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Elon Musk Says ‘Hyperloop’ Tunnel Is Now Just a Normal Car Tunnel Because ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’

Stolen NSA hacking tool now victimizing US cities, report says

US Military to trawl through 350 billion social media messages to track how popular movements evolve

Stolen NSA tool EternalBlue is wreaking havoc across the nation, causing billions of dollars of damage

The most sustainable phone is the one you already own

[Discussion] I'm unsubscribing after seeing the response to the Future Bass thread. TheEternalWoodchuck

Completely unacceptable. Even the people not completely shitting on OP for having a new interest in a genre, (literally the point of this sub is finding new music), were criticizing them for finding an interest in a genre that had more than a dozen goddamned listeners. The popularity threshold and the subsequent elitism has completely ruined this sub. This community used to be a celebration of people's journeys into music appreciation. Now you can't even show people foreign music they've never heard before because it's popular in its home country. You won't allow people in that didn't catch on to a genre when they were too young. The future bass thing took off like a decade ago, if OP is 18 then they'd have been 8 at the time. Exactly how damn nuanced do you want an 8 year old's taste in music to be? I've been subbed for years and this is the end of it. It was a slow descent, but the camel's back is broken. You're officially the incels of...

Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered With Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics

Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps

First American Financial exposed 16 years’ worth of mortgage paperwork, including bank accounts

What has the web become?

100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing

Using AI to predict breast cancer and personalize care - MIT/MGH's image-based deep learning model can predict breast cancer up to five years in advance.

47 House Democrats sign criticized net neutrality working group letter

Microsoft Pulls Huawei Server Products, Laptop Following US Ban

Britons dump Huawei phones as US-China trade war sparks retail backlash

885 Million Records Exposed Online: Bank Transactions, Social Security Numbers, and More

At Amazon, facial recognition ban won just 2% of shareholder vote

47 Democrats cave on net neutrality after GOP calls bill “dead on arrival”. GOP blocking of net neutrality vote rewarded as 47 Democrats ask for compromise.

Huawei can’t officially use microSD cards in its phones going forward

US Senate is coming after loot boxes

House Dems Start To Wimp Out On Net Neutrality

We Can't Solve Climate Change Without Nuclear Power: Renewable energy carbon-capture technologies, efficiency measures, reforestation and other steps are important—but they won’t get us there

Best Buy cancels Galaxy Fold pre-orders

First satellites for Musk's Starlink internet venture launched into orbit

CrossFit suspends all social media activity citing FaceBook overreach and data vulnerability

Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters

Facebook banned 2.2 billion fake accounts in the first 3 months of this year. That's almost equal to the number of real people who use it.

Apple Agrees to Tell Users If an iOS Update Will Slow Down Their iPhones

NASA officially orders its first segment of a lunar space station

Techdirt Sues ICE After It Insists It Has No Records Of The 1 Million Domains It Claims To Have Seized

Senate Passes Bill That Would Slap Robocallers With Fine of Up to $10,000 Per Call

TurboTax promoted a 'military discount' that charges service members who are eligible to file for free.

Comcast does so much lobbying that it says disclosing it all is too hard - Shareholders say Comcast should stop being secretive about lobbying activity.

Redditor allowed to stay anonymous, court rules

Senate passes bill outlawing robocalls

The Senate votes to approve anti-robocalling bill

Senators propose bill requiring warrants to search devices at the border

Bill to ban the sale of loot boxes to children presses forward with bipartisan support

It's Getting Way Too Easy to Create Fake Videos of People's Faces - Samsung researchers developed an algorithm that only needs one source image to create fake videos.

Instagram data breach! 49 million users’ sensitive data exposed online

Artificial photosynthesis transforms carbon dioxide into liquefiable fuels

Facebook lobbied against Australian privacy regulations, flying in the face of Mark Zuckerberg's PR push

Las Vegas approves a $48.6 million contract with Elon Musk’s Boring Company

We Don't Need to 'Pause' Police Use of Face Recognition—We Need to Ban It Forever

New Bill Would Require Agents to Actually Have Probable Cause to Search Electronic Devices at the Border

U.S. Considers Blacklisting Five Chinese Surveillance Firms

Broadband Monopolies Are Acting Like Old Phone Monopolies. Good Thing Solutions to That Problem Already Exist

Apple agrees to notify iPhone users if iOS updates will affect performance, UK government says

Musk & Bezos entering arms race, will bid on contracts to build rockets for US military

Huawei unwanted: Asian shops shun phone trade-ins on Google suspension worries

Huawei laptop disappears from Microsoft website, suggesting imminent 'ban'