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

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.

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

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

Apple’s secret repair kill switch hasn’t been activated—yet

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.”

Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October Update (version 1809)

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

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

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

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

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

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

California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices

Amazon Employee Shared Customer Email Addresses With Third-Party Seller

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

US to Allow Cars Without Steering Wheels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking

Facebook is battling an internal revolt after one of its execs went to the Kavanaugh hearing

Can We Make Congress Less Dumb About Technology?

Congress needs to make net neutrality permanent

US judge asks Tesla's Musk and SEC to justify fraud settlement as 'fair and reasonable'

Apple and Amazon explicitly deny claims that servers were compromised by Chinese chips

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."

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

AI catches fake news by gauging the accuracy of its source

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

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

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

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

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

Advocates Tell FTC: Facebook is violating children’s privacy law

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

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

Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

Facebook forces users to wait 30 days to delete their accounts

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

Amazon eliminates monthly bonuses and stock grants after minimum wage increase

Cities Are Teaming Up to Offer Broadband, and the FCC Is Mad

Entire broadband industry sues California to stop net neutrality law

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

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