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Coder deletes open source add-on for Chef in protest over ICE contract

Nerf’s Newest Blasters Won’t Fire Knockoff Darts

Federal court strikes down FCC effort to relax media ownership rules - The Third Circuit once again chastises the agency for not considering how local media consolidation will affect women and minorities.

45 Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse - A leaked document highlights stories of abuse and retaliation against Google employees, told by the employees themselves.

ICE is on the hunt for a new DevOps company thanks to a software engineer's protest

A Nevada Law That Fines Companies for Selling Private Data Is About to Go Into Effect

My father was IBM's first black software engineer. The racism he fought persists in the high-tech world today

Scotland ‘will soon generate 100% of its power through renewables’ - Wind, solar and hydropower are now Scotland’s main source of electricity, providing around three-quarters of all generation

Tesla May Soon Have a Battery That Can Last a Million Miles. Journal of the Electrochemical Society describing a lithium-ion battery that “should be able to power an electric vehicle for over 1 million miles” while losing less than 10 percent of its energy capacity during its lifetime.

Silicon Valley Is One of the Most Polluted Places in the Country: "Microchip manufacturers contaminated the groundwater in the 1980s. Almost 40 years later, the cleanup still isn’t complete."

How to check if Yahoo owes you $358 — You could be entitled to a portion of a huge data breach settlement.