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Justice Dept. investigating millions of fake anti-net neutrality comments: report

FCC Launches Investigation Into Whether Carriers Lied About Their Coverage

The Feds Are Now Investigating The Millions Of Anti-Net Neutrality Comments Filed With Stolen Identities

'They kill jobs': Meet Canadians who refuse to use self-checkout | CBC News

New report reveals growing threat of organised social media manipulation world-wide

MIT’s new 3D printer is 10 times faster than other 3D printers

'F--- you leakers': A former senior Google employee says a frantic quest to stop internal info getting out is now management's 'number one priority'

Mozilla CEO says Microsoft’s switch to Chromium is ‘terrible’ for the web | PC Gamer

Huge Torrent Tracker Calls it Quits After 12 Years, Citing Article 13

Monsanto Paid Internet Trolls to Counter Bad Publicity

Google Chrome Is Poised to Swallow the Whole Internet—And That's Bad

Huawei Executive Was Company’s Professional Face, Until Her Arrest

MIT’s “sun-in-a-box” is a conceptual energy storage system in molten silicon

Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact the World

Net neutrality could face a powerful foe in Trump’s nominee for attorney general - Willam P. Barr, who was nominated today to be the nation’s top law enforcement official, has long opposed net neutrality rules, which would be welcome news for major ISPs like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast.

Ajit Pai Just Got His Second 'Courage' Award of the Year

Elon Musk says Boring Company tunnel under LA will now open on Dec. 18

Jeff Bezos was ridiculed by 'South Park' as a giant-brained, telepathic super villain

FCC slammed for 'arbitrary and reckless' plan to change how text messages are regulated - US watchdog says it's about spam, but really it's about profits

Net neutrality activists are pressuring Dems who have not signed onto House CRA

A Cashless Economy Locks Out the Poor

Facebook could threaten democracy, says former GCHQ boss

Italian regulator fines Facebook £8.9m for misleading users

How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America’s Elderly

Facebook could threaten democracy, says former GCHQ boss

Beware the holiday ‘smart toys’ that spy on your kids

Oh Good, the FTC’s Top Consumer Protection Guy Has 120 Corporate Conflicts of Interest

24 Amazon workers sent to hospital after robot accidentally unleashes bear spray

Australia passes new law to thwart strong encryption

Canada Federal Government publishes a new IT directive that mandates the use of open source software first - See Appendix C.2.3.8

Edge dies a death of a thousand cuts as Microsoft switches to Chromium

[Discussion] Someone should make an app that compares your Spotify Top Songs 2018 playlist with other people’s and matches you with people with similar taste SomeLanguage

Sounds like a pretty cool idea, and i think it should be easy enough to program. Users would just have to enter the playlist link, and the database would need to be built up for a few days first. It would just look for common songs in different playlist!! More commonality would be a higher match! What do you guys think?

New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust

Net Neutrality Activists Launch “DemsAgainstThe.Net” to Call Out the Handful of Remaining Democrats in Congress who Have Chosen Telecom Hush Money Over Net Neutrality Protections

Aston Martin will make old cars electric so they don’t get banned from cities.

Facial recognition has to be regulated to protect the public, says AI report

Be careful what you type in Australia. A new law will give authorities access to encrypted chats.

Dear Tumblr: Banning "Adult Content" Won't Make Your Site Better But It Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities

AMD Radeon RX 3080 could match GeForce RTX 2070 for half the price

California officially becomes first in nation mandating solar power for new homes

Facebook CEO backed sharing customer data despite second thoughts: documents

[Discussion] Spotify Top Songs of 2018 Playlist PrincessWhiffleball

What were your top songs in 2018? I'm surprised by my playlist, it was more pop than I thought it would be and I didn't realize I listened to those songs so many times. My top 5 (none of which would be allowed to be posted in this sub): Give Yourself a Try - The 1975 Candy Paint - Post Malone Want You Back - 5 Seconds of Summer 3 A.M. - Jesse & Joy, Gente de Zona Bloom - Troye Sivan https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1Ejv8RQCA2Qg81?si=Tua8r4mXS-iVVbQ4Qm3Igg

Australia now has encryption-busting laws as Labor capitulates

FCC chairman acknowledges Russians interfered in net neutrality debate - About half a million comments sent to the agency about the net neutrality repeal were from Russian email addresses, Ajit Pai says in a memo.

Trump’s Cybersecurity Advisor Rudy Giuliani Thinks His Twitter Was Hacked Because Someone Took Advantage of His Typo

Walmart will soon use hundreds of A.I. robot janitors to scrub the floors of US stores

With Deadline to Save Net Neutrality Days Away, Here Are the 18 Democrats Still Siding With Telecom Donors Over Open Internet

Tumblr’s porn ban is going about as badly as expected

Canada has arrested top Huawei executive on suspicion of violating Iran sanctions

Mark Zuckerberg's Biggest Problem: Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over - “It’s the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They’re getting tired, getting cranky — the only survival strategy is to quit or fully buy in.”

Milo Yiannopoulos lasted a single day on Patreon before getting banned