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Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants, memo shows
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Home alarm tech backdoored security cameras to spy on customers having sex
CenturyLink, Frontier missed FCC broadband deadlines in dozens of states – US law gives the ISPs one extra year before they have to forfeit money.
Google agrees to pay French news sites to send them traffic
Treasury nominee Yellen is looking to curtail use of cryptocurrency
3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai says in final report
Security firm Malwarebytes was infected by same hackers who hit SolarWinds
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Parler seems to be sliding back onto the Internet, but not onto mobile
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After a decade, NASA’s big rocket fails its first real test
FCC fines white-supremacist robocaller $10 million for faking caller ID — Robocaller’s fake caller ID numbers were allegedly chosen as neo-Nazi symbols
Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement
The NSA warns enterprises to beware of third-party DNS resolvers
Nintendo uses copyright claims to take down Game & Watch hacking videos
Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP
SolarWinds malware has “curious” ties to Russian-speaking hackers
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New York City proposes regulating algorithms used in hiring
Parler has been shut down
Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Twitter takes down China’s “baby-making machines” tweet on Uighur women
House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split
Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Twitter says it won’t take down chinese tweet praising uygur policy
Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them
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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
DoJ says SolarWinds hackers breached its Office 365 system and read email
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
Upcoming Apple privacy update has developers desperately seeking dodges
Feds say that Russia was “likely” behind months-long hack of US agencies
Court says Uber can’t hold users to terms they probably didn’t read
Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states
Space things happening in 2021
Cryptocurrency stealer for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected for a year
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
Interview with two anthropologists about combining "pick and trowel" field work with the use of big data to bring a new birds-eye perspective to archeology
Google employees kick off union membership drive for 120,000 workers
Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
Hacker News · 3 weeks ago