

Weeks elections. it disappeared from the two technology platforms just as voting got under way. putins government pressured apple and google to take this navalny app out of the app stores, and they caved. and that was not the end of it in terms of the caving. over the weekend as russians voted, google also blocked videos. google owns youtube. google blocked youtube videos that navalnys allies posted on youtube to, again, help coordinate this smart voting strategy. they blocked those videos at th...

Government contract with the defense department. and they protested their plans to re-enter china and google didnt renew its pentagon contract and google hasnt gone into china. so google employees have been powerful forces in the past few years. that being said, a lot of their organizing within the company has experienced a significant clamp-down. so far theyre not sending petitions around, theyre not marching in protests like they have in the past. its been grossly meager. it will be interestin...

Of the company. images circulating inside google which were viewed by bloomberg news, spoofed its corporate crede about prioritizing users. one picture depicts a man reading a magazine below the slogan, putin the user first. get it? putting the user first, putin, the user first. since its formation, google has used the motto to make information universally accessible and useful. one meme image being circulated, again, inside google among its own employees displayed a map of the world where the r...

Navalny, russia tried to assassinate him last year, put his workers in jail as well. but they created an app that voters could use for voting strategically, voting basically in a coordinated way to consolidate support for an anti-putin candidate in each district, a candidate that actually could win. they built this smart voting app as a key part of that voting effort to try to get putins political party out of power and therefore oust putin from the kremlin. they created the app, helping people ...