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
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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
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California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start
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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 Donald Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative US voters
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Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the New York Police Department says they played no role in the case
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The Yang Gang and its bots
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The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
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The Silicon Valley economy is here. And it’s a nightmare
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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
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"Github Based Jobs Listings": a GitHub repo where IT jobs (mostly US and Canada-based) may be posted for a bounty
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Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers
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Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
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The Light Phone
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Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 looking for exhibitors, speakers, and volunteers
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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The lesson that market leaders are failing to learn form Xerox PARC
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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 -
The real trouble with Silicon Valley: The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world
9 votes -
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint
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US Federal Trade Commission 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 Immigration and Customs Enforcement 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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US jury finds that Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer Vern Unsworth when he called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet
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Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match.com — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish
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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
23 votes -
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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A bait-and-switch scam ran unchecked on Airbnb. Here’s how it worked.
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I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk
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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
16 votes