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California law gives consumers new rights to prevent collection and sale of online data

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Court throws out Time Warner Cable $229,500 penalty for 153 robocalls

Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet: The site’s head claims that the policy of not collecting personal information allows people to be "more true to themselves"

Rise of the Machines: Fracking Execs Plan Profits by Using Automation to Shrink Workforce

Microsoft details secret ‘pocketable’ Surface device in leaked email - A new and disruptive dual-screen device to blur the lines between mobile and PC

Why you should not use Google Cloud

Oil industry 'peddling misinformation' about electric vehicles

A company was fined 1,190,000 Euros for text message scams and was caught 2 years later doing the same thing

AI to help tackle fake news in Mexican election - An AI-powered search tool is being used to monitor fake news and polling station problems in Mexico's elections.

India's huge solar ambitions could push coal further into shade

UK Reveals Plan for a Centralized Biometric Database That Sounds Like an Absolute Nightmare

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

The next Facebook scandal? Quiz app “exposed data of 120 million users”

Your Tinder Photos Are Finally Encrypted Thanks to a 69-Year-Old Senator

EFF and human rights groups sue to have FOSTA declared unconstitutional

Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in 4-months

UK Reveals Plan for a Centralized Biometric Database That Sounds Like an Absolute Nightmare

Facial Recognition Company Says It Won't Sell To Law Enforcement, Knowing It'll Be Abused

Wisconsin man injured after upskirting shoe camera explodes

BAT's Brave browser releases first TOR private tabs. Yes, Tor and .onion (decentralized deep web) in a tab

Comcast confirms nationwide outage

Man charged with threatening to kill Ajit Pai’s family.

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Comcast and Xfinity Facing a Nationwide Outage, Users Say

T-Mobile CEO Tells Congress That Reducing Competition Will Increase Competition

Majority of Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Viewpoints

AT&T will pay $5.25 million fine for 911 outages - The company will also have to file regular reports with the FCC.

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia

New battery that self heats and charges fast makes electric vehicles climate-immune

Google Is Planning A Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox And PlayStation

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Barbie is now a robotics engineer: The new doll aims to encourage girls as young as seven to learn real coding skills, thanks to a partnership with the kids game-based computing platform Tynker.

AT&T Has to Pay Up Millions After Two Major 911 Outages Last Year

Meet the people who went to the US Copyright Office to demand your right to repair, remix and preserve!

Google de-lists website critical of U.S. government polygraph policy on key terms

Exactis said to have exposed 340 million records, more than Equifax breach

CA Lawmaker Shamed For Net Neutrality Sellout Via Billboard

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Investigation of fake net neutrality foes has been stymied by the FCC, New York attorney general says

Ticketmaster UK admits personal data stolen in hack attack

Google Home Speakers and Chromecast Are Down Worldwide, Company Confirms

Efforts to preserve in Net Neutrality in Rhode Island undermined by backroom deals and business interests

Investigation Shows AT&T Really Likes Being In The Surveillance Business

Arnav Kapur, a student in MIT’s Media Lab, has developed a system to surf the internet with his mind. He can silently Googled questions and hear the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear.

Nvidia Overestimated Bitcoin Mining Demand, Stuck With Excess GPU Inventory: Report

‘Cyber-criminals are abusing multilingual character sets to trick people into visiting phishing websites. The non-English characters allow scammers to create "lookalike" sites with domain names almost indistinguishable from legitimate ones.’

ICE Modified Its 'Risk Assessment' Software So It Automatically Recommends Detention

Fox desperately trying to avoid selling to Comcast