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- Whistleblower Chelsea Manning files for US Senate run in Maryland
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 05:55 PMTransgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning, jailed for leaking classified information, is seeking election in the US state of Maryland, a document seen on Saturday says. The Federal Election …...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-mobile phone industry executive gets five years for text message scam
Friday - 01/12/2018 - 11:42 PMA former mobile phone industry executive was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday after he was found guilty of defrauding cellphone customers by charging them millions of dollars for unwanted text messages.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump irradiates and poisons everything sucked into his gravitational pull — and the internet could be the next victim
Tuesday - 12/12/2017 - 02:23 PMThe Moyers team has been in the fight for net neutrality from the very beginning. Our documentary Net at Risk was perhaps the first on television to alert the nation to the danger of a corporate takeover of the internet.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Here are 11 lies you may have heard about net neutrality
Saturday - 12/16/2017 - 09:25 AMTalking about net neutrality is hard when there’s misinformation everywhere. … of net neutrality have been around since the dawn of the internet, but Tim Wu coined the phrase “network neutrality” back in 2003.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- New International Space Station crew lifts off
Sunday - 12/17/2017 - 07:47 AMNew International Space Station Crew Lifts Off Three astronauts blasted off from a port at Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday bound for the Interntional Space Station, NASA announced. The crew, which consists of U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- After US kills net neutrality — UK decides high-speed internet is a legal right of all citizens
Wednesday - 12/20/2017 - 08:32 AMThe U.K. government has decided that 10 Mbps internet should be a legal right for all of its citizens. According to a report from Engadget the government has decided to ensure every household is wired by 2020.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Can any parent actually keep their kids safe while watching YouTube?
Friday - 12/22/2017 - 04:34 PMIn recent weeks parents have been shaken by media reports about upsetting, offensive or crassly commercial videos that children using YouTube and YouTube Kids could be exposed to just by following links from content they are familiar with.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Barack Obama warns society is being splintered by social media: ‘They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their
Wednesday - 12/27/2017 - 05:35 AMFormer U.S. president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their biases.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- YouTuber Logan Paul slammed for filming dead body of suicide victim
Tuesday - 01/02/2018 - 05:52 AMYouTuber Logan Paul has been facing major backlash after a video he uploaded to the video sharing platform during the weekend showed him stumbling upon a real-life suicide victim, recorded as he …...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How a researcher hacked his own computer and found ‘worst’ Intel chip flaw
Thursday - 01/04/2018 - 07:34 PMDaniel Gruss didn’t sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp .More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Current and former Uber security staffers cast doubt on spying claims
Friday - 01/12/2018 - 10:20 PMThe former security chief of Uber Technologies Inc. [UBER.UL] swore in a closed legal proceeding that he knew of no attempts to steal trade secrets from anyone, including Alphabet Inc’s self-driving unit Waymo, and would be “shocked” if that had occurred.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Current and former Uber security staffers cast doubt on spying claims
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 12:47 AMThe former security chief of Uber Technologies Inc. [UBER.UL] swore in a closed legal proceeding that he knew of no attempts to steal trade secrets from anyone, including Alphabet Inc’s self-driving unit Waymo, and would be “shocked” if that had occurred.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Anonymous threatens cyber attack against FCC over net neutrality vote
Thursday - 12/14/2017 - 12:48 PMOnline hacktivist organization Anonymous has threatened to carry out cyber attacks directed at the United States Federal Communications Commission in response to the agency’s expected vote to repeal net neutrality protections Thursday....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This is when you should unfriend someone on Facebook — according to Aristotle
Saturday - 12/16/2017 - 11:10 AMThe nature and ethics of “fake news” has become a subject of widespread concern. But, for many of us, the issue is much more personal: What are we to do when a cranky uncle or an otherwise pleasant old friend persists in populating our news feeds with a stream of posts that can run deeply contrary t...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Virgin Hyperloop One raises $50 million and makes Richard Branson chairman
Wednesday - 12/20/2017 - 03:59 AMVirgin Hyperloop One, a Los Angeles company developing a super-fast transportation system, announced it has raised $50 million from foreign venture capital investors and made Richard Branson the chairman of its board of directors....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Neil deGrasse Tyson ‘really hopes’ the Pentagon is investigating UFOs — but not for the reason you think
Wednesday - 12/20/2017 - 09:26 AMFunny physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson told CNN Wednesday that he hopes the Pentagon is looking into UFOs they see zooming over the United States. During a hilarious interview with “New Day,” Tyson encouraged those seeking life outside of the Earth to “keep looking” and to call ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple stock drops on report of weak iPhone X demand and analysts have views mixed
Tuesday - 12/26/2017 - 05:41 AMShares in several of Apple Inc’s Asian suppliers fell for a second straight day on Tuesday, hurt by a report from Taiwan’s Economic Daily and some analysts saying that iPhone X demand could come in below expectations in the first quarter.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Former prosecutor breaks down why Mueller probe’s new direction could be bad news for Mark Zuckerberg
Thursday - 12/28/2017 - 10:19 AMSpecial counsel Robert Mueller’s team has begun questioning Republican National Committee staffers about their data operation — and a former federal prosecutor suggests that could put Facebook under new scrutiny.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US FCC Chairman Ajit Pai cancels tech event appearance after threats: sources
Thursday - 01/04/2018 - 06:15 PMU.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has canceled a scheduled appearance next week at a large consumer electronics event in Las Vegas after receiving unspecified deaths threats, two sources briefed on the matter said on Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Apple to issue fix for iPhones, Macs at risk from Intel’s ‘Spectre’ chip flaw
Thursday - 01/04/2018 - 10:06 PMApple Inc will release a patch for the Safari web browser on its iPhones, iPads and Macs within days, it said on Thursday, after major chipmakers disclosed flaws that leave nearly every modern computing device vulnerable to hackers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Whistleblower Chelsea Manning files for US Senate run in Maryland
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 08:47 PMTransgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning, jailed for leaking classified information, is seeking election in the US state of Maryland, a document seen on Saturday says. The Federal Election …...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bitcoin futures surge past $17,000 on launch day
Sunday - 12/10/2017 - 11:29 PMThe front-month bitcoin futures contract on the Chicago-based CBOE Futures Exchange surged past $17,000 on Monday, the first day of trading. The January contract opened at $15,460 in New York on Sunday evening, before leaping to a high of $17,170 during Asian hours.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- WATCH LIVE: Open internet in peril as FCC votes on the future of net neutrality
Thursday - 12/14/2017 - 10:45 AMThe U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to rescind rules that were aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, as protesters gathered online and in front of FCC headquarters to oppose the change.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘#AJediYouAreNOT’: Star Wars’ Mark Hamill cuts down FCC chairman Ajit Pai for ridiculous anti-net neutrality video
Saturday - 12/16/2017 - 11:25 AMMark Hamill — also known as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise — took a a shot at FCC chairman Ajit Pai in a tweet early Saturday morning for appearing in an anti-net neutrality video produced by the far-right website Daily Caller.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Britain joins US in blaming North Korea for ‘WannaCry’ attack
Tuesday - 12/19/2017 - 09:35 AMBritain said North Korea was behind the ‘WannaCry” cyber attack that infected computers around the globe earlier this year on Tuesday, joining the United States in blaming Pyongyang for the ransomware incident.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Has the Bitcoin price bubble burst?
Friday - 12/22/2017 - 12:17 PMThe price of Bitcoin has been dropping over the course of the week after reaching new highs of more than $19,500 last weekend and the cryptocurrency experienced its biggest downturn Friday, with its price dropping to less than $13,000....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless — first to fly untethered in space, dies at 80
Friday - 12/22/2017 - 07:05 PMBruce McCandless, a NASA astronaut who is most well-known for a photo in which he is decked out in a spacesuit and floating freely above the Earth during a spacewalk outside the ill-fated shuttle …...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Facebook’s uneven enforcement of hate speech rules is allowing vile posts to stay up
Friday - 12/29/2017 - 12:07 AMThe graphic content of some of the posts reprinted within this article may offend some readers. However, our belief is that readers cannot fully understand the importance of how hate speech is handled without seeing it unvarnished and unredacted....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump supporters far more likely to read and share ‘fake news’ on social media: study
Tuesday - 01/02/2018 - 06:58 AMPresident Donald Trump famously complains about “fake news” — but a new study shows his followers are far more likely to read and share phony stories online. Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth College, Andrew Guess of Princeton University and Jason Reifler of the University of Exeter embarked on a study ana...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GoPro cuts 200-300 jobs in aerial products unit
Thursday - 01/04/2018 - 10:22 PMAction camera maker GoPro Inc is cutting about 200 to 300 jobs in its aerial products division this week, technology news website TechCrunch reported on Thursday. The job cuts are part of a bigger restructuring in the company, TechCrunch reported, citing a letter sent to impacted employees.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share