Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest phone show, has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns
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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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An Update from Essential: "we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential"
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This month in Mutter & GNOME Shell | December 2019 & January 2020
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An algorithm was taken to court – and it lost (which is great news for the welfare state)
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How are there so many small search engines?
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No engineer has ever sued a company because of constructive post-interview feedback. So why don’t employers do it?
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Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users
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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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Modern copyright law is a joke
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Firefox will start deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 with Firefox 74, releasing on March 10, 2020
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Will Spotify ruin podcasting?
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The deal of the century (or, the alliance of losers)
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Proposal to increase the price of .COM domains up to 28% every six years
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Deep sea diving: The state of submarine cable technology
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Four Chinese military personnel charged for Equifax hack
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POTS: protective optimization technologies
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California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start
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The YouTube copyright metagame part 1: The history of Copyright on YouTube and How YouTubers deal with it
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DB-19: Resurrecting an obsolete connector
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After a TikTok user in Brazil live-streamed his suicide, TikTok took over an hour to notice and then spent three more hours figuring out a PR strategy before informing police
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Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview
@aissn: Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview. Thanks @gabrielluong https://t.co/cXOCB00tKk
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Protocol, a new media company from the publisher of Politico, focusing on the people, power, and politics of technology
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Google sends a unique Chrome browser identifier through Chrome when you visit their websites
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Mycroft is being targeted by a patent troll
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How Twitter's default settings enabled a security researcher to discover phone numbers for over seventeen million accounts
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Any thoughts on Cloudflare's new(ish) VPN/DoH service?
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The strangest job listings in tech
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Surveillance on UK council websites - A study of private companies’ data collection on council websites across the United Kingdom
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"Herein, a collection of more or less recent, decidedly epic software disasters. May they spark conversation that helps your shop to avoid more of the same."
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The internet of beefs
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The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform
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What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera
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Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion
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How ads follow you around the internet
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Data
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Book Review: Human Compatible
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Reed switches
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Avast announces that they are shutting down Jumpshot, their subsidiary that's been collecting and selling user data to marketing clients
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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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Desktop Goose
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The launch of the Green Flyway research project between Røros, Norway and Östersund, Sweden marks a world-first test area for electric flights
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Durov: Recent events showed once again that all WhatsApp users are at risk
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Something is broken in our science fiction
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Unexplained drones are swarming by night over Colorado
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Facebook’s Clear History tool is now available to everyone
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Thunderbird's new home
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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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