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Can We Be Saved From Facebook? by Matt Taibbi…

We shouldn’t be asking Facebook to fix the problem. We should be fixing Facebook. It’s our collective misfortune that this perhaps silliest-in-history supercorporation – a tossed-off hookup site turned international cat-video vault turned Orwellian surveillance megavillain – has dragged us all to the very cliff edge of modern technological capitalism. We’ve reached a moment in […]

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Facebook Bans Image of Jesus for ‘Excessively Violent Content’…

Facebook has rejected an advertisement by a Catholic college for an online theology program, declaring that the ad contained “shocking, sensational, or excessively violent content” because of the image of a medieval crucifix. On Good Friday, the Franciscan University of Steubenville tried to publish a series of Facebook advertisements for an online program in theology, […]

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The High-Definition, Artificially Intelligent, All-Seeing Future of Big Data Policing…

Predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies are already transforming policing, helping prioritize who police target, where they patrol, and how they investigate. But police practices will be entirely revolutionized when video surveillance cameras gain new artificial intelligence capabilities. AI will soon allow for new forms of tracking and monitoring in ways that could reshape the […]

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Ouch!: Amazon Stock Drops $260B Following Trump’s Tweets…

Who says name-calling doesn’t hurt? Amazon investors can measure the pain of President Trump’s Twitter attacks over the past three trading days in dollars. They’ve lost a collective $260 billion as the e-commerce giant’s shares tumbled 2.8 percent since the president’s March 29 renewal of his social-media onslaught against the company run by Washington Post […]

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New Android Malware Secretly Records Phone Calls and Steals Private Data…

Security researchers at Cisco Talos have uncovered variants of a new Android Trojan that are being distributed in the wild disguising as a fake anti-virus application, dubbed “Naver Defender.” Dubbed KevDroid, the malware is a remote administration tool (RAT) designed to steal sensitive information from compromised Android devices, as well as capable of recording phone […]

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Facebook Said the Personal Data of Most Its 2B Users Has Been Collected and Shared with Outsiders…

Facebook said Wednesday that most of its 2 billion users likely have had their personal information scraped by outsiders without the users’ explicit permission, dramatically raising the stakes in a privacy controversy that has dogged the company for weeks, spurred investigations in the United States and Europe and sent the company’s stock price tumbling. The […]

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President Trump, Here’s Why the Postal Service Is Charging Amazon ‘So Little’…

In a Twitter blast this morning, President Trump said, “Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!” There may well be […]

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Local Police Questioned YouTube Shooter Prior to Rampage…

The night before Nasim Aghdam opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View police found the San Diego woman sleeping in her car. She had been reported missing by her family in Southern California, and her father Ismail Aghdam told police she might be going to YouTube because she “hated” the […]

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How Apple Dropping Intel Would Change the Future of Technology…

A report this week said Apple plans to make processors for its notebook and PC designs, replacing Intel, whose stock tanked on the news. Bloomberg’s report suggests that Apple’s AAPL, +1.03% move mirrors its development and integration with silicon chip design for its mobile products including iPhone and iPad. Apple would apparently begin the rollout […]

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San Bruno Sheriff Reports One Person Deceased, Believed to Be the Shooter…

A woman opened fire inside YouTube headquarters in California on Tuesday — sparking chaos and confusion on the campus, according to multiple reports. The shooter is dead at the scene, NBC News reported. It’s unclear if there were any other fatalities. Multiple victims were rushed to Stanford University Medical Center, though the extent of their […]

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Mark Zuckerberg Explains How Facebook Will Try to Kill Alternative Media…

In his recent interview with the far-left online publication Vox, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new system of favoring “broadly trusted” news sources, via a mechanism designed to favor established outlets and crush new media. Facebook introduced its new system in January, and the results were immediately apparent. Facebook traffic to establishment outlets including CNN and […]

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Concerned About What Facebook Knows About You? Check Out What Google Knows…

Many users have been dropping Facebook, ceasing to use social media, or looking into the data that’s been collected about them. But if you think that what Facebook knows about you is scary, check out what Google knows about you. Dylan Curran, an information technology consultant, took a look at just what Google knew about […]

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Mark Zuckerberg Forced to Explain Fellow Exec’s Memo That Implies Platform-Caused Deaths May Ultimately Be Worth It…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg condemned insensitive comments made by a top executive at the company after BuzzFeed revealed them Thursday. Facebook Vice President Andrew published a memo titled “The Ugly” in June 2016, which included claims that implied the company cared more about the business than potential deaths. Bosworth alleged in the memo that bringing […]

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Tesla: Autopilot Was on During Deadly Mountain View Crash…

Autopilot was active in the moments leading up to last week’s crash of a Tesla Model X on a South Bay freeway that left a 38-year-old San Mateo man dead, the Palo Alto-based electric carmaker revealed in a blog post Friday. The disclosure comes amid a National Transportation Safety Board investigation into whether Autopilot was […]

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44 Dems, Including Wasserman Schultz, Exempted Pakistani IT Aides from Background Checks…

Every one of the 44 House Democrats who hired Pakistan-born IT aides who later allegedly made “unauthorized access” to congressional data appears to have chosen to exempt them from background checks, according to congressional documents. All of them appear to have waived background checks on Imran Awan and his family members, even though the family […]

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Silencing of Assange Sparks Historic Ten-Hour Online Vigil to #ReconnectJulian…

The Ecuadorian Government’s decision to silence Julian Assange by cutting off his internet access, phone communications and ability to receive visitors represents a saddening turnabout by a country that has long protected the publisher’s human and journalistic rights. The move took place at the behest of Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno, who took office in May […]

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Czechs Extradite Alleged Russian Hacker to U.S….

The Czech Republic extradited a Russian man to the U.S. to face charges of hacking computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and other American companies, an official said Friday. Yevgeniy Nikulin was flown to the U.S. overnight, Justice Ministry spokeswoman Tereza Schejbalova said. Nikulin denies he’s a hacker. His defense attorney claimed his case is politically motivated […]

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