Right-wing extremists move to encrypted channels to plan for Inauguration Day violence Reddit · 7 days ago
Boeing charged with criminal conspiracy and fined $2.5 billion for coverup over 737 Max crashes Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research, documents show Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Zoomification of society: Tech’s influence (and necessity) was impossible to ignore in 2020 Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Τrump downplays Russian hack in first comments on massive breach, implicates China Reddit · 1 month ago
YouTube suspends OANN for violating its Covid-19 policy | YouTube removed an OANN video for violating a policy prohibiting the posting of content that spreads coronavirus misinformation. Reddit · 2 months ago
Criminals launder coronavirus relief money through Venmo, Cash App, PayPal and other apps; so far 80 have been charged with trying to steal $240M+ from the PPP Techmeme · 2 months ago
Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows Hacker News · 2 months ago
Conservatives are flocking to a new ‘free speech’ social media app that has started banning liberal users Reddit · 2 months ago
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain Techmeme · 2 months ago
A Twitter for conservatives? Parler surges amid election misinformation crackdown Reddit · 2 months ago
Frustrated by internet service providers, cities and schools push for more data – Major ISPs won’t say how many families have signed up for low-income options. Reddit · 2 months ago
Twitter says it will place messages it calls "pre-bunks" at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false info about voting by mail and election results Techmeme · 3 months ago
As voters weigh Prop 22, a California appeals court upheld a lower court ruling ordering Uber and Lyft to stop classifying drivers as independent contractors Techmeme · 3 months ago
Quibi is shutting down just months after launching The short-form video streaming service from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman failed to win over consumers in the numbers needed to thrive. Reddit · 3 months ago
Lawyers say they can't find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration Pinboard · 3 months ago
US intelligence director says Iran was behind threatening emails to FL Democratic voters demanding they vote for Trump; voter info was likely publicly available Techmeme · 3 months ago
YouTube bans conspiracy theory content, such as QAnon or Pizzagate, that justifies "real-world violence", but stops short of banning QAnon content outright Techmeme · 3 months ago
Young conservative group tied to fake accounts that attacked Biden, Facebook says Reddit · 3 months ago
Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms | The change is a significant escalation over its previous actions targeting QAnon and one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put in place in its history. Reddit · 3 months ago
Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms, removing all "Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts" that represent QAnon Techmeme · 3 months ago
U.S. patchwork of state, county election computer networks still vulnerable to cyberattacks – "A lot of good stuff has been done," said one expert. "But let’s face it, we’ve got 54 states and territories. The risk landscape is pretty broad." Reddit · 4 months ago
Snap says it helped 1M Snapchat users register to vote on the app, of which over half are first-time voters and 80% are under 30 Techmeme · 4 months ago
Interviews with 40 Amazon employees and government documents: Amazon's COVID-19 response lacks oversight and transparency with inadequate worker safety policies Techmeme · 4 months ago
Major hospital system hit with cyberattack, potentially largest in U.S. history Reddit · 4 months ago
A group of about 25 experts say they have formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, a group to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions Techmeme · 4 months ago