pension bots was in deficit.ent protection bots said we have been working closely with toys r us and their advisers in the run—up to the cba vote. we can confirm an agreement has been reached. toys r us has now agreed to pay £9.8 million into the pension plan but this will be split up. in 2018, £8 million will be made with a further 6 million promised in 2019 and 2020. also this deal sees the pension deficit plan shortened. this is good news for those employees of toys r us stores and we do know the firm at this stage will not be going into administration it seems before christmas. public sector borrowing fell to £87 billion in november, down £0.2 billion from a year earlier, partly thanks to higher income tax receipts — that's according to official figure. they show borrowing for the financial year to date at £48.1 billion. that is the lowest recorded at this time of the year since 2007. january typically brings a big surplus in the public finances thanks to annual income tax payments. apple has confirmed the su

these are these automated twitter bots that tweet out hateful content it's a big problem on twitter anyway you're a big twitter user i am as well we see this a lot right well this was a tweet that was shared by tens of thousands of people seems like it's catching on we're already seeing people that are taking hard vice take a look at this brand this is another journalist he writes a pro hip biased switched my twitter location to germany which doesn't allow nazi hate bots and look twitter experience seems much better better after just one day. is a new this is a strategy that has been discussed with it before but i mean hate speech is still such a big problem on twitter that it seems like this twitter hack is now really catching on people starting to do this changing their location to germany and i guess it doesn't matter where you are in the united states people think ok we've got the first amendment so you can say whatever you want it's not exactly that way here in germany i mean the galaxy or effect or right yeah i mean we wanted to see is there even a difference what happens when

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ran her profile through an algorithm which detects, you know, bots or likely bots, likely bot.o, i thought, "well, this is--this is interesting." so, i reached out via direct message, i said, "i'd like to contact you for some background information." she did not reply. and of course, i wrote my article. and at the bottom of my article, at the end i said, you know, "if you're out there, post a selfie with today's newspaper and just, like, put this all to bed." and that's where it started. scott: yes? jon swartz: in the--during your investigation of this, you did a lot of detective work. did you find other people similar to her, male and female, who had similar viewpoints, in a sense almost like a coordinated effort to spread their-- maureen: unquestionably, yeah. it's interesting there is--you know, there's these bot networks, right? we know that there's tons and tons of fake accounts on twitter. and amongst the make america great again, the pro twitter folks, you know, the women are disproportionately blonde, tend to look like, you know, grandmas or centerfolds, and have lots o

and here you have bob mueller looking into a whole new avenue, are the bots coordinating. frank, i start with you as an investigator. your reaction to that trio of developing stories i just cited. >> well, first, as a counter intelligence professional, i'm fascinated by the possibility of overlay go the known russian government bots and trolls in the social media world with the targeting of certain zip codes and states and trump campaign with their social media and e-mail campaigns, and seeing if there's a match. now, that could just be a coincidence if there is a match. that the russian government is targeting the same states and zip codes as the rnc and trump campaign but it could mean some malaware was insert somewhere. or far more nefariously, that there was some actual coordination. >> joyce? >> so this is an interesting trio of stories. as a prosecutor, one of the most interesting developments to me is this effort to rebrand flynn as a liar by the trump insiders. and one of my favorite arguments, one of the things i most like to explain to a jury in a trial was that

bought the bots? and how they were coordinated is really the key issue. key issue that unlocks how much the russian fifth in the trump campaign activity proper interlinked. >> you think about the way that the digital world has exploded through this campaign. and you have a large background in that as well as politics. there are digital footprints to things that are different. watergate was a physical break-in and fingerprints and led to something. the idea here is that there could be, what? records, flash drives, targeting data that would basically pinpoint who may have been in on this operation? >> yeah. look. i don't want to speculate too much about exactly what kind of data may or may not have been there but it's true that, you know, there's no place to hide on the internet and everything does leave a kind of footprint. >> tim, no place to hide and as "the new yorker" put it on the internet no one knows you're a dog if you're a dog and so-called fake accounts and trolls and fake identities of ideas of something behind the veil. >> well, and i think i t

bots are not a threat, they are helping because they make it appear larger but from twitter we expectthe opposite. i would not be surprised if some twitter engineers literally left twitter and moved to facebook. twitter deserves a lot more attention and criticism then it is getting. i would highlight a thing that i put in plain english and use an analogy. imagine the new york times decides we should give our readers the ability to unpublished letters to the editor from our website, fair enough? twitter is doing something else, saying we should give readers the ability to unpublished letters to the editor. that is not okay. if we have something on public record from people who have chosen to put something on public record, they shouldn't be able to remove the record from nonpublic, the effectiveness they make as a result. how many -- make this a little -- how many retweets they can't receive when tweeting about russia, how many are actually boughts versus human beings? retweets or likes? it is an uncomfortable answer, we don't know. maybe twitter doesn't even know and couldn't find out

they looked at the role of silicon valley and bots.n, 4014, started using bots because for them, one is cheap. cheap, itt is scales up exponentially, and they are able to reach an amplification and resonance in the way that they normally would not. back then, some of the companies like twitter and facebook were a little slower and did not have the teams to take them off the internet, so their ability to live on and able to gain traction was much higher. bots,he sophistication of they learn from the russians and the elections last year, so they use those tactics because they are able to reach key audiences in urban areas. host: explain isis 3.0. guest: the way i thought about it was in early 2014, most people were caught off guard by the rise of isis. we were still talking about al qaeda and taliban. the people that noticed isis where the web operators, people that sought them online. they started seeing virtual beheadings, and it took a long while to mobilize against that. in my head, now we are talking three to four years later, what

the robot revolution to another level producing a whole host of so-called collaborative robots or co bots so to speak they take the drudgery out of assembly line work. your heart has that story and more. i'm a mother like two billion other mothers around the world i have one wish the best for my child. best in this is something seen in which breastfeeding is often frowned upon and god's will for me to abound with profits is more important than my babies will be how do i know how to make the right decision as to busy listening to you know all these entertaining blogs or the pediatrician or the country i'm trying to help. mail starting december ninth on d w. as the euro group takes a new president the eurozone economy is going from strength to strength but the european central bank warns of complacency saying there are still pitfalls along the way. also coming up in israel's economy isn't top says well president nicolas maduro is new cryptocurrency bring a solution. with the story about the bull in the china shop but have you heard the one about the robots in the glass factory. all that and

these are these automated twitter bots that tweet out hateful content it's a big problem on twitter anyway you're a big twitter user i am as well we see this a lot right well this was a tweet that was shared by tens of thousands of people seems like it's catching on we're already seeing people that are taking her advice take a look at this brand this is another journalist he writes a pro hip switched my twitter location to germany which doesn't allow nazi hate bots and look twitter experience seems much better better after just one day this is a new this is a strategy that has been discussed with it before but i mean hate speech is still such a big problem on twitter that it seems like this twitter hack is now really catching on people starting to do this changing their location to germany and i guess it doesn't matter where you are in the united states people think ok we've got the first amendment so you can say whatever you want it's not exactly that way here in germany i mean the gal. to use or effect or write yeah i mean we wanted to see is there even a difference what happens w

including bots that go and operate in other countries. so if we say to another country we want you to stop bots emanating from the territory and affecting things here, they'd say well he would like you to do the same thing in response. what would that require? my understanding is that would require the national security agency to be inside all of our networks monitoring what is leaving our networks. which is incredibly problematic and civil libertarians hate that idea. so i think that's maybe in part why we as an interagency have gotten stalled out on thinking about how to manage that problem. >> these privates are probably proxies, they're looneys, or they're terrorists. this is the three categories that come to my mind at least. you have to fight them differently. and one of the things is you have to fight anonymity. i was very much agree on what the panel said before us about others. so i just -- i don't have any specific things. the idea of censorship is touchy issue. and a government and state has to protect itself. it has the right

the so-called grinch bots are using automated programs called bots to scoop up toys, and then resellingerlings, normally around 15 bucks is selling for $100 on amazon and a thousand on ebay. consumer groups are demanding action. >> we're calling on retailers to block the bots. >> it puts a big damper on the holiday. >> the national retail federation says it supports efforts to take away the tools being used against innocent consumers. >>> a big night for steph curry. we're not just talking about his ankle, but where he showed up with mom and dad tonight. we'll show you next. we need to be ready for whatever weather may come our way. my name's scott strenfel and i'm a meteorologist at pg&e. we make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. so every single day we're monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. during storm season we want our customers to be ready and stay safe. learn how you can be prepared at pge.com/beprepared. together, we're building a

well the twitter bots i'm glad that you mention it the twitter bots would always seem to surge whenever trump had a dip in the polls and i think that as the the the analytics are investigated by the moeller team about the timing of the twitter bots and their invasion into our elections and the senate intelligence committee as well is it is going to be investigating in these areas will find that there was a linkage there it's quite possible they're cutting him loose and i think to add to what bruce said. the russians wanted to get out and still want to get out from under american sanctions that have been placed on them as a result of their invasion of ukraine as well as from the magnitsky magnitsky act which focused on human rights violations so the russians had a very clear goal put someone in power who will relieve us from this economic pressure there are other angles to play as well but in that first meeting as it's reported between donald trump jr and jericho and the russian intermediary lawyer that was the discussion was about it was about magnitsky and about sanctions so the domest

caller: i wish you could elaborate on the use of lots -- bots. it and aretouched on putting a purchase price of about $58,000. i wish you could elaborate on it a tad bit. guest: that is a great question. they are a big piece of this. i had a piece that came out yesterday in "vanity fair" which looked at isis 3.0, the role of silicon valley, and bought on the information battlefield. 2014 startedn, in using confrontational tactics cheap, itecause it is scales up exponentially, and they are able to reach an amplification and resonance in the way that they normally would not. back then, some of the companies like twitter and facebook were a little slower and did not have the teams to take them off the internet, so their ability to live on and able to gain traction was much higher. bots,he sophistication of they learn from the russians and the elections last year, so they use those tactics because they are able to reach key audiences in urban areas. host: explain isis 3.0. guest: the way i thought about it was in early 2014, most people were caught o

the national retail federation is investigating a way to block the "grinch bots"...ut they say it wont happen before the holiday shopping season ends.( james ) they say the best way to avoid being look up the price of the toy before you buy it and shop in stores instead of online. (rebecca) and i'm tracking your morning what to expect as you head out the door right after the break. (will) day 3 of strikes in oakland i will have the details in a live report. ♪ when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. ♪ visit kp.org to learn more. kaiser permanente. thrive. ♪ your date with destiny has arrived. let's do this! new cinnamon frosted flakes are finally here. sweet cinnamon and the frosted crunch you love. well? tastes like victory t. tastes like victory. they're great! (darya) (james) welcome back to the kron four morning news... lets start the half hour with a check of weather and traffic... rebecca:high pressure will keep clear and dry weather in place the rest of this week and major hot spot sb 101 at yerba b

when you say bot, it's a software robot.the internet and buy up products faster than humans could possibly do. previously you would see it with tickets like the u2 concert. they bought 1,000 tickets in one minute and resold them on ebay or some other site. what they're doing is buying relatively cheap toys for something like a fingerling and reselling it on amazon or ebay for up to $100,000. this is ran soming. >> we'll discuss the parents who would pay that kind of price for something. but the problem here is, i mean -- well, you know, how do you combat this? >> so the short answer is it's extremely difficult to combat it. the slightly longer answer is there are certain rules you can put in, but a lot of these rules can be sort of superceded by the technology. so for example you can put in quantity limits. only one ip address can buy these toys. scammers are creating different ip addresses so they can buy hundreds at once to completely soak up the supply of the toys. you look at some of the most popular toys of the season a

maybe it was a bot >> you don't know if it's a bot or a real. >> you mean on facebook?nsumer's website >> on a website. in a store you would know, wouldn't you you know that tiger wasn't real, right? or did you >> we've done a package -- somebody did a story about -- oh, it was -- who did it it was eric. eric chemmey did a package >> how do you know that eric wasn't a bot >> well, he was a person >> other than this, that's bizarre what i'm hearing right now. five years from now what's it going to be like when you are doing these things it's amazing the technology advances for retail. >> yeah, absolutely. >> i think retailers are making more and more advances in ek it nolg retailer that is have traditionally tried to break down the barrier for consumers who are making purchases and they can't visualize that purchase, they can't visualize what it would look like on their body or in their home, so using augmented reality. >> that i understand okay >> you would be looking on your device, and you could see it from different angles. desk, chair, couch okay got that all right.

now according to filings in federal court in alaska and new jersey this week the culprits behind the bota tack are a revealed to be three college aged men, 21 from new jersey who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in charges of online schemes. >> the marketplace within the video game mind craft. >> rather than advancing hostile military interest the hackers were targeting those server hosts that provide protection against bot net attacks for the estimated 55 million monthly players of the video game mind craft. hoping then to provide such protection themselves and make millions in the process. >> they actually enslaved 600,000 devices around the world, and it's important to understand as we move forward into an age where so many different kinds of devices are connected to the internet those kinds of vulnerabl vulnerables l applied hundreds of thousands of times because you're really opening up so many more points of vulnerable. >> reporter: executive or signed by president trump in may tasked the secretarie secretarif homeland security and commerce with developing a plan to reduce the threat f

30 or 40 great hackers with the ability to create fake pages and then let me, you know, rent enough bots to push traffic so those pages get some additional interest and generate a buzz on their own, and you've got a model where we can take any story no matter how out there and get it on to virtually all of your news feeds. and to the point -- and i mentioned this backstage concern that i've been told about companies and individuals in the valley who are basically going tos copy the russian playbook which also, by the way, can be used by china, other adversaries, copy the russian playbook and are going to start creating american-based firms for corporate warfare using these exact tools. we are seeing, i think, the beginnings and one of the concerns i have kind of writ large in national security is i think conflict in the 21st century will less be about tanks, guns and even rockets and much more about cyber attacks and misinformation and disinformation. >> what do you mean by corporate warfare? >> it might mean where company a decides to take on company b by putting out fake pages and star

it is toy bots you have to worry about. they're going online buying out popular holiday toys, as you said and parents have to go on third party websites, like ebay and amazon and buy them at huge markups. new york democrat charles assumer is calling on retail federation and to investigate to insure consumers have access to the toys at fair price es. now according to schumer's office, finger links, that is the animal puppets so popular with toddlers, they're going for as much as 1000 bucks. a barbie dream house going for 1500. i couldn't find prices that high online but it looks like these prices may be inflatedded. on e bay, for example, we found a fingerli in. gs for 59.44 dal which seems like a lot for molded plastic. on walmart, 14.88 cents. bashry dream house, $742.50 on ebay. we found it on target at $164. retail industry leaders association says many stores have policies to prevent this thing, limiting amount of purchases of high demand products both in stores and online. an association spokeswoman had this to say, qu

thanks to the grin ch bots trying to steal christmas. nbc news. >> are you paying too much?> is that too much? used one at that. mostly clear skies this morning. temperatures are continuing to stay on the chilly side. and colder than average for the most ten days to two weeks. maybe longer than that. tomorrow not too bad. back in the mid-40s across much of the area. here's a quick peak at 10 day forecast. mid chance next we. >> we haven't seen those graphics in a while. happy to see that in the forecast. that's it we'll see you this afternoon first at 4. ♪ >>> we're live in five, four, three, two, one. >> the sky is completely orange and smoke everywhere. and, you know, this is an area that's so heavily populated with homes that, you know, even though there's brush all around us and hills all around us, you don't really think that, you know, it's going to move into such a densely populated area, but i think there's real concern and real fear now. >> okay, that was at 6:30 this morning, our morning meeting, natalie on the phone. we didn't think she was going to make it. >> i

people who use computer programs or bots to make mass purchases online. it's the same technique that can make it difficult to find tickets to concerts or sporting events but now being used to buy up popular toys ahead of christmas. many of those items are being resold on ebay for more than 100 times the retail price. some lawmakers are calling on retailers to help crack down on these online scrooges. >> stores and the people who make the products can block the bots. they can and they should be protecting their customers. >> the national retail federation says it's working to strengthen enforcement and take away the tools being used against innocent customers. >>> from the tv screen to fine point, "good morning america's can the "ginger zee is sharing her life story if a brand new book. the very personal natural disaster she's now making public. >>> and we've got a long stretch of dry weather and above-average temperatures. as the high pressure stagnates our air, look what could happen. poor air quality could develop. more on our possibility of spare the a

lo envian mas tarde, hablan de este problema de los bots y como sigue creciendo. venta al detalle dicen estan monitoreando las compras hechas con robots ciberneticmenor dice "muchos vendedores minoristas tienen actualmente políticas para monitorear y poner topes a la cantidad de artículos de gran demanda." fuente: retail industry leaders association pero ante la situacion, maggie dice que solo le queda una alternativa sot maggie musse, lleva semanas buscando los juguetes de sus hijas "voy a esperar despues de la navidad para comprarle lo que ella quiere de verdad" en nueva york, diego arias, noticias telemundo el conservador sebastian piÑera obtuvo un 54 punto cinco por ciento de los votos en las elecciones presidenciales de chile... ''piñera'' fue presidente entre el 2 mil 10 y dos mil catorce... este proceso electoral es visto como un referendum a la gestion de la presidente saliente ''michelle bachelet" --asi se ve el tramo de la carretera entre los estados de sonora y chihuahua.. que tuvo que cerrarse debido a una intensa nevada.. --las condiciones de frio ext

a new security bot. and next ... a bizarre robbery at a south bay shopping outlet -- the strange message the thief had for workers. ((brittney tease))i'm kron 4 meteorologist brittney shipp. coming up, i will take a look at your 7 day forecast.details are right after the break. police in the south bay are stepping up patrols - after two recent robberies at a popular shopping outlet. (catherine) it happened in gilroy as lots of people were doing their christmas shopping.. kron four's rob fladeboe explains how the thief in one of the robberies had a strange message for his victims.....as he was taking off. gilroy premium outlet patrons aren't quite sure what to think about the bizarre hold up earlier this week at a store that sells women's plus-sized clothing.shopper "....i mean, who robs lane bryant anyway, is there are black market for clothes that i am not aware of..."posing as a u.p.s. delivery man, the robber talked his way into the back door of the lane bryant store here on camino arroyo circle. convinced the man