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There's a simple reason why your new smart TV was so affordable: It's collecting and selling your data

Assist option for deaf people will soon be available in Hyundai vehicles

Man behind 'Build the Wall' GoFundMe creates email-harvesting operation

Why the FTC Thinks You Pay Too Much for Smartphones

AT&T plans to fire 7000 people despite tax breaks/net neutrality repeal

Nest Competitor Ring Reportedly Gave Employees Full Access To Customers' Live Camera Feeds

The U.S. Government Has Amassed Terabytes of Internal WikiLeaks Data

Huawei sacks employee arrested in Poland on spying charges

For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too

200 million Chinese resumes leak in huge database breach

Facebook "privately sought advice" on policy decisions from Tony Perkins, the anti-gay evangelical founder of the hate group Family Research Council

Facebook staff discussed cashing in on user data, reports say. Proposals to charge firms for data said to have been revealed by badly redacted court papers

German court says Amazon’s Dash buttons violate consumer protection law

Bird Rides Inc. Demands Takedown of News Report on Lawful Re-use of Scooters

Reminder: All those “smart” devices are a growing security threat

SpaceX cutting 10 percent of its staff to become a leaner company: "We must part ways with some talented and hardworking members of our team."

Google Demanded That T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data

House Committee Calls for Emergency FCC Briefing After Damning Report of Phone Location Data Abuse

Rice plants engineered to be better at photosynthesis make more rice

How to Delete Facebook and Instagram From Your Life Forever - New York Times

A DNS hijacking wave is targeting companies at an almost unprecedented scale

Tor pulls in record donations as it lessens reliance on US government grants

AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation

Seattle now home to world's 2 most valuable companies: Amazon & Microsoft

Article 13 is almost finished – and it will change the internet as we know it

Retailers are slashing iPhone prices across China as consumers say the phones aren't worth the cost

Poland arrests Huawei employee over spying allegations.

Colorado could save $2.5B through 2040 by replacing coal with clean energy: report

Trump’s crackdown on the H-1B visa is eating into Indian IT’s profits

Dad creates app that locks your child’s phone until they answer your text

Phone Companies Pinky Swear They'll Stop Selling Your Location Data, For Real This Time

Anonymous hacker gets 10 years in prison for DDoS attacks on children's hospitals

T-Mobile begins verifying calls to protect against spam

American Phone Companies Are Literally Letting Their Networks Fall Apart

Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down

VLC About to Surpass 3 Billion Downloads

Malware found preinstalled on some Alcatel smartphones

Facebook deal makes it impossible to delete app from Android smartphones

15 Years after Lexar announced the 1 GB SD card, they just announced the 1 TB SD card with a 95 MB/s read speed and 70 MB/s write speed

How Minnesota could economically reach 70 percent renewable electricity | Minnesota could get 70 percent of its electricity from wind and solar by 2050 at no additional cost compared to natural gas

We Could Easily Stop Location Data Scandals, But We Cower to Lobbyists: Instead Your daily habits are collected, sold, and abused by a universe of shady middlemen—and government couldn’t care less.

AT&T's Planning Yet More Layoffs Despite Tens Of Billions In Tax Breaks And Government Favors

Waste reduction law could force manufacturers to repair broken goods - ‘Right to repair’ legislation aims to alleviate waste and make products easier to fix

Venture capitalist: AI will displace 40 percent of world's jobs in as soon as 15 years

America desperately needs fiber internet, and the tech giants won’t save us - Harvard’s Susan Crawford explains why we shouldn’t expect Google to fix slow internet speeds in the US.

Chrome will block spammy ads around the world starting July 9th

AMD CEO: Security Flaws 'A Wakeup Call' for Chip Makers

An Update on Facebook’s Smear Campaign Against Critics

Senators Call on FCC To Investigate T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters

Carriers Swore They'd Stop Selling Location Data. Will They Ever?