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Facebook suspends accounts that used disinformation tactics in Alabama’s special election - The five accounts were part of a project intended to study disinformation tactics, rather than influence the election

Why the F.T.C. Is Taking a New Look at Facebook Privacy

Mark Zuckerberg could be 2018's biggest loser — he's already down nearly $20 billion

Stanford scientists locate nearly all U.S. solar panels by applying machine learning to a billion satellite images

Douglas Adams was right: “Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets

Slack says it will comply with sanctions and block Iran-based activity, apologizes for botched first effort

This company brings in $7 million a year testing dog poop DNA to catch non-scoopers

Twitter plunges on Citron report calling it 'toxic' and 'uninvestable'

It's only a matter of time before China ends up with our Facebook data

President Trump has signed a $1.2 billon law to boost US quantum tech

Four months after its debut, sneaky Mac malware went undetected by AV providers

Is 2019 the year you should finally quit Facebook? Deleting your Facebook account isn’t a bad New Year resolution – the company has proven yet again it violated public trust

FCC gives carriers control over text messages

Minnesota Attorney General Files Fraud Suit Against Comcast

AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

Chinese citizen charged with trade secrets theft in Oklahoma. An affidavit filed by the FBI alleges that Tan stole trade secrets about an unidentified product worth between $1.4 and $1.8 billion to his employer to benefit a Chinese company...

A Chinese company said it created a photo with such a high resolution that you can zoom from thousands of meters away to see people’s facial expressions

Is Facebook finished? 'We're not far from Zuckerberg getting subpoenaed', privacy expert says

ACLU to feds: Your “hacking presents a unique threat to individual privacy”

Comcast swindled customers with rate hikes, bogus equipment charges, lawsuit claims - “It’s hard to shop for cable television if a company plays hide-the-ball on its true prices, and people shouldn’t have to watch their bills for things they didn’t buy.”

If the Latest Facebook Revelations Won't Get You to Delete It, What Will?

Vodafone Blocks Two Pirate Streaming Sites Without a Court Order

AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New

US Moon landing conspiracy: Faking it more difficult than doing, Russian scientist says

China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients

Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries

'Kill your foster parents': Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment

You’re not quitting Facebook if you still use Instagram and WhatsApp

Caribou Coffee chain announces card breach impacting 239 stores - Almost 40 percent of the company's coffee stores impacted by breach of its POS system.

US, allies slam China for economic espionage, spies indicted

India : All computers now under govt. watch

Twitter shares tumble after short seller calls it 'The Harvey Weinstein of social media'

Cambridge, MA Joins Growing Ranks of Cities Requiring Civilian Control of Police Surveillance Tech

Facebook says it got users' permission to share data. Those users might say differently

FBI kicks some of the worst ‘DDoS for hire’ sites off the internet

ICE Seizes Over 1 Million Websites With No Due Process; Apparently Unaware That Copyright & Trademark Are Different

Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: The Matsushita/Technics SL-1200

Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal

More than 70 per cent of Scottish electricity is renewable

Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home

Elon Musk provides $423K to buy laptops for all Flint middle schoolers

The data-sharing at the heart of Facebook’s latest scandal isn’t an anomaly — it’s how Facebook does business

Pressure mounts on hold-out Democrats with one day left to support net neutrality

Violating our privacy is in Facebook's DNA

NYTimes: How to Delete Facebook

Consumers Delete Apps, Social Media as Data Security Concerns Grow: Study

Window 10's New Sandbox Feature

Facebook’s Latest Scandal Shows We Need Stronger Privacy Laws