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YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness

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Trolls are lying about child porn to try to get YouTube channels taken down

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Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars online.

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A major chemical company is building roads made of recycled plastic. They've already stopped 220,000 pounds of waste from ending up in landfills.

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TikTok has been illegally collecting children’s data.

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Wikipedia picture of the day on March 1, 2019: Arcades at...

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Samsung's folding screen tech has been stolen and sold to China

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iPhone and Android hacking tool used by FBI and DHS on sale on eBay for as little as $100

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Facebook and Google will be punished with giant fines in the UK if they fail to rid their platforms of toxic content

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Researchers genetically modify yeast to ‘brew’ THC and CBD

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Samsung is Bloating Everything with McAfee—Even Smart TVs

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Anti-vaxx 'mobs': doctors face harassment campaigns on Facebook - Medical experts who counter misinformation are weathering coordinated attacks. Now some are fighting back

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Watch a Congresswoman destroy Equifax CEO Mark Begor in an epic privacy burn - In a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) asked whether Equifax CEO Mark Begor would be willing to share his address, birth date, and Social Security number publicly at the hearing.

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America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s

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‘Gene-edited babies’ is one of the most censored topics on Chinese social media.

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Cryptocurrency wallet caught sending user passwords to Google's spellchecker

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Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4 million high-risk individuals has leaked

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Ridley Scott’s Alien will finally be released in 4K HDR for its 40th anniversary

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TikTok fined $5.7 million by FTC over alleged children’s privacy law violations

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How Mozilla moved fast to block Facebook and other privacy invaders from your web browser

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Boeing reveals autonomous fighter jet to arrive next year

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Wikipedia picture of the day on February 28, 2019: Main nave of...

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Facebook Says a “Clear History” Tool Will Hurt Its Advertising Business. Good.

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Bringing together the open source and open science communities by teaching scientists how to effectively share their code

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Fake Amazon reviews draw fraud charges in groundbreaking FTC case

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Windows 10 should never reboot your PC without your express permission, researchers conclude

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Twitter suspends far-right activist Jacob Wohl for creating accounts to allegedly manipulate the U.S. presidential election

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Scientist turn CO2 gas into carbon particles in a process that is efficient, scalable, and could potentially "rewind" the carbon emission clock. The particles turn into supercapacitors that can be used for electric vehicle applications.

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Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Says the Internet Needs Regulation

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Fight for your right... to repair - The Right to Repair is about restoring the power to repair products to the American people

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New US antitrust task force could unwind tech mergers

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USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse

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More Internal Facebook Documents Leak Online, Revealing How Facebook Planned to Sell User Data

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Over 8,000 marijuana convictions in San Francisco cleared thanks to computer algorithm

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U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms

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Studies keep showing that the best way to stop piracy is to offer cheaper, better alternatives.

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Wikipedia picture of the day on February 27, 2019: Comedian, Zoe...

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Yes, retailers are colluding to inflate prices online

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Google reportedly poaches Intel, Qualcomm and Nvidia engineers for 'gChips' team

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Robocalls are rampant despite the Do Not Call list — FCC urges phone providers to help stop them

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U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms

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US appeals court blesses AT&T $81 billion takeover of Time Warner, affirming no harm to consumers, competition

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India To Soon Have Its Own DNS: Users’ Data Will Be Stored Within Country; Small ISPs Without Credible DNS To Benefit

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Facebook plays defense over concerns about content moderators' mental health

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SEC asks judge to hold Tesla’s Elon Musk in contempt, saying he violated agreement on social media posts

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Suicide instructions spliced into kids’ cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids: “Sideways for attention. Longways for results,” a man says in the middle of a cartoon.

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A Mom Found Almost A Dozen YouTube Kids Videos Showing Suicide, School Shootings, And Abuse

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IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black... or yellow?