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Edward Snowden says Facebook is just as untrustworthy as the NSA

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Report: Rudy Giuliani went to San Francisco Apple Store for iPhone help after being named Trump cybersecurity advisor - had entered password incorrectly 10 times

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‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

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Wikipedia picture of the day on November 1, 2019: Stone house on...

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A Facebook content moderation vendor is quitting the business after two Verge investigations - Moderators complained of filthy offices and severe mental health strain

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Younger Americans are willing to pay twice as much as their parents for clean energy

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Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

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The FBI is Tracking Our Faces in Secret. We’re Suing.

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Offshore Wind Energy Could Generate Enough Electricity to Power the World. Will the U.S. Get on Board?

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World's largest storage battery will replace gas peaker plants in New York

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Facebook leaves no doubt: It's the right wing's social network now

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China establishes $29B fund to wean itself off of US semiconductors

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AirPods Pro teardown confirms that they’re just as disposable as ever

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The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen

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Firefox privacy protections reveal who’s trying to track you

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Facebook Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar. A New Report on Hate Speech Shows It Hasn't Learned Enough Since Then

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Text editor releases ‘Free Uyghur’ edition, gets swamped with Chinese spam

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Trump campaign says Twitter ad block will ‘silence conservatives’: ‘Twitter just walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential revenue’

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Should Tech CEOs Go to Jail Over Data Misuse? Some Senators Say Yes | WIRED

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Twitter just jabbed Facebook by banning all political ads: 'We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought'

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Wikipedia picture of the day on October 31, 2019: Northern part...

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The city with the best fiber-optic network in America might surprise you: Community broadband creates competition and better service and choice—along with giving local residents ownership.

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Company Threatens To Sue NBC For Reporting On Its Facial Recognition Tech Being Used Against Palestinians | Techdirt

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Twitter bans all political advertising

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Twitter to ban all political advertising, raising pressure on Facebook

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The Truth Is The Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years

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Poor kids spend nearly 2 hours more on screens each day than rich kids - Kids from more affluent families have more access to tech but use it less.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare faces Russian backlash - The latest Call of Duty game has been hit by thousands of negative reviews over its portrayal of Russia.

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New Lithium ion battery design can charge an electric vehicle in 10 minutes

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Netflix wants to let people watch things at twice the speed, but Hollywood is pushing back

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Xfinity is Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attacking my Internet

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Mitsubishi pulls Blizzard tournament sponsorship over Hong Kong protest player suspension

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Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash kick off $90 million fight against California’s gig worker law - Under the ballot measure, drivers could get earnings guarantee of 120 percent of minimum wage

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YouTube creator Lindsay Ellis is challenging the platform over the way it handles copyright claims

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DNS over HTTPS Will Give You Back Privacy that Big ISPs Fought to Take Away

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Mark Zuckerberg claimed Facebook was founded with political expression in mind. A former Facebook exec called that 'pretty obviously incorrect.'

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Blizzard lost a big sponsor after the Hong Kong outcry: Mitsubishi - Blizzard lost the trust of its fans, and some money too

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This man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads

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Wildfire Victims Don't Have Cell Service Thanks to Greedy Telecoms - Letting cheapskate corporations dictate government policy doesn’t end well for disaster victims—or anybody else.

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Blue Light Isn't the Main Source of Eye Fatigue and Sleep Loss

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Wikipedia picture of the day on October 30, 2019: Fountain at...

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Comcast Insists It's An Innocent Little Daisy On Consumer Privacy

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The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence Over Free File Program — After ProPublica sued the IRS, the agency released emails that show it has allowed the tax preparation industry to write the rules.

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'Nearly All' Counter-Strike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Don't Fall Prey to Scaremongering about 5G - Activists cite low-quality studies in arguing radio-frequency radiation is dangerous, but the weight of evidence shows no risk

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'First Internet connection' made over military ARPANET 50 years ago

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Georgia hit by massive cyber-attack: A huge cyber-attack has knocked out more than 2,000 websites - as well as the national TV station - in the country of Georgia.

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Google sued by Australian watchdog over location tracking - ACCC says Google mislead users over collection of location data.