Hedy Lamarr’s FBI files make no mention of her “Secret Communication System”
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Google’s Larry Page leveled ‘veiled threat’ over control of company
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Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
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Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
8 votes -
Good Firefox extensions?
I just switched over to Firefox from Brave and I'm really liking it so far. Any essential extensions I should get or settings I should tweak?
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TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it
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Introducing Android Q Beta
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Thoughts on the Fediverse?
What are your thoughts on the Fediverse style model of social media/websites in general? If you are unfamiliar with it, https://peertube.social/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d...
What are your thoughts on the Fediverse style model of social media/websites in general? If you are unfamiliar with it, https://peertube.social/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d and https://peertube.social/videos/watch/d9bd2ee9-b7a4-44e3-8d65-61badd15c6e6
EDIT: Punctuation
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Shuah Khan, first woman to become Linux Foundation Fellow
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Targeting online privacy, US Congress sets a new tone with big tech
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Apple confirms March 25th event, expected to announce new TV service
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Twitter has ambitious plans to change the way we tweet by limiting snark and improving the "health" of interactions, but so far it's gone nowhere
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Roger McNamee, FB investor, author "Zucked": mentoring Zuck, Russia, big data, surveillance-PT1
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Firefox Send's free encrypted file transfers are now available to all
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Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'
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Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
48 votes -
How the internet travels across oceans
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How to keep improving when you're better than any teacher - Iterated distillation and amplification
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Science’s Pirate Queen
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Just what is intelligent storage? Here are three examples.
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The Morris worm at thirty
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Elon Musk’s late-night announcement to raise prices and reopen some stores
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Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook
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Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading
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YouTube is rolling out a feature that shows fact-checks when people search for sensitive topics
18 votes -
Turn on auto-updates everywhere you can
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Tesla investors sue to stop Elon Musk's 'unchecked' use of Twitter
8 votes -
What if child care were as standard as coffee at tech conferences?
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Microsoft rolls out new Skype for Web. Unless you use Firefox, Opera, Safari, or Linux
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Facebook only cares about privacy because it has to
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Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
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An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online
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Mark Zuckerberg: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
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Airbnb signs agreement to acquire HotelTonight
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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
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The prototype iPhones that hackers use to research Apple’s most sensitive code
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Many companies like Lyft and Uber are going public without having profits - The last time this was so common was in 2000, right before the dot-com bubble burst
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Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a remarkably common password
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Kentucky approves bill to make 'doxing' illegal after Covington student's online backlash
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Waymo are making their lidar available to companies outside of self-driving
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Corning is working on truly foldable Gorilla Glass
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Heat your house with a water brake windmill
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Chrome update on March 1 fixed a serious zero-day RCE vulnerability that was being actively exploited
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Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception
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Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, citing difficulty of complying with new transparency rules
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Delete never: The digital hoarders who collect Tumblrs, medieval manuscripts, and terabytes of text files
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Q&A with one of the people who negotiated Article 13 on r/Europe
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What would you want in a Stackoverflow/Quora competitor?
My friend was rambling about making his own Stackoverflow/quora clone, but with some random specific features. Note that this project would probably compete directly with Quora, but have multiple...
My friend was rambling about making his own Stackoverflow/quora clone, but with some random specific features.
Note that this project would probably compete directly with Quora, but have multiple subcomminties like Stackoverflow/Reddit. We think taking programming FAQs from SO is too uphill of a battle to focus on.
What are some great ideas?
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I have forgotten how to read: For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate. He was wrong.
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Google pay study finds it underpaid men for some jobs
13 votes