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Students in France to be taught about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as part of the curriculum
It’s not yet known whether they’ll be taught about bitcoin in a positive or negative way.
Gab Trends says it’s already sending over 200,000 clicks per week to publishers
The crowdsourced news aggregation site has become popular with former Drudge Report users who are frustrated by Drudge’s increasingly anti-Trump perspective.
Elizabeth Warren’s online Medicare For All “Calculator” tool is either broken or intentionally misleading
The “calculator” doesn’t appear to calculate anything.
Edward Snowden calls GDPR a “paper tiger”, says data collection is the real problem, not data protection
Snowden was speaking at a conference in Lisbon.
No one knows exactly why lasers can allow attackers to take over Google Home and other smart speakers
None of the vulnerabilities have yet been patched.
Elizabeth Warren’s “Meme Team” highlight how much Democrats struggle to understand the art of memes
The Democrats don’t appear to understand the rebellious nature, spontaneity, and creativity that make memes work.
Apple and TikTok refuse to testify to US Congress about their business in China
Both companies are facing growing scrutiny over their ties to China.
Facebook warned the Indian government about WhatsApp spyware, but they didn’t pay attention
India said it was “pure technical jargon” about a technical vulnerability “and had nothing to do with the fact that the privacy of Indian users had been compromised,” the authorities said.
A charity spokeswoman’s Facebook post said only women birth children, an offended online mob got her canceled
The cancel culture continues.
“Free Hong Kong” protestor disrupts BlizzCon Q+A session
Blizzard has already been criticized for its “empty,” “non-apology,” about the banning of blitzchung.
Google appears to be testing removing URLs from search results
The security implications have not yet been discussed.
Copyright takedowns on Twitter have more than doubled in the first part of 2019
Copyright takedowns are being used as a censorship tool.