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• Microsoft pledges to honor California's CCPA privacy law across the US

  Microsoft has pledged to honor California's landmark digital privacy law — the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• How a ban on political ads is the second best gift Twitter ever gave Trump

  The climate crisis is a heavily partisan issue in US politics. Thought it's not a hard-and-fast rule, most Democrats believe the fossil fuel industry needs to be heavily-checked and nearly all Republicans accept money from oil companies. There are Democrats who take money from big ...

  • Tristan Greene

• PSA: Amazon Fresh grocery deliveries are now free for US Prime members

  Amazon Fresh - the $14.99/month grocery shopping and quick delivery service - is now available for free to Prime subscribers ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• White House cybersecurity chief quits, says leadership is inviting an attack

  White House computer security Chief Dimitrios Vistakis gave the White House one helluva resignation notice earlier this week when he quit over practices he dubbed “absurd” including the systemic purging of cybersecurity staff. They say that history repeats itself. Unfortunately ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Conservatives put national security at risk to storm impeachment proceedings

  Impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump were delayed today when a group of Conservative lawmakers stormed the room in which they're being held. https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1187028992295161858 Their leader, Florida Man Matt Gaetz, claims he organized ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Ajit Pai wants to abolish federalism so Verizon and AT&T can throttle your data

  When AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and other telcom giants purchased a net neutrality repeal from FCC shill Ajit Pai, it must have occurred to them that California would be a major problem in their plans to become the ultimate gatekeepers for internet traffic. The US is a nation ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The US nukes will no longer run on plate-sized floppy disks

  Enjoy your retirement, old school floppy disks! The US military is upgrading its nuclear system so it'll no longer use the ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Project Veritas 'exposes' CNN's bias against Trump

  I don't know how to tell you this, but at least some of the people who work at CNN have a personal bias against President Donald Trump. According to performance art group Project Veritas, CNN employee Cary Poarch came forward earlier this year with hundreds of hours of video ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Donald Trump has a Twitch channel and now I've seen everything

  Just when I was afraid my week would pass me by without something odd happening, I discover Twitch's latest streamer is none other than US President Donald Trump. And you'd better believe I followed his channel as soon as I saw it existed. The channel's been verified, so I gotta ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• California bans law enforcement from using facial recognition software for the next 3 years

  California lawmakers today passed a bill placing a three-year state-wide moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology ...

  • Tristan Greene

• US carriers debut new passwordless login system — will you trust it?

  AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US, and Verizon Wireless band together for ZenKey, a new authentication system that would manage your ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Court upholds FCC net neutrality repeal, but there's still hope

  A federal appeals court today ruled to uphold the FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality laws, meaning Ajit Pai's rollback of ...

  • Rachel Kaser