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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 ...
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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 the Obama-era laws will stand. However, the court did offer an avenue for those who wish to try getting it reinstated in their state, because it turns out the ...
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Zuck says he’s ready for a fight if Elizabeth Warren is elected
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting his employees ready for what could turn out to be the biggest threat his company's faced yet: a 70-year-old woman from Oklahoma. Of course, democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren isn't just anyone. She's the woman with a plan ...
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DoorDash leaves door open for data breach, affecting 4.9M people
Popular on-demand food delivery platform DoorDash has confirmed a data breach affecting 4.9 million customers, workers, and ...
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The Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab just bought a 5,000-qubit quantum computer
D-Wave today announced its next generation “Advantage” quantum computer system. It'll pack a whopping 5,000 qubits and myriad improvements to processing speed and power. And the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will be among the first to have access. According ...
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ICE is on the hunt for a new DevOps company thanks to a software engineer's protest
Open-source technology company Chef has finally decided having a relationship with the US government isn't worth alienating the developer's community it thrives on. After spending nearly a week defending its decision to continue working with ICE and CBP, CEO Barry Crist today announced ...
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US DoJ wants to seize profits from Ed Snowden’s new book because it violated his NDA
The US justice department has sued whistleblower Edward Snowden, following the release of his new book, Permanent Record. The department alleges this book violates a non-disclosure agreement Snowden signed with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency ...
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Twitter's refusal to dox a cow stymies Republican's $250M lawsuit
US Rep. Devin Nunes can't seem to catch a break. First, despite his memo blaming Obama and the FBI for all the evils in the world, his fellow former members of the Trump transition team keep getting indicted for being bad at crime. And now he can't figure out which one of his cows ...
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ICE is paying an Israeli security company $30M to break into phones
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has expanded its partnership with Israeli digital forensics firm Cellebrite, ...
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Uber won't reclassify drivers as employees, despite California's AB5 ruling (Updated)
Uber has said it has no plans to reclassify its vast army of drivers as employees in light of the the gig workers' rights ...
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California passes landmark gig workers' rights bill — here's what that means
California legislators on Tuesday approved a landmark bill that would consider contractors for companies like Uber and Lyft ...
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Mozilla pilots its VPN service for Firefox desktop users in the US
Mozilla is officially launching Firefox Private Network VPN service for desktop users in the US as part of a pilot test program. ...
