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The UK privacy watchdog's ruling against Experian is a warning to data brokers that hoover up personal details

Italy's antitrust probes Google for possible abuse of dominant position

DHS chief labels Twitter a ‘threat’ to U.S. security over censorship

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A new scam uses Google Drive to send out a deluge of dodgy links

Waymo, the self-driving tech company, has had 18 minor incidents since 2019 during tests and actual rides.

Take a Look at These Amazing Solar Technologies

Making a robot to carve photos into pumpkins

Physicists circumvent centuries-old theory to cancel magnetic fields

Uber Eats faces discrimination allegations over free delivery from Black-owned restaurants

SpaceX Says There Are No Laws on Mars, So Maybe Elon Musk Will Be President

From Voting To Social Media: What Does The Future Hold For Digital Identity On The Blockchain

DHS Authorities Are Buying Moment-By-Moment Geolocation Cellphone Data To Track People

Apple Rejects App for Verifying Pennsylvania Ballots

U.S. judge blocks Commerce Department TikTok order

QAnon Is Supposed to Be All About Protecting Kids. Its Primary Enabler Appears to Have Hosted Child Porn Domains.

Hackers are on the hunt for Oracle servers vulnerable to potent exploit

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Apple says some AirPods Pro have sound problems, will fix for free

Astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object

Virtual Influencers Make Real Money While Covid Locks Down Human Stars - The pandemic isn’t a problem when you’re computer-generated.

How Iranian hackers stole voter info from state election sites | CISA & FBI

Mall real estate company collected 5 million images of shoppers, say privacy watchdogs - 'Shoppers had no reason to expect their image was being collected,' says federal privacy commissioner

Some of Europe's top tech investors are adding a 'sustainability clause' to start-up deal terms

Digitizing Hong Kong’s history

Google’s new AI automatically turns webpages into videos

A deepfake bot is being used to “undress” underage girls

AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world

Nissan Actively Discourages Battery Replacement on the Leaf, Upset Owner Claims

Uber and Lyft lose appeal, ordered again to classify drivers as employees

Climate-conscious venture capitalists are back: Can they both make money and protect the planet?

Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots

Senator Wyden Wants To Know If The NSA Is Still Demanding Tech Companies Build Backdoors Into Their Products

Voter Registration Websites Are Crashing, Locking Out Would-Be Voters

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Successfully Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu

A Chinese Database Is Tracking American Nuclear Scientists and Military Officers

Instagram drops 'recent' posts from hashtag pages ahead of the election

Mall real estate company collected 5 million images of shoppers, say privacy watchdogs

These drones will plant 40,000 trees in a month. By 2028, they’ll have planted 1 billion

One of the world’s biggest hacker communities is helping build a phone for super nerds

Germany to reform stock option rules in an effort to rival Silicon Valley

Cyberattack hits Vermont healthcare network, including 6 hospitals plus more

Facebook reports a decline in users in the U.S. and Canada

Europe to limit how big tech can push its own services and use third-party data

Mysterious 'Robin Hood' hackers donating stolen money | BBC

QAnon is Supposed to Be All About Protecting Kids. Its Primary Enabler Appears to Have Hosted Child Porn Domains.

FBI warns ransomware assault threatens US healthcare system

FBI, DHS Warn Of Possible Major Ransomware Attacks On Healthcare Systems

Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC

Seattle startup DroneSeed wins FAA approval for post-wildfire reforestation flights in 6 states

Oregon hospital shuts down computer system after ransomware attack

I Bought an Apple Watch as a Gift. It Turned into a Tech-Support Setup Nightmare

Nitro database containing emails, passwords of 77 million users on sale

Intel Begins Their Open-Source Driver Support For Vulkan Ray-Tracing With Xe HPG

5 fact-checks from the Senate’s hearing on social media

US government warns of imminent ransomware attacks against hospitals

Apple Might Make Its Own Search Engine in Wake of Department of Justice's Google Lawsuit