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Most wear-resistant metal alloy in the world engineered - the first alloy in the same class as diamond and sapphire (share-ng.sandia.gov)

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BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company (www.theverge.com)

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Netflix says, calm down, we are not adding commercials. We are, however, testing "video promotions" between shows which are totally not commercials (money.cnn.com)

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BitChute, a P2P alternative to YouTube, was just deplatformed by its payment processor Stripe (files.catbox.moe)

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Netflix tests video promos in between episodes, much to viewers’ dislike – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger (www.reuters.com)

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Cybersex toy industry heats up as infamous “teledildonics” patent climaxes (arstechnica.com)

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China's first homegrown web browser is allegedly repackaged Chrome (www.xda-developers.com)

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Ford expands use of EksoVests in factories (www.engadget.com)

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HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook ||| Secretary-initiated complaint alleges platform allows advertisers to discriminate (www.hud.gov)

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How upvote/downvote sites like Reddit breed irrational herd behavior (io9.gizmodo.com)

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Brett Kavanaugh Chose Corporations Over the Public in a Major Net Neutrality Fight (www.aclu.org)

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British and Canadian Governments Accidentally Exposed Passwords and Security Plans to the Entire Internet (theintercept.com)

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Mozilla Removes 23 Firefox Add-Ons That Snooped on Users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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More than 1,000 Google workers protest censored China search (www.apnews.com)

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The World Economic Forum warns that AI may destabilize the financial system (www.technologyreview.com)

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Browser fingerprint. Is there a way besides Tor and turning off javascript it can be obfuscated?

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A Group of Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi (gizmodo.com)

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Samsung Announces Exynos Modem 5100, Industry’s First 5G Modem Fully Compliant with 3GPP Standards – Samsung Global Newsroom (news.samsung.com)

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US government employees will not be allowed to use Huawei & ZTE devices (www.xda-developers.com)

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At this year's DEFCON, a group of 50 children aged 8 to 16 participated in a hack of 13 imitation election websites. One 11-year-old boy changed the voting results in 10 minutes. A 11 year-old-girl was also able to change the voting results in 30 minutes (www.pbs.org)

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FBI Warns of ‘unlimited’ ATM cashout blitz (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Banks and retailers are tracking how you type, swipe and tap (www.nytimes.com)

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Australia on the cusp of showing the world how to break encryption (www.theregister.co.uk)

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The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views - The New York Times (archive.is)

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