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Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them.

Bezos’s Security Consultant Accuses Saudis of Hacking the Amazon C.E.O.’s Phone

Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

The Day the Dinosaurs Died - A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth

Ajit Pai wants to cap spending on broadband for poor people and rural areas

New Australian laws could see social media execs jailed over terror images

Huawei phones a ‘threat to national security’

Valve just surprise revealed its own VR headset called the Valve Index

Koch group launches ads against Warren plan to break up tech giants

What If Google And Facebook Admitted That All This Ad Targeting Really Doesn't Work That Well?

Apple Officially Cancels AirPower

DEA Never Checked If Its Massive Surveillance Operations Are Legal, Watchdog Says

Company Ordered to Pay Woman $459K After Spamming Her With More Than 300 Robocalls

Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them.

Some of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have disappeared

Serial swatter who led to Kansas man’s death sentenced to 20 years in prison

Congress introduces bipartisan legislation to permanently end the NSA's mass surveillance of phone records

Initial findings put Boeing’s software at center of Ethiopian 737 crash

Congress introduces bipartisan legislation to permanently end the NSA’s mass surveillance of phone records

Paywalls block scientific progress. Research should be open to everyone

Microsoft donates 500 patents to startups

Bill Gates casts an enthusiastic vote for bill to accelerate nuclear energy research

Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is a mechanical ostrich that loads pallets

Russia Orders Major VPN Providers to Block ‘Banned’ Sites

Europe is splitting the internet into three

Office Depot and Support.com to pay $35 million for falsely claiming scan detected signs of malware on consumers’ computers

Facebook Engages in Housing Discrimination via Its Ad Practices, U.S. Says

Lyft valued at $24.3 billion in first ride-hailing IPO

The Mounting Federal Investigations Into Facebook

Amy Klobuchar wants broadband in every household by 2022

Over 300,000 Internet Users Tune In as Net Neutrality Bill Clears Major Hurdle 'Unscathed' - Digital rights group Fight for the Future said so many people were watching the hearing online that they "broke the counter"

IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched ‘Millennial Corps’: lawsuit - Tech titan says courts have rejected theories underlying suit

Why Is Georgia Buying Insecure Voting Machines? It Doesn't Matter, They Are

Google, GM and other corporate giants form alliance to create a boom in US clean energy

Robocallers haven’t paid $208 million in fines—FCC lacks authority to collect - "The Federal Communications Commission has issued $208.4 million in fines against robocallers since 2015, but the commission has collected only $6,790 of that amount."

Google is conducting a secret "performance review" of its censored china search project

Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support

Twitter is considering labeling Trump tweets that violate its rules

Facebook has been charged with housing discrimination by the US government

Facebook Charged Over Targeted Housing Ads Allegedly Discriminating By Race, Gender, Zip Code and Religion

Twitter considering labeling Trump tweets that violate rules

U.S. Must Put a Ban on Google Helping China Develop a Global Digital Dictatorship

50 women sue Salesforce over accusations of sex-trafficking customer

FTC crackdown stops billions of illegal robocalls

U.S. approved secret nuclear power work for Saudi Arabia

Why Microsoft is backing a major tax hike on itself … and Amazon

Texas: Don’t Let the Legislature Gut Your State’s Free Speech Laws

Back in December Ajit Pai’s FCC quietly gave cell phone companies new powers to block, delay, or charge more money for text messages they don’t like. But there’s a way to make the agency undo this.

When musicians started selling singles for $.99 people paid for them legally. Using that model, why don't cable companies realize their own practices are turning people away?

FTC hands multimillion-dollar fines to four robocalling companies