Meta launching paid subscription service for Facebook, Instagram social media facebook Article 73 words 11 votes
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return facebook social media Article 669 words 13 votes
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts microsoft google facebook privacy Article 2167 words 3 votes
Apple delays the rollout of its plans to scan iPhones for child exploitation images apple privacy Article 495 words 15 votes
After decades of not using them, the Pentagon has given control of millions of IP addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats security.cyber Article 1115 words 17 votes
Discord has halted talks with Microsoft and other potential acquirers, is resuming interest in a future IPO microsoft Article 203 words 28 votes
Seeking to capitalize on a growing population that is increasingly less poor, American and Chinese tech giants clash in Africa Link 5 votes
Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing privacy google internet Article 203 words 29 votes
Experts lay out the criteria for choosing Biden's CTO, who will be faced with using tech to tackle everything from climate change to vaccine distribution Article 1678 words 6 votes
Apple loses copyright battle against security start-up Corellium apple security Article 399 words 6 votes
US federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls Article 1737 words 11 votes
Parler’s got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network social media Article 2127 words 13 votes
Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner google Article 471 words 6 votes
Facebook and Twitter take unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story facebook social media Article 1551 words 16 votes
Amazon deletes 20,000 product reviews written by seven of its top ten UK reviewers after a Financial Times investigation found they were written for profit amazon Article 1119 words 18 votes
Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you privacy Article 873 words 22 votes
Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation social media Article 278 words 13 votes
Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable? facebook social media Article 581 words 5 votes
The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model Article 319 words 10 votes
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group social media facebook Article 1180 words 6 votes
Thousands of Zoom cloud recordings have been exposed on the web because of the way Zoom names its recordings in unprotected AWS buckets security privacy amazon.web services Article 1179 words 24 votes
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ social media Article 519 words 19 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
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands privacy Article 3179 words 35 votes
FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact facebook social media privacy Article 915 words 3 votes
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy facebook social media Article 6 votes
Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you. privacy browsers Article 2208 words 18 votes
Facebook to exempt opinion and satire from fact-checking social media facebook Article 90 words 7 votes
Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands amazon Article 19 votes
Amazon has ceded control of its site to third-party sellers. The result: thousands of banned, unsafe or mislabeled products amazon Article 14 votes
Justice Department to open broad, new antitrust review of Big Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple google facebook amazon apple Article 67 words 10 votes
Apple in advanced talks to buy Intel’s smartphone-modem chip business apple smartphones Article 75 words 5 votes
Google Maps is filled with millions of false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby google.maps Article 13 votes
YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy privacy google social media Article 906 words 9 votes
Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it facebook social media Article 1164 words 22 votes
Mark Zuckerberg: The internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas social media facebook internet Article 1068 words 13 votes
Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting social media Article 2162 words 11 votes
The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses facebook privacy social media Article 623 words 24 votes
Farmworker vs Robot: Agricultural workers of the future may soon be made of tech and steel. Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a seasonal farmworker? Article 1698 words 5 votes
“Most startups,” [Dan Lyons] writes, “are terribly managed, half-assed outfits run by buffoons and bozos and frat boys.” Article 603 words, published Jan 17 2019 9 votes
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach privacy amazon apple Article 787 words 27 votes