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As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone (techcrunch.com)

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Amazon reportedly wants to curb selling 'CRaP' items it can't profit on, like bottled water and snacks. [CRaP = "Can't Realize a Profit.] (www.businessinsider.com)

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Google's Secret China Project has been forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China. This was after members of the company’s privacy team raised internal complaints that it had been kept secret from (theintercept.com)

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'They kill jobs': Meet Canadians who refuse to use self-checkout (www.cbc.ca)

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Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies (www.zdnet.com)

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Tumblr’s porn ban is going about as badly as expected | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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YouTube’s 2018 “Rewind” is the site’s most disliked video ever. The implications are huge. (www.vox.com)

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Pornhub’s owner has more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it. (qz.com)

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The Anywhere Dryer - 60s Maytag commercial (www.youtube.com)

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Mass email hoax causes closures across the US and Canada | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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First Dutch bananas could help tackle worldwide fungal threat (www.theguardian.com)

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Two US electric utilities have promised to go 100% carbon-free—and admit it’s cheaper (qz.com)

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The Anti-Human Religion of Silicon Valley (archive.fo)

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Australia's horrific new encryption law likely to obliterate its tech scene (thenextweb.com)

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Google+ to shut down early after data from 52 million users exposed (www.independent.co.uk)

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Alibaba Already Has a Voice Assistant Way Better Than Google's (www.technologyreview.com)

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Uber drivers can't file class action lawsuits so 12,500 drivers filed individually for 3rd party arbitration. By filing 12,500 individual requests for arbitration Uber has to hire and pay for tens of thousands of arbitrators to deal with each complaint i (gizmodo.com)

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Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (www.nytimes.com)

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Merck taps Cyclica for AI-based screening of protein-drug interactions (www.fiercebiotech.com)

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Facebook has added new guidelines to its "community standards" document, under the head of "sexual solicitation" that ban a wide variety of things from naughty words to expressing a sexual preference. (www.techdirt.com)

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Researchers devise 3-D printer that can make energetic materials safer, more environmentally friendly (phys.org)

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Report reveals growing threat of organised social media manipulation world-wide (www.oii.ox.ac.uk)

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Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign (www.theguardian.com)

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[May 2017] Monsanto paid internet trolls to counter bad publicity (www.baumhedlundlaw.com)

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