JetBrains' continuous integration server TeamCity may have been compromised as part of the wide-reaching Russian hack of the US federal government security.national Article 803 words 13 votes
Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology Article 365 words 14 votes
Experts lay out the criteria for choosing Biden's CTO, who will be faced with using tech to tackle everything from climate change to vaccine distribution Article 1678 words 6 votes
National Police Association 2020 Year in Review: "Another thing furries are doing is dredging the Internet looking for ways to cancel us" Article 686 words 9 votes
Trump promises to veto crucial defense-spending bill unless it includes a full repeal of CDA 230, the law that protects online platforms from liability social media internet Article 916 words 27 votes
Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill - The CASE Act and a felony streaming proposal are included Article 448 words 36 votes
In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet internet Article 2074 words, published Dec 17 2020 8 votes
US federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls Article 1737 words 11 votes
Preliminary analysis of the SolarWinds Orion supply-chain nation-state attack security.cyber Article 2000 words 7 votes
Dutch researcher claims that he accessed US President Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing password social media Article 305 words 21 votes
FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement social media privacy Article 233 words 29 votes
Facebook announces plan to break up US Government before it becomes too powerful facebook social media Link 40 votes
"They demolished my house for this?" In Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, families were forced out for a huge Foxconn factory, but three years later, it still hasn’t been built Article 1912 words 22 votes
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges google privacy Article 278 words 18 votes
What Facebook fed the baby boomers. Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. facebook social media Article 2322 words, published Nov 24 2020 18 votes
How the US military buys location data from ordinary smartphone apps, including a Muslim prayer app with over ninety-eight million downloads Article 2893 words 13 votes
Social app Parler apparently receives funding from the conservative Mercer family social media Article 1084 words 19 votes
TikTok can continue to operate in the US, Commerce Department says social media Article 166 words 10 votes
TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up social media Article 369 words 16 votes
Proposition 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again privacy Article 602 words 13 votes
A series of tweets by one Miami University student that were critical of a proctoring software company were hidden by Twitter after the company filed a copyright takedown notice social media Article 975 words 12 votes
Hasan Piker's Twitch stream is the future of Election Night coverage social media Article 582 words 12 votes
Evolving Reddit's workforce - Going forward, Reddit employees will mostly be able to work remotely from wherever they want, and all US employees will be paid the same, regardless of location social media Article 707 words 18 votes
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge security Article 1589 words 12 votes
RIAA obtains DMCA subpoenas against Cloudflare and Namecheap targeting forty-one domains for YouTube-ripping platforms and pirate sites Article 1087 words 29 votes
FBI, DHS, HHS warn of imminent, credible ransomware threat against US hospitals Article 678 words 13 votes
Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform facebook social media Tweet 30 votes
Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US Article 673 words 14 votes
Twitter won’t let The New York Post tweet until it agrees to behave itself social media Article 342 words 13 votes
Google sued by US Department of Justice in antitrust case over search dominance google Article 709 words 26 votes
Inside Foxconn's empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin Article 9680 words 17 votes
It's been twenty-four years since internet companies were declared off-the-hook for the behavior of their users. That may change, and soon internet Article 1165 words 20 votes
Nokia wins Belgian 5G contracts amid US pressure to exclude the Chinese firm Huawei from supplying key telecoms equipment Article 454 words 6 votes
Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you Article 6824 words 29 votes