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Facebook and YouTube say they are removing content that mentions the possible name of the whistleblower whose complaint prompted Trump impeachment inquiry
Two former Twitter employees accused of spying for Saudi Arabia
California DMV data breach exposed thousands of drivers’ information, agency says.
Facebook will allow UK election candidates to run false ads
This man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads
SpaceX is on a mission to beam cheap, high-speed internet to consumers all over the globe. The project is called Starlink, and if it’s successful it could forever alter the landscape of the telecom industry.
A look at LinkedIn's efforts to curate news using human editors, with a 65-strong team globally, as it seeks to boost engagement
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
How Bitcoin transactions were used to track down the 23-year-old South Korean operating a global child exploitation site from his bedroom
From CNN: Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, has died
People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
Marc Benioff says it’s time to break up Facebook
Disney bans Netflix from advertising on its entertainment networks
Reddit · 1 month ago
Instagram begins its global rollout of Restrict, which lets users silently approve or deny comments, after worries that blocking only increases harassment
Techmeme · 1 month ago
Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy
Former employees of dog-walking startup Wag, which raised $300M from SoftBank and replaced CEO in Jan. 2018, describe slowed growth, multiple layoffs, and more
The world’s largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete. It can power 1 million homes
Apple will keep production of the new Mac Pro in the United States
After founding the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism in 2017, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube say it will become an independent organization
A flaw in iOS 13 can expose your contact details, even though Apple was alerted about the problem in July
SpaceX wants to beam internet across the southern U.S. by late 2020
A crack in financial markets: NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B
Following Twitter and Facebook, Snapchat launches a library of political ads on its platform globally from 2018 and 2019, available as downloadable spreadsheets
Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
China’s data centers emit as much carbon as 21 million cars
Homeland Security to collect social media usernames on immigration and visitor applications
Facebook debuts vaccine pop-up windows to stop the spread of misinformation
The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise
Websites that peddle disinformation make millions of dollars in ads, new study finds
The FCC Fined 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' 'The Walking Dead' for Use of Emergency Tones
Hacker News · 3 months ago
Sketches Revealed Underneath Leonardo's 'Virgin of the Rocks'
A look at Snapchat's community of about 100 official lens creators, who make custom AR lenses for people and brands, with Snap helping connect them to buyers
The Democratic Party deepfaked its own chairman to highlight 2020 concerns
Sources: Trump's draft executive order calls for new FCC regulations narrowing CDA Section 230 protections for social media platforms when they suppress content
Neo-Nazi website founder ordered to pay $14M for troll storm
The Fed is getting into the Real-Time payments business
Facebook details its first takedown of inauthentic accounts linked to the Saudi government, alongside a separate takedown of accounts linked to UAE and Egypt
Buttigieg calls out tech companies for failing to recognize worker rights in new economic proposal
Google agrees to pay $13 million in Street View privacy case
Bulgaria tax hacking: An entire nation was hit
Kenya launches largest wind power plant in Africa
Elon Musk hopes to put a computer chip in your brain. Who wants one?
No one wants the middle seat on airplanes. This design could change that
FaceApp’s viral success proves we will never take our digital privacy seriously
Europe launches antitrust investigation into Amazon
Reddit · 4 months ago