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FCC proposes to fine racist troll $13 million for robocalling spree

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Lindsey Graham Is Quietly Preparing a Mess of a Bill Trying to Destroy End-to-End Encryption

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Sci-fi author William Gibson: how 'future fatigue' is putting people off the 22nd century

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FCC Says 'One or More' Phone Carriers Illegally Shared Location Data, Fueling Black Market Sales

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Caltech wins $1.1 billion patent award against Apple and Broadcom

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Ajit Pai’s “surprise” change makes it harder to get FCC broadband funding

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Sale of .org domain registry delayed by California Attorney General

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Carriers ‘violated federal law’ by selling your location data, FCC tells Congress

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Wikipedia picture of the day on February 1, 2020: Christchurch...

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FBI Probing Israeli Spyware in Government and Private Hacking

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A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption

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In secret deal with drugmaker, health-records tool pushed opioids to doctors

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Hawaii committee votes unanimously to advance Right to Repair

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An AI algorithm detected the Coronavirus outbreak a week before scientists and doctors did

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GM resurrecting Hummer as an all-electric ‘super truck’ with 1,000 horsepower

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AT&T slashed billions from network spending, cut tens of thousands of jobs

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Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can damage undeveloped film: Digital Photography Review

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Exonerated: Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse

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Due To New California Law, Uber Allows Some Drivers To Set Their Own Rates

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EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, overwhelmingly vote to push for charging cable standard

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Grubhub is faking which restaurants it actually partners with

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The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls

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Plague Inc. maker: Don’t use our game for coronavirus modeling

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Avast shuts down its data-harvesting arm after getting caught red-handed

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Wikipedia picture of the day on January 31, 2020: Cityscape of...

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YouTube’s algorithm seems to be funneling people to alt-right videos

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Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be 'shut down immediately' over privacy concerns

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AT&T, Comcast Dramatically Cut Network Spending Despite Net Neutrality Repeal

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Rolls-Royce plans to build up to 15 mini nuclear reactors in Britain

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Huawei overtakes Apple in annual race to Samsung’s smartphone crown

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Do Ring Cameras Violate Wiretapping Laws? New Hampshire Is About to Find Out

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Avast shuts down marketing analytics subsidiary Jumpshot amid controversy over selling user data

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Cal Tech wins $1.1 billion patent infringement case against Apple, Broadcom

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Facebook Won’t Remove This Woman’s Butthole As A Business Page

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SpaceX successfully launches its fourth batch of internet-beaming Starlink satellites

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The price of free software: Avast has been selling the browser history of its users

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Apple and its wifi chip company Broadcom ordered to pay $1.1bn to university over iPhone patents | Caltech claims Apple and Broadcom infringed four of its patents by using wifi chips in hundreds of millions of iPhones.

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Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit

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AT&T loses another 1.2 million TV subscribers as DirecTV keeps tanking

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Wikipedia picture of the day on January 30, 2020: A ringed seal...

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Lab-Grown Heart Muscles Have Been Transplanted Into a Human For The First Time. Rather than replacing entire heart, researchers placed degradable sheets containing heart muscle cells onto damaged areas - if procedure has desired effect, could eliminate need for some entire heart transplants

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Electronic patient records systems used by thousands of doctors were programmed to automatically suggest opioids at treatment, thanks to a secret deal between the software maker and a drug company

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Elizabeth Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading voting disinformation online

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World First: Genetically Engineered Moth Is Released Into an Open Field

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The Rise of Smart Camera Networks, and Why We Should Ban Them

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Facebook's 'Clear History' Tool Doesn't Clear Shit

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Microsoft releases open source source code analyzer

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A robot named Little Peanut is delivering food to people in quarantine amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

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CNET: Antivirus firm Avast is reportedly selling users' web browsing data