What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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DWeb SF Meet Up-- January
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Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
20 votes -
"Github Based Jobs Listings": a GitHub repo where IT jobs (mostly US and Canada-based) may be posted for a bounty
8 votes -
Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers
10 votes -
Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
10 votes -
The Light Phone
20 votes -
Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 looking for exhibitors, speakers, and volunteers
7 votes -
The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
5 votes -
The lesson that market leaders are failing to learn form Xerox PARC
7 votes -
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
35 votes -
The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy
8 votes -
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
15 votes -
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
13 votes -
Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint
19 votes -
FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
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San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits ICE access to criminal justice data
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Four US congressional reps ask Bill Barr to restart his war on porn
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Virgil Griffith, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions
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The US Army is building a giant VR battlefield to train soldiers virtually
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What's gone wrong with the FTC's COPPA agreement with YouTube
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Apple's new map expands to the midwest and western US
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The Supreme Court will hear Google’s appeal in the long-running copyright/API dispute with Oracle
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I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk
33 votes -
The strange life and mysterious death of Jerrold Haas, co-founder of the educational-blockchain startup Tessr
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YouTube is requiring all new and existing videos be marked as "Made for Kids" if they're intended for children, which will disable personalized ads, end screens, comments, and more
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Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia
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I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
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ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
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NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
7 votes -
NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
16 votes -
The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
6 votes -
US Department of Defense announces that Microsoft has been awarded the $10 billion JEDI Cloud contract
8 votes -
This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
18 votes -
US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
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The case for fiber to the home, today: Why fiber is a superior medium for 21st century broadband
11 votes -
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's prepared remarks for congressional hearing about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
16 votes -
South Korean national and 337 others arrested and charged worldwide in the takedown of Welcome To Video, the largest darknet child pornography website
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Meetup.com pricing changes: Up to $3 total per RSVP to free events
@securestep9: If you are using #MeetUp it's time to look for an alternative provider: from November they will charge you $1 per RSVP of a FREE event, so if you have 1000 attendees RSVP-ing to your FREE meetup you as the organiser will be charged $1000 per meetup https://t.co/eq78hPRW2b
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Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
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GitHub and US Government developers
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US blacklists Chinese tech firms over treatment of Uighurs
6 votes -
NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyber conference at the last minute
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Adobe is deactivating the accounts of all Venezuelan users with no refunds due to US sanctions
11 votes -
The US court allowed the Federal Communications Commission to kill net neutrality because washing machines can’t make phone calls
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Millions of the comments posted during public US debates like the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
18 votes -
US Attorney General and officials from UK and Australia will ask Facebook to halt plans for end-to-end encryption in its messaging apps
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All hands on deck—In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government
11 votes -
The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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Facebook has taken down the huge "Police Lives Matter" page after being revealed as a Kosovo-based operation pushing misinformation about US cops
23 votes