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Valve takes down user tributes memorializing the New Zealand shooting suspect - More than 100 profiles utilized the name or picture of the alleged shooter

The WhatsApp Cofounder Who Sold To Facebook For $19 Billion Tells Students To Delete Facebook

Scientists Call For Global Moratorium On Creating Gene-Edited Babies

Smart TVs could get annoying ads just like your web browser does

Germany considers amendment to law which makes it illegal to run a Tor node or website

Zuckerberg's Bad Week Gets Worse With Live-Streamed Shooting

Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds

Corporations Are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair

How 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang plans to restore Net neutrality

U.S. federal court jury finds Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents

Most Android Antivirus Apps Are Garbage

UK's air-breathing rocket engine set for key tests - The UK project to develop a hypersonic engine that could take a plane from London to Sydney in about four hours is set for a key demonstration.

Online 'Reputation Management' Company Brags About Abusing Copyright Law To Take Down Bad Reviews

We'll go after big tech if necessary because DC is doing nothing: Arizona attorney general

Renewable energy reduces the highest electric rates in the nation

'Hate is way more interesting than that': Why Algorithms can't stop toxic speech online

Tech giants do not face enough competition, new report says

Facebook is rapidly losing millennials, US user base down 15 million since 2017

The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove

Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacres — The subreddit violated site policy on ‘glorifying violence’

Federal agencies and companies are required by law to disclose breaches, but congress is under no such obligation. it's time this changed.

Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group

America's top defense officials say Google's work in China benefits Beijing's military

We'll help you get your next fix... maybe, we'll think about it, says FTC: 'Right to repair' mulled

[Discussion] Time to update the rules on self-promotion? Mods are clearly allowing it, even though it clearly states on the sidebar, in bold, that it's only allowed in the megathread. Dakroon1

Hypocritical seeing the sidebar in all bold: All self-promotion and personal association go in the melting pot! , while certain users push their youtube channel to the top of this sub every week. This sub has pretty strict rules when it comes to almost everything, except self-promotion. What do you guys think about this? Mods need to clarify if this is allowed? If so, how many users are promoting their channel/music? Is there a deal with the mods? Some transparency would be nice.

Mozilla releases Iodide, an open source browser tool for publishing dynamic data science

When Google Fiber Abandons Your City as a Failed Experiment

Why, Exactly, Do We Still Trust Telecom Megamerger 'Synergy' Promises?

Police in India arrested ten students for playing PUBG

Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware

39% of All Counter-Strike 1.6 Servers Used to Infect Players

Republican Congressman Proposes Blockchain Technology In Government To Encourage Transparency

Huawei Isn't Trustworthy 5G Partner, German Spy Agency Says

The Average U.S. Millennial Watches More Netflix Than TV

Apple responds to Spotify's complaint, says Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store “without making any contributions to that marketplace”

Reddit Has Become A Battleground Of Chinese Trolls

Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

Dropbox adds three-device limit for free users

Passionate About Right to Repair? The FTC Wants to Hear from You

No, IBM didn’t just “reverse time” with a quantum computer - Amazing headlines about time machines are a long way off the mark, sadly.

Ajit Pai Promised New Jobs and 'Better, Cheaper' Internet. His ISP Pals Have a Different Plan

DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System

The Internet Knows You Better Than Your Spouse Does: The traces we leave on the Web and on our digital devices can give advertisers and others surprising, and sometimes disturbing, insights into our psychology

Buttigieg on Big Tech: Lawmakers "Barely Understand The Thing They're Supposed To Be Regulating"

FCC to auction off wireless spectrum that could interfere with vital weather data, rejecting requests from U.S. House and science agencies

In the first year of GDPR. 200,000 cases reported, firms fined €56m... Most of that by Google.

Google removed 2.3B bad ads, banned ads on 1.5M apps + 28M pages, plans new Policy Manager this year

Facebook suffers most severe outage ever

Top gamer 'Ninja' made $1 million to promote EA's 'Apex Legends' launch: source

Apple's 30% app store commission unfair, Spotify claims

Robot ‘shark’ that eats plastic waste launched to tackle ocean pollution