The rent is too damn algorithmic - Washington DC attorney general is investigating RealPage, a company that helps landlords set rent prices, for potential antitrust violations
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ICE, CBP, Secret Service all illegally used US smartphone location data
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Temu: What it is, and why it matters
37 votes -
Men took over a job fair intended for women and nonbinary tech workers
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Google user data has become a favorite police shortcut
54 votes -
US FEMA and FCC plan nationwide emergency alert test for Oct. 4, 2023
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In search of fresh material to mine, AI companies are hiring poets, novelists, playwrights, writers, and Ph.D.s
34 votes -
Building automation giant Johnson Controls hit by ransomware attack
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Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions
67 votes -
US FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai: banning fast lanes and ISP restrictions on legal content
50 votes -
Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action
67 votes -
Automated translation programs cause problems with US asylum cases, make 'insane' mistakes
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Inside ShadowDragon, the tool that lets ICE monitor pregnancy tracking sites and Fortnite players
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Google US antitrust trial - judge ordered trial exhibits removed from the web - the Verge responds by publishing them
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The gruesome story of how Neuralink’s monkeys actually died
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US FTC warns tax prep companies against invasive online tracking
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Interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark highlights large gift to counter harms of artificial intelligence, other philanthropic initiatives
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Economist, business professor, digital economy expert Shane Greenstein discusses the US Department of Justice vs Google antitrust case
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The batshit crazy story of the day Elon Musk decided to personally rip servers out of a data center
80 votes -
California passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring seven years of parts
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What to know about US Congress’s inaugural AI meeting
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And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands?
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Google goes to trial in biggest US challenge to tech power in decades
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EU ‘gatekeeper’ list has five American and no European companies
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Elon Musk’s X sues California over content moderation law, claiming it violates free speech
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Obituary: Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and his quest to capture the world with logic
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Hollywood’s latest pirate site blocking injunction covers ‘future content’
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Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60
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As employers expand artificial intelligence in hiring, few states in the USA have rules
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Two men exonerated thirty years after wrongful conviction thanks to retrocomputing enthusiasts and The Bloop Museum extracting data from a damaged floppy disc
60 votes -
Scientologists ask US Federal government to restrict right to repair
46 votes -
Pentagon's new website lets you explore declassified UAP sightings info. Eventually, people will be able to submit their own reports of "unidentified anomalous phenomena."
11 votes -
2/3 of foreign components in Russian drones are made in the US; China is the main supplier, according to the Yermak-McFaul International Working Group and KSE Institute
15 votes -
What’s inside that McDonald’s ice cream machine? Broken copyright law.
33 votes -
Maryland school district sues social media alleging addictive design rewires young brains
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TSMC blames struggle to build Phoenix plant on skilled labor shortage but workers cite disorganization and safety concerns
31 votes -
Mom’s Meals discloses data breach impacting 1.2 million people
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How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
35 votes -
Huawei accused of building secret microchip factories to beat US sanctions
19 votes -
Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
67 votes -
The US tech industry has largely co-opted the once-dreaded “patchwork” of state rules through effective lobbying— and its success is sapping momentum for federal legislation
7 votes -
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announces plans to regulate sale of personal data
35 votes -
US Special Counsel got a search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Donald Trump’s account
40 votes -
Illinois just passed the first law in the US protecting financial rights of children of influencers
35 votes -
White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors linked to the military
41 votes -
$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
58 votes -
Twitter threatens legal action against US nonprofit that tracks hate speech
113 votes -
Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti's software undetected for at least three months, US and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies warn
14 votes -
Get the lowdown on 'e/acc' — Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about progress at all costs, which has been embraced by Marc Andreessen
32 votes