India bans PUBG, Baidu, WeChat, Alipay, and 114 Chinese apps in the third ban wave
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
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Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
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Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US FAA approval
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How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history
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Mozilla: The greatest tech company left behind
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Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government
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Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%.
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Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice”
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Book review: The Revenge of Analog
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Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
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Beware of Facts Man
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US Congress made Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google CEOs sweat during antitrust enforcement hearing
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CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
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Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
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Lawyers demand US Military stop violating free speech on Twitch
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The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads
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The 👁👄👁 debacle sums up tech's race issues
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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
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Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
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The Walkman, forty years on
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I joined Parler, the right-wing echo chamber’s new favorite alt-Twitter
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Wrongfully accused by an algorithm
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America needs a ministry of (actual) truth
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Shows of support for racial justice from social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t address the way the platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs
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Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation
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Dating apps exposed 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more
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An army of volunteers is taking on vaccine disinformation online
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Reddit is finally facing its legacy of racism
45 votes -
Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service
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Twitter removes Chinese misinformation campaign
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Apple plans to announce move to its own Mac chips at WWDC
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Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
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Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students"
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How a raccoon became an aardvark
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Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest US President Donald Trump posts
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Galaxy Z Flip comes with an unexpectedly low-tech vibe
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US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
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How lockdown is changing shopping for good
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Interview with Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch
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America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis
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It's called artificial intelligence—but what *is* intelligence?
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Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable?
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Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut
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The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model
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The secrets behind the runaway success of Apple’s AirPods
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The workplace-surveillance technology boom
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The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017
33 votes