Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices. CryWiper masquerades as ransomware, but its real purpose is to permanently destroy data.
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What the Securing Open Source Software Act does and what it misses
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World's fastest electric ship will set sail in Stockholm next year – Candela P-12 is a thirty-passenger 'flying ferry' that will reach speeds of thirty knots
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Rogers CEO says service back online for most customers, blames outage on 'network system failure'
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Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
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Uber reaches deal to list all New York City taxis on its app
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A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly
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Norway says cyber attack on parliament carried out from China – attack had utilised a security hole in Microsoft's Exchange software
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Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment
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In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers
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King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software
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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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Largest fuel pipeline in the United States hit by ransomware attack
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Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney
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Arizona advances bill forcing Apple and Google to allow Fortnite-style alternative payment options
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Facebook to lift Australia news ban after government agrees to amendments to proposed legislation requiring them to pay publishers
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Samsung seeks to have almost $1bn shaved off property taxes for planned Texas semiconductor fab
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Texas Department of Public Safety issues amber alert for victim of horror doll Chucky
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What I learned in two years of moving government forms online
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JetBrains' continuous integration server TeamCity may have been compromised as part of the wide-reaching Russian hack of the US federal government
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Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology
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Facebook announces plan to break up US Government before it becomes too powerful
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"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
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Finland's parliament approved a bill designed to protect its networks against cyber threats and espionage – may be used to exclude China's Huawei and ZTE
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Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back
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TikTok can continue to operate in the US, Commerce Department says
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With Prop 22’s passage in California, tech companies are just writing their own laws now
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Proposition 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again
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Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law
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An in-depth analysis of the growing Boogaloo movement pushing for an armed revolution against the US Government, and how Facebook makes it possible
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Analysis of Voatz mobile voting app by MIT researchers finds elementary security flaws
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What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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The government protects our food and cars. Why not our data?
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Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
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NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyber conference at the last minute
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Colorado town offers 1 gbps for $60 after years of battling Comcast
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Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
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The rise of data dictatorships
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Las Vegas is about to take a gamble on Musk’s Boring Company
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Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
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Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections
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FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
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The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses
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Swiss e-voting trial offers $150,000 in bug bounties to hackers
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Millions are on the move in China, and Big Data is watching
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New Japanese law lets government hack IOT devices and warn owners they're vulnerable
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Foxconn may not build $10B Wisconsin plant Trump touted
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These are all the federal HTTPS websites that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown
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Transparency-seeking OPEN Government Data Act signed into law
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The Welfare State Is Committing Suicide by Artificial Intelligence: Denmark is using algorithms to deliver benefits to citizens—and undermining its own democracy in the process.
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