‘Do not pet’: A robotic dog named “Spot” made by Boston Dynamics is the latest tool in the arsenal of the US Secret Service
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The Strava problem: how the fitness app was used to locate the world’s most powerful people
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The latest in North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme: Extorting the employers
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Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
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Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service
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Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of fifteen as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children's brains”
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What Facebook has done to us
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Open source is neither a community nor a democracy
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BTK-gate, Turkey's massive surveillance state: Internet activity, identity, and personal data of all users in Turkey is collected
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More people than ever are trying to hack the US government--and they love it
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Arkansas sues YouTube over claims it's fueling mental health crisis
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The attempt to reform Intel
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Aug 2024 - "America isn’t ready for the wars of the future" by Mark Milley (ex-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and Eric Schmidt (ex-CEO of Google)
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We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
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Social platform X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation
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Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics
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The US government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
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Google to charge new fee on ads in response to Canada’s digital services tax
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How the news broke on X. The epistemology of an assassination attempt.
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Tech giants should be made subject to a global tax for their use of people's personal data, according to Norway's Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
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Elon Musk says he’s moving SpaceX and X from California to Texas, blames new trans privacy law
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Microsoft laid off a DEI team, and its lead wrote an internal email blasting how DEI is 'no longer business critical'
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What's up with solid state batteries? A conversation with Siyu Huang of Factorial Energy
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US bans sales of Kaspersky anti-virus software, citing ties to Russia
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The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
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New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
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In a first, OpenAI removes influence operations tied to Russia, China and Israel
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Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
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Taiwan, on China’s doorstep, is dealing with TikTok its own way
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US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
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America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
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Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
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Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats
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House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate
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European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology
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White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware
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Leak of documents on spyware developed by vendor for Chinese government
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"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth."
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India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
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The most dangerous Canadian internet bill you’ve never heard of is a step closer to becoming law
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Former US President Donald Trump falsely claims attack ad used AI to make him look bad
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How the US Secret Service keeps presidential motorcades safe
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Why we’re dropping Basecamp
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Israeli spyware firm NSO demands “urgent” meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken amid Gaza war lobbying effort
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Maryland is making a $27.2 million investment in devices as part of an effort to ensure residents have the technology to access reliable, high-speed internet.
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US cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination
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Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
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A Meta engineer known as an expert at curbing online harassment saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he’s testifying before the US Congress
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