California police used military surveillance tech at grad student strike
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The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017
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A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic
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Political consultant suggests rallying dems with giant, 'Fortnite-style' holographic Biden
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The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it
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Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?
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I sing the airplane electric—Until now, an airplane was never a cheap date
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In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the US was wrong
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US unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows
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It's time to build
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Pandemic sparks American tech workers' interest in unions
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The coronavirus has changed the way Americans use the internet
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After 9/11, Americans gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after COVID-19?
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The far-right helped create the world’s most powerful facial recognition technology
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Tesla’s Fremont factory will reduce its workforce from 10,000 to 2,500 workers
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Tesla told to shut down California factory to help fight the coronavirus
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French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers
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Tech in the time of COVID-19
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Joe Biden’s first virtual town hall was an absolute technical nightmare
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Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
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EARN IT act is a direct attack on end-to-end encryption
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Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
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Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden
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The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas
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Here's how Biden and Sanders stack up when it comes to how they would govern the tech industry
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Tech was supposed to improve caucuses. Instead, it may have doomed them
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Japanese toilets are marvels of technological innovation. American toilets not so much
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Firefox has started enabling DNS-over-HTTPS by default for all US-based users
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Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
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To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber.
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US FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not
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Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
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EFF calls for disclosure of secret financing details behind $1.1 billion .ORG sale including $360 million loan, and asks FTC to scrutinize deal
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Lambda School's misleading promises
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Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements
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DoorDash made its couriers agree to binding arbitration, and now a federal judge has ordered them to pay almost $10 million to arbitrate over 5000 claims filed by couriers
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Department of Justice announces a 16-count superseding indictment against Huawei, four subsidiaries, and CFO Wanzhou Meng that includes charges of racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets
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US officials say Huawei has had the capability to secretly access telecom networks around the world for over a decade
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The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft
15 votes -
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened
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Four Chinese military personnel charged for Equifax hack
10 votes -
California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start
12 votes -
The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform
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Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion
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Report detailing online activity of US Coast Guard officer accused of domestic terrorism shows extensive searches on white supremacy, conspiracy theories, and thousands of visits to /r/MGTOW
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The California Attorney General has requested 35 pieces of information from ICANN regarding the proposed sale of the .org TLD
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The mysterious drone sightings in Colorado seem to have been a classic case of mass hysteria, with no evidence of illegal drone activity ever found
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Unexplained drones are swarming by night over Colorado
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Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
12 votes