Colorado becomes first state to pass “right to repair” law for farmers
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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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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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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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California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature
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Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment
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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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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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Texas Department of Public Safety issues amber alert for victim of horror doll Chucky
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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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Proposition 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again
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Appeals court grants a stay on injunction, after Lyft announces rideshare operations would be suspended in California at 11:59 PM tonight
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Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source
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A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic
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Analysis of Voatz mobile voting app by MIT researchers finds elementary security flaws
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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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What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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Colorado town offers 1 gbps for $60 after years of battling Comcast
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World first as local council uses robots to perform 'unbiased' job interviews
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Ottawa city hall has been targeted by cyber attacks more than 8,000 times in the past year
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Florida city to pay $600K ransom to hacker who seized computer systems weeks ago
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Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
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A Washington state lawmaker just quit to lobby for Amazon. Most states wouldn’t allow that.
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Las Vegas is about to take a gamble on Musk’s Boring Company
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Kentucky’s $1.5 billion information highway to nowhere
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How lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law
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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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Kentucky approves bill to make 'doxing' illegal after Covington student's online backlash
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Foxconn may not build $10B Wisconsin plant Trump touted
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Waymo has been granted the first permit in California to begin driverless testing on public roads
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Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn factory boondoggle
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Facebook says it's immune from Washington State law governing election ad transparency
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Thirty-five states tell the FCC to get off its ass and do something about spoofed robocalls
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Justice Department sues to stop California net neutrality law
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California lawmakers pass nation’s toughest net neutrality law
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Experts criticize West Virginia’s plan for smartphone voting
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New York moves to kick Charter Spectrum cable out of the state
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Elected officials, please stop drinking Silicon Valley's kool-aid
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California's Net Neutrality bill has been gutted
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California Senate defies AT&T, votes for strict net neutrality rules
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This bot is posting the Alabama Constitution on Twitter one tweet at a time. It's the longest constitution in the world. It will be done fall of next year.
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New Toronto Declaration calls on algorithms to respect human rights
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New York State to join California enacting strict net neutrality legislation
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