FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement
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Widespread malware campaign seeks to silently inject ads into search results, affects multiple browsers
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In pursuit of intentionality
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Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back
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YouTube Vanced: A privacy-friendly YouTube app for Android with ads and telemetry stripped out
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YouTube can now place ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
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The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
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BuzzFeed to acquire HuffPost in multi-year partnership with Verizon Media
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Introducing "How to Fix the Internet," a new podcast mini-series from EFF
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Art Style Blend AKA trying not to draw how you draw
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2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read
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Teenage girl becomes Finland's PM for the day – Aava Murto is taking over for the day as part of a campaign for girls' digital rights
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What are your go-to websites and apps for desktop and mobile wallpapers?
My personal favourites are wallhaven for desktop wallpapers and Walli for mobile ones. I also like Wallpaper Flare for desktop and sometimes Unsplash for both desktop and mobile.
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Digital pregnancy tests just contain a regular paper strip test and the battery, microcontroller, LEDs, photodiodes, screen, etc. are all to read whether it shows one line or two
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Unstaffed, digital supermarkets transform rural Sweden – Lifvs start-up has opened nineteen stores across the country, choosing remote places that have lost their local shops
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Apple delays "asking permission to track" privacy feature in iOS 14, releases more information about upcoming privacy updates
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Annotated digital archive of historic books
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Remote worker? These nations want you.
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Ad agency Ogilvy abused Twitch donation messages to cause multiple streamers to advertise Burger King for only a few dollars
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If an album isn't streaming online, does it really exist?
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Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%.
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eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces
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Over 400 advertisers hit pause on Facebook, threatening $70 billion juggernaut
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Pressure mounts as Starbucks, Coca-Cola join Facebook ad boycott; Facebook updates policy
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With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom
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EU digs in on digital tax plan, after US quits talks
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Google has banned ZeroHedge from its ad platform for content policy violations related to misinformation about the Black Lives Matter protests
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The digital archives of the oldest Black newspaper in America show a long struggle for justice
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New York Times phasing out all third-party advertising data
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Chrome to start throttling resource-heavy ads in August
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Our bookless future
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The pathetic state of Youtube advertising
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Sweden's cashless society dream isn't all it's cracked up to be – as debates rage along lines of age, wealth and location, the country is looking to create a digital currency
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The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860
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Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
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Apple now allows push notification advertising, updates dating app review guidelines and more
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Sweden starts testing new official digital currency – pilot project will be run in an isolated test environment together with digital tech consultants Accenture
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The downside of diagnosis by smartphone
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Varo Money receives Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation approval, enabling it to become America's first standalone national digital bank
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How -- and why -- advertisers are looking at gaming and esports
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Every Google result now looks like an ad
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App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
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Tricky phish angles for persistence, not passwords
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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Sweden's central bank has tapped Accenture to develop its e-krona digital currency pilot project
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
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Apple’s ad-targeting crackdown shakes up ad market
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The Internet Archive is digitising & preserving over 100,000 vinyl records: Hear 750 full albums now.
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Better World Books and the Internet Archive unite to preserve millions of books
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Kik Messenger acquired by MediaLab, announces plan to introduce ads
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