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The Sri Lankan government has lifted the highly controversial social media ban following the Easter attack on Christians
The Sri Lankan Government has lifted the nine-day ban imposed social media sites Facebook, YouTube and more following the bombings in the country that took place during Easter. The country’s government stated that they banned social media sites to prevent the spreading of fake news and misinfor
The Creative Commons search engine is now live
Nonprofit organization Creative Commons publicly launched its search engine today, which allows you to search the commons’ archive of free content available in the public domain under the Creative Commons licenses. Currently, the search engine indexes millions of CC-licensed images. The search
Open source Chromium users are being told it’s an “unsupported” browser for Google docs
Users trying to access Google Docs via the latest Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser are unable to open any document and are receiving an “unsupported browser” notification, according to Ghacks. This latest Edge browser and Google Chrome share the same Chromium engine. While Google Chrome us
European court rules: Airbnb should be considered an “information society service” (not a real estate service)
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice said that Airbnb Ireland should not be restricted by French law for providing accommodation services. As it involves the use of the internet to connect potential guests with hosts, it must be considered an “information society service” accor
Despite Apple’s push to be associated with privacy, 78% of people still don’t trust Apple
Even though Apple has made a push towards privacy, 78% of people still don’t trust them.
T-Mobile and Sprint merger deadline pushed pending approval by antitrust regulator
The regulator has yet to decide whether the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint will be good for customers.
The Microsoft Outlook breach may have been to steal cryptocurrency from users
Outlook users have stated that cryptocurrency was stolen from their accounts during the Microsoft Outlook breach, giving insight into a possible motive of the hackers.
UK police want victims of crimes to hand over their private data
This policy could result in fewer people reporting crimes.
New report shows that Facebook feared Apple and Google’s mobile internet dominance
The report covers Project Oxygen – a plan Facebook started working on in 2013 to protect itself from Google’s virtual chokehold over Facebook’s mobile internet distribution through the Google Play Store.
Twitch apparently banned a user for “hate speech” for having the name “Trump” in his username
An email explaining the ban D_Trump_Apprentice69 received from Twitch said that the account was suspended indefinitely for picking an inappropriate username.
Facebook is opening up its data trove to researchers
Researchers will look into the websites Facebook users linked to, and also gain access to Crowdtangle data – a tool that publishers use to monitor content posting on Facebook.
How to watch Facebook’s F8 2019 developer conference livestream
Mark Zuckerberg will begin his keynote at 10AM Pacific Time on April 30th, 2019 and there’s a livestream to go along with it. Here’s how to watch.