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Twitter acquires Fabula AI, a company that says it can detect “fake news” in milliseconds
Twitter’s AI-powered censorship is stepping up its game.
Schools are using mass surveillance techniques on kids, new report shows
As always, the move to keep people “safe” is actually a massive invasion of privacy.
Man doxed by The Daily Beast over slowed down Pelosi video plans to take legal action
The man says most of the information in The Daily Beast article is fabricated and that he intends to take legal action against everyone involved with its publication.
After being blamed for decimating Britain’s high streets, Amazon wants to open physical stores
A new “clicks and mortar” pilot program will begin testing in the UK.
Julian Assange won’t face charges related to leaking the CIA’s Vault 7, documents about device hacking code
It doesn’t, however, mean that Assange is safe from other charges.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov is determined to make an internet that can’t be censored
The Telegram Open Network will be an interesting project to watch.
freeCodeCamp liberates itself from the clutches of Medium
Brands are starting to take a stand and go independent.
A new study dramatically suggests Twitter “erodes your intelligence”
Twitter gets blamed for being “a tool of misinformation and hate”.
The downside of digital: Soon you won’t be able to download Minecraft: Story Mode even if you’ve paid for it
Gone are the days of owning what you’ve paid for.
New trend towards letting private companies profile your DNA leads to an arrest in 43-year old murder case
People giving up their DNA has led to an increase in the closing of cases of unsolved cases. But at what cost?
YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and more is down after Google Cloud goes down, and takes a chunk of the internet with it
Google Cloud is behind the major outage.
Judge orders Facebook to hand over emails about data privacy
Facebook’s data privacy scandals are far from over.