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Kids Online Safety Act will allow Attorney Generals to Censor the News.::Caitlin Vogus is Deputy Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone::Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case
In the early 2000s, everyone in my bubble knew that PHP was a security nightmare, only seconded by Flash. In the meantime, Adobe gave up on Flash, but PHP is still alive and rocking....
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In this edition of TC's Week in Review (WiR) newsletter, we cover Apple's iPhone 15 announcements, casino hacks and California's proposed AV truck ban.
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I believe the “Online Safety Bill” should be renamed the “Online Exposure Bill,” and here’s why:...
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Naomi Brockwell makes it easy and interesting to learn about how our personal lives are being spied on by potentially anybody. Share it with your friends and family so maybe one day every country won’t have a social credit score or other dystopian outcomes.
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YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn’t do that::Web giant comes out swinging, says allegations ‘without merit’
Why isn’t this a thing? Just turning your monitor into grayscale mode, changes the entire experience. Have you ever played a video game in grayscale? After such a long time of being used to overstimulation, it feels like being on antipsychotics. The constant exposure to multimedia, videogames and the mere display of colors...