Internet freedom continues to decline around the world, a new report says.

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Submitted November 01, 2018 at 09:58AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2Sz7dHT

Tech employees are much more liberal than their employers — at least as far as the candidates they support

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Submitted November 01, 2018 at 04:47AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2RsSzAG

Supreme Court Scrutinizing Class Action Settlements That Leave Consumers Empty-Handed

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 11:31PM by asteriskspace https://ift.tt/2QapLN4

The average cable bill is now $107 a month, up more than 50% since 2010

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 09:48PM by andythepharmacist https://ift.tt/2P3au3U

Facebook loses a million European users in three months

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 07:14PM by ManiaforBeatles https://ift.tt/2EQEpaQ

Senators call on FCC to investigate fake net neutrality comments

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 08:10PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2qlgVkn

US indicts 10 Chinese intelligence agents following ‘hack on US and European aviation companies’

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 04:57PM by Jeebzus2014 https://ift.tt/2Jrs8bx

Zuckerberg gets joint summons from UK and Canadian parliaments

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 05:57PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Rpq1rs

Steam, Proud Adopters Of Hands Off Games Policy, Very Hands On When Banning All Of TorrentFreak

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 03:51PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2yG8mFm

Feds took woman’s iPhone at border, she sued, now they agree to delete data - CAIR lawyer pleasantly surprised: "We were prepared for much more pushback."

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 03:37PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OhjRI6

Eye doctors find that WebMD symptom checker was wrong more than half the time

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 03:38PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OhqpXf

Facebook has started banning accounts affiliated with far-right group the Proud Boys

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 03:43PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2yGV9vE

EFF Sues California Law Enforcement Agency For Refusing To Hand Over Stingray Document

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 01:44PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2JyhCj7

New Study Suggests People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There’s Not Much Reason to Upgrade - The average trade-in age for iPhones keeps going up.

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 03:00AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2JsaYL6

We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them.

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Submitted October 31, 2018 at 12:29AM by mepper https://ift.tt/2OY5n5l

The iPad finally moves to USB-C

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 09:21PM by rdf- https://ift.tt/2SwfKLx

This interactive map shows contributions every member of Congress has received from ISPs, their position on net neutrality, and how you can contact them.

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 08:24PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2RngSQo

Cable Needs to Dial Up Flexibility, Dial Down Cost to Bring Back Cord-Cutters

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 06:33PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2OfUZR0

EFF Sues California Law Enforcement Agency For Refusing To Hand Over Stingray Documents

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 07:35PM by thijser2 https://ift.tt/2SpnZct

Top battery scientists have a plan to electrify flight and slash airline emissions

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 06:02PM by False1512 https://ift.tt/2JpGLME

Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 05:17PM by udelblue https://ift.tt/2Rq3b3k

Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government network. The employee at the US Geological Survey had an "extensive history" of visiting adult websites.

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 04:39PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2yFou9M

'We are like robots': Apple investigates Chinese factory using forced student labour - Supplier under fire after vocational degrees were withheld unless students undertook factory work

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 02:47PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Pt9o0J

UK proposes a 2% tax on tech giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook for profits they make in the country

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 10:32AM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2OcAZ1G

Apple Intern posted a Open Letter about Diversity

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 09:12AM by throwaway_py https://ift.tt/2O8QIil

Google AI listens to 15 years of sea-bottom recordings for hidden whale songs

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 06:30AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2zeDyL9

Facebook suddenly banned this start-up from advertising, and its founder thinks Facebook is trying to squash a competitor

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 04:01AM by SuperCharged2000 https://ift.tt/2Da9rc7

New optical gyroscope is more accurate and as small as a grain of rice

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 01:49AM by CaptainTomato21 https://ift.tt/2DbXiDF

Civil servant who watched porn at work is blamed for infecting a U.S. government network with malware

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Submitted October 30, 2018 at 03:45AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Jnd0fh

FCC falsely claims community broadband an 'ominous threat to the first amendment.'

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 11:36PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2COoDKZ

Charter Spectrum Jacks Up Rates (Again) Thanks To Merger 'Synergies'

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 07:18PM by zexterio https://ift.tt/2ERBMWy

Researchers can now legally restore “abandoned” online game servers

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 10:42PM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/2Q2kQ0r

Microsoft Says It Will Sell Pentagon Artificial Intelligence and Other Advanced Technology

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 08:31PM by ZWass777 https://ift.tt/2AyHBnj

Apple is "trying to destroy" Qualcomm by refusing to pay $7 billion in royalties

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 07:50PM by thebloodyaugustABC https://ift.tt/2ENUcr2

Facebook 'could collapse’ if election scandals keep coming, author warns - David Kirkpatrick says advertisers could start to shun the platform if the scandals don’t stop – after a year of seemingly endless controversy over misinformation, privacy and ‘fake news’.

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 07:46PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2Axucfj

Pittsburgh shooting: Gab drops offline after attack. PayPal and others pulled support for Gab's "free speech" service after a gun attack on a synagogue.

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 06:54PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2CMKi6l

Gab, the social media platform used by suspected Pittsburgh shooter, goes offline

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 05:20PM by imagepoem https://ift.tt/2Q2NLSh

Gab, The Social Site Where Synagogue Shooting Suspect Hung Out, Is Suspended

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 05:32PM by urgukvn https://ift.tt/2CQ5OYb

Texas E-Voting Machines Switching Votes For Non-Nefarious But Still Stupid Reasons

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 04:09PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2z6CbOs

Top automakers are developing technology that will allow cars and traffic lights to communicate and work together to ease congestion, cut emissions and increase safety

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 04:23PM by irvw https://ift.tt/2Sy1su6

Bluetooth headphones are popular, but science confirms: mostly terrible

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 06:12AM by Elliottafc https://ift.tt/2yLZo9F

Facebook, Google May Face Billions in New Taxes Across Asia, Latin America

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 10:03AM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2CLL9US

Gab.com goes down after GoDaddy threatens to pull domain

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 09:02AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Pqd9nP

Texas Voting Machines Are Reportedly Switching Votes for Beto O’Rourke to Ted Cruz

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 04:19AM by pfaccioxx https://ift.tt/2AvgUjp

IBM acquires Red Hat

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 01:00AM by CrankyBear https://ift.tt/2JluXel

IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 01:01AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2PqUFDx

IBM announces it will acquire Red Hat

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 12:19AM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/2SjTaWB

IBM nears deal to acquire Red Hat

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 12:14AM by ExPostRedemptore https://ift.tt/2zdnw4q

IT'S OFFICIAL: IBM is acquiring software company Red Hat for $34 billion

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 12:30AM by readerseven https://ift.tt/2z7DHAb

Uber drivers ‘£18,000 poorer’ as firm appeals two-year-old tribunal order - GMB union says 40,000 drivers are worse off through missing holiday and sick pay, despite a court ruling in 2016

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 04:12PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2ORBoMd

Copyright Ruling Protects Right to Repair Gadgets and Archive Games | Digital Trends

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 10:00PM by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1 https://ift.tt/2PZvncM

Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets. Did they manipulate the market with SuperMicro story?

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 07:00PM by Burn_it_all_down https://ift.tt/2OUsyx3

Pornhub Reacts to India Blocking Adult Sites

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 06:35PM by redhatGizmo https://ift.tt/2CNRcbN

A new survey of more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users finds that 44 percent of users ages 18 to 29 have deleted the app from their phones in the past year.

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 12:15PM by JoseTwitterFan https://ift.tt/2RhiWtd

PayPal Bans Far-Right Social Network Gab After Anti-Semitic User Kills at Least 11 at Synagogue

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 08:32AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2D8llTN

Twitter says it ‘made a mistake’ for not removing threatening tweets from Florida bomb suspect

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 07:29AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2AvMMo1

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Suspect's Gab Posts Are Part of a Pattern

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 05:11AM by False1512 https://ift.tt/2D8ucFa

Paypal bans Gab following Pittsburgh shooting

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 03:47AM by nkkollaw https://ift.tt/2yDhyKl

Google Maps has become a big bloated mess of features nobody wants

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 01:22AM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2SpuxYj

After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico may shift to 100% renewable energy

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 01:54AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2qeO4Ol

The midterms are already hacked. You just don’t know it yet. - An investigation into the US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level.

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Submitted October 28, 2018 at 01:13AM by speckz https://ift.tt/2PlwqqD

Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image. "It may be legal -- but is this fair?"

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 09:37PM by cryptoz https://ift.tt/2ORHZGD

Amazon Has Pulled Its Ads From Bloomberg Over China Hack Story

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 08:03PM by userndj https://ift.tt/2qgyX7f

Archive.org now hosts Webamp - by clicking the llama on the right side of the screen, any upload which contains audio can be played through an online recreation of Winamp

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 06:21PM by Mr_A https://ift.tt/2PoDClG

Why Any Backdoor Would Be a Threat to Online Security: By demanding backdoors to encryption, Politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security.

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 06:33PM by sfp2020 https://ift.tt/2Jl31HF

Apple bars Bloomberg from iPad event as payback for spy chip story

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 05:43PM by Smith_421 https://ift.tt/2ObdIgH

Any form of threatening, harassing, or violence / physical harm towards anyone will result in a ban

We have posted this before, but this needs to be reiterated.

We understand that many of you are emotionally driven to discuss your feelings on recent events, most notably the repeal of Net Neutrality - however inciting violence towards others is never ok. It is upsetting that we even have to post this.

Do we enjoy banning people for these types of offences? No... Many of us feel as if the system has failed and want some form of repercussion. But threats of violence and harassment are not the answer here.

And to be clear - here are some examples of what will get you banned:

I hope this PoS dies in a car fire

I want to punch him in the face til his teeth fall out

And if you are trying to be slick by using this form

I never condone violence but...

I would never say he should die but...

Im not one to wish death upon but...

Let's keep the threads civil.

If you violate this rule, you will be banned for 30 days, no exceptions

Submitted December 15, 2017 at 03:56AM by zathegfx https://ift.tt/2kvcL62

We have to rewrite antitrust law to deal with tech monopolies, says ‘Positive Populism’ author Steve Hilton

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 12:20PM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2Px3agJ

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 05:35AM by AutoModerator https://ift.tt/2Skt9Xf

Copyright Office rules in favor of your right to repair your own phone

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 06:36AM by acacia-club-road https://ift.tt/2yyGUsY

Twitter Did Nothing When Woman Reported Cesar Sayoc for Graphic Threats

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 07:27AM by MisterMister707 https://ift.tt/2Sn0VLq

Political commentator said she warned Twitter two weeks ago about pipe bomb suspect. Rochelle Ritchie said Twitter told her at the time that the account did not violate any of its policies. It has since been suspended.

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 04:31AM by doogie92 https://ift.tt/2z3FvtS

California won't enforce net neutrality law as DOJ halts lawsuit

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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 12:47AM by SetMau92 https://ift.tt/2JjbISt

Georgia voters say voting machine registers wrong candidate

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 11:47PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/2D79INe

'The Blowjob Paper:' Scientists Processed 109 Hours of Oral Sex to Develop an AI that Sucks Dick

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 11:02PM by Nekoronomicon https://ift.tt/2PW6oXN

Texans say voting machines are flipping selections to the other party

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 10:53PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/2AuTSJA

SoundCloud’s new artist contract is a raw deal for musicians

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 07:05PM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2PXaxec

China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 05:31PM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2AsY3FE

New fiber optic cable can make internet 100 times faster by imitating DNA structure

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 05:31PM by thegeezuss https://ift.tt/2CGQXyT

Scientists Back Efforts to Pull CO2 from the Atmosphere: A new report from the National Academics calls for concerted research into “negative emissions technologies”

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 03:54PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OMquHs

Facebook’s political ad tool let us buy ads “paid for” by Mike Pence and ISIS

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 05:04AM by mixplate https://ift.tt/2EKfpC5

What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy: Adam Lackman ran TVAddons, a site hosting unofficial addons for Kodi media player. A legal team representing powerful telecom and media companies—Bell and Rogers included—searched his home and sued him for piracy.

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 02:44AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2O6xFVD

New copyright exemptions let you legally repair your phone or jailbreak voice assistants - The US Copyright Office has made it legal to hack your tractor

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 02:37AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2qcBD5U

Google reportedly gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, a $90 million exit package after deciding he needed to leave because of a sexual misconduct investigation

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Submitted October 26, 2018 at 12:22AM by imagepoem https://ift.tt/2O6ZQEe

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal - The new exemptions are a major win for the right to repair movement and give consumers wide latitude to legally repair the devices they own.

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 11:01PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2CDd49A

Groundbreaking new technology could allow 100-times-faster internet by harnessing twisted light beams

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 05:49PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2yyEhHD

FCC Seeks $63M After Lifeline Discounts Used to Buy Ferrari - The Lifeline program is meant to help low-income consumers gain access to broadband and phone services, but one Ohio company owner used it to buy a Ferrari convertible, Cessna jet, and Florida condo.

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 06:39PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2qc61gC

I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 05:41PM by False1512 https://ift.tt/2O5yNcc

China suggests Trump switch to Huawei after reports of iPhone tapping

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 04:16PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2z0wn9d

Facebook Fined Just $645,000 in UK Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Money It Makes in Less Than 10 Minutes

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 04:12PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2yAM33C

Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica scandal. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was a "serious breach" of data protection laws, UK regulator says.

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 01:45PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2Rjqo7h

Tesla Finally Makes a Profit, and Promises to Keep Doing It

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 06:29AM by maracle6 https://ift.tt/2Pm11nR

When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 03:53AM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/2Ra9RlK

Trump reportedly still uses an unsecured iPhone, and China and Russia are listening in

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 05:05AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2OKv3ly

An anonymous 4chan post could help solve a 25-year-old math mystery

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 02:53AM by TommyAdagio https://ift.tt/2PTE08S

EPIC FOIA: National Archives Finds More Kavanaugh E-mails on Surveillance Programs

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 01:24AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2RcmpZQ

Apple seems to have completely blocked police password cracking tool in iOS 12

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 01:34AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2ONoEGu

Samsung fined $5.7 million for slowing down phones through updates

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Submitted October 25, 2018 at 12:44AM by tehgerbil https://ift.tt/2CGEoDE

Apple and Samsung have been fined millions of euros each by Italian authorities for deliberately slowing down phones.

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 07:21PM by interestedin86 https://ift.tt/2Jf5a7C

AT&T’s fix for the broadband mapping problem? Get everyone’s address

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 04:22PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OLkuPr

Google is making it easier to wipe out your search history - More privacy controls coming to Maps and other services in 2019

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 06:05PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2O2iddq

Microsoft Windows zero-day disclosed on Twitter, again

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 02:49PM by ga-vu https://ift.tt/2JhQjta

'Twisted' fibre optic light breakthrough could make internet 100 times faster

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 02:35PM by Qipeki https://ift.tt/2JdyDPk

Tim Cook warns of ‘data-industrial complex’ in call for comprehensive US privacy laws

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 03:05PM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2D1sK7v

Mozilla is matching all donations to the Tor Project.

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 02:42PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2JdXEtM

Facebook, Google Hit With Lawsuits for ‘Secret’ Location Tracking

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 10:18AM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2PNRq6d

On this day 17 years ago, the original iPod was released and it revolutionized the tech world forever

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 07:02AM by UmangB https://ift.tt/2Jdtx5I

Snapchat Helps Register Over 400,000 Voters

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 01:45AM by khayrirrw https://ift.tt/2q6Xcof

Ajit Pai, Telecom Lobbyists Are Now Coordinating Their Lies In Perfect Symmetry

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 02:48AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Ap7je0

Firefox 63 blocks tracking cookies, offers a VPN when you need one

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 11:47PM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2PMQrDj

The Heavy Focus on 5G Wireless Means We Are Ignoring 68 Million Americans Facing High-Speed Cable Monopolies

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Submitted October 24, 2018 at 12:49AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2O0ZnmO

Facebook, Google Hit With Lawsuits for ‘Secret’ Location Tracking

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 10:38PM by BunyipPouch https://ift.tt/2CB53lB

Motorola Becomes First Smartphone Company to Sell DIY Repair Kits to Its Customers

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 10:16PM by KrispyKrakens https://ift.tt/2ApJenD

Teens are abandoning Facebook at a staggering pace, but they're still flocking to Instagram

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 04:29PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2NTrvs5

Tesla Powerwall Keeps A Remote Home Powered Through 42-Hour Utility Outage

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 04:32PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2yuHTud

London Uber drivers to charge electric car fee. The 15p fee will be handed to drivers to help them pay for an all-electric car, says ride-hailing firm

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 04:34PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2CxCIfS

Amazon Employees Protesting Sale of Facial Recognition Software

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 01:04PM by dhenry11532 https://ift.tt/2OFpLb8

Twitter bans more InfoWars accounts.

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 06:26AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2NXCxN5

Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were fake

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 07:36AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2J9VZ8i

SQLite, facing blacklisting over refusing to implement a Code of Conduct, implements one based on a 5th century book of rules for Christian monks.

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Submitted October 23, 2018 at 01:18AM by mcantrell https://ift.tt/2PcPgjy

YouTube pours money into how-to videos. The video site will spend $20million (£15m) developing educational and how-to content.

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 10:34PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2ODzpLr

How Net Neutrality Repeal Is Fueling VPN Adoption - According to a PCMag survey, 52 percent of US adults are more likely to to use VPN to browse the internet since the FCC rollback of net neutrality protections.

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 06:43PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2NXwS9M

Saudi conference site apparently hacked to display image of murdered journalist

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 10:16PM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2OCWRs2

Apps Can Now Track You Even After You Uninstall Them

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 08:53PM by plato_thyself https://ift.tt/2CZtiuz

Broadband Industry Sues Vermont For Daring To Protect Consumers, Net Neutrality

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 07:21PM by False1512 https://ift.tt/2OHLU8y

Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 07:47PM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2J8OmPv

Intel kills off 10nm process

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 06:14PM by MontrealTrapArtist https://ift.tt/2R5fMIG

Thieves steal a Tesla Model S by hacking the entry fob

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 03:31PM by GoldMEng https://ift.tt/2q4kjQn

Facebook faces loss of 1 million European users.

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 01:40PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2CwM2R7

Facebook reportedly aims to buy a 'major' cybersecurity company.

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 04:57AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2NTfHGf

'Complete control': Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 05:34AM by mansomer https://ift.tt/2NT8vtD

WhatsApp implicated in bitter turn to Brazil election

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 02:26AM by aubonpaine https://ift.tt/2R3MJoZ

Silicon Valley’s Saudi money crisis illustrates a decline of ‘moral leadership’ in America

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 12:59AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2AnyVAp

Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 01:48AM by thinkB4WeSpeak https://ift.tt/2q5OxCA

The NYPD is pulling thousands of body cameras after one ‘burst into flames’

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Submitted October 22, 2018 at 12:16AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2R2A1ab

Researchers Finally Proved Quantum Computers are More Powerful Than Classical Computers: Until this week, there was no conclusive proof that quantum computers have an advantage over classical computers.

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 09:41PM by maxwellhill https://ift.tt/2J8w4hr

Robotic indoor farms can grow food anywhere, anytime

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 08:25PM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2yPfHBC

'A new day for chemistry’: Molecular CT scan could dramatically speed drug discovery

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 05:59PM by rieslingatkos https://ift.tt/2CVOu4C

Facebook being sued by advertisers for inflating video view numbers

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 08:51PM by SauthEfrican https://ift.tt/2ODWYUg

Germany urges global minimum tax for digital giants - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said in an interview for publication Sunday he backed a global minimum fiscal regime for multinationals as Europe looks to levy tax notably on US tech giants.

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 03:51PM by ManiaforBeatles https://ift.tt/2ODo6me

Why no one really knows how many jobs automation will replace - Even the experts disagree exactly how much tech like AI will change our workforce.

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 04:03PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2R4f26G

Dutch solar road proves successful, moves on to heavy traffic road trial

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 06:01AM by skiptomafackindoo https://ift.tt/2NSnlk6

As Red Dead Redemption 2 nears release, Rockstar Games is under fire for employees' extreme overtime - Studio co-founder Dan Houser says 100-hour weeks were limited to himself and 3 key writers

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 05:36AM by ManiaforBeatles https://ift.tt/2qaMRI9

The billionaires fuelling a space race - Dubbed "NewSpace", an increasing number of entrepreneurs are joining in the race to create cheap, commercialised space travel.

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 08:23AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2PQqVgE

Fake review factories that run on Facebook and manufacture misleading five-star reviews that are then posted on Amazon have been uncovered by investigators from UK consumer group Which?

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 07:29AM by ManiaforBeatles https://ift.tt/2R5IBoK

Apple CEO urges Bloomberg to retract spy chip story

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 06:25AM by Shrill_Hillary https://ift.tt/2PeHEgi

It's Repair Day: No One Should Be Punished for "Contempt of Business Model"

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 01:08AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2J8ORsJ

Saudi Arabia tried to develop a mole inside Twitter: report.

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 11:52PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2NP2ttX

Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds $45,000 Model 3

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 09:43PM by Zarathustran https://ift.tt/2R4pfQJ

Online sellers 'pay for positive reviews' - Some online sellers are offering people free goods in return for positive product reviews, an investigation by consumer group Which? has found.

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 03:56PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2yNOlvN

These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 07:14PM by cryptoz https://ift.tt/2CULx4i

To Curb Terrorist Propaganda Online, Look to YouTube. No, Really.

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 05:34PM by False1512 https://ift.tt/2yNUB6L

The Poison on Facebook and Twitter Is Still Spreading

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 06:27PM by marji80 https://ift.tt/2AjfAAi

Winamp 5.8 Media Player Released in All Its Nostalgic Glory

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 06:15PM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2OCfX1o

Kaspersky says it detected infections with DarkPulsar, alleged NSA malware

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 10:10AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2NPnTY3

Smart home makers hoard your data, but won’t say if the police come for it

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 09:53AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2Cs6ra1

HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Consumers

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 07:27AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2q1OEiB

We’re Telling a Court (Again) That President Trump and Other Government Officials Can’t Block People on Twitter For Disagreeing With Them

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 07:25AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2NQVUHw

Facebook, Google and other advertisers are now changing their spy cookies into "first-party" cookies since users have been blocking third-party cookies

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 01:55AM by SuperCharged2000 https://ift.tt/2NOxm1H

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Absence of net neutrality hurts students most

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 03:39AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2S36dLG

Hackers breach HealthCare.gov system, get data on 75,000

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Submitted October 20, 2018 at 04:55AM by stupidstupidreddit2 https://ift.tt/2CWKC3B

Entire broadband industry sues Vermont to stop state net neutrality law

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 11:34PM by Eurynom0s https://ift.tt/2Cq6qDz

Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 10:54PM by cryptoz https://ift.tt/2AiPZHG

ISPs Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Moves - Say, like California, state's rereg efforts are preempted

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 06:06PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2AiT4HH

Should we break up the tech giants? Not if you ask the economists who take money from them

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 08:32PM by Prepeleac https://ift.tt/2CtjcB4

Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy And The Industry Is Largely Oblivious

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 07:24PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2yP18hz

The Week in Tech: Executives Pull Out of Saudi Conference

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 06:35PM by khayrirrw https://ift.tt/2NNOSTL

BBC says Amazon and Netflix may get surplus rural broadband funds - Government plans to give private firms public money that came from BBC budget

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 06:05PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2R1u1hY

Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 04:34PM by chelsea_bear https://ift.tt/2q1cHyb

Twitter pulls down bot network that pushed pro-Saudi talking points about disappeared journalist

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 06:58AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2Oz4fou

Discord’s new terms of service say users can’t sue.

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 07:45AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2CRguX1

Twitter publishes dump of accounts tied to Russian, Iranian influence campaigns

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 09:30AM by EnoughPM2020 https://ift.tt/2PP9pZO

NYC Repair Tech Says Apple, U.S. Customs Seized His Batteries Following CBC Story

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 08:51AM by habichuelacondulce https://ift.tt/2AhWp9M

The iPhone’s New Parental Controls Block Searches for Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 06:57AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2EzWyJZ

Ajit Pai killed rules that could have helped Florida recover from hurricane.

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Submitted October 19, 2018 at 03:02AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2J73ME7

Microsoft and Amazon workers protest firms' military AI contract and 'authoritarian surveillance' tech.

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 09:08PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2PBDFaC

New York Attorney General Expands Investigation Into Bogus Net Neutrality Comments

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 10:55PM by pfaccioxx https://ift.tt/2OubzBH

MIT researchers say memory splitting breakthrough could prevent another Meltdown or Spectre

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 05:27PM by cryptoz https://ift.tt/2P3CbZT

NY's AG Is Trying To Tie Major ISPs To Those Bogus Net Neutrality Comments

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 06:59PM by False1512 https://ift.tt/2OwEogQ

Lawsuit: Facebook inflated video viewership numbers

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 05:30PM by sabatoa https://ift.tt/2P6NZdP

Khashoggi warns in column of free rein to silence media

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 05:42PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/2CSBqNt

Facebook's admits its camera-equipped listening device can collect data for ads

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 02:37PM by thijser2 https://ift.tt/2CPPXJP

4D Sound Headphones – The Next Generation of Audio?

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 01:19PM by stokesdoyle https://ift.tt/2P5aoIo

TSA announces “biometrics vision for all commercial aviation travelers”

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 12:03PM by trot-trot https://ift.tt/2yo0Q1D

Mitsubishi windows shine 'alarmingly realistic' fake sunlight. Mitsubishi has developed a new indoor lighting system that mimics blue skies, sunrises and sunsets.

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 04:50AM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2Etx6pC

Salesforce CEO: tech billionaires 'hoard their money' and won't help homeless

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 03:45AM by harsh2k5 https://ift.tt/2yqqnai

After Leaked Video, Sanders and Warren Demand Bezos Answer for Amazon's "Potentially Illegal" Union Busting

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 04:33AM by itsmyusersname https://ift.tt/2RYuyTc

DOJ Continues To Point Out A Mega-Merged AT&T Will Jack Up Prices On Everybody

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 01:45AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Ev9NeZ

Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were made with stolen identities

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Submitted October 18, 2018 at 12:01AM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/2yoDA3x

Facebook shareholders back proposal to remove Zuckerberg as chairman

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 11:29PM by yupyup98765 https://ift.tt/2AfcX2k

Twitter releases archive of 10 million tweets from state-backed troll accounts

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 09:14PM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2PDo7Dl

Senator Heinrich: A 100% Clean Energy Grid Is ‘Completely Doable’. Heinrich is one of just a few engineers in Congress. “Senator Heinrich's announcement that he supports 100 percent clean energy is a big deal, because it shows that the 100 percent movement is becoming mainstream."

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 10:55PM by V2O5 https://ift.tt/2P7Jwr2

Amazon hit by claims it 'manipulated reviews' to promote its own brands.

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 11:48AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2J3i1d5

New York Attorney General Subpoenas Industry Groups, Lobbyists Over Fake Net Neutrality Comments

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 03:30PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2J68Us4

Facebook inflated ad metrics up to 900 percent: lawsuit

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 06:50AM by doug3465 https://ift.tt/2Clp5QN

YouTube down: Video hosting website suffers outage

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 06:52AM by absentmindedjwc https://ift.tt/2Conx8T

YouTube services appear to be down

Bad look for YouTube

Submitted October 17, 2018 at 06:48AM by frone https://ift.tt/2yKaqv1

It turns out that Facebook could in fact use data collected from its Portal in-home video device to target you with ads

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 12:46AM by 321FACEBOOK https://ift.tt/2yiZBRi

I recently visited both a Microsoft store and Apple store for device repairs and my experience was wildly different

Short Backstory:

I am the IT Manager at my company, so I deal with a lot of repairs on all kinds of devices... I normally get pretty good service from most of the manufacturers that I deal with but every now and then I get really good service or really bad service, and I try to put my money where my mouth is and spread the good or bad experiences I have.

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Microsoft:

At my job, I use a Microsoft Surface Book 1 as my daily driver machine. It gets a lot of use, and when I purchased it, I decided to go the extra step and get an extended warranty just in case. About 6-9 months ago, my Surface started acting wonky as a result of the battery in the screen no longer functioning. A few months ago, I noticed the bottom of my Surface was becoming detached from the chassis... It looked like the adhesive that was holding it together was wearing out. Not thinking too much of it, I checked my warranty status and I was literally 6 days beyond my warranty date... FML... so I figured I would just use the laptop until it died and replace it.

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Apple:

We have a "heavy user" that goes through phones pretty fast... most of the time they get lost, but usually if there is an actual problem with the phone, it's pretty obvious what caused it (broken screen, etc.). So I purchased this person an iPhone X in June of 2018... In maybe the end of July, early August I get the phone back from him saying that it no longer turns on. I try a couple different recovery methods and get nowhere so I ask what caused it, and he says he thinks it may have got wet, but he says it was like splashed or dropped in a puddle or something to that effect... (He has no reason to lie, it's an owner of the company, it's his money, and he has confessed to WAY worse damage to phones and laptops)

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Trying to get help and Visiting the store(s):

Microsoft:

The mall near me has both a Microsoft and an Apple store, so I made my appt at the genius bar for the phone and figured I may as well bring my laptop to the MS store and see if they can give me an estimate for repair, since if it's only a couple hundred to repair, it will save me the trouble of buying a new one and setting everything back up. I go to the store, tell the dude I am here to look at new laptops since mine is pretty much toast unless they can fix it cheap, and he asks to see it. We go back to the workbench, and a lady comes out and tells me that I have a bulging battery in the lower part of my Surface (they have 2 since there is a detachable screen) and that they will need to replace it.

I ask how much that would be, and she told me it's a safety issue and it would be free of charge. I explain to her that I am out of warranty, and she tells me that is ok since it's a safety concern. I also ask her about the other battery in the screen, and what that would cost... She tells me that there will not be a cost... I repeat that I am not under my warranty, and she tells me that she is going to simply replace the entire laptop, free of charge.... I was literally speechless, and after a moment, she asked if that was ok, and I jokingly told her I was prepared for a fight... Not only did they replace it, but she did not have my exact model in stock, so they gave me one with a better GPU in it. Filled out a single form, signed a piece of paper, and went on my merry way with a new (refurbished) Surface Book... I was dumbfounded...

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Apple:

I brought 2 iPhone X with me. One was clearly damaged.... the other simply would not boot. He told me it's a flat fee of ~$600 to replace the one with the broken screen which I had no argument against.... No problem. I then showed him the ~4 month old phone that no longer powered up. He hooked it up to his diagnostic tool and got nothing from it... No surprise. He then took it in the back and came back out with a bunch of pictures showing me water damage.... I then asked how that could be, since the iPhone X is IP67 rated... which is not waterproof, but it clearly states that it can be splashed and submerged up to 1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes ... He then gives a blanket statement of water resistance is not waterproof, which I argued again that it can get wet... He then tells me that Apple will not cover water damage, and it will be a $600 fee to replace it. He then tells me that the user is too hard on their phones, and it's their fault. After trying to talk to him more, he basically just stood up and walked away, not wanting to talk any further... I left without repairing either phone.

​

This phone had NO damage to it, no cosmetic wear, no broken screens, broken charger ports, broken speaker/mic ports, etc... It was less than 90 days old when it got wet. I am FULLY AWARE of Apple's policy of water damage not being covered under their warranty, but manufacturing defects are... If a phone has a rating that states that is protected against X, and then X happens and the phone breaks.. It should not matter what the warranty states... The certification states that it will be protected, and anything short of that should be considered a manufacturing defect/failure. The only thing that would have saved me was Apple care.. Another ~$200 for that, plus the ~$150 or so deductible... so half the cost of what they told me would be to replace it. It was truly despicable.

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I am no big fan of either company to be quite honest. I will say that I strongly prefer most products over anything Apple does, but I do see their value and understand why many people enjoy their products. However good or bad a product is, where companies really earn my business is support and customer service. I was actually ready to completely write off Microsoft as a hardware provider entirely due to saltiness from my expired warranty, but they completely turned me around with a simple act of good customer service.... They earned at least one return customer for sure... And, they didn't even pretend to try and sell me extra stuff, and I probably would have been convinced to buy something simply to thank them for not trying to fleece me.

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Apple is no stranger to bad customer service. Their genius bar that day was full of salespeople pretending to be service techs.. Basically every other person with a problem at that store was being told they needed to purchase new things instead of trying to fix anything... Apple care was pushed hard on everyone, and I just felt my skin crawling the entire time I was there. We are a company with a large iPhone user-base. We provide every employee with a phone, and I have been pushing people away from iPhones and iDevices as much as I can... I used to try and provide an unbiased opinion of what device they use, since supporting one device over another is not that much different.. We have a few Apple Zealots in our company, so we get a good amount of their products... With the money we shell out monthly/yearly for Apple products, though, I would expect a bit more confidence in the products I support, and I have little to no confidence left in them, especially after reading so many other "right to repair" and other scammy stories about Apple service all over Reddit lately.

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Call me a hater, a shill, a whatever-the-opposite-of-an-Apple-fanboy-is, etc... But I have a responsibility to the people I work for to make sure they get the best bang for their buck, and Apple is not on that list in any capacity for me, especially not after this.

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I really just wanted to share that not all companies are like this. Microsoft could have very easily just said "sorry, your battery is not covered, and also you are past your warranty date... the new laptops are over here, let's go pick one out".... The same is true for Apple... they could have said "hmm, well these are not waterproof, but since it's only 3-4 months old, it should not have had water damage from a simple spill/splash/whatever... let's get you a replacement."

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Thanks for reading (if you made it this far).

I would be interested in your good/bad stories from these or other similar companies!

Submitted October 17, 2018 at 04:10AM by kr1mson https://ift.tt/2yL2lWO

Stanford study says almost every unique FCC comment was pro-net neutrality

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 01:14AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2yE8zrE

DHS finds increasing attempts to hack U.S. election systems ahead of midterms

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 10:39PM by pfaccioxx https://ift.tt/2PAkfms

Comcast complains it will make less money under Calif. net neutrality law

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 11:31PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2yHvfqR

Most Americans aren't aware that Facebook owns WhatsApp

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Submitted October 17, 2018 at 12:06AM by TheDoctorWumbology https://ift.tt/2Er9e5O

Google Will Charge Phone Makers to Pre-Install Apps in Europe

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 10:10PM by 7aC97biN https://ift.tt/2yHeFaG

Crowdfunded solar panels aim to supercharge business in Africa

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 06:59PM by pnewell https://ift.tt/2CNH4Ae

China begins constructing offshore wind farm with biggest installed capacity. The project, with a planned installed capacity of 400,000 kilowatts, is expected to generate about 1.46 billion kwh of electricity annually when it goes on stream in 2020

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 08:13PM by V2O5 https://ift.tt/2IZ88Nm

99.7% Of Original Comments Opposed FCC Repeal Of Net Neutrality

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 07:11PM by False1512 https://ift.tt/2CMt6ia

Qualcomm launches new Wi-Fi chips with speeds up to 10 gigabits per second

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 03:33PM by Portis403 https://ift.tt/2OYPSt4

Bill Gates leads global call to accept realities of a warming planet

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 04:35PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2pUdnoP

Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' - Epson is just the latest company to wage covert war on consumer choice.

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 03:39PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Pyj4UF

Major browsers simultaneously drop support for old security standards | TLS 1.0 & 1.1 connections to no longer be allowed

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 10:38AM by Wikkitikki https://ift.tt/2AcyHff

25% of Brits would ditch ISP if porn is blocked

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 04:06AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2PAcD3z

Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates'

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 02:20AM by jiaco https://ift.tt/2RSfGFS

Study: Nearly all unique comments to FCC opposed net neutrality repeal

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 03:21AM by evanFFTF https://ift.tt/2CKfjc7

Donald Daters, a dating app for Trump supporters, leaked its users’ data

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 03:56AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2yFIdFM

99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - A new report from Stanford University shows that most commenters were knowledgeable about the issue and very much in favor of keeping the protections.

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 01:29AM by speckz https://ift.tt/2PvMv9Q

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer at age 65

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 03:31AM by Yellowdandies https://ift.tt/2CMGVgz

Ed Sheeran paid more in tax last year than both Starbucks and Amazon

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Submitted October 16, 2018 at 01:24AM by Doener23 https://ift.tt/2PvwYGV

'Do Not Track,' the privacy tool used by millions of people, doesn't do anything.

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 09:01PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2OrDQsr

Uniqlo replaced 90% of staff at its Tokyo warehouse with robots

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 05:13PM by behindthedash https://ift.tt/2OsF6vu

Google AI can spot advanced breast cancer more effectively than humans - It's up to 99 percent accurate in the right conditions.

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 03:18PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OoMp7E

Great Britain hits record-low share of fossil fuel generation

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 03:41PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2IYIdWf

Nobody trusts Facebook anymore. Here’s one way it could change that -AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky says Facebook and other tech companies should make it easy for users to temporarily opt out of data collection.

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 04:32PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2CfpCns

The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world - We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behaviour is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the pause button

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 03:46PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2IY8IuK

Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head - Mitchell Baker says firms should hire philosophy and psychology graduates to tackle misinformation

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 03:47PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OmISGG

The 2020s could be one of humanity's last chances to avert devastating impacts. Averting a climate crisis requires a wholesale reinvention of the global economy. By 2040, there could be global food shortages, the inundation of coastal cities and a refugee crisis unlike the world has ever seen

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 02:16PM by xXx__PaulDirac__xXx https://ift.tt/2AaQMu9

Elon Musk likes anime and says it's time to build a giant robot

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 08:19AM by Musichead2468 https://ift.tt/2AbA6Tl

7 clever ways hackers are stealing keyless cars

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 05:21AM by zmaile https://ift.tt/2NHjbvn

These Deaf Gamers Are Working To Make Gaming More Accessible

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 01:33AM by dapperlemon https://ift.tt/2IVFk8o

It looks like China just laid out how it wants Google to help it persecute its Muslim minority

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 03:39AM by absentmindedjwc https://ift.tt/2OWU5Nz

Essays reveal Stephen Hawking predicted race of 'superhumans' - Physicist said genetic editing may create species that could destroy rest of humanity

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 01:47AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2ROZfdi

Microsoft Open Sources 60,000 Patents to End Linux Patent Wars

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Submitted October 15, 2018 at 12:20AM by Pikamander2 https://ift.tt/2CI7p2H

Police Told to Avoid Looking at iPhone Screens Locked With Face ID

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 09:42PM by dapperlemon https://ift.tt/2yhnQPT

Pentagon reveals cyber breach of travel records

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 09:54PM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2yyPmaE

SpaceX’s next step towards airplane-like Falcon 9 reusability expected in 2018

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 03:46PM by shehzad https://ift.tt/2ROnSXm

In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 07:34PM by asteriskspace https://ift.tt/2OnozJf

When big companies are hacked, should they have to disclose it immediately?

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 03:35PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2El7IlT

Around 62% of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks.

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 02:18PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2Ehgfq0

Internet Relay Chat turns 30—and we remember how it changed our lives

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 11:21AM by B0etius02 https://ift.tt/2QP1I63

Malware called VPNFilter affecting 500k users

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 07:31AM by PizzaHands https://ift.tt/2P1xyzc

FCC resorts to the usual malarkey defending itself against Mozilla lawsuit

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 06:50AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2PySyL0

Inequality in Silicon Valley is getting worse: Wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent - In America’s tech capital, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 06:52AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OUW7xN

U.S. defends FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 06:55AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OZB7WA

New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers

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Submitted October 14, 2018 at 02:47AM by 36CC0D7B1F48E3FF https://ift.tt/2yg9KhJ

Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest To Hand Over Data 300 Times

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 10:59PM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2OQFZ0v

So many people have had their DNA sequenced that they've put other people's privacy in jeopardy

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 09:53PM by wondermonkeys09 https://ift.tt/2QIwiy8

No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This - The company knew about a privacy glitch and kept quiet. That has to stop.

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 11:49PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2QQrLdo

MIT engineers develop new material that pulls carbon from air to self-repair

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 09:52PM by Portis403 https://ift.tt/2QQdflU

Facebook keeps asking for our trust even as it loses control of our data

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 06:29PM by iwannaknowwhoami https://ift.tt/2EkIVhI

Facebook keeps asking for our trust even as it loses control of our data.

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 05:05PM by MomanTy https://ift.tt/2CdiB6u

More than 60% of Donald Trump’s Twitter followers look suspiciously fake

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 03:40PM by urgukvn https://ift.tt/2P0joOQ

The Only Secure Facebook Account Is The One You Delete

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 04:58PM by fugqiz https://ift.tt/2CHg0mu

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 05:35AM by AutoModerator https://ift.tt/2CfXKzE

FCC tells court it has no “legal authority” to impose net neutrality rules - FCC defends repeal in court, claims broadband isn't "telecommunications."

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 09:06AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2CFJb9h

Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 06:54AM by RandomCollection https://ift.tt/2IRSvY5

Google CEO Tells Senators That Censored Chinese Search Engine Could Provide “Broad Benefits”

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 05:11AM by skiptomafackindoo https://ift.tt/2pXXv4V

A military expert explains why social media is the new battlefield: ‘Social media rewards not morality or veracity, but virality’

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 03:37AM by cryptoz https://ift.tt/2ywbjau

Oh Look, The FCC Is Lying Again In Its Latest Court Filings On Net Neutrality

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Submitted October 13, 2018 at 01:02AM by speckz https://ift.tt/2yCGuAO

Cops told ‘Don’t look’ at new iPhones to avoid Face ID lock-out.

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 08:48PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2A8CzOt

This mysterious website charges you 99 cents to see who else has paid 99 cents

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 11:30PM by itsmyusersname https://ift.tt/2NBM2kF

A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers: Internet vigilante claims he patched over 100,000 MikroTik routers already

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 08:15PM by cryptoz https://ift.tt/2IShgDl

Facebook hack update: 30 million accounts affected by security breach.

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 10:16PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2OpRzQz

As U.S. rolls out ultrafast Internet, tensions rise over public right of way

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 06:37PM by gone_his_own_way https://ift.tt/2OSVcxX

Facebook shuts down 'spammy' politics pages. Political sites with millions of followers have been purged in a Facebook crackdown on spam.

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 05:33PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2A6ipEz

Hackers hide cryptocurrency mining malware in Adobe Flash updates

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 04:29PM by grayscalecrash https://ift.tt/2yI9SWL

Google Maps: Man divorces wife after he sees her with someone else on street view

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 05:00PM by FaydingAway https://ift.tt/2yeg756

Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 05:27PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2QKslsK

New Bill Tries To Ban Obnoxious Hidden Fees On Broadband, TV

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 06:53AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2ErhGCn

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Submitted December 15, 2017 at 03:56AM by zathegfx https://ift.tt/2kvcL62

In EPIC Suit, National Archives Identifies Thousands of Kavanaugh E-mails on Surveillance Programs

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 04:35AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2EgaXuR

45 Out of 50 Electronics Companies Illegally Void Warranties After Independent Repair, Sting Operation Finds - New research showed that 90 percent of contacted companies told customers that repairing their own device would void the warranty; that's illegal under federal law.

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 03:29AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Caqxp0

NY to invest $40M in solar energy storage technology

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 11:58PM by DRay82 https://ift.tt/2CbjHzt

Amazon Owes Wikipedia Big-Time, Smart speakers are taking advantage of the free labor of Wikipedia volunteers.

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 02:10AM by anoelr1963 https://ift.tt/2NBGsP7

Amazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you meds

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 10:56PM by jiaco https://ift.tt/2OmcRP2

Facebook is removing hundreds of American accounts spamming political misinformation

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Submitted October 12, 2018 at 01:16AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2Cb1H8H

The Google+ Bug Is More About The Cover-Up Than The Crime

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 10:30PM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2OmcSCA

Former Reddit product head Dan McComas: 'I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place'

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 11:34PM by asteriskspace https://ift.tt/2NAGnLJ

Florida man rebuilds Chuck E. Cheese robots in his bedroom, refurbishes them work with modern computers

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 09:25PM by kotobukisushiocala https://ift.tt/2OioGWt

Material designed by MIT engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer continuously converts the greenhouse gas into a carbon-based material that reinforces itself.

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 08:45PM by V2O5 https://ift.tt/2pM3vgO

The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 07:13PM by cryptoz https://ift.tt/2C9wfrf

Microsoft open-sources 60,000 patents to help Linux avoid lawsuits

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 10:49AM by temporarycreature https://ift.tt/2PqlNPR

The Pentagon's Weapons Are 'Easily Hacked' With 'Basic Tools' - A new government report reveals that it took hackers just one hour to gain access to a weapon system, and the Pentagon didn't change the default password on "multiple" systems.

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 09:10AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2pMiHuv

New Verizon Ad Hopes To Make You Forget It Throttled Firefighters For No Reason

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 09:43AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Cb6BTc

80% of technology stocks are already in a correction, down 10% from their highs

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 05:37AM by HESNTech https://ift.tt/2NxvdaJ

Punishing solar customers for disrupting outdated electric model is wrong

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Submitted October 11, 2018 at 02:51AM by Bogartsboss https://ift.tt/2OMRxln

Ajit Pai’s 5G plans make it harder for small ISPs to deploy broadband.

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 09:22PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2OL48Wb

​Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio and join Open Invention Network

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 08:06PM by arostrat https://ift.tt/2A2rgXY

Facebook Isn’t Sorry — It Just Wants Your Data - Facebook knows us well enough to know the truth: We don’t care enough about our privacy to stop using it.

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 08:12PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2OPfvfE

Google's new phone software aims to end telemarketer calls for good

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 06:56PM by DashaDD https://ift.tt/2QLSzvl

An internal company briefing produced by Google argues that the “American tradition” of free speech on the internet is no longer viable.

​

Despite leaked video footage showing top executives declaring their intention to ensure that the rise of Trump and the populist movement is just a “blip” in history, Google has repeatedly denied that the political bias of its employees filter into its products.

But the 85-page briefing, titled “The Good Censor,” admits that Google and other tech platforms now “control the majority of online conversations” and have undertaken a “shift towards censorship” in response to unwelcome political events around the world.

Responding to the leak, an official Google source said the document should be considered internal research, and not an official company position.

The briefing labels the ideal of unfettered free speech on the internet a “utopian narrative” that has been “undermined” by recent global events as well as “bad behavior” on the part of users.

It acknowledges that major tech platforms, including Google, Facebook and Twitter initially promised free speech to consumers. “This free speech ideal was instilled in the DNA of the Silicon Valley startups that now control the majority of our online conversations,” says the document.

The briefing argues that Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are caught between two incompatible positions, the “unmediated marketplace of ideas” vs. “well-ordered spaces for safety and civility.”

The first approach is described as a product of the “American tradition” which “prioritizes free speech for democracy, not civility.” The second is described as a product of the “European tradition,” which “favors dignity over liberty and civility over freedom.” The briefing claims that all tech platforms are now moving toward the European tradition.

The briefing associates Google’s new role as the guarantor of “civility” with the categories of “editor” and “publisher.” This is significant, given that Google, YouTube, and other tech giants publicly claim they are not publishers but rather neutral platforms — a categorization that grants them special legal immunities under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Elsewhere in the document, Google admits that Section 230 was designed to ensure they can remain neutral platforms for free expression.

What is also clear is that many of the briefing’s recommendations are now reflected in the policy of Google and its sibling companies.

The document also bemoans that the internet allows “have a go commenters” (in other words, ordinary people) to compete on a level playing field with “authoritative sources” like the New York Times. Google-owned YouTube now promotes so-called “authoritative sources” in its algorithm. The company did not specifically name which sources it would promote.

Key points in the briefing can be found at the following page numbers:

(The whole leaked document --- https://www.scribd.com/document/390521673/The-Good-Censor-GOOGLE-LEAK#from_embed)

• P2 – The briefing states that “users are asking if the openness of the internet should be celebrated after all” and that “free speech has become a social, economic, and political weapon.”
• P11 – The briefing identifies Breitbart News as the media publication most interested in the topic of free speech.
• P12 – The briefing says the early free-speech ideals of the internet were “utopian.”
• P14 – The briefing admits that Google, along with Twitter and Facebook, now “control the majority of online conversations.”
• P15 – Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is linked to Google’s position as a platform for free expression. Elsewhere in the document (p68), Google and other platforms’ move towards moderation and censorship is associated with the role of “publisher” – which would not be subject to Section 230’s legal protections.
• PP19-21 – The briefing identifies several factors that allegedly eroded faith in free speech. The election of Donald Trump and alleged Russian involvement is identified as one such factor. The rise of the populist Alternative fur Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party in Germany – which the briefing falsely smears as “alt-right” – is another.
• PP26-34 – The briefing explains how “users behaving badly” undermines free speech on the internet and allows “crummy politicians to expand their influence.” The briefing bemoans that “racists, misogynists, and oppressors” are allowed a voice alongside “revolutionaries, whistleblowers, and campaigners.” It warns that users are “keener to transgress moral norms” behind the protection of anonymity.
• P37 – The briefing acknowledges that China – for which Google has developed a censored search engine – has the worst track record on internet freedom.
• P45 – After warning about the rise of online hate speech, the briefing approvingly cites Sarah Jeong, infamous for her hate speech against white males (Google is currently facing a lawsuit alleging it discriminates against white males, among other categories).
• P45 – The briefing bemoans the fact that the internet has until recently been a level playing field, warning that “rational debate is damaged when authoritative voices and ‘have a go’ commentators receive equal weighting.”
• P49 – The document accuses President Trump of spreading the “conspiracy theory” that Google autocomplete suggestions unfairly favored Hillary Clinton in 2016. (Trump’s suspicions were actually correct – independent research has shown that Google did favor Clinton in 2016).
• P53 – Free speech platform Gab is identified as a major destination for users who are dissatisfied with censorship on other platforms.
• P54 – After warning about “harassment” earlier in the document, the briefing approvingly describes a 27,000-strong left-wing social media campaign as a “digital flash mob” engaged in “friendly counter-commenting.”
• P57 – The document juxtaposes a factoid about Russian election interference with a picture of Donald Trump.
• P63 – The briefing admits that when Google, GoDaddy and CloudFlare simultaneously withdrew service from website The Daily Stormer, they were “effectively booting it off the internet,” a point also made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the FCC in their subsequent warnings about online censorship.
• P66-68 – The briefing argues that Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are caught between two incompatible positions, the “unmediated marketplace of ideas” vs. “well-ordered spaces for safety and civility.” The first is described as a product of the “American tradition” which “prioritizes free speech for democracy, not civility.” The second is described as a product of the “European tradition,” which “favors dignity over liberty and civility over freedom.” The briefing claims that all tech platforms are now moving toward the European tradition.
• P70 – The briefing sums up the reasons for big tech’s “shift towards censorship,” including the need to respond to regulatory demands and “expand globally,” to “monetize content through its organization,” and to “protect advertisers from controversial content, [and] increase revenues.”
• P74-76 – The briefing warns that concerns about censorship from major tech platforms have spread beyond the right-wing media into the mainstream.

Submitted October 10, 2018 at 06:53PM by SuperCharged2000 https://ift.tt/2QHfJ5T

Age of envy – social media has created a world in which everyone else seems happy

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 05:22PM by ourari https://ift.tt/2OUrY1w

Walmart planning 'net-connected trolley'. Patent for a trolley that measures heart rate, walking speed, temperature and grip is lodged in US.

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 04:39PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2C6xlnE

Climate bill would move D.C. to 100% renewable energy by 2032

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 03:20PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2CyKbvT

How Reddit's r/funny mods weed out meme-slinging Russian trolls

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 04:23PM by smallbiz_girl https://ift.tt/2Cz0zMT

Google Ads Begins Recording Some Calls Initiated by Call Extensions

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 01:10PM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2CzEqOB

Uniqlo’s 1st automated warehouse cuts manpower by 90%

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 10:21AM by madazzahatter https://ift.tt/2RDCeKj

EU Internet Censorship Will Censor the Whole World's Internet

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 10:26AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2EcBNUy

The Internet Archive just got a working Commodore 64 Emulator

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 10:57PM by CaptainTomato21 https://ift.tt/2yqcBUy

Chicago Should Reject a Proposal for Private-Sector Face Surveillance

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 04:26AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2Nyed3Y

Report: Google to launch censored Search in China despite denials

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 06:30AM by mixplate https://ift.tt/2y9PjTh

The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks - Despite a pessimistic forecast, it’s possible to meet consumption-cut targets on the current path.

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 02:01AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Easnce

35 States Tell the FCC to Get Off Its Ass and Do Something About Spoofed Robocalls

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Submitted October 10, 2018 at 03:45AM by speckz https://ift.tt/2OIe8zx

New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 08:53PM by euoi https://ift.tt/2IJUSfi

Intel goes up to 8 cores for mainstream chips, with a 28 core overclockable Xeon

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 02:58PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2zZZwDk

Facebook will soon rely on Instagram for the majority of its ad revenue growth - As Instagram’s founders depart, execution can’t skip a beat.

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 06:40PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OMyjMy

Virgin Galactic to reach space 'in weeks'

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 05:32PM by NinjaDiscoJesus https://ift.tt/2C4Tp1X

The biggest clue that Google+ was long dead - Google's top executives stopped using it up to 3 years ago

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 06:46PM by iwannaknowwhoami https://ift.tt/2QBHDjs

Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem | Quanta Magazine

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 04:44PM by bonez656 https://ift.tt/2NwUt0z

Microsoft's Minecraft ends support on Apple TV. The game will no longer be updated and refunds are available, Microsoft says.

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 05:09PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2Poi31o

Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 06:48AM by TekOg https://ift.tt/2yoVRgj

These Magical Sunglasses Block All the Screens Around You

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 11:38AM by retsotrembla https://ift.tt/2yq0Nla

Hubble Space Telescope is in trouble after gyroscope failure

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 08:02AM by kyousuf758 https://ift.tt/2ymMnCn

Why is Xiaomi’s fitness tracker detecting a heartbeat from a roll of toilet paper?

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 07:50AM by notrealjudelaw https://ift.tt/2ynMoWw

Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 09:14AM by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1 https://ift.tt/2QHBt1F

Trump aide sought to hire Israeli troll farm to win primary, NYT reports.

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 05:14AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2ILX4TF

After throttling firefighters, Verizon praises itself for “sav[ing] lives”

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 10:36PM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2pI1WAp

Apple to Congress: Chinese spy-chip story is “simply wrong”

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 12:28AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2pEPoKi

Google+ shutting down after data leak affecting 500,000 users

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Submitted October 09, 2018 at 02:06AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2yoXAlS

Hubble Space Telescope in ‘Sleep Mode’ After Gyroscope Failure

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 10:53PM by IronGiantisreal https://ift.tt/2E8SbFt

Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 11:19PM by spsheridan https://ift.tt/2zYNpGv

Google+ to shut down after coverup of data breach.

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 10:51PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2NvYcvw

Google did not disclose a security breach to its Google+ social network because it feared regulation, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing documents and people briefed on the incident.

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 10:36PM by interestedin86 https://ift.tt/2ypeyAr

Chernobyl Goes Solar With New 1 Megawatt Installation At Reactor Site

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 04:25PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2RAVisp

London court blocks Google mass legal action over iPhone data collection.

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 03:27PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2zY8jpv

Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket lights up California sky. Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Falcon 9 rocket took an Argentine satellite into orbit.

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 02:29PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2EezZu2

Facebook's security is so bad it's surprising Zuckerberg hasn't deleted his account

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 05:48PM by CheetoMussolini https://ift.tt/2pGX6mY

SpaceX has landed on the West Coast for the first time - This was SpaceX's 17th launch this year.

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 03:57PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2PluLxU

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 04:23PM by an0nymster https://ift.tt/2RAVlV7

Silk Road Admin Pleads Guilty- Might Receive 20 Years Jail Time

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 10:23AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2IKevnN

Google may face £3.3bn bill for UK customers' data breach

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 09:38AM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2OaghEp

How Russian Spies Infiltrated Hotel Wi-Fi to Hack Victims Up Close

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 08:39AM by ourlifeintoronto https://ift.tt/2C1weFK

Sharing is caring, particularly with Netflix, Hulu and Uber accounts - Altogether, 74 percent of Americans are sharing streaming, shopping and mobile accounts such as Netflix, Hulu, Uber, Spotify and Amazon Prime with their family, friends and even exes.

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 08:12AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2zXH6Tv

Amazon is doubling down on its private label business, stoking 'huge fear' in some sellers

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 06:55AM by Abscess2 https://ift.tt/2E4EuY6

‘The Atlantic’: ‘America’s Grip On Children’s Entertainment Is Coming To An End’ Because Of Youtube

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 05:24AM by brb1006 https://ift.tt/2EgLQbp

Ultra-capacitor hybrid radically boosts power and efficiency of lithium batteries

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Submitted October 08, 2018 at 12:52AM by je-vv https://ift.tt/2IHTtWR

Tesla’s Powerpack battery farm starts killing fossil fuel backup plants in Australia

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 11:48AM by shehzad https://ift.tt/2OHwArX

Google’s Open Source AI Diagnoses Lung Cancer Types with Extreme Accuracy!

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 10:50PM by nikhilb_local https://ift.tt/2NsoXRp

U.S. government sides with Apple and Amazon, effectively denying Bloomberg ‘spy chip’ report

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 09:44PM by Content_Policy_New https://ift.tt/2QxV6ZK

The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists”: Wayback Machine director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 09:15PM by B0etius02 https://ift.tt/2OeYPP9

We gave Facebook our phone numbers for security. They used it for ads.

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 08:50PM by pixel1 https://ift.tt/2OFedUw

Elon Musk to pay for water stations, filtration at all Flint schools

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 01:21PM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2zWkX86

John C. Dvorak: “5G Got me Fired”

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 05:59AM by mgr86 https://ift.tt/2IGKncR

UK Police drone finds girl, 16, who called 999 to report rape - The force said the thermal drone was used to find the girl and guide officers to her within minutes.

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 06:34AM by ManiaforBeatles https://ift.tt/2CvwTAj

Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant an op-ed slamming SpaceX

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 02:04AM by wewewawa https://ift.tt/2y7QFho

French police officer caught selling confidential police location tracking software on the dark web

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Submitted October 07, 2018 at 01:35AM by Smith_421 https://ift.tt/2zVKazD

iFixit confirms you can still repair your own iMac Pro or MacBook Pro

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 08:51PM by yzfr1604 https://ift.tt/2NrZcka

More research suggests that Twitter’s fake news “strategy” is either ineffective or nonexistent - “The persistence of so many easily identified abusive accounts is difficult to square with any effective crackdown.”

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 07:37PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2Qwo3Fn

Critics fear Amazon's minimum wage hike will distract from its other issues - The world’s most powerful retailer will pay more, but its impact on the economy may mean more struggles for low-wage workers

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 05:35PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2IFsOcZ

A big tech company is working to free the internet from big tech companies - Cloudflare’s “gateway” system opens the door to the decentralized web

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 05:44PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2y2xyFK

Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update after reports of documents being deleted

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 04:57PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2O8Khki

24 Microsoft tech support scammers arrested from fake call centers in India

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 01:14PM by Qipeki https://ift.tt/2zV426d

Tim Berners-Lee Moves Forward With His Big Plan To Fix The Web By Bringing Back Its Original Decentralized Promise

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 09:34AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2O77W4u

Google CEO quietly met with military leaders at the Pentagon, seeking to smooth tensions over drone AI

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 10:15AM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2OJLJsA

Amazon Employee Shared Customer Email Addresses With Third-Party Seller

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 06:23AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Cu0Bps

California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 02:50AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OBwsu5

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 05:36AM by AutoModerator https://ift.tt/2OaaxdN

Murdered woman’s Fitbit data tracked her dramatic death—and maybe her killer

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 11:18PM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/2Pd7gXD

The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It

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Submitted October 06, 2018 at 03:09AM by PM_BITCOIN_AND_BOOBS https://ift.tt/2OHhHpt

US to Allow Cars Without Steering Wheels

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 11:30PM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2QBZszh

Ajit Pai faces rare criticism from GOP senator on rural broadband failures

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 11:27PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2zUECpi

Fake Comments Are Plaguing Government Agencies And Nobody Much Seems To Care

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 06:38PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2IHHBUs

Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook - Revealed just weeks after Instagram’s co-founders left the company

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 05:05PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OCLwHK

US plan to genetically alter crops via insects feared to be biological war plan - Program says it will use virus-carrying insects to engineer crops, but some worry it’s a way to develop biological agents

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 05:40PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2zUjAqO

Bug in Windows 10’s Latest Update Is Deleting Files, Back Up Your Data Now

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 02:38PM by thijser2 https://ift.tt/2NoVDeL

Verizon Lays Off 44,000, Transfers 2,500 More IT Jobs To Indian Outsourcer Infosys

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 05:13PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Nm7LwY

Rep. Khanna Releases Internet Bill of Rights - Would restore net neutrality rules, require opt in for personal info use

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 05:10PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2OBPtfQ

White House calls on Google to abandon controversial Chinese search engine project

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 09:54AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2DYtvQb

Can We Make Congress Less Dumb About Technology?

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 04:22AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Crgywp

Congress needs to make net neutrality permanent

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 06:01AM by Avenatti4President https://ift.tt/2yeJ4wR

Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros - Failure to run Apple's proprietary diagnostic software after a repair "will result in an inoperative system and an incomplete repair."

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 04:23AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2CryQO6

Elon Musk mocks SEC as 'Shortseller Enrichment Commission' days after settlement

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Submitted October 05, 2018 at 01:50AM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/2pClhTK

U.S. indicts seven Russians for hacking nuclear company Westinghouse

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 10:19PM by jaykirsch https://ift.tt/2NjYF3O

Boeing appears to be running a shadowy smear campaign on SpaceX.

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 07:00PM by Beer_in_an_esky https://ift.tt/2zSA2I5

AT&T Claims It Wants Meaningful Privacy Rules...After Just Lobbying To Kill Meaningful Privacy Rules

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 07:19PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2Qur6hn

Tiny motherboard chip smaller than a grain of rice discovered that gives China back door access to US enterprise and military computer systems

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 07:54PM by chakalakasp https://ift.tt/2DULAOZ

Despite minimum wage increase, some Amazon workers say losing stock options and bonuses means they will make less

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 04:27PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2O1GjtD

Chinese spy chips are found in hardware used by Apple, Amazon, Bloomberg says; Apple, AWS say no way

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 05:17PM by AkitaBijin https://ift.tt/2Qsmw3a

Thousands of Twitter accounts that spread fake news during the 2016 election are still active today, say researchers.

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 02:47PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2QtwfWX

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 03:00PM by LukasGwO https://ift.tt/2xXlZzh

Showing They Will 'Stop at Nothing to Destroy' Open Internet, Telecom Giants Sue to Block California's New Net Neutrality Law

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 06:15AM by maxwellhill https://ift.tt/2ybJdBk

Verizon is Offering Buyout Packages To as Many as 44,000 Management Employees; Additionally, Some IT Employees Will Be Transferred To Indian Outsourcing Firm Infosys as Part of a Partnership

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 04:24AM by asteriskspace https://ift.tt/2IBFkdx

'Siri, I'm getting pulled over': a new shortcut for iPhones can automatically record the police

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 07:13AM by tachyonburst https://ift.tt/2zQJxay

Facebook forces users to wait 30 days to delete their accounts

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 04:51AM by SuccessfulOperation https://ift.tt/2QqF184

Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 12:34AM by IronGiantisreal https://ift.tt/2OB64R0

Amazon eliminates monthly bonuses and stock grants after minimum wage increase

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Submitted October 04, 2018 at 04:16AM by ledgendary https://ift.tt/2Rlcn9X

Entire broadband industry sues California to stop net neutrality law

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 10:17PM by asteriskspace https://ift.tt/2P8YcTA

Wi-Fi Alliance rebrands 802.11n as Wi-Fi 4, 802.11ac as Wi-Fi 5, and the upcoming 802.11ax as Wi-Fi 6

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 07:31PM by DanielAttia https://ift.tt/2IArAQ9

Wikipedia Bans Right Wing Site Breitbart as a Source for Facts

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 10:33PM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/2IBY906

Utilities have a problem: the public wants 100% renewable energy, and quick - The industry is groping for ways to talk the public down.

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 07:39PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2ycqtl1

Cities will sue FCC to stop $2 billion giveaway to wireless carriers - After FCC vote, cities try to restore local control over 5G fees and equipment

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 09:36PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2xWWz58

Berners-Lee: You Should Control Your Data, Not Internet Giants: 'Tim Berners-Lee's new project, called Solid, wants to wrest control of the web away from the big internet giants and give 'every one of us complete control over data.'

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 07:50PM by maxwellhill https://ift.tt/2Ri2B8i

Apple’s Tim Cook: ‘Don’t believe’ tech companies that say they need your data

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 07:30PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2IysvAM

Report Finds U.S. Wireless Video Streaming Utterly Mediocre Thanks To Arbitrary Carrier Throttling

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 06:44PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2RoYF5A

Hidden fees that raise price of broadband would be banned by proposed law - Advertised telco prices would have to include all fees if Democrat's bill passes.

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 05:29PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2O54ffP

Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla: Fight the S.E.C., or I Quit

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 11:59AM by doug3465 https://ift.tt/2DRbpj1

All Instagram services are down. Thousands of users from all over the world are complaining as a "5xx error" is displayed on the website. The mobile app has also been affected.

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 01:00PM by DoreM_ https://ift.tt/2OvUKp8

California Law Bans Bots From Pretending to Be Human - Effective July 1, it will be illegal for bots interacting with California consumers to pretend they're human if they're trying to sell goods, services, or to 'influence a vote in an election.'

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 02:44PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2IyRGTP

Apple's Tim Cook: 'Don't believe' tech companies that say they need your data

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 12:03PM by mynameisalex1 https://ift.tt/2DS4UMQ

Tim Cook says Apple didn’t coordinate Alex Jones ban with other tech companies - Shutting down suggestions that Silicon Valley wants to censor conservatives

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 09:31AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2xW3jjB

Why You Shouldn’t Use Facebook to Log In to Other Sites

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 04:50AM by khayrirrw https://ift.tt/2DTmLmu

California Bans Anonymous Bots

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 04:11AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2Nkirw2

A $15 Minimum Wage Is Good, But Amazon Workers Still Need a Union - Amazon workers need a way to fight for themselves, not conveniently-timed concessions.

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 02:48AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2P6Mysm

Wikipedia Editors: Breitbart 'Should Not Be Used, Ever' as a Reference for Facts - Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart can’t be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, “due to its unreliability.”

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 02:44AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2xWSWMn

Half of U.S. Uber drivers make less than $10 an hour after vehicle expenses, according to a new study - They would make more at an Amazon warehouse.

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Submitted October 03, 2018 at 02:49AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2xWSWvR

More than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 05:35PM by ga-vu https://ift.tt/2xUt0RE

Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide (Study)

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 09:25PM by BrainInYourButt https://ift.tt/2OZM4El

The rise of Netflix competitors has pushed consumers back toward piracy - BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 11:58PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2xSIFAZ

California bans 'secret' election bots. California has signed legislation which bans the use of undeclared bots during elections.

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 08:05PM by ConsciousDepth https://ift.tt/2zMRNbA

The Internet Archive Fixes 9 Million Broken Links on Wikipedia - A heroic, knowledge-saving task involving two of the most important organizations on the internet.

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 07:56PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2y2WnAg

First UEFI malware has been discovered, based on a Russian modification to LoJax.

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 06:14PM by Dav2481 https://ift.tt/2DR7bI2

We need a cyber arms control treaty to keep hospitals and power grids safe from hackers - A fresh diplomatic push could help put vital public services off limits to nation-state cyberattacks.

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 05:38PM by mvea https://ift.tt/2P4vCD4

Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 04:28PM by geoxol https://ift.tt/2OvDNv8

1,100 Classic Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade: Play Them Free Online

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 12:48PM by lnhvtepn https://ift.tt/2NUsjBM

Credit reporting agency Equifax fined $3.5m for deceiving consumers.

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 10:25AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2RgUp8k

How Companies Use Fake Websites and Backdated Articles to Censor Google’s Search Results

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 08:53AM by SuperCharged2000 https://ift.tt/2OpNiMk

Trump admin claims Calif. net neutrality law causes “irreparable harm” to US

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 02:47AM by mvea https://ift.tt/2Iw8BGE

Victory! New California Law Requires Police Policy Transparency

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 02:07AM by GriffonsChainsaw https://ift.tt/2zJPh5W

Travellers refusing digital search now face $5000 Customs fine

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Submitted October 01, 2018 at 08:04PM by thijser2 https://ift.tt/2xT7mwW

Analyst Who Accidentally Leaked NSA Software Given Five More Years In Prison Than General Who Handed Classified Info To His Mistress

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Submitted October 02, 2018 at 12:49AM by q5WwLCdo https://ift.tt/2xQmrj5

The DOJ's New Net Neutrality Lawsuit Is A Giant Middle Finger To State Rights, Consumers, Competition & The Democratic Process

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Submitted October 01, 2018 at 11:16PM by False1512 https://ift.tt/2y86nZo

Hackers selling Facebook logins on the dark web for $2

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Submitted October 01, 2018 at 09:07PM by PLKU https://ift.tt/2NV2H81

Facebook sued hours after announcing security breach.

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Submitted October 01, 2018 at 08:59PM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/2NRVHsq

MoviePass is now re-enrolling former customers in an “unlimited” plan unless they ‘opt out’

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Submitted October 01, 2018 at 06:34PM by HookItToMyVeins https://ift.tt/2NWIM8E

The huge Facebook hack is even worse than initially thought

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Submitted October 01, 2018 at 07:05PM by TanmayShete https://ift.tt/2Onm496

U.S. Sues California After It Restored Net Neutrality

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Submitted October 01, 2018 at 06:14PM by charles12309 https://ift.tt/2xP5x4k

The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law

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Submitted October 01, 2018 at 05:53PM by idarknight https://ift.tt/2QlsUsS