News from Around the Web for May 29, 2024

News From Around the Web

#10 Another Top Spyware Firm Has Been Taken Down — Pctattletale Website Defaced, Then Taken Offline - Sead Fadilpašić Tech Radar, and Das on X

Commercial spyware firm pcTattletale has been hacked, with data it stole from its victims published on the website, which was also defaced. Commercial spyware, also known as stalkerware or spouseware, is a piece of software designed to spy on people and, in essence, is very similar to malware. A person (or an entity) purchases the software from the website and secretly installs it on the target device. After that, the software leaks sensitive data to the owner, including location data, messages, call logs, documents, and more. This type of software is often advertised as a way for parents to monitor their kids’ online activity or keep track of them while they are away from home. However, it is usually used by untrusting spouses, people with malicious intent, and similar...

#9 Biden Repeats 2022 Naval Academy Appointment Story at West Point Commencement - Patrick Reilly for The New York Post, and RNC Research on X

President Biden repeated a claim that he turned down an appointment to the Naval Academy, where he said he intended to play football, during his commencement speech at West Point on Saturday. Biden, 81, told the graduates that he was “one of 10” appointed to the naval academy by Republican Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs years before he’d go on to defeat him in the 1972 election to become a US Senator. “I was appointed by the fella I ran against when I was 29 years old to the Naval Academy. I was one of 10. I wanted to play football,” Biden said in his remarks. “And I’d found out two days earlier they had a quarterback named Roger Staubach and a halfback named Joe Bellino — I said, ‘I’m not going there.’ I went to Delaware. Not a joke,’ the president said...

#8 Pennsylvania State Democrat Allegedly Tipped Off Anti-Israel Encampment of Police ‘Sweep’ - Peter Cordi for Washington Examiner

A state Democratic lawmaker allegedly warned members of the University of Pennsylvania’s anti-Israel encampment of a “credible threat” for a police sweep. According to group chat communications exclusively obtained by the Washington Examiner, Pennsylvania House Rep. Rick Krajewski “relayed” the warning with a time frame of within the “next 24 hours.” The warning allowed the group to jettison equipment before the encampment was torn down by law enforcement, according to the students...

#7 Mayor Pete Bombs CBS Interview, Blames Airline Turbulence On Climate Change, As Host Laughs In His Face - Tyler Durden ZeroHedge, and Steve Guest on X

Transportation Secretary Mayor Pete made his rounds on Face the Nation this weekend, where he was both laughed at to his face by the host and suggested during the interview that increased airline turbulence is occurring as a result of climate change. Early in the interview CBS’s Margaret Brennan called out Mayor Pete on something we wrote about just days ago: after spending more than $7 billion since 2021 on EV infrastructure, the nation has less than 10 EV chargers to show for it. As we noted earlier this month, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by Biden in November 2021, allocated $7.5 billion for EV charging. Of this amount, $5 billion went to states as "formula funding" for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program to establish a network of fast chargers along major highways...

#6 Biden’s Capital Gains Tax Plan Is Theft, Pure and Simple - Mike Lee for Blaze Media and X, and Louis Buchalter on X

The president’s proposed tax hikes are a thinly veiled attempt to finance an ever-growing bureaucratic behemoth at the expense of the productive sector of the economy. Galt's Gulch was the secluded community of innovators and industrialists participating in the “great strike” depicted in Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged.” They fled to escape a society that stifled their innovation, burdened them with excessive regulations, and confiscated the fruits of their labor. President Joe Biden would do well to note what could happen when society pushes its most productive members too far—they may choose to withdraw their talents altogether. Biden's latest budget proposal, which aims to hike the capital gains tax rate to an unprecedented 44.6%, threatens to do just that. The proposed figure has sent shivers down the spines of investors, small business owners, and the economically literate alike. What is particularly galling about this proposal is not just the sheer audacity of the higher tax rate but the fundamentally flawed economic rationale underpinning it. If Biden's policies prevail, one can only... 

#5 Florida Public Schools Are Closing Down As School Choice Takes Off - Rebeka Zeljko for The Daily Caller, and ASB Partners and Often Uncommon on X

As Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed school choice initiatives, leading to a spike in charter and private school enrollments, public schools are shutting down. Across the state, public school enrollment is declining. Duval County Public School District, the sixth-largest school district in Florida and the 20th-largest in the country is now considering campus closures due to dramatic dips in enrollment. Broward County Public Schools, Florida’s second-largest school district, has evaluated plans to close up to 42 campuses over the next few years. Miami-Dade County has also experienced a substantial decline in enrollment rates. Of the roughly 68,000 privately enrolled students from 2019-2023, more than a third of them came from Duval, Broward, and Miami counties, according to data from the Florida Department of Education...

#4 California Bill That Would Make It a Felony to Purchase a Child for Sex Passes State Senate - Lindsay Weber for KCRA 3, and Wall Street Apes on X