Month: June 2018

Enlarge / White House advisor Stephen Miller in 2017. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

White House advisor Stephen Miller is widely seen as the mastermind behind President Donald Trump's controversial policy of separating parents from their children at the US southern border. Yesterday, Splinter, a news and opinion site that was previously known as Fusion, published Miller's personal cell phone number.

When Splinter and others started tweeting out Miller's number, it got the attention of Twitter's content police. Twitter doesn't allow users to post private information about someone else without their consent, and this rule doesn't have an exception for people responsible for intensely controversial policies.

(credit: Splinter)

Users who shared Miller's number were forced to delete the tweet and had their accounts locked out for several hours. Some people have reported that users could get suspended just for linking to the Splinter story—even if the tweet itself didn't contain Miller's number.

Enlarge / Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. (credit: NYU Stern BHR)

Brian Krzanich has resigned as Intel CEO, the company announced this morning. The resignation was due to a "past consensual relationship with an Intel employee" that violated the company's non-fraternization policy that managers are bound by. Krzanich is also leaving the company's board of directors.

Intel was informed recently of the relationship, and an investigation by internal and external counsel confirmed its existence. The board named CFO Bob Swan as interim CEO and has begun searching for a permanent replacement for Krzanich. Swan joined Intel in 2016 after nine years as CFO of eBay. Intel says that it is looking at both internal and external candidates in its quest to find a permanent CEO.

Krzanich has been at Intel since 1982, starting as a process engineer before moving into management. He became CEO in 2013, and since then Intel has entered new markets—including FPGAs and 3D XPoint memory—and the company says that it is likely to report its best second quarter ever.

Enlarge / Erin Godwin (Field Technician, Louis Berger Group) excavates an amputated limb. (credit: Kate D. Sherwood, Smithsonian Institution.)

Eleven amputated limbs, two nearly complete skeletons, and scattered artifacts uncovered from a shallow pit at Virginia’s Manassas National Battlefield Park are unearthing rare and grim glimpses of Civil War surgery.

The surgeon’s burial pit is the first of its kind to be discovered at a Civil War battlefield, the National Park Service announced this week.

Experts from the NPS and the Smithsonian Institute have determined that remains date back to August 1862, the time of the Second Battle of Manassas (also referred to as the Second Battle of Bull Run by Union Forces). The pit was likely at the site of a field hospital, set up to tend to the thousands of wounded following the multi-day battle.