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Facebook warned over privacy risks of merging messaging platforms

FCC didn’t have the right to repeal net neutrality, court case argues

Digital exchange loses $137 million as founder takes passwords to the grave

Terabytes of Enron data have quietly gone missing from the Department of Energy

FBI charges second Apple employee with stealing autonomous car secrets

Energizer says it’s making phones with pop-up cameras, 18,000mAh batteries, and foldable displays

Unsecured MongoDB databases expose Kremlin's backdoor into Russian businesses

Why CAPTCHAS have gotten so difficult - Demonstrating you’re not a robot is getting harder and harder

With 'Nothing Less Than Fate of the Internet' at Stake, Federal Court Told Why FCC's Attack on Net Neutrality So Dangerous: "Without protecting net neutrality," broadband providers "will control the internet experiences of everyone. And that cannot be what happens."

Samsung ditches plastic packaging for 'sustainable materials'

Right to Repair Advocates Are Hosting Youtube Town Halls to Show You How to Get Involved in the Movement

Elon Musk Makes All Tesla Patents Public To Save Earth

Judges grill FCC lawyer over net neutrality repeal

A consumer DNA testing company has given the FBI access to its two million profiles

Apple Is Doing More to Police Facebook Than the US Government – Mother Jones

Delete your account: leaving Facebook can make you happier, study finds

Major DNA testing company sharing genetic data with the FBI

A 20-year-old college student who was accused of stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrency in a slew of SIM hijacking attacks is the first person to be sentenced for the crime

FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”

AT&T’s Mega Mergers Are Going Poorly, And You’re Footing the Bill - Massive merger debt forced company to raise rates, only driving users to cut the cord even faster.

A new net neutrality bill is headed to Congress - Sen. Ed Markey said it’s coming ‘soon’

Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

UltraViolet digital movie locker is shutting down

Firefox will soon warn users of software that performs MitM attacks

New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking

Chattanooga municipal internet provider triples base level internet speeds to 300Mb/s at no additional cost in surprise announcement.

Elon Musk Releases All Tesla Patents To Help Save The Earth

Today Is a Huge Day in the Fight to Restore Net Neutrality

Firefighters join Mozilla in net neutrality fight, citing 'public safety

Reddit, Mozilla, Vimeo and 22 state attorneys general fight to save net neutrality today

A Teenager Tried To Warn Apple About It's Facetime Security Flaw, But Appears To Have Been Ignored

FBI catches another man allegedly stealing Apple self-driving car secrets

How America’s internet connectivity issues are holding the country back

Tech Salaries Stagnant, Despite Low Unemployment

Fake news sites are simply changing their domain name to get around Facebook fact-checkers

Amazon got 850K job applications in one month after announcing a $15 minimum wage.

Charter will spend less on cable network in 2019 but charge customers more

Amazon’s HQ2 was supposed to be a win for New York City. Instead it has become a huge political battle. Backers of the deal underestimated the strength of the opposition to corporate subsidies.

Apple revokes Google Enterprise Developer Certificate for company wide abuse

Facebook shouldn’t be the only 15-year-old allowed to do whatever it wants - Mark Zuckerberg broke the world and tried to cover it up. Then, he killed a goat.

Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook’s Lack of Transparency

Apple is Doing More to Police Facebook Than the U.S. Government

Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions

A handy list of ways Facebook has tried to sneakily gather data about you

Net neutrality fight returns to court

Sheryl Sandberg: The Teens 'Consented' to Putting Facebook Spyware on Their Phones

A "gold standard" study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health | A unique study praised for its rigor finds numerous upsides to deactivating your Facebook account

Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records

Lawmakers are furious with Facebook: ‘wiretapping teens is not research’

Youtube strikes are now being used for extortion