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They turn ’49 Mercurys and Shelby Cobras into EVs, one Tesla carcass at a time

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Internet Society CEO: Most people don't care about the .org sell-off – and nothing short of a court order will stop it

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Facebook labels a post as false to obey Singapore misinformation law - There's a question whether it's ensuring accuracy or hurting freedom.

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Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views - Forbes and Business Insider are both well-known news sites. So is forbesbusinessinsider.com a new spin-off?

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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 1, 2019: Chapel in the...

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Progressive groups blast Facebook for courting the right

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Orange Pi 4 launches at $60 with 4GB RAM

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Backlash grows over sale of .org domain registry to private equity firm

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Tensions between Google and its employees are reaching a peak point

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Ethos paid $1.135 billion for .Org - Internet Society reveals the price it is selling out for.

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The Great Graphing Calculator Ripoff

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Researcher Arrested for Allegedly Teaching North Korea About Ethereum - Griffith has been arrested for allegedly giving a presentation on cryptocurrency in North Korea, where discussion touched on evading sanctions. He maintains his presentation contained basic concepts that could be found online.

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TikTok's catastrophic handling of a teen who posted anti-China videos shows it is almost impossible to run a viral platform while following China's rules

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Don't Buy Anyone a Ring Camera

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States make their case to block T-Mobile-Sprint merger - The lawsuit attempting to block the $26.5 billion merger goes to court in Manhattan on Dec. 9.

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China makes it a criminal offense to publish deepfakes or fake news without disclosure - Mirroring new California law on political ads

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Don't Buy Anyone a Ring Camera

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Sale of .org domain to private equity firm sparks battle over internet freedom

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Someone got their own '.gov' website by pretending to be a small-town mayor and filling out an online form

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Wikipedia picture of the day on November 30, 2019: 80 years ago...

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Thieves took $49 million in Ethereum from a crypto exchange

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Hackers have reportedly figured out how to reactivate people's cancelled Netflix accounts and start charging them again for monthly subscriptions

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Cards Against Humanity writers are battling an AI to keep their jobs, and you can watch

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SMS Replacement is Exposing Users to Text, Call Interception Thanks to Sloppy Telecos

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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The "Internet Society, with no warning or public input, intends to sell the control of the .ORG domain registry for an undisclosed amount to a for-profit private equity firm called Ethos Capital."

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Huawei is reportedly planning to sue over latest FCC restrictions

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SMS Replacement is Exposing Users to Text, Call Interception Thanks to Sloppy Telecos - Researchers from SRLabs found that telecos are implementing the RCS standard in vulnerable ways, which bring back techniques to attack phone networks.

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RuneScape bloke was wrongly sacked after reading veep's salary details on office printer

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5G radiation no worse than microwaves or baby monitors: Australian telcos

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Activists Build a Grass-Roots Alliance Against Amazon - The New York Times

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New Free Emulator Challenges Apple's Control of iOS

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Rage against the latrine: BOTH toilets on ISS reportedly broken down

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Bytedance is separating TikTok from its Chinese operations

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Taiwan is making democracy work again. It's time we paid attention: Social media has opened up vast social divisions and brought democracy to its knees. In Taiwan, the people are fighting back.

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Twitter begins testing Reddit-style nested conversations

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Former Go champion beaten by DeepMind retires after declaring AI invincible

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Facebook built a facial-recognition app that let employees identify people by pointing a phone at them

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Samsung develops method for self-emissive QLED - Samsung says its new method for making self-emissive quantum dot diodes extended their lifetime to a million hours, opening the way for commercialisation.

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Ukraine condemns Apple for calling Crimea part of Russia in its apps

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Wikipedia picture of the day on November 29, 2019: The...

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No wonder Bezos wants to move industry into orbit: In space, no one can hear you* scream • The Register

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TikTok reverses ban on teen who slammed China’s muslim crackdown.

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IBM: ‘Mac users are happier and more productive’

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Facebook Down: Social network stops working alongside Instagram amid major Thanksgiving outage

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn't use Google on his phone but a privacy-focused rival called DuckDuckGo

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Inside Amazon’s delivery push: Employees and drivers say an overworked system is lax on safety as packages pile up

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Oracle finally responds to wage discrimination claims… by suing US Department of Labor