Venmo gets more private—but it’s still not fully safe
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The MAGA-targeted “Freedom Phone” has a breathtaking amount of red flags
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California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature
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US Consumer Product Safety Commission sues Amazon, citing over 400,000 hazardous products sold through its "Fulfilled by Amazon" program
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Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment
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Amazon devices in the US will automatically join the Amazon Sidewalk mesh network and start sharing internet with neighbors on June 10th, unless opted out
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Supreme Court reins in definition of crime under controversial hacking law
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Florida has passed an unconstitutional law to allow suing and fining social media companies (except ones that also own theme parks) for censoring users or de-platforming politicians
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96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5
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Apple sued for terminating account with $25,000 worth of apps and videos
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Comcast nightmare: Six months without Internet despite $5,000 payment
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Cricut backs off plan to add subscription fee to millions of devices
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Google-free /e/ OS is now selling preloaded phones in the US, starting at $380
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Gab removes their public Git repository after it reveals their developers adding (and struggling to fix) basic security issues that led to a 70GB data leak
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ADT employee covertly accessed about 200 security cameras he installed to spy on people having sex
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Ubuntu Linux is now running on M1 Macs
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A positive ContentID story
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Russia may fine citizens who use SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service
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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
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iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
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The story of 1987's Acorn Archimedes, the first production ARM/RISC-based personal computer
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As the world quieted down in 2020, Raspberry Shakes listened
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The old way of handing out corporate hardware doesn’t work anymore
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SpaceX Starlink beta users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures
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Everything we know so far about the mysterious and confusing deal between TikTok, Oracle, and Walmart
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Court blocks Trump’s WeChat ban from taking effect today
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Online voting is much more difficult to do securely, and a fundamental problem with the concept is that most voters won't be able to understand whether it's secure or not
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Fairphone users can buy and replace just the camera
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Requiring a Facebook account for Oculus VR is bad for users, devs, and competition
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The golden age of computer user groups
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NSA and FBI warn that previously undisclosed Drovorub malware for Linux threatens national security
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Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network
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Hands-on: The $300 Kano PC, a “build-it-yourself” Chromebook competitor
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US phone carriers may soon be able to block all calls from robocallers' carriers
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The rise and fall of Adobe Flash
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Developers leak Geekbench benchmarks from the Apple silicon-Mac Developer Transition Kit, running the 2020 iPad's A12Z Bionic processor
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Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path
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With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom
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CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
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Zuckerberg dismisses fact-checking after bragging about fact-checking
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GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years
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Face ID doesn’t work when you’re wearing a mask—Apple’s about to address that
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Zoom's explosion in popularity is shining a bright spotlight on the service's privacy and data-collection practices
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French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers
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Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections
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Apparently Samsung just put a removable battery in one of it's new phones
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ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
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Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification
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Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. Here’s what we know so far.
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US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
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