Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed Article 984 words 7 votes
CNBC reporter makes fake news website with plagiarized content, gets approved by ad tech companies Article 2411 words, published May 17 2020 10 votes
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 Article 1408 words 9 votes
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 google Article 717 words 4 votes
Ameelio, a startup backed by the Mozilla's 'Fix the Internet', aims to provide free video calls and messaging to prisoners in the US where video calls can cost as much as $25 for 15min Link 11 votes
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017 internet security.cyber Article 13 662 words 33 votes
A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic Article 339 words, published May 8 2020 23 votes
Political consultant suggests rallying dems with giant, 'Fortnite-style' holographic Biden Article 378 words 4 votes
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it internet Article 4171 words 11 votes
In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the US was wrong internet Article 2800 words 6 votes
US unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows Article 1760 words, published Apr 14 2020 21 votes
The coronavirus has changed the way Americans use the internet internet social media Article 855 words 9 votes
After 9/11, Americans gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after COVID-19? privacy security Article 2040 words 21 votes
The far-right helped create the world’s most powerful facial recognition technology Article 7387 words 11 votes
Tesla’s Fremont factory will reduce its workforce from 10,000 to 2,500 workers Article 756 words 8 votes
French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers apple Article 740 words 9 votes
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. privacy google Article 1146 words 18 votes
Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden Article 292 words 11 votes
The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas Article 5523 words 13 votes
Here's how Biden and Sanders stack up when it comes to how they would govern the tech industry Article 1355 words 6 votes
Japanese toilets are marvels of technological innovation. American toilets not so much Article 954 words, published Feb 25 2020 7 votes
Firefox has started enabling DNS-over-HTTPS by default for all US-based users privacy Article 544 words 33 votes
Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27 social media facebook Article 2083 words 5 votes
To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber. privacy Article 3 votes
US FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not internet Article 1039 words 26 votes
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ social media Article 519 words 19 votes
EFF calls for disclosure of secret financing details behind $1.1 billion .ORG sale including $360 million loan, and asks FTC to scrutinize deal internet Article 20 votes
Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements Article 3866 words 16 votes
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 Article 581 words 10 votes
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 Article 1106 words 9 votes
US officials say Huawei has had the capability to secretly access telecom networks around the world for over a decade Article 15 votes
The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft amazon apple facebook microsoft Article 618 words 15 votes
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened Article 8451 words 20 votes
The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform Article 1012 words 10 votes