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Texas Grid Is Now 30% Carbon-Free, Led By Wind

Internet watchdog Citizen Lab targeted in comically inept undercover sting

Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax would cost Jeff Bezos $4.1 billion in first year

Electricity-free air con: Thermoacoustic device turns waste heat into cold using no additional power

H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of U.S. colleges over American grads, feds allege

Transparency advocate group releases trove of hacked Russian documents

Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are merging and people are horrified

Facebook’s plan to merge WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger sounds a privacy alarm - The move to bring the messaging apps Facebook owns together in the background will lead to more data about users being shared between them.

The US is falling behind China in crucial race for AI dominance

FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal challenge

The Roger Stone indictment shows a conspiratorial comedy of Opsec errors

MIT researchers invent lasers that transmit whispers only you can hear

Austin teen arrested for robbing a bank after using a Jump scooter as his getaway vehicle

Banks “widespread disregard” for software standards causing rise in IT outages

In WSJ Op-Ed, Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point

Apple Says It Will Pay ‘Shot on iPhone’ Photo Contest Winners After Backlash

Trojan virus infects Chrome browser extensions and spoofs searches to steal cryptocurrency

Victory! Illinois Supreme Court Protects Biometric Privacy

Verizon caves, won’t charge “spam” fee for texts from teachers to students

Undersea cable damage wipes out most Internet access in Tonga islands

Illinois Supreme Court rules against Six Flags in lawsuit over fingerprint scans. Here's why Facebook and Google care.

Facebook allowed children to spend their parents’ money without permission

DHS: Multiple US gov domains hit in serious DNS hijacking wave

YouTube Moves to Make Conspiracy Videos Harder to Find

How the government shutdown is flushing away federal cyber-talent

Right to Repair is already hurtling into action in 2019

Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

DeepMind AI Challenges Pro StarCraft II Players, Wins Almost Every Match

Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Trust Facebook Because You Don't 'Understand' It

The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power - Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it

New House Judiciary Subcommittee Chair Eyes Net Neutrality Action: Pledges to work against Trump Administration efforts to 'kill' net neutrality

Ajit Pai and Republicans in Congress Helped Enable 'Bounty Hunters' to Track Your Phone

As many as 11,543 Microsoft employees got swept up in a reply-all e-mail apocalypse

15 Senators Call on FCC and FTC to Investigate How AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint Sold Phone Locations to Bounty Hunters

Net Neutrality Repeal, Evidence Shows, Is Doing None of the Good Stuff Ajit Pai and Telecom Industry Promised

Apple just dismissed more than 200 employees from Project Titan, its autonomous vehicle group

Report alleges 50% of Facebook accounts are very likely fake and Facebook is lying about the numbers

It's Now Clear None of the Supposed Benefits of Killing Net Neutrality Are Real - Network investment is down, layoffs abound, and networks are falling apart. This isn’t the glorious future Ajit Pai promised.

'Criminals escaping justice' due to IT system

Microsoft Says China Has Blocked Bing Behind Its Great Firewall

Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers

Renewables In Britain To Overtake Fossil Fuels By 2020

Why I’m Worried About Google - I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t.

Millions of bank loan and mortgage documents have leaked online

Don’t trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users

Be warned: customer service agents can see what you're typing in real time

Google's Plan to Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome Riles Developers

Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes says 'I don't know' 600+ times in never-before-broadcast deposition tapes

Calm Down, Parents: A Rigorous New Oxford Study of 350,000 Teens Shows Screen Time Is About as Dangerous as Potatoes - The panic over kids and screen time is wildly overblown, according to the most rigorous study to date.

Stop Trusting Viral Videos