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Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers

Basic Income AMA Series: I am Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks, author of Manna and Robotic Freedom, and a big advocate of the Basic Income concept. I have published an article on BI today to go with this AMA. Ask me anything on Basic Income!

How a hacker’s mom broke into prison—and the warden’s computer

Michigan Healthcare Group Hack Went Undetected for Six Months

Let's Encrypt Issued A Billion Free SSL Certificates in the Last 4 Years

LG Display suspends work at South Korea factory over virus infection

Elliott targets Twitter, seeking CEO Dorsey's removal: sources

Google’s new treatment of nofollow links has arrived

Singer’s Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey

Hostile takeover attempt mounted as Paul Singer of Trump-supporters Elliott Management Corp. nominates four to Twitter's board, intending to replace Jack Dorsey

Elon Musk tells a room full of Air Force pilots: 'The fighter jet era has passed'

Activist investor seeks to replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO, report says

Cellphone Carriers Face $200 Million Fine for Not Protecting Location Data

China's spray trucks and tunnels may not prevent coronavirus

Elliot Management's Paul Singer seeks to replace Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, source says

What happens when coronavirus cancels all the tech conferences?

FCC issues wrist-slap fines to carriers that sold your phone-location data | Pai's FCC fines carriers "less than one one-thousandth" of annual revenue.

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Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread

Game Developers Conference has been cancelled due to coronavirus and other companies not attending.

8K vs 4K TVs: Double-blind study by Warner Bros. et al reveals most consumers can’t tell the difference

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

According to new report, 56.2% of Americans are worried about package theft

Civil FOSTA Suits Start Showing Up In Court; Prove That FOSTA Supporters Were 100% Wrong About Who Would Be Targeted

5G expands to 378 cities across 34 countries

Senate unanimously approves bill to ban purchase of Huawei equipment with federal funds

The Future of Technology - Podcast Episode

Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One.

MSI develops a numatic cooling fan, that uses the CPUs own heat radiation to power it.

Kr00k: How KRACKing Amazon Echo Exposed a Billion+ Vulnerable WiFi Devices

UK to launch specialist cyber force able to target terror groups

Silicon Valley Ageism Prompting Increase In Men Seeking Cosmetic Procedures

New Commercial Robot Copies Geckos’ Toes

Pope to endorse principles on AI ethics with Microsoft, IBM

Big Tech's honeymoon with the world's second-largest internet market is ending

Facebook, Google and Twitter Rebel Against Pakistan’s Censorship Rules

Electronics giant Foxconn, maker of the Apple iPhone, is taking the unusual step of switching part of its production to making surgical masks.

Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA

Facebook canceled a major annual tech conference because of coronavirus. It’s not alone.

Microsoft Warning Is A Harbinger Of Coronavirus Impact On Business And The Economy

Cellphone Carriers May Face $200 Million in Fines for Selling Location Data

Timex is releasing a GPS smartwatch with 25 days of battery life

Let's Encrypt issues one-billionth web security certificate

Walmart is quietly working on an Amazon Prime competitor called Walmart+

Schools Are Pushing the Boundaries of Surveillance Technologies

Reddit Declares to World its Position as a PUBLISHER Instead of a PLATFORM

Google's Invite Media Acquisition Is Just the Type of Deal Regulators Are Looking At

Robots aren’t taking our jobs — they’re becoming our bosses

Ars Technicast special edition, part 3: Putting AI to work defending your stuff

Reddit CEO: TikTok is ‘fundamentally parasitic’

Plague Inc. being removed from Chinese app stores amid outbreak

Eric Schmidt: Silicon Valley Needs the Federal Government

Extreme Weather-Tracking Satellites Prepare for Launch

Would-be .org gobbler Ethos Capital promises to keep prices down in last-ditch effort to keep $1.1bn deal alive - Private equity outfit makes concessions, key questions still remain

Apple won’t allow villains to use its products on screen, says Rian Johnson - “Apple... they let you use iPhones in movies but — and this is very pivotal if you’re ever watching a mystery movie — bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera.”

Founder of 8chan Faces Arrest on ‘Cyberlibel’ Charge

Huawei’s Human Rights Record Has Been Shamefully Ignored

The Rise and Fall of a Bitcoin Mining Scheme That Was "Too Big to Fail"

Inside Amazon’s First Full-Blown Cashierless Supermarket

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How many times do we have to tell you? A Tesla isn't a self-driving car, say investigators after Apple man's fatal crash

Reform or Expire

DOJ Plans to Strike Against Encryption While the Techlash Iron Is Hot

Clearview AI has billions of our photos. Its entire client list was just stolen

No Email. No WhatsApp. No Internet. This Is Now Normal Life In Kashmir. Normal life has ground to a halt in the region as businesses lay off workers, hospitals struggle to care for patients, and ordinary people despair.

Facebook bans ads with false claims about new virus

First Amendment doesn’t apply on YouTube; judges reject PragerU lawsuit | YouTube can restrict PragerU videos because it is a private forum, court rules.

Microsoft Issues Financial Warning Because of Coronavirus

Firefox rolls out encrypted DNS over HTTPS by default

Clarence Thomas regrets ruling used by Ajit Pai to kill net neutrality | Thomas says he was wrong in Brand X case that helped FCC deregulate broadband.

The FCC To Field More Comments On Net Neutrality. Maybe They'll Stop Identity Theft And Fraud This Time?

A False Economy Powered by Ads and Lies

Smithsonian Open Access - Download, Share, and Reuse Millions of the Smithsonian’s Images

Google is moving some EU citizens data to US

Walmart Takes on CVS, Amazon With Low-Price

Unhackable Internet

Apple faces shareholder vote over Chinese app removal policies

Amazon made a bigger camera-spying store—so we tried to steal its fruit

Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race

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Morale among Microsoft's Mixer team is at an all-time low

Apple-made Mac chips won't be ready until 2021, report says

DoD warns vendors about fake third-party CMMC certifiers

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Apple appeal in patent fight with VirnetX

Guy Adami says a day of reckoning for markets is coming

Billionaire Apple investor Warren Buffett finally upgrades his $20 flip phone to an iPhone

The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all

Activists launch “Democrats For A Fascist Dystopia” page to call out the hypocrisy of Democrats who are helping reauthorize the Patriot Act under Trump

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Audit reveals significant IT security problems across Kansas agencies

EFF Files Comments Criticizing Proposed CCPA Regulations

‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines

North Korea Is Recycling Mac Malware. That's Not the Worst Part

Suckers List: How Allstate’s Secret Auto Insurance Algorithm Squeezes Big Spenders – The Markup

Cloudflare’s Gen X: Servers for an Accelerated Future

Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI

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Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs

Firefox continues push to bring DNS over HTTPS by default for US users

Firefox turns controversial new encryption on by default in the US

Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X will have a 12 teraflop GPU

Samsung confirms coronavirus case at South Korean factory

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Seattle Tech Employees Earn 56% More Than NYC Finance Workers

U.S. safety board to issue new recommendations in probe of fatal Tesla Autopilot crash

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TurboTax maker Intuit buys Credit Karma to corner personal financial data

Firefox's New Voice Controls Make It As Good As a Smart Speaker

Removing a GPS tracking device from your car isn’t theft, court rules.

Vehicle tracking data and Amazon order history led police to crossbow killer

PayPal accounts are getting abused en-masse for unauthorized payments

Microchipped employee's: Wisconsin company Three Square Markt

Apple, Tell Us More About Your App Store Takedowns

Tech Was Supposed To Improve Caucuses. Instead, It May Have Doomed Them.

Should an AI Self-Driving Automobile Kill the Baby or the Grandma? Depends on Where You Are From

Tech reaction to UK’s upcoming immigration rules

Mobile Technology and its role in Member Acquisition

Hacking Growth with Open Data

Hi r/technology, I work for TNW, and today we're hosting an AMA on our site with Melanie Mitchell, complexity researcher and the author of "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans." Come ask a question if you like :)

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As the Start-Up Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled

Attempt To Put Every Musical Melody Into The Public Domain Demonstrates Craziness Of Modern Copyright

Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace With AI

TikTok influencers are telling people to stop using the app

Better Help Shares Online Therapy Data With Facebook

Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Hard Disk Drives

Making History at Amazon | Dissent Magazine

Laptop Suggestions

AI Algorithm Discovers New Antibiotics

Genius device that can generate electricity ‘out of thin air’

Google secretly monitors millions of schoolkids, lawsuit alleges

Foxconn gets back to work

Wearing a mask won’t stop facial recognition anymore: The coronavirus is prompting facial recognition companies to develop solutions for those with partially covered faces

Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicle to Shoot for Land Speed Record. "The idea of Bloodhound LSR even attempting to break the land speed record with a zero-emissions vehicle speaks volumes about how far the technology has evolved."

Apple Just Demanded Santander And A $50 Billion US Intelligence Contractor Reveal How They Use iPhone Hacking Tech

Airbnb Just Launched New Surveillance Bugs To Make Sure Guests Behave

iGenomics: Comprehensive DNA Sequence Analysis on your Smartphone

Trump Administration Targets Your 'Warrant-Proof' Encrypted Messages

Revolutionary cryo-EM is taking over structural biology

i-Sanj: Kazakh TV channel introduces its first virtual news anchor — The Calvert Journal

Don't worry, Alexa and friends only record you up to 19 times a day - Have you ever wondered how often your smart speaker accidentally activates itself? A study from Northeastern University tried to find out.

Whale strandings on Guam, Saipan likely due to Navy sonar

Microsoft Flight Simulator will feature “all the airports in the world”

Microsoft Flight Simulator will feature “all the airports in the world”

Google Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Chrome

Transparent TV

Broadcast same thing on 2 tvs

Helix of an Elusive Rare Earth Metal Could Help Push Moore's Law to The Next Level

High-altitude Pseudosatellites, the future of Earth observation ?

How to Share Your Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Spotify Accounts the Safe Way

Scientists Have Created Bionic Jellyfish And Successfully Controlled Their Movements

How to Quickly Resolve and Learn From Production Incidents

Slow laptop

Julian Assange and his Australian lawyers were secretly recorded in Ecuador's London embassy

Novel iPhone app allows everyone to study coronavirus and influenza - Johns Hopkins Professor - Feb. 20, 2020

Scientists discover powerful antibiotic using AI

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Globe Electric 6 Outlet Swivel Surge Protector With 2 USB Ports

Maybe Global Supply Chains Were a Bad Idea

Out of Thin Air — Breakthrough Tech Uses Water Vapor to Generate Electricity

crApple protest!

A Tiny Piece of Tape Tricked Teslas Into Speeding Up 50 MPH

The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure

Artificial Intelligence Finds A Strong New Antibiotic For the Very First Time

Europe, Overrun by Foreign Tech Giants, Wants to Grow Its Own

Samsung Electronics confirms coronavirus case at phone factory complex in South Korea

Random Musings on the R Developer Preview 1 - What Will Piss Off Users [CommonsWare]

A Quarter of All Tweets About Climate Crisis Produced By Bots - Slashdot

The State of Scamware on the Mac

Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread

Researchers develop high-capacity EV battery materials that double driving range

Slickwraps Data breach

What is that ?

Private WhatsApp chats easily discovered through Google (Update: Facebook knew)

White House Report Is 'Pure Propaganda' for AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast

Google Reaches Document Protection Deal in Antitrust Fight

Russia Doesn't Want Bernie Sanders. It Wants Chaos

Is Brand new tech actually way older than we think

Legislation in the works could remove immunity that currently protects tech companies from having to Assist Law Enforcement

'By any means necessary': Vice President Pence urges NASA on moon-Mars goal

Researchers have found that they can cause the autopilot on an autonomous vehicle to erroneously apply its brakes in response to "phantom" images projected on a road or billboard

Company buying .org offers to sign a contract banning price hikes

Creator of copy and paste command, Larry Tesler, dies aged 74 | Technology

L.A. County D.A.’s Office Reaches $18.8M Settlement on Behalf of 170,000 Customers Over Internet Speeds

Fourth industrial revolution forum: Africa can do better than developed nations

iFixit refused to tear down defective RAZR unit as a favor to Motorola

What AI still can’t do - MIT Technology Review

Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots

New Mexico AG sues Google for collecting school kids' personal data

Google’s new T&Cs include a Brexit ‘Easter egg’ for UK users

Apple and Google are reportedly mulling big changes amid antitrust scrutiny. Is Amazon next?

FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not

Ars Technica: Report: 300 Oracle employees walk out over Ellison’s Trump fundraiser

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through Chromebooks

Some Oracle Employees Stop Work in Protest of Larry Ellison’s Politics

Twitter is considering warning users when politicians post misleading tweets: Leaked design plans reveal that the company is thinking about putting bright red and orange labels on false tweets by politicians and public figures.

Bloomberg: Apple considers allowing iPhone users to set third-party web browsers and email apps as defaults, native Spotify on HomePod

Google product boss cuffed on suspicion of murder after his Microsoft manager wife goes missing, woman's body found, during Hawaii trip

J&K Govt Prepares To Create Firewall Against VPNs, Developers Ask Kashmiris 'Not To Worry'

Flywheel owners got their stationary bikes bricked, due to a patent dispute settlement with rival Peloton

New Mexico AG Sues Google for Collecting Personal Data of School Children

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Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change

CERN's MALT Project: ALTernatives to Microsoft software.

New Mexico Sues Google Over Children’s Privacy Violations

The US Blames Russia's GRU for Sweeping Cyberattacks in Georgia

Trump administration backs Oracle in Supreme Court battle against Google

Tokyo Tech team demonstrates visible-light photoelectrochemical water-splitting with cobalt-enhanced TiO2

Bluetooth-Related Flaws Threaten Dozens of Medical Devices

Google move endangers UK privacy

Samsung sends accidental 'Find My Mobile' notification to Galaxy phones

Google updates terms in plain language after EU scrutiny

Samsung smartphone users worldwide receive mysterious "Find My Mobile" notification...users raise questions about being tracked or spammed without consent.

Samsung blasts Galaxy phones worldwide with weird ‘1’ notification

Sensor for early wildfire detection on the basis of UAS “Raybird-3”

Samsung accidentally sends out 'Find My Mobile' push notification to Galaxy phones worldwide

Is AI cybersecurity's salvation or its greatest threat?

Feel like someone hacked your Spotify account? You're not alone

The Vast Undercount of Gaps in American Internet Access

Dell Technologies has agreed to sell its RSA cybersecurity unit for $2.08 billion to a group led by private-equity firm Symphony Technology Group, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and PE firm Carlyle Group's AlpInvest Partners

Larry Tesler: Computer scientist behind cut, copy and paste dies aged 74

Apple moving iPad production out of China due to coronavirus outbreak

Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy and paste, dies

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EFF to Ninth Circuit: Border Searches of Electronic Devices Require a Warrant

The Most Popular YouTube Videos About The Coronavirus Are Being Made In India — And They’re Full Of Hoaxes