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COVID-19 Is Devastating India. Its Government Is Trying To Censor Social Media.

Google's push to bring employees back to offices in September is frustrating some employees who say they'll quit if they can't be remote forever

EU explores chipmaker alliance in search of ‘strategic autonomy’

European Union says Apple’s App Store breaches competition rules

"Give us 45 Bitcoins or your company dies". BBC speaks to 2 organisations hit with crippling ransomware as a global task force is launched to try to end the ransomware surge.

EU charges Apple with breach of competition law | The iPhone maker unfairly puts music streaming rivals at a disadvantage due to its App Store rules, the EU's Competition Commissioner says.

‘Brain-like device’ mimics human learning in major computing breakthrough

Twitter's user growth lower than expected despite tackling misinformation

London City becomes first major airport to control air traffic remotely

Hard Drive Prices Skyrocket In Asia Due to New Chia Cryptocoin, Scalpers Capitalize

Engineers Have Developed the World’s First Fully Recyclable Printed Electronics

Amazon Launches Another Union-Busting Campaign

Patreon CEO Posts YouTube Apology for Firing 36 People As Valuation Rises to $4 Billion

Manhattan Community Board Calls Giving Gig Workers Bathroom Access 'Crazy'

The truth about anonymized data

Russia’s Sputnik V Skews Stats to Falsely Trash Pfizer Vaccine

RotaJakiro: A Linux backdoor that has flown under the radar for years | ZDNet

How product placements may soon be added to classic films

U.S. Senator Asks for Repeal of Section 230, Censorship of 'Sexually Impure' Content

FCC reveals sign-up date and website for $50-per-month broadband subsidies - May 12 enrollment for people who have low incomes or lost income during pandemic.

The IRS Wants Help Hacking Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets

China's digital yuan will not topple the dollar, SEC official says

researchers pioneer a technique to filter water with corn leftovers

Twitter under fire over deletion of critical Covid tweets in India - Lawmakers and rights activists say removals risk people’s health and harms freedom of speech

The best broadband in the US isn’t in New York or San Francisco. It’s in Chattanooga.

EU adopts controversial law forcing one-hour takedowns of terrorist content

High-bandwidth wireless BCI demonstrated in humans for first time - BrainGate device complements Neuralink's successful test of wireless BCI in monkey.

Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

Scientists find way to remove polluting microplastics with bacteria

Legal chatbot firm DoNotPay adds anti-facial recognition filters to its suite of handy tools

Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks

Facebook Posts $26 Billion In Revenue, Shattering Wall Street Expectations As Income Nearly Doubles

Oculus will sell you a Quest 2 headset that doesn't need Facebook for an extra $500

US government taking creative steps to counter cyberthreats

Arstechnica: Ransomware crooks threaten to ID informants if cops don’t pay up

NOAA scientists use drones to see tornado damage in remote areas

Facebook: Smoking and alcohol ads 'target Australian children'

Where is the Qualcomm Snapdragon that will challenge Apple's M1 Macs?

Emotet botnet harvested 4.3 million email addresses. Now the FBI is using Have I Been Pwned to alert the victims | ZDNet

Google sued over alleged privacy invasions via COVID-19 contact-tracing system

N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash

Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India

Facebook blocked hashtag calling for Narendra Modi to resign over pandemic | Users based in India noted on Twitter that the #ResignModi hashtag had been blocked from view on Facebook

DigitalOcean says customer billing data accessed in data breach

Amazon to hike wages for over 500,000 workers

Verizon is reportedly considering a sale of its media assets, including AOL and Yahoo

Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin

'Self-driving' cars to be allowed on UK roads this year

Taiwan accuses Beijing of waging economic war against tech sector | Cybersecurity News

Despite its problems, Windows 10 is slowly taking over the world