Can a computer write a sonnet as well as Shakespeare? The best version of the algorithm fooled people nearly fifty percent of the time
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Cybersecurity experts from Homeland Security, the National Intelligence director's office, and private industry discussed how they're working to counter the most urgent threats
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Twitter says Infowars hasn't 'violated our rules.' It looks like that's not the case
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Back streets of the Internet
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Engineers say 'no thanks' to Silicon Valley recruiters, citing ethical concerns
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Hacker Finds Hidden 'God Mode' on Old x86 CPUs
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How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves
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Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge - a technical analysis
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Why you need a network-wide ad-blocker
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The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a Damn
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Jeffrey Katzenberg raises $1 billion for short-form video venture
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Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative TooL
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Captive audience: How companies make millions charging prisoners to send an email
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Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
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DAS Keyboard banned a guy on forums for providing open source alternatives for their keyboards
@sebirdman: So I got banned from the @daskeyboard forums for telling people there's an open source alternative to the windows only software they provide. I'll never buy one of these keyboards again.
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Podcasting is not walled (yet)
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‘It’s our time to serve the Motherland’ How Russia’s war in Georgia sparked Moscow’s modern-day recruitment of criminal hackers
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Magic Leap One Creator Edition preview: A flawed glimpse of mixed reality's amazing potential
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The ultra-pure, super-secret sand that makes your phone possible
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Who will know your passwords after you die?
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Amazon plans to move completely off Oracle software by early 2020
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Scientists put a nuclear waste container through a demanding trip to see if the fuel would break
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Uber but for snitching
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Leaked white paper proposes Congressional regulation of social media
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Tim Cook’s email to employees about Apple’s $1trillion milestone
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Experts criticize West Virginia’s plan for smartphone voting
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El Paquete, Cuba's answer to digital content distribution
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I miss my iPod Classic more than anything
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A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
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YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
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Facebook in talks with banks to add your financial information to Messenger
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US Federal Communications Commission admits it was never actually hacked
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Microsoft will keep classic Skype alive ‘for some time’ after user backlash
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Facebook deletes InfoWars pages
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New wi-fi crack attack allows outsiders to snag user creds
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How does Mastodon work?
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What are your opinions on cryptocurrency?
What about the technical aspects do you support and what are your reservations? Bitcoin vs. altcoins? Do you anticipate widespread adoption or fizzling out to occur in the next few decades?
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Google in potential cloud services talks in China, with Tencent and others
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Killing speech softly: How the world’s biggest tech companies are quietly censoring critical expression in the Middle East
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US Lawmakers pressure Google over "deeply troubling" China censorship project
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Google struggles to contain employee backlash over China censorship plans
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Alberta privacy commissioner to investigate use of facial recognition software on Calgary malls
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More tech jobs in Toronto than in the Bay Area
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Spotify user requests GDPR data, gets 250 MB of extremely detailed data, down to the headphone brand.
@steipete: Tried the GDPR data export from Spotify. By default, you get like 6 JSON files with almost nothing. After many emails and complaining and a month of waiting, I got a 250MB archive with basically EVERY INTERACTION I ever did with any Spotify client, all my searches. Everything.
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Reddit servers breached; full backup from 2007 (including hashed+salted passwords) obtained by attackers
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Zooming out on Google Maps now reveals a globe
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Microsoft forces Krita to change their Windows Store listing
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Google's devil bargain with China is a gateway to bureaucratic hell
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'Spycam porn' sparks record protests in South Korea
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Internet publication of 3D printing files about guns: Facts and what's at stake
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