Senior Writer, CNET News
Senior writer for CNET News at CBS Interactive, covering Internet security and privacy
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Elinor Mills
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FROM Elinor Mills
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Twitter Outage Has Social Network Users Atwitter The micro-blogging site Twitter was out of business for most of yesterday and other sites were affected as well. One person was responsible for yesterday's outage, a blogger who favors the nation of Georgia and who was the subject of a denial of service attack that caused problems elsewhere on the Internet. Elinor Mills, senior writer for CNET News at CBS Interactive, explains how it happened and what it means for the future.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
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The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.
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Will the Senate write a healthcare bill in secret? While Democrats and Republicans argue White House relations with Russia, another question is being decided behind closed doors: who gets help buying health insurance and who doesn't? We hear how the pros and cons are being shrouded in secrecy.