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Microsoft has stopped selling ebooks and will start scrubbing purchased ebooks from customer libraries
Ebooks can no longer be purchased or rented from the Microsoft Store and purchased ebooks will be removed from customers libraries from early July 2019.
British activist Tommy Robinson shadowbanned on YouTube after UK MPs lobbied for his removal
Robinson’s channel and videos have been scrubbed from YouTube search and recommendations. They can only be accessed via a direct link and are hidden behind an interstitial.
Some Google workers want Google to remove conservative Kay Coles James from an artificial intelligence ethics panel
They suggest that if James continues to be on the panel discrimination against marginalized groups will be implanted into the company’s artificial intelligence software.
Cloudflare announces Warp: a free VPN that it claims will actually respect your privacy
Cloudflare claims that its Warp VPN will not write any user-identifiable log data to disk, will purge all debug logs within 24 hours, and will not require any personally identifiable information to start using the service.
How to see what your social media and browsing habits know about your psychology
The launch of a new tool means that those internet users eager to find out, in great depth and detail, how “others” see them.
Cyber attacks on smart home connected devices are up 217.5% year-on-year
Current estimates are that 75 billion connected IoT devices will be in use by 2025, in other words, they will continue to provide ever bigger and more appealing attack vectors to hackers.
For a while, when some Twitter users tried to follow the pro-life @UnplannedMovie account, Twitter automatically unfollowed them
The most prominent person so far that has experienced this problem is US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.
Critics say Google is censoring VPN apps in China to “curry favor with Beijing”
Access to VPNs is of crucial importance to those in China who want to circumvent the restrictions imposed by the Great Firewall and reach the global internet.
Apple News could be bad for the longterm viability of publishers, media experts say
The gist of the reluctance on the part of the media? Their growing unwillingness to relinquish control over content and revenue streams, and over their “relationship with the customer.”
r/Games goes full SJW and closes down the entire subreddit as part of a humorless April Fools’ statement
r/Games is one of the biggest video game related subreddits and the decision to use April Fools’ to push SJW politics in this subreddit is not being well received.
91-year-old man in Sweden convicted of “hate speech” for his Facebook post
91-year-old man in Sweden convicted of “hate speech” for his Facebook post.
Paris’s High Court has ordered French ISPs to block access to the pirate libraries LibGen and Sci-Hub
Tribunal de Grande Instance asked several of the largest French ISPs; Orange, SFR, Free, and Bouygues Telecom to wholly block access to Sci-Hub and LibGen within a year.